Time to dust off this collection of B-Westerns from Sinister Cinema’s Sinister Six-Gun Collection. The packaging is ultra-cool, starting off with those priceless trailers:
Trailer # 1: “Ride at Full Gallop into a Thundering Texas Romance to the rescue of a girl haunted by killers! Johnny Mack Brown as the fist-flashing GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS” blazes across [...]
DIRECTED BY: Peter Bogdanovich (using the pseudonym Derek Thomas)
FEATURING: Mamie van Doren
PLOT: Three cosmo—I mean, astro-nauts—are sent to Venus to rescue two missing
comrades,while Venusian blondes in seashell bras pester them from afar by sending volcanoes, thunderstorms and dinosaurs to hinder them.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Prehistoric Women is a classic Frankenstein-film stitched together [...]
DIRECTED BY: Stephen Chiodo
FEATURING: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
PLOT: Aliens from outer space, who look exactly like circus clowns, land their
carnival-tent spacecraft near a rural town and begin abducting humans for unknown purposes.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Killer Klowns is actually a very conventional spoof with an unusual gimmick that’s [...]
DIRECTED BY: Chris Fisher
FEATURING: Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, Ed Westwick
PLOT: Samantha Darko goes on a cross-country road trip and learns along the way
that, once again, the world will end at a predetermined time unless she figures out a way to stop it. Where’s Jake Gyllenhaal when you need him?
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: In [...]
DIRECTED BY: Chano Urueta
FEATURING: Abel Salazar
PLOT: A smirking sorcerer is burnt alive by the Spanish Inquisition, only to return three
hundred years later as a shapeshifting brain-eater to wreak his vengeance on the descendants of those who condemned him.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Brainiac’s appeal, weird or otherwise, lies almost entirely in its [...]
DIRECTED BY: Scooter McCrae
FEATURING: Stark Raven, Flora Fauna, Robert Wells and John Weiner
PLOT: In the near future, people can inexplicably no longer cease to exist. Death means
rebirth into a dead body and the undead walk among us. A young woman tries to survive as the increasing numbers of dead do their best to convince her [...]
If you were at Tromadance a couple weeks back, you probably heard about this little comedy pearl (and, while we’re on the subject, did you see me there? I was the guy in the yellow shirt with the melting, pulsating face.) It was a modest success at the festival, and hopefully that appearance leads to [...]
DIRECTED BY: Tobe Hooper
FEATURING: Mathilda May, Steve Railsback, Peter Firth
PLOT: A space shuttle investigating Halley’s comet discovers a spaceship containing
three suspended, nude human bodies; returned to Earth, the bodies come alive and begin vampirically sucking the life force out of humans.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Lifeforce is a grandly cheesy and frequently nonsensical mishmash [...]
AKA The Never Dead (Australia)
“…when you’re dealing with a movie with this many oddball ideas, and a director who’s not afraid to ‘go weird’ just because he wants to, your best bet is probably just to keep quiet, enjoy the ride, and then see how you feel once the whole crazy experience is over with.”–Scott [...]
DIRECTED BY: Roger Corman
FEATURING: Robert Towne (as Edward Wain), Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland
PLOT: Opposed by incompetent spy Sparks Moran, a shady American expatriate and his
gang of crooks try to cheat General Tostada and his crew out of the gold they are smuggling out of post-revolutionary Cuba by pretending a sea monster is on the loose.
WHY [...]
