Not so much a movie as it is an 80-minute montage, Bimbo Movie Bash cobbles together footage from about a dozen Z-grade sex-minded sci-fi flicks from Charles Band’s Full Moon catalog. The new “story” is nonsensical, only nominally about female aliens taking over the world. Even with added supers and overdubbing, that goal is never … Continue reading Bimbo Movie Bash (1997)
Outside of The Most Dangerous Game, has genre cinema latched onto another concept more often than Eyes Without a Face? It’s the story gift that keeps on giving, as long as you change just enough elements to avoid litigation. Just ask character actor Michael Pataki (The Bat People), who leveraged it for Mansion of the … Continue reading Mansion of the Doomed (1976)
No doubt Famous T and A proved an enormous VHS hit for Charles Band back in 1982. Hell, it probably paid for an L.A. divorce or a Romanian castle. Now, a full four decades later, the exploitation film legend finally gives it something his 2006 movie Evil Bong already has seven of: a sequel. What … Continue reading Famous T and A 2 (2022)
Whether you love, hate or tolerate the movies of Charles Band, there’s no denying the man has no shortage of terrific offscreen stories to share. Otherwise, his autobiography, Confessions of a Puppetmaster, would not exist — or at least not be a must-purchase. Subtitled A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking and written … Continue reading Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking
If Dr. Giggles and Dr. Pimple Popper merged practices, Cyst would be their collab. Short on budget and tall in imagination, this goopy, goofy horror comedy is a two-location wonder like the kind Charles Band’s Full Moon Entertainment used to make, minus the visual flatness. In 1961, three patent examiners return a final time to … Continue reading Cyst (2020)