Upgrade is a highly enjoyable yet underexposed movie. It’s often billed as a B-Movie and of course, considering its production company (Blumhouse Tilt) as well as its relatively small budget (between 3 and 5 million dollars) I suppose it is. The label of “B-Movie” however, always sounds like […]
Larry Cohen is a very underrated screenwriter and director. He is described by many as a “B-Movie auteur” and although I agree with the “auteur” part, his films for me are much better than typical B-Movies, both in terms of plot and direction. Cohen’s films are usually unfairly […]
‘Q’ aka ‘Q: The Winged Serpent’ is a very underrated and underexposed horror movie. Written, Produced, and Directed by Larry Cohen, the film is an entertaining blend of action, thrills, and old-school horror. The film opens with a window cleaner on the side of a New York high-rise […]
‘The Stuff’ is a 1985 Science-Fiction-Horror-Comedy film written, directed, and executively produced by Larry Cohen. If you’ve never seen it, I can only describe ‘The Stuff’ as an 80s update of a 50s Sci-Fi B-Movie. It’s a mixture of ‘The Blob’ and ‘Invasion Of The Body Snatchers’ and […]
Joseph Bishara is a film composer who has scored many contemporary horror movies. Some of these horror films have been low-budget B-movies but regardless of the quality of the picture, Bishara’s score has always been a rose amongst the thorns. In films such as ‘The Vatican Tapes’ and […]
A film doesn’t always have to be a high-brow, high-concept, award-winning masterpiece, sometimes a movie just has to be entertaining and nothing else. The 1984 science fiction movie Trancers is exactly that – it’s low-budget, it’s tacky, it’s rough around the edges, but overall it’s watchable and it’s […]
It is extremely rare for a film with B-Movie aesthetics to be a timeless classic, it’s even more rare when a film which contains corny one-liners is important to cinema and society. John Carpenter’s They Live is just that; an oxymoronic, crude yet brilliant Science Fiction masterpiece, and […]
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