Showing posts with label Roger Corman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger Corman. Show all posts

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Death Race 2000 (1975)


































  In a dystopian 2000, a cross-country automobile race is held as an annual national event. Contestants are supposed to kill as many civilian pedestrians as they can in order to collect points that will help them win the race and shake the President's hand. Driver Frankenstein has other ideas...
  Directed by Paul Bartel and produced by Roger Corman, this one weird film. It starts off as a rather interesting Sci-Fi race movie but suddenly it reveals it true cult nature. Pedestrians as targets, unconventional characters in weird things that look like cars, nudity and a rebellion in hand. Impressive comic-like sets and effects really give a more light mood to it, too! It doesn't get any cheesier than that, not when you have Corman producing it!
  David Carradine plays Frankenstein, the seemingly evil driver and by his side Simone Griffeth, a rebellion fighter undercover. This film even has Sylvester Stallone as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo, as the aggressive driver whose only point in life is to win the race and beat Frankenstein. All actors do a great job and act as if they would in a mainstream film and so, the film has an "arrogance" of better-than-B-Movie! A must watch!
Must watch this : with the dudes and a club sandwich each. Laugh with the gory murder scenes like the little sadists you are and after the film get in a car and start following a random car as if in a race. Don't die, though.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/
I'll be a great actor! Say it!
Oh no, the baby!
I would fuck right now if it wasn't for that whole-body condom I am wearing










 

Friday, October 4, 2013

Pit and the Pendulum (1961)


































  Edgar Allan Poe on the big screen. Francis Barnard travels to Spain when he learns that his sister is dead. Her husband, an offspring of a notorious torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him that she died from a blood disease. The evidence, though, indicates otherwise!
  Classic Vincent Price in a classy film by none other than Roger Corman. A little bit too classy for Corman's filmography, but the work her is done. Corman manages to portray the essence of Poe's work without taking ti too far. You willenjoy all the doom and gloom of Poe's writing, the despair of the characters, the Gothic (but no too Gothic) style of everything and an evil plot! Squeaky doors, spider webs, evil laughs, rain and the lingering death!
  There is some killer cast in this movie. Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr are enough to take this movie to another level. No one can compete with Price's class and Steele's look and looks (remember what we said on Black Sunday?) and no one can act better in such environment. It almost seems as these actors were born to act in such films, as if they do not belong in our era or dimension!
Must watch this : definitely on a cold or rainy night, with a glass of wine, alone. Let the mood and the cold give you goosebumps!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055304/
Queen Steele

Yeah, it looks like a painting but fuck you!

More interactive than modern 3-D