The Blog Has Eyes!

THE EYE (Jian gui)-2002-A young girl gets a cornea transplant and can see for the first time in her life. However, she finds that she sees a lot more than anyone else. Namely ghosts! Pretty horrifying ones at that. Her visions are the key to a mystery involving the former owner of her newly acquired sight and she must unravel it. Lead actress Angelica Lee won the Hong Kong film festival best actress award for her performance. It was followed by two sequels and a US remake. Nicely done Asian horror from Thailand.







MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS-2002-After an obnoxious, uncaring woman (Sammi Cheung) is killed in a car accident she is brought back to life by a ghost named Ken. While in the hospital recovering, she has an eye operation. Soon after that Ken returns and she can see other ghosts too. It’s basically a lighthearted romantic comedy with some serious overtones. Co-director Johnny To made THE HEROIC TRIO and THE EXECUTIONERS.



BLOODLUST!-1961-This cheap rip-off of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME stars Wilton Graff as a mad hunter who kills with a crossbow and then makes statues out of his victims for his personal “museum”. Four young people (including future Mr. Brady Robert Reed) stumble upon his domain where they are held prisoner along with his wife (Lilyan Chauvin) and her lover (familiar TV actor Walter Brooke). Director Ralph Brooke (possibly Walter’s brother?) was second unit director on Jerry Warren’s MAN BEAST. It’s pretty stupid.

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Is It Really a Game?

QUINTET-(1979)-I just got back from "Dunkin' Donuts" where while enjoying a hazelnut coffee and a sesame bagel I spent the last half an hour trying to figure out just what the heck was going on in this movie! Recently deceased Paul Newman (in his only movie in '79) stars in it and the late Robert Altman (who seemed to have made an incredible amount of films in a very short time) co-wrote and directed it. It kind of seems like an Igmar Bergman Sci-Fi movie if Bergman made a Sci-Fi movie and didn't know what he was doing!

OK, so I know there is a kind of artsy cult build around this movie (and most of the director's other work) but I really don't get this at all! Altman did gather quite an international cast for this strangeness though including Bergman regular Bibi Andersson!

The setting is a future time during a new ice age or years after a cataclysm or maybe it's in Seberia! Newman plays Essex, a former seal hunter with a pregnant wife (French actress Brigette Fossy) who after years of wandering visits his brother. Places are divided into "sectors" and everyone plays a dice game called "Quintet". After the wife and bro are killed in an explosion, Essex takes on a new identity and goes to a sector where Fernando Rey as Grigor presides over the local game. Andersson is Grigor's wife Ambrosia and Vittorio Gassman is St. Christopher. David Langton (from UPSTAIRS,DOWNSTAIRS) is the paranoid Goldstar. Everybody talks a lot and a couple of characters die. The game Quintet may be more than just a game...

I think...This was also a weird time for Paul Newman. The next year he would make the Irwin Allen produced disaster (in more ways than one) film WHEN TIME RAN OUT and after that FORT APACHE:THE BRONX. His previous film had been SLAP SHOT in 1977.

I wonder if there was a Quintet board game promotion tied to the film?


"This all gonna make sense when you edit it, right Bob?"

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Three The Bad Way

DOUBLE TEAM-1997-This movie is terrible. Mickey Rourke is the villian and Dennis Rodman is a good guy! Jean Claude Van Damme of course is the actual star. He spends a lot of time holding his breath under water and kicks bad guys in the head. He really needs acting lessons though and his English is still atrocious. Rourke does his usual non-acting and looks like he's had bad plastic surgery. Rodman's dialogue contains a lot of basketball refrences but Kareem Abdul-Jabar was better in GAME OF DEATH. It's all pretty annoying despite the fact it was directed by Hark Tsui who made ONCE UOPN A TIME IN CHINA and PEKING OPERA BLUES! Well, it worked for John Woo! The one good fight takes place in a hotel room. Hark didn't learn his lesson though and directed Van Dumme in the even worst KNOCK OFF the next year. Fortunately he returned to Hong Kong later on and made TIME AND TIDE, ZU WARRIORS and BLACK MASK 2.



Director Paul Nicholas aka Lutz Schaarwhachter is responsible for such dreck as JULIE DARLING, CHAINED HEAT and NAKED CAGE. He also made the bizarre NIGHT OF THE ARCHER (1994) wherein a lot of bow and arrow shenanigans take place on an estate owned by sleazy Joseph Bologna and his frigid wife Barbara Carrera. At dinner they insult each other and while their daughter (Avital Dicker) goes head to head in a tournament with a greasy biker (Eric Roberts wannabe Jeff Griggs) being chased by two idiot gangsters. Sandahl Bergman shows up as a horse trainer and Bologna's character winds up dead. Who did it? Who cares? Every one in this shot in Germany dog is weird.........



By it's title alone BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER (2002) should speak volumes. Volumes of "stay away", "do not rent", "do not watch". The only people who should go ballistic are the poor unfortunate movie goers who got suckered into paying to see this trash that should have gone directly to video.

Antonio Banderas (looking like he's been up all night snorting coke with Melanie Griffith) plays some kind of ex-agent who whispers alot. Lucy Liu (obviously being groomed to be the new Karen Black) is another agent who kidnaps Banderas' son, kills about a hundred people and is suppose to evoke sympathy from the (hopefully very gullible) audience. Gregg Henry (who when he's seen in a silly fedora looks like he could play the lead if they ever decided to make a bio of that guy on The Quaker Oats Box) is another agent and "bad guy" but it's quite confusing when you like the villian (who can at least act) better than the supposed lead "good guys" (who are stiffs). There's lots of violent explosions and shootouts but movies like this give the term "action film" a bad name. The Tawianese director of this schlok also made a movie called FAH.

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Below Honor...

FIST OF HONOR-1992-I've noticed that for some reason I watch a shit load of bad movies. I don't understand it! Once when I had nothing to do I watched this thing called FIST OF HONOR starring everyone's favorite nobody Sam Jones, a former Playgirl centerfold who also had the great pleasure of playing Bo Derek's husband in the colossally bad hit 10. He plays Fist Sullivan, an ex-boxer strongman who works for crime boss Harry Guardino who's about to renege on his truce with a rival Don (portrayed by Abe Vigoda, TV's own lovable Fish) who is the nicer of the two thugs. Although he fights for the mob Fist says he doesn't like to hurt people. What about the audience? They're people too you know??? He has a fight with a big muscular black guy but mostly he beats up skinny white ones.

Anyway to make matters worse ex-football star Bubba Smith is a crooked cop! And there are dumb scenes like a football coach being gunned down right in front of his whole team! When Abe's character is killed Fist is framed for the murder (and 5 others). The unique acting talents of Nicolas Worth (from DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE) are put to good use as Don Guardino's right hand man who accidently kills Fist's wife (Joey House) who is also Guardino's mistress. The unappealing Jones gets revenge of course proving it pays to work for the right mob!

FOH was directed by former cinematographer Richard Pepin who with his PM Entertainment partner Joseph Merhi churned out nearly 100 martial arts action movies (many starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson). I think they've stopped though! Screenwriter Charles Kanganis later directed DENNIS THE MENACE STRIKES BACK.......



BEYOND SUSPICION-1994-BS (ha!) is a boring Canadian based action drama that has Jack Scalia (who was on the TV show POINTMAN at the time) as an obnoxious corrupt cop trying to find the murderer of his partner. Police Internal Affairs think he's responsible. Stephanie Kramer (who ten years before was a regular on TV's HUNTER) is a photojournalist who gets in the way but has a photo of the killer. Scalia roughs up muggers, sleeps with Kramer (who uses a body double) and contemplates suicide (but not enough). This stupid movie somehow ties everything together when Scalia kidnaps Kramer's daughter to get the photo because he's being blackmailed by his boss (William Davis from TV's THE X-FILES), who let him kill some gangsters (?) .

The director, Paul Ziller had worked on the HIGHLANDER TV series and also made PLEDGE NIGHT, BLOOD FIST lV: DIE TRYING and BACK IN ACTION (with Billy Blanks and Roddy Piper).

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One from Japan; One from the Philippines

GAPPA-THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER-(DAIKYOJU GAPPA)-Japan-1967-Combining plot elements from RODAN and GORGO, this Japanese production tells the story of the accidental discovery and capture of a prehistoric creature on a remote island by a group of scientist/explorers. The characters agonize over their find and their personal lives. A woman reporter is chastised by a male scientist (“Go back to Tokyo and learn to cook”) and at the end she decides he’s right and quits her job and marries him! The monster is actually a baby and it’s parents come looking for it. They are very, very phony looking even by 60’s Japanese standards, which probably explains why director Haruyasu Noguchi never made another film! Star Tamio Kawaji was also in TOKYO DRIFTER.




FIRECRACKER-New World-1981- This funny, made in The Philippines martial arts action-er features Julian Kesner as an American martial arts instructor searching for her missing sister. The search leads her to an illegal fighting tournament where she meets Chuck (Darby Hinton), henchman to the drug-dealing owner Erik (screenwriter Ken Metcalfe). Gresner‘s style isn’t very impressive and sometimes she acts like she’s high but she has a couple of fights in her underwear (and high heels) and one topless! The funniest character is Grip, another gangster played by Vic Diaz. She also gets help from Pete, a big American bar owner, Rey, a pretty tough local guy and a police detective.

All the fights are pretty funny. The weirdest scene involves a pre-sex knife cutting off of jeans! Some of the music seems stolen from The B52’s “Planet Claire”!

Eventually, Kesner finds out Chucky boy was responsible for her sister’s death (“Hey, look, I’m sorry. What can I say?”) and kills him in a death match.

Director Ciro H. Santiago directed around 50 Philippines based exploitation films (most with the bald headed Diaz as a sadistic henchman) including VAMPIRE HOOKERS (1979) and many Road Warrior type rip-offs. Julian Kesner later worked for Fred Olen Ray and Gary Graver. Darby Hinton was later in "The Days Of Our Lives" soap opera and Andy Sidaris’ MALIBU EXPRESS.

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Nonsense vs. Stupidity

VAMPIRES VS. ZOMBIES- (2004)-Confused nonsense that has something to do with a flu like disease that turns people into flesh eating zombies (what an original concept!). There is also a storyline that has something to do with vampires. A guy and his daughter and an older man are on there way to some crypt to destroy someone named Carmilla who is in fact travelling with the daughter (?). Yeah, I was mixed up too..Brinke Stevens (the only member of the cast I knew) plays some kind of witch and there are dream sequences, lesbian scenes, bad SFX and a lot of talk...

The DVD also contained a short film by the same director (Vince D'Amato) called HEADS WILL ROLL (with much of the same cast including Stevens) which I had read was better than the feature. Well, you couldn't do much worse than this feature so I guess the short was ok...

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Quick crap!

I have a date this afternoon so I have to make this very fast. It's very hot here btw. Hope everyone is kool!

THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED-(2002)-Yipes! This movie sucks! If the "film-makers" don't know anything about making horror movies they SHOULD NOT bother!! A chowderhead actor by the the name of Stuart Townsend (they could have done better with Peter) portrays Anne Rice's immortal vampire Lestat. Bad mistake! This guy (who later played Dorian Gray in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN) is the worse...

The late Rap star Aaliyah isn't much better. Everything about this movie reeks! Phony heavy metal punk combined with vampirisim really doesn't make it.

Also with Marguerite Moreau, Vincent Perez (THE CROW 2), Claudia Black (TV's FARSCAPE), Bruce Spence, Lena Olin and Paul McGann.

DAY THE WORLD ENDED-2001-God awful remake of the classic Roger Corman 50's film. Actually it's not really a remake. It's just a piece of shit disguised as a movie using the same title. Randy Quaid and Nastassja Kinski star. They obviously needed beer money that week. Most of the cast talk while eating. One of several Cinemax "remakes" co-produced by AIP co-founder Samuel Z. Arkoff (who died in 2003). None of them are worth watching.....

DAWN OF THE DEAD-2004-Now this movie bites it! I was laughing at the pre-credit scenes but this is less like a DAWN OF THE DEAD remake than it is a "what a lot of stupid people did during Dawn of the Dead". As is typical with such nonsense there's a lot of talking, inane character emotions, screaming and arguing. Oh yeah, and there are some zombies in it. They run very fast, seem fairly strong but can't get a bite on most of the lead cast. Actually the running effect is very comical at points. It seems more influenced by 28 DAYS LATER than anything else. And I think it's in rather bad taste to feature the Jim Carroll song "People Who Died" during the annoying end credits. It was director Zack Snyder's first film. He later made the big hit 300 and the less than big hit WATCHMEN.

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Close But No Seagal

I don't know what happened to David Heavener but I hope he stopped making his own films! He was a terrible actor and he made his own direct to video movies (like TWISTED JUSTICE) for many years. FUGITIVE X from 1995 was the last one of his do it all (wrong) productions I 've seen or heard of. If you get bored watching this dog you can amuse yourself counting how many times Heavener's name appears in the credits. 

Not only is he the star/producer/writer/director, but he also wrote the music score (he must be tone deaf...).

But Orson Welles he ain't. And being a pony tailed tough guy doesn't even make him Steven Seagal. Hell, he's not even Leo Fong!

Here he plays an ex-cop (I'm sure the police force wouldn't have it any other way...) being hunted by bad guy Richard Norton (the Australian martial artist who's been in lots of video action stuff). Ex-skater Lynn Holly Johnson plays his wife. Familiar TV actor William Windom (who had a small part in Clint Eastwood's TRUE CRIME the next year) plays his uncle. The very unusual looking Robert D'Zar (he has an unusual name to match) plays a guy with a bad haircut who gets shot.

Heavener's greasy haired character takes some kind of drug that turns him into a one man descruction crew. Kind of like Chow Yun-Fat in a John Woo movie except he's not cool. Christopher (son of Robert) Mitchum hangs around too as well as the unfortunately named Clement Von Franckenstein who's name is much cooler than his acting.....

I hope David Heavener got into a line of work he's good at like building demolishing or something.....(running a Haagen Daz maybe????)

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Ramblin' About Bad Movies....

Let's see there was this movie ALIEN TERMINATOR (1996). It's an ALIEN ripoff about an annoying bunch of imbeciles (called scientists for some reason....) stuck way underground and subjected to a virus created by a cocaine sniffing researcher (named Newton). There's a little (very little actually) nudity and gore, the film's too dark and the little seen monster really sucks. Maria Ford stars. Director Dave Payne later did ADDAMS FAMILY REUNION, a direct to video second sequel starring Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah as Gomez and Morticia. 




And then there was the Mike Curb produced DEADLY PAST (1994), standard nonsense involving murder and double crosses with former model Carol Alt using a guy (Eric Roberts clone Ronny Marquette) to her own ends and his girlfriend (Dee Dee Pfeiffer) getting caught in the middle with a psycho (future TV Crow star Mark Dacascos). I remember when director Tibor Takacs (originally from Hungry btw) made some good movies like THE GATE and I, MADMAN......



SHADOW WARRIORS from 1995 slips in next from Roger Corman's New Horizons. Here a Global Cybernetics honcho (THE STEPFATHER's Terry O'Quinn) invents T-S4, "the future in personal protection", actually reanimated dead people turned into bodyguards! Unfortunately Mikail, a silver one in The Ukraine goes crazy. O'Quinn's head of security (Timothy Patrick Cavanugh) and Mikail's programmer (Ashley Anne Graham) go and try to shut him down. A stateside T-S4 (Evan Lurie) helps them out by jumping out of a plane and duking it with Mikail, who shoots and blows up people and says things like "Time to sleep. Time to dream". Director Lamar Card made THE CLONES and DISCO FEVER so you've been warned......




Frank Zagarino has been starring in bad videos for a long time now. In WITHOUT MERCY (also from the incredible year of 1995) his character gets captured by Somalian rebels, is imprisoned and tortured and even gets kicked by a little girl. Years later he's a streetfighter (with flashbacks). The little girl who kicked him is now all grown up and with sleaze bag Martin Kove. There's fights (including one on an outboard motorboat) and explosions but the acting's not very good. Fortunately for all of us, Robert Anthony, the writer/director of this opus never made another movie......


I could go on but you've suffered enough!!

For now!!!!!!

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Anime Strikes!

INUYASHA THE MOVIE: AFFECTION TOUCHING ACROSS TIME (2001) and INUYASHA: THE CASTLE BEYOND THE LOOKING GLASS (2002)-These two Japanese Animes are based on a popular animated TV series about a resurrected half demon’s attempt to become a full demon in Feudal Japan. Modern day school girl Kagome assists him in his search for the pieces of a shattered jewel he needs to complete his transformation. They are also helped by Shippo, a fox demon, Sango, a warrior looking for her brother (she also throws a mean boomerang), Miroku, a horny monk who has “cursed wind tunnel” in one of his hands and Myoga, a flea demon. These two movies continue their adventures from the series and also feature other characters from the show including Sesshomaru, Inuyashu’s deadly older brother. It helps if you are familiar with the TV show (which in turn is based on a Manga by Rumiko Takahashi who also created Ranma ½) but they are still enjoyable on their own.












NUYASHA-SWORDS OF AN HONORABLE RULER-2003-In the third OVA of these popular Anime series the half demon Inuyashu must team up with his demon brother to battle a demon connected with their late father. All the regular supporting characters are featured as well. If you are a fan of the series (which I am) you’ll like this.

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Blog Happy

LOVE HAPPY-United Artists-1950-Not counting Irwin Allen’s all-star historical disaster THE STORY OF MANKIND this is the so-called last Marx Brothers movie. It’s practically all Harpo (not a bad thing) and though sub-standard, when viewed as a Harpo solo effort (with brief appearances by his brothers) it’s a little easier to take.

The main story concerns the exploits of a musical troupe trying to open their production on Broadway. Harpo is his usual happy go lucky silent character stealing food for the troupe’s daily meals. Chico is Faustino, his usual fast talker with the phony Italian accent. Groucho is Grunion, a private eye who appears in framing sequences as the narrator and only shows up in the real story at the end. Some diamonds are hidden in a sardine can that Harpo steals. Ilona Massey (FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN) and her gang want them. Raymond Burr and Bruce Gordon play her two henchmen.

Harpo has some good gags and it’s interesting (and kind of strange) to see him alone most of the time, but one of the funniest scenes in the film involves him and Chico as he wordlessly tries to tell his brother their friends are in danger.

Paul Valentine who’s terrible plays the nominal romantic lead. Others in the cast include Vera Ellen, Marion Hutton (who was in IN SOCIETY with Abbott & Costello), Melvin Cooper and Eric Blore. However, the film might actually be best known for a brief cameo by a still unknown Marilyn Monroe as one of Grunion’s clients.

Several stories abound as to why the film was made as it was. You can check out Glenn Mitchell’s fact filled THE MARX BROTHERS ENCYLOPEDIA for the full story. At one point it played on a double bill with Abbott & Costello’s AFRICA SCREAMS. 

Director David Miller went on to make some serious dramas like LONELY ARE THE BRAVE (1962) and CAPTAIN NEWMAN, MD (1963) as well as the super conspiracy movie EXECUTIVE ACTION (1973). He ended his career with two TV movies starring O.J. Simpson!

The story is by Harpo and Ben Hecht was an uncredited screenwriter.

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Giant Leeches

ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES-AIP-(1959)-Enjoyable nonsense produced by Roger Corman and written by actor Leo Gordon. Giant leeches terrorize a swamp and capture locals. They are taken back to the leech lair and sucked dry of their blood. The monsters are kind of hysterical looking, like sleeping bags with suction cups but Yvette Vickers (from ATTACK OF THE THE 50 FOOT WOMAN) gives a great performance as the local swamp slut. Her cuckold husband is played by low budget vet Bruno Ve Sota. A pretty dull hero (Ken Clark, who'd had a role in LOVE ME TENDER and later worked a lot in Europe) tries to figure it all out. TV actress Jan Shepard (also in KING CREOLE with Elvis) and Tyler McVey help out. Gene Roth and George Cisar co-star.

Director Bernard Kowlaski made NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST the year before for AIP and later directed movies like KRAKATOA, EAST OF JAVA and MACHO CALLAHAN while also working on several TV shows including THE UNTOUCHABLES and THE WILD WILD WEST.

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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Multi-Colored.....

Oh yeah, WHITE TIGER was a 1995 production featuring former kick boxing champ and direct to video martial arts specialist Gary Daniels (from FIST OF THE NORTH STAR) battling Japanese American gangster Victor Chow (the always excellent Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa) and his designer drug gang after his brother (Matt Craven) is killed. Chow likes to brand people and kind of acts like Dennis Hopper in BLUE VELVET toward the end!

Eventually, Daniels gets help from the Japanese Yakuza! Julie Nickson plays an assassin who provides a topless sex scene. There's the usual explosions, car chases and hand to hand combat but the direction is well done and Tagawa makes a great villain and should be in better movies!

Director Richard Martin is the son of comedian Dick Martin and directed episodes of TV's HIGHLANDER as well as the big screen movie AIR BUD. It seems like it takes place on the West Coast but it was filmed in Vancouver, BC. B movie vet Lisa Longois has a small role.



And then there's BLUE TIGER from 1994. A single mother named Gina (Virginia Madsen) gets caught in the middle of a shootout between The Mob and The Yakuza. Her young son gets killed accidently by a Japanese assassin (Toru Nakamura). She goes nuts and is put away but eventually comes back to seek revenge. She gets a tattoo (from Harry Dean Stanton), a gun and learns Japanese. Through a strange series of events she and the assassin become lovers! She points a gun at him a lot but never has the nerve to shoot him. This is not a half bad action film featuring John Woo inspired shootouts and a surprise ending. The director, Norberto Barba later did a lot of TV programs.

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Silence Is Golden

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED-1926-Although it’s been said Walt Disney’s SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES was the first full-length animated feature, this silent “silhouette animation” was made 12 years earlier! It’s based on The Arabian Nights tales and is painstakingly reproduced with hand cut silhouettes photographed frame by frame. It took German born director Lotte Reiniger (with the help of her cameraman-husband and three other animators) three years to complete and is quite unique.

A restored version (with a newly produced version of the original score) was released in 1999. Although she had to compete in the ‘30’s with Disney, The Fleischers and Warner Bros., Reiniger continued to make her creations into the ‘70’s including a series of shorts set to the music of Mozart. She also made versions of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Jack And The Beanstalk!



TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE-1914- Though only sporadically funny by today’s standards TILLIE’S PUNCTURED ROMANCE was the first full-length comedy ever made. While most ran only two reels (around twenty minutes at most) TILLIE’S is an unbelievable 70 minutes! It is also the last time star Charlie Chaplin was directed by someone other than Charlie Chaplin. In this case it was the legendary Mack Sennett.

Chaplin plays a con man who courts the rotund Tillie (Marie Dressler) to get his hands on her father’s bankroll. They run away to “the big city” together. Tillie has one drop of whiskey and goes crazy in a bar, dancing and jumping and causing general mayhem. Chaplin takes up with his former girlfriend (and con woman) played by Mabel Normand until he finds out Tillie’s billionaire uncle has died and left her three million dollars! He quickly ditches Normand and marries Tillie. Much lunacy follows including the discovery that the uncle isn’t dead and a wild party where Tillie goes nuts trying to shoot Chaplin with a pistol!

Chester Conklin, Charley Chase and Edgar Kennedy co-star. It’s based on a Broadway play, which Dressler starred in. And it was remade in 1928 with WC Fields!

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Saturday Morning Trio

RETURNER-2002-This is a great sci-fi/action film with a time travel storyline from Japan. A young girl (Anne Suzuki) from the future (2084) travels 80 into the past to prevent a alien invasion that dooms Earth. She gets help from "Gun for Hire" named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who is out to avenge the death of a childhood friend at the hands of gangster Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani in a great performance). Though a few plot holes might show through RETURNER and director Takashi Yamazaki deliver the goods....



RIDERS OF THE WHISPERING SKULL-1937-is a typically cheap and creaky western from Republic Pictures featuring the team known as "The Three Mesquiteers" (Stony, Tucson & Lullaby). This has the unusual feature of a supernatural plot involving a cursed treasure. Of course it's actually those "bad" Native American Indians once again and this particular tribe (described by one character as "a cult") like human sacrifices. The trio are kind of lamebrained if you ask me and seem to stick their collective noses into stuff that's none of their business. Stony is played by Robert Livingston. He played the same character around 20 times and was in about 80 other forgetable films but wound up his career in three Al Adamson movies! Stuntman Crash Corrigan who also specialized in playing gorillas is Tucson.



WEBS-(2003)-I have the unfortunate knack of never learning my lesson. When I saw this movie was being shown on The Sci-Fi Channel as "An Original Movie Presentation" I should have known better. It's happened before. Sci-Fi advertises a movie as being "exclusive" or even "made for Sci-Fi" yet when it's shown words are bleeped out and scenes are obviously cut. Why would they make a movie for TV that needed to be cut for language and content. I mean you'd think the producers would know this right?

Wrong! The answer is the station simply purchases some unreleased crap that no one wants and "presents" it as their own. But why they would want to take credit for such garbage is beyond me! For a while they were "snake crazy". Then it was sharks. I got caught in "Spider Weekend" apparently. Maybe it was a homage to the opening of SPIDER-MAN 2. I don't know...

Except this:

This one is kind of weird. It's almost like a pilot for a TV series though. Some electricians, led by direct to video fodder Richard Greico (did this guy ever have a career?) accidently travel to a parallel universe where the inhabitants battle blood drinking spider-people. It sounds interesting but the premise is really wasted mostly on fights and a few gory killings.

Director David Wu was also an actor, producer and editor in Hong Kong. In better days, he wrote THE BRIDE WITH THE WHITE and it's sequel (which he also directed). After directing episodes of TV shows like POWER PLAY and RELIC HUNTER, he was second unit director for BRIDE OF CHUCKY.

Oh yeah, I forgot the Sci-Fi channel recently changed their name to Sy-Fy! Sorry! They should be too.

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