The Sand (2015), from director Isaac Gabaeff, is a very silly film full of irritating characters, but it is nonetheless an entertainingly daft film borrowing from Blood Beach (1980), Tremors(1990) and more. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/the…

Pascal Laugier's Martyrs (2008) is a powerful, gruelling experience that still divides opinion between those who see it as nasty, gratuitous exploitation and those that see a more thoughtful film beneath the extreme violence. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/mar…

A silent film based on an opera? It was more common than you might think and Tannhäuser (1913), inspired by the Wagner opera, was director Lucius Henderson's contribution, albeit a rather underwhelming fantasy. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/tan…

Lily C.A.T. (1987) is an anime that steals shamelessly from Alien (1979) and The Thing (1982) yet still manages to be entertaining almost in spite of itself. definitely not one for cat lovers though... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/lil…

In Albert Pyun's Alien from L.A. (1988), former swimsuit model Kathy Ireland adopts an irritating squeaky voice and ends up stranded in a subterranean Atlantis for a woefully bad, unfunny and very sloppy fantasy. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/ali…

Bert I. Gordon's directorial career started with King Dinosaur (1955), the first of his many films about giant monsters/people/arachnids/whatevers. And it's a bit of a drag, a brief 63 minutes that feels much longer. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/kin…

We all know that It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) begat Alien (1979) (after a fashion) but it's a very enjoyable film in its own right, the best that Edward L. Cahn ever directed in fact. Which may not be saying much... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/it-…

The Touch of Melissa (1971), better known as The Touch of Satan, is not a great film by any means but it's better than many give it credit for. The script is rubbish but the photography is fantastic. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/the…

Rattlers (1976) is a particularly poor addition to the "nature bites back" films of the 1970s, with a bit of one of the decade's other obsessions, conspiracy theories, thrown in for good measure. Even the snakes aren't scary in this one. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/rat…

Robert Wiene's Genuine (1920) is a disappointing follow-up to his Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, released just six months earlier. It looks stunning and actress Fern Andra is excellent, but overall, it doesn’t really work. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/gen…

Something a bit different - a batch of reviews of short films from Japanese stop-motion genius Kihachiro Kawamoto, all of them remarkable, beautiful and unforgettable. A second batch may follow eventually... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/fiv…

Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) well deserves its reputation as one of the worst films ever made. The director made it as a bet - he won, but you won’t feel like you have after enduring. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/man…

Silent Madness (1984) is a 3D slasher with a high body count but little else to commend it. Director Simon Nuchtern is best remembered for infamous newly shot epilogue to Snuff (1976) and little else. Certainly not this... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/sil…

Redneck Zombies (1987) is a witless no budget comedy from the wonderfully named Pericles Lownes and it's every bit as dumb as its title. And then some. Some good cut-price gore effects but that's about it. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/red…

Cyborg 2087 (1966) has some interesting ideas in play, but director Franklin Adreon can't find anything interesting to do with them. If you've seen The Terminator (1984) you've seen all the best bits - just done better. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/cyb…

Charles Band's Crash! (1976) is very silly but certainly lives up to its title. It takes equal parts from The Exorcist (1973) and Duel (1971) and blows up a lot of cars telling the tale of a woman possessed by Hittite god Akaza. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/cra…

Eerie Tales (1919) by director Richard Oswald can lay claim to being one of the first - if not indeed the first - horror anthology films but despite sterling work from star Conrad Veidt, it's all a bit stodgy and dull. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/eer…

Nick Park's football themed Early Man (2018) may be one of Aardman's lesser stop-motion animation films (it was a box office flop) but it's still as charming, silly and technically brilliant as you could hope for. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/ear…

Mighty Jack (1986) is a baffling compilation of two episodes of Eiji Tsuburaya's TV series Maiti Jakku about a team of special agents battling criminal masterminds with their flying submarine. And it's all very confusing... eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/mig…

Sunburst (1975) by James Polakof is barely a horror film at all and it's a pretty awful one to boot, notable now only for an early genre outing for Robert Englund in a dreary tale of drippy New Age hippies vs crazy rednecks. eofftvreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/sun…