Though many might have initially balked at the idea of Ted Nicolaou – the Band b-lister responsible for the bubble-headed likes of Terrorvision, Bad Channels and Assault of the Killer Bimbos – taking on a series of sober, stylish, European-shot vampire movies, it would seem, in retrospect, that the naysayers may have been a little hasty in their saying of nay. Rather, the Subspecies films marked the point at which journeyman writer/director Nicolaou unexpectedly raised his game; ridding himself of…

Hard to imagine today, but following the $39 million box-office bonanza of his debut movie (the okayish-in-a-better-than-HAWK-THE-SLAYER-kind-of-way SWORD AND THE SORCERER (1982)), director Albert Pyun was a hot property in Hollywood for around 10 to 15 minutes during the early 1980s. Following his surprise smash for Brandon Chase’s Group 1, Pyun was swiftly snapped up by the De Laurentiis Group to helm the likeable but alarmingly erratic, post-nuke noir RADIOACTIVE DREAMS (1985). However, both films would prove perhaps the pinnacle…

One of three initial movies that were to have been the opening gambit from 'Edge Entertainment' – yet another of Charlie Band's Full Moon offshoots, and one that drafted an ambitious blueprint: to specialise in relatively larger budgeted, high quality yet distinctly edgy product, to be produced by Kushner-Locke and released through Full Moon (the other two titles being Robert Altman's GUN and John Landis' SUSAN'S PLAN). But Matthew Bright's knowingly controversial follow up to his cult smash FREEWAY (1996)…

Before we begin, it must be stated that Peter Manoogian's 1987 urban survival pic ENEMY TERRITORY most resembles an unsophisticated, scrappy late-1970s AIP rip-off of John Carpenter's ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976); even the closing credits cue from old-school rap crew The Boogie Boys contains none-too-subtle allusions to Carpenter's seminal synth scores for both ASSAULT and HALLOWEEN (1978). Now, to some reviewers higher of brow than myself, this would no doubt be considered harsh criticism, but to this old hack…