Author Archive: Retro

Camp classic about a group of Amazon women who hunt for their mates…literally. Dir. Gregg C. Tallas

Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with gambling debts; and, Davey, a rock musician on the cusp of success. Tara is a free spirit, faithful to each man in her own way, and so stunning that she dresses in a wig and ill-fitting uniform while she’s working so men won’t harass her constantly. The low-life whom Johnny is in debt to figures out a way to use Tara to help him execute a daring in-flight robbery. But will Tara stand by helplessly, or is superchick ready for action?

While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by aseven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, shereturns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them andthe rest of Palm Springs, California.

Bail bondsman tries to keep witness in drug trial alive to testify.

Dir. Roger Corman. Cult favorite Dick Miller stars as a sculptor who seems to bring make life-like plaster cats and people. Another Corman quickie made in 2 days.

Dir. Ed Wood. Classic bad film. Film noir Ed Wood style. First screen appearance of the legendary muscle man Steve Reeves, who was later immortalized in the “Hercules” pictures.

A russian scientist is chased into a nuclear testing area and has the misfortune of experiencing an atomic bomb explosion. Now, club-wielding monster, he strangles a lot of people. Supposedly a nuclear protest film. Excellent cinematography.

Wood’s most autobiographical film, he stars under a pseudonym in this “docu-drama” about transvestites and sex-change operations. Will his fiance let him wear her angola sweater? See daffy dream sequences, Bela Lugosi as a scientist-narrator and a heartfelt plea for understanding towards men who wear “pink satin undies.” Glen or Glenda?” is a bad movie lover’s dream. Hilarious dialogue, no coherent plotline, and many memorable sequences of transvestites and their hardships.