Author Archive: Retro

Alien ship crashes on Mars, and a human rescue team finds a woman onboard, whom they take back to earth. But, on the trip home, she reveals an unusual appetite for human blood. Written by Curtis Harrington. Dir. Curtis Harrington

It’s every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison.
An exploitation film when being an exploitation film was cool. As such, it has certain shortcoming inherent to the genre, such as street talking tough black guy, the psychotic white chauvinist pig, and the heroic woman, overcoming oppression with sagacity and perserverence, 1970’s porn movie music.

Marta Kristen fights and blows things up and knows how to make gunpowder. Very cool.

A baby born to a human couple turns out to be a mutant monster with an appetite to kill when scared

Western tale of rounding up wild horses and herding them 400 miles across South Dakota to rodeo. Produced, directed and featuring professional champion rodeo rider Casey Tibbs.

Trashy low-budget horror film tells the tale of a sleazy girl who kills her abortionist father to gain an early inheritance only to find out she isn’t the beneficiary! Add a blackmail scheme and a psychotic boyfriend and you have all the elements for a classic horror flick! Dir. Robert Vincent O’Neill

Based on the 1976 autobiography My Luke and I by Eleanor Gehrig and Joseph Durso, Love Affair: The Eleanor & Lou Gehrig Story provides a slightly different slant on the events previously dramatized on film as Pride of the Yankees (1942). The story is told in flashback from the point of view of the wife of baseball’s “Iron Man”. Sitting in a deserted Yankee stadium, Eleanor (Blythe Danner) relates her tale to her biographer Joseph Durso (Robert Burr). She recalls how she met the painfully shy ballplayer Lou Gehrig (Edward Herrmann) on a blind date in 1933. She remembers her battle of wills with Lou’s domineering and possessive mother (played with a nearly impenetrable foreign accent by Patricia Neal), and her 1934 elopement with her “Luke.” Other memories include the New York Yankees’ goodwill trip to Japan, where relationships became strained between teammates Gehrig and Babe Ruth (Ramon Bieri). Also recalled is the fact that [...]

Three mental patients (a bad impersonator, a baseball player, and a gay fashion designer) escape their asylum and sexually assault their way into a girl’s private school. The girls education includes wrestling and karate, so the three mad men will find stern opposition when they least expected.