Teen Vamp (1988)

“Teen Witch” came in to existence from a studio’s desires to create a “Teen” monster franchise. “Teen Wolf” would give way to “Teen Witch,” and there was supposed to be “Teen Vampire.” Director Samuel Bradford’s super low budget “Teen Vamp” seems to aim to unofficially complete the trinity amounting to a bizarre eighties teen horror series. Although, you could ague “Love at First Bite,” “The Vampire’s Kiss,” and or “Vamp” completed the trilogy; I’d be more hard pressed to argue that “My Best Friend is a Vampire” feels so much more like a natural end to the desired gimmick. “Teen Vamp” is best left in the heap of obscure eighties video store shelf warmers.

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Primal Rage (1988)

Director Vittorio Rambaldi’s horror film is such a silly bafflingly bizarre horror movie that even after the credits rolled, I was kind of dumbfounded. “Primal Rage” feels so much like someone wrote a teen college drama comedy about an aspiring journalist, and his love interest. And then someone had the bright idea of taking a script for a horror movie and just awkwardly wedged it right in between all the twenty something romance and growing pains with mopey aspiring photographer Sam and even mopier student Lauren. Continue reading →

Five of My Favorite Childhood B Movie Queens

Growing up during the video age, and with cable television, you tend to come across a lot of recurring faces. Over the years I’ve managed to build a list of some of my all time favorite B movie queens, and these five are only a select few of the many women that influenced my love for cult cinema, and inspired me to dig deeper in to underground and horror cinema over the years.

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