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The Lightning Bug is the Boss Man of the Moon. When he's not teaching people how to talk like him ("reaaaal sexy") or taking his flying wing out for a spin, he enjoys watching and reviewing all kinds of cult, exploitation, sci fi, b-movies, and horro
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Star Knight (1985): Kinski + Keitel × Sci Fi ÷ Fantasy = More Than You Expect
It’s been a couple of weeks since last we checked in with our old friend Klaus Kinski. So tonight, I want to take you on an amazing journey with Klaus, Harvey Keitel, and an alien who came all the way across the Universe to get nearly literally nag...
Remote Control (1988) - Or Pardon Me Sir, But There’s a UFO in my VCR
Despite the title of today’s film, it does not star the dearly departed Ken Ober who has gone on to the great game show in the sky. There is nary a Colin Quinn anywhere to be seen, and though it could have used it, not a hint of Kari Wuhrer. Instea...
B.L.O.G Presents Starcrash (1978) with Caroline Munro
A few weeks back, I started my review of Halloween III by boldly stating that I didn’t care for Michael Myers. This week I’m going to go out on a further limb. I’m not really a fan of Star Wars. Sure, I liked it when I was younger, who didn’t...
Halloween Top 13:The Sequel #2- Aliens (1986)
Yesterday, in number 3 on the countdown, I got a chance to talk about the best male hero in the horror genre, Evil Dead II’s Ash. Today I get to talk about another hero, but a very different one. In most horror films, women are portrayed as either ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): I, Pod
When Jack Finney penned the novel The Body Snatchers in 1955, I highly doubt that he entertained the notions that it would become one of the most repeatedly remade properties in film history. The first version came out only a year after its publicati...
The Blob (1958): When Good Jell-O Goes Bad
Ivan S. Yeaworth Jr. started his career in 1956 with a film called The Flaming Teen-Ape, a church backed morality tale about the evils of alcohol. Two years later he was back with a different kind of a lesson. One so beautiful in its eloquence it’s...
Phantasm (1979): Old School Baller
There are very few horror films whose roots come directly from kid friendly fare, but the kernel that would become a horror classic came to director Don Coscarelli just that way. While he was watching a screening of his second film, kiddie flick Kenn...
Multi-Monday Travels Through Time to Spain Where I Shiver at the Sight of a Werewolf
It’s Monday again so that means another roundup of my weekend watches. This weekend I had some time to catch up a few that I’ve been meaning to see, and so I decided to focus my viewing on a particular country. So, I packed my cinematic bags for ...
The Multi-Monday where Dorothy and Kevin Hang Out With People Shorter Than Them
Heya folks, back from a long weekend of relaxing, cuddling with the wife, and watching a handful of little films, and I’m ready to rock. Friday night I got started by pulling out an old faithful classic, The Marx Brother’s Duck Soup, an assault ...
Terrifying Tuesday's a bitch... and she's back in heat : They Live (1988)
If one is to believe the Wikipedia entry (and who am I to say) then sunglasses have their roots in 12th Century China, but did not come into the popular use until the early 1900’s when the stars of early silent films to protect from the bright arc ...
Beautiful Ladies Of Genre: Species (1995)
If one day I went to the mailbox and there was a mysterious package waiting for me inside, I would be quite suspect of it to start. Then after getting the gumption to open it up, what if I found a letter detailing how to make the best sandwich of all...
B.L.O.G Presents Rose McGowen in Planet Terror (2007)
When you’ve been married as long as Ms. Directed and I have, then you sometimes have to deal with each other’s little idiosyncrasies. Take for example my wife’s television viewing habits. If there’s a series that has anything to do with scien...
TT: The Bugg Gets a Special Look at Chance Shirley's New Horror/Sci-Fi/Comedy Interplanetary (2008)
Another Terrifying Tuesday has arrived, and I’ve got something really special for you folks today. Over the last 10 months, I’ve been lucky enough to become friends with a few independent film makers, and this week one of my friends is doing me a...
The Grab Bag: Groom Lake (2002)
With Star Trek making its rebooted debut on screens over the weekend, my readers who caught my month long “You Don’t Know Shat” event might wonder what I thought. Since tons of other folks are airing their opinions at the moment, I will reserve...
Tomb of Forgotten Film: Future Force (1989)
I don’t recall things being that bad in 1989. Sure George H.W. Bush took office. Sure Muslims were out to kill Salman Rushdie. And, yeah, maybe the Exxon Valdez might have spilled oil all over the place and Pete Rose was banned from baseball, but t...
The Grab Bag: The Running Man (1987)
The Grab Bag this week is full of goodness is the form of one of my favorite films. There’s tons of fun stuff when you look back at ‘80’s action films, but I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for those set in a dystopian future. So we’r...
Tomb of Forgotten Film: 3 Supermen Against The Godfather (1979)
In the months that the Lair has been spewing out reviews of cult films, I have traveled the world to bring you films from England, Sweden, The Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, and of course Italy. There’s one country whose films I have really wanted ...
You Don't Know Shat: Star Trek:The Undiscovered Country (1991)
In the three weeks we’ve spent basking in the presence of Shatner, we’ve seen many sides to the man. In Pray for the Wildcats, we were introduced to the Shat in a grey flannel suit. Then Kingdom of the Spiders showed off William’s cowboy hero s...
The Grab Bag: Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)
Inside of The Grab Bag, you never know what you might get. This time when I opened it up there, staring back at me, was the vastness of space. It was kind of like looking at movie house marquee in the waning years of the seventies. After Star Wars de...
You Don't Know Shat: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
[Ding…ding…Ding…Ding]Shatner, four weeks in review. This is the month of You Don’t Know Shat whose four week mission is to take a look at the long and storied career of William Shatner. To review obscure titles from the master of the over rea...
The Grab Bag: The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
At the beginning of March in 1896, some 113 years ago, scientist Henri Becquerel was in his lab investigating phosphorescence in uranium salts, you know the usual, when the Frenchmen stumbled onto radioactivity. Now Henri would go on to win a Co-Nobe...
B.L.O.G Presents: Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Welcome back folks to another week of celebrating those Beautiful Ladies of Genre. This week I have a lady who's picture should be next to the words genre actress in the dictionary. When you've made a career starring in films like Roller Blade Warrio...
Terrifying Tuesday:Night of the Creeps (1986)
There are some movies that you just kick yourself for missing. Then you try and track them down and they become elusive. There’re the movies that you want to watch, that you can’t wait for, and you would if only someone would cooperate and make i...
The Grab Bag Death Match Special Vol1
I was recently asked by some friends of mine, Doktor Stick and J-Diddy from the great state of Texas, to help them with a quandary. They had a running argument over which movie was worse. Well, being a true pal, I said I would subject myself to the a...
Terrifying Tuesday: The Return of Dr. X (1939)
"This is one of the pictures that made me march in to Jack Warner's office and ask for more money again. You can't believe what this one was like. I had a part that somebody like Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff should have played. I was this doctor, bro...
