Born from necessity and often relegated to the lower half of double features, B-movies were typically low-budget, quickly produced genre films that rarely aimed for critical acclaim. Studio executives ...

The film hyperbolically pushes the alarm button, all to push OUR buttons. But that last element — the fact that it does take itself seriously — turned out to be the bait that hooked the critics. What ...

A documentary on the life and career of the legendary British exploitation film director Norman J. Warren, who gained a name for himself in the sexploitation business in the late 1960s before moving ...

Zombie cinema thrives on budget constraints. Strip away the CGI and blockbuster gloss, and you're left with the true spirit of the undead: goopy, grotesque, and punk to the marrow. George A. Romero ...

As much as I wish it was, today’s subject is not a famous comedian’s 2007 vanity project in which he plays an animated bumblebee trying to get with a human woman. We’re talking, instead, about the B ...

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the American film industry faced a crisis. Theater attendance plummeted, forcing thousands of venues to close. Major studios with their own theater chains ...