Zombos' Closet of Horror

Halloween 2021 is looking a little pale. Yes, it is only early September, but that is the point. Shelves, normally stuffed with decorative tricks and treats, have been slow to fill. Candy, of course, always the true king of Halloween, is popping up,...

The Jungle Jim pressbooks were usually a six-page foldout. I scanned the pages in the order you would see them when initially opening the pressbook. The JJ series had a long run of B (perhaps more C) movies to fill theater screens when patrons would...

Johnny Weismuller (who played Tarzan) did 16 Jungle Jim movies. While his acting style lacked much (though it made him perfect for Tarzan), the usual jungle mischief would provide the action. In this one, the locals need to relocate so an atom bomb t...

An all-talking production! Boy, that must have been quite a thrill to theater audiences when talking pictures replaced the silents. Earlier pressbooks used newsprint, which didn't hold up well over the years; but this one for Murder on the Roof h...

Subpar miniatures, bad acting, and clumsy wire-work for space scenes renders the wild, wild plot more harebrained than wild. Still, the low budget 1960s space vibe, campy and unintentionally funny, is interesting. ComicRack reader version: Download W...

One of my guilty pleasures is watching the antics of the East Side Kids (aka Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, The Bowery Boys) troupe's antics. Here they join with the FBI to foil terrorists. A surprising number of movies were made with various...

I caught Orgy of the Dead many, many years ago, late one night. For the life of me I can't remember where, but it may have been a late-night showing on some UHF channel. I was naughty, even then, and UHF had lax standards. After Criswell introduc...