Wednesday 24 May 2000

Cinematic Hell

Not all movies are created equal. Welcome to Cinematic Hell.

During 2010 I'm working through the greatest movies of all time, two hundred and fifty of them. Each week of the year I'll be posting reviews of five movies from the IMDb Top 250 List, but that creates something of an imbalance on a blog where I review the good, the bad and the ugly.

If the IMDb Top 250 movies are the good and there's plenty on here already to count as the bad, that leaves the ugly. That's what this page is for.

Each week I'll also be writing a review of one of the worst movies of all time for the awesome folks at Cinema Head Cheese and then indexing them here too as premiere examples of Cinematic Hell. I'm grateful to Kevin, Jeff and David for the privilege. Please check out their site and the many, many other wonderful things they do. Go buy a copy of Blown for starters.

Here are my reviews, along with ratings from my wife and I and links to each film's page at IMDb. Read these reviews at your peril! You have been warned!

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

This Week's Review (Week 43: 3 Nov 2010)
Title Year H D Director(s) IMDb
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy 1958 2 2 Rafael Portillo IMDb

All Cinematic Hell Reviews
Title Year H D Director(s) IMDb
The Beast of Yucca Flats 1961 1 1 Coleman Francis IMDb
Blood Feast 1963 2 2 Herschell Gordon Lewis IMDb
Blood Freak 1972 1 1 Steve Hawkes & Brad Grinter IMDb
The Brainiac 1962 2 2 Chano Urueta IMDb
The Brain from Planet Arous 1957 3 3 Nathan Hertz IMDb
The Brain That Wouldn't Die 1962 3 3 Joseph Green IMDb
Chained for Life 1951 2 2 Harry L. Fraser IMDb
Child Bride 1938 2 2 Harry J. Revier IMDb
The Corpse Grinders 1971 3 2 Ted V. Mikels IMDb
The Creeping Terror 1964 1 1 A. J. Nelson IMDb
Criminally Insane 1975 2 2 Nick Philips IMDb
The Crippled Masters 1979 3 3 Kei Law IMDb
Devil Monster 1946 1 1 S. Edwin Graham IMDb
Double Agent 73 1974 1 1 Doris Wishman IMDb
Eegah 1962 1 1 Nicholas Meriwether IMDb
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death 1980 1 1 Matthew Mallinson IMDb
The Giant Gila Monster 1959 3 3 Ray Kellogg IMDb
Hercules Against the Moon Men 1964 2 2 Giacomo Gentilomo IMDb
The Horrors of Spider Island 1960 1 1 Jaime Nolan IMDb
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter 1966 3 3 William Beaudine IMDb
King Kong vs Godzilla 1962 2 2 Inishiro Honda IMDb
Life Returns 1935 1 1 Eugen Frenke IMDb
Maniac 1934 2 1 Dwain Esper IMDb
Manos: The Hands of Fate 1966 1 1 Harold P. Warren IMDb
Mesa of Lost Women 1953 2 2 Herbert Tevos & Ron Ormond IMDb
The Monster of Camp Sunshine 1964 3 3 Ferenc Leroget IMDb
Monstrosity 1964 2 3 Joseph Mascelli IMDb
Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 1 1 Edward D. Wood Jr. IMDb
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo 1966 1 1 Ray Dennis Steckler IMDb
Reefer Madness 1936 3 3 Louis J. Gasnier IMDb
Robot Monster 1953 2 2 Phil Tucker IMDb
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy 1958 2 2 Rafael Portillo IMDb
Santa Claus 1959 1 1 René Cardona IMDb
Tentacles 1977 2 2 Oliver Hellman IMDb
The Terror of Tiny Town 1938 3 3 Sam Newfield IMDb
Test Tube Babies 1948 1 2 W. Merle Connell IMDb
They Saved Hitler's Brain 1976 1 1 David Bradley IMDb
Track of the Moon Beast 1976 2 3 Dick Ashe IMDb
White Pongo 1945 3 3 Sam Newfield IMDb
The Wild Women of Wongo 1958 2 2 James L. Wolcott IMDb
The Wild World of Batwoman 1966 1 1 Jerry Warren IMDb
Zaat 1975 1 1 Don Barton IMDb
Zontar: The Thing from Venus 1966 1 1 Larry Buchanan IMDb

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