-
THE JOHN SAXON PROJECT
-
Night Caller From Outer Space – 1965 / Director: John Gilling
18 April 2014 6:00 PM | No Comments Read More -
Saxon in Space!
18 April 2014 2:30 PM | No Comments Read More -
Monsters: The Waiting Room – 1991 / Director: Philip Alderton
05 April 2014 12:30 PM | No Comments Read More -
Scorpion with Two Tails – 1982 / Director: Sergio Martino
22 February 2014 5:00 PM | No Comments Read More -
Prisoners of the Lost Universe – 1983 / Director: Terry Marcel
28 January 2014 4:30 PM | No Comments Read More
-
FEATURES Archive
-
Saxon in Space!
Pick a genre, any genre, from the last 7 decades and you can bet your bottom dollar that VTSS‘ main man, John Saxon has found himself knee deep in it…
-
Space Camp – Launch an Adventure!
During the late 80s and early 90s, in that period before our beloved VHS format had dried up and died, “video brochures” were all the rage. Video brochures were cheapo,…
-
Kids in Space!
We’ve sent all sorts of weird shit up into outer space. Since the 40′s, we’ve launched Lego, Postal Stamps, Golf Clubs, Iranian Worms, James Doohan‘s ashes (several times), Buzz Lightyear…
-
You’ve Gotta Love… EAR SLUGS!
I have to admit, I’ve never been a huge fan of Star Trek films but “eeww!!!” You’ve GOTTA love this: Pavel Chekov and Gordon’s War‘s Paul Winfield are captured by…
-
Lo Fi Sci Fi: VTSS in Space!
Brains! Children! Sex! Theremins! Lobsters! Employment Law! Eastern Europeans! Turkish UFOs! Japanese men in monster suits! beating up OTHER Japanese men in monster suits! in Space! with Aliens! Aliens! Shoddy set…
-
WW…Whatever – Part 3
Wrestlemania III The 3rd instalment of the Sport Entertainment Spectacular, and this was a big one! 93,173 grapplin’ fans packed into the Pontiac Silverdome, Michigan. A indoor attendance record…
-
You’ve Gotta Love… Hollywood DVD!
UK readers will be familiar with the credit crunch busting high street retailer Poundland. They specialize in cheap toilet roll, household cleaning products and deodorants that look like the expensive…
-
March-ial Arts Month: Godfrey Ho
It’s the return of March-ial Arts month here at VTSS and we’re devoting the remaining days of this month to perhaps the most maligned filmmaker from the island of Hong…
-
WW…Whatever – Part 2
Wrestlemania II Off the back of the success of the 1st, the 2nd Mania was to go one step further. 3 Locations. 3 Main Events. A risky venture I…
-
Mathew Klickstein talks Rag Doll, Sex, R. Crumb and Chief Wiggum
VTSS recently talked to the author Mathew Klickstein about his excellent book, Rag Doll (reviewed on these very pages), a tale of aberrant sex and the improper use of foodstuffs,…
-
It Feels Like I’m In Love
Everyone’s pretended to be in love at one time or another. Or, perhaps, been in love with the idea of being in love. It starts pretty early on – a…
-
WW…Whatever – Part 1
Wrestlemania I As Gorilla Monsoon said in his opening statement: “the wrestling extravaganza of all time”, Madison Square Garden, March 31st 1984, was the only venue that could hold…
-
‘Nam Vets Go Nuts! Awesome Violence From The Land of the Free.
The war in Vietnam had a profound effect on the psyche of the USA. The Nixon doctrine, Operation Rolling Thunder, Vietnamese kids burned with napalm, the My Lai massacre, people…
-
Long Live the New Flesh-Filled, Skull-Splitting VTSS
2013 started pretty well. I’d scheduled a few of my past reviews for the first week, to give us all a break over Christmas – The Crazies (which was, I…
-
blood-drenched, flesh-filled, skull-splitting, retro movie madness…
… is probably catchier than, supermarkets, Safa-sploitation turkeys, employment law, Fred Savage and kids with learning difficulties in films and Etruscan Horror… But that, dear reader, is what I intend…
-
You’ve Gotta Love… Supermarkets in Film
Happy Buy Nothing Day! Name 5 films where bad stuff happens at a supermarket. Now name 5 films where good stuff happens at a supermarket. If, like me, you’ve struggled…
-
I am open to anything….
I hate predictability. Why, in an everyday life, where the activities of everyday work and cleaning one’s home tend to repeat the next day and then the next week, and…
-
Who The F@&% Do You Think You Are? A Personal View Of Film Discussion
My observation of people is that they generally prefer to think of themselves as binary animals, a notion ridiculous on its face. They claim they are either conservative or liberal,…
-
Why Am I Watching This?
Film is meaningless. An actor is told what to say and do by someone else, and pretends to feel what the writer thinks the character should be feeling. We sit…
-
A Message to You, Rudy
I may not be sleek, but women shriek when they see my physique. I’ve got a dong as big as King Kong [Not really a message TO Rudy, he’s dead…
-
You’ve Gotta Love… Apes in SpaceSuits!
For all the “you bastards!” sand thumping of Chuck Heston on a beach beside a sunken Statue of Liberty; in spite of James Franciscus being told “the only good human…
-
Todd’s Top Three Threequels
Good things don’t always come in threes. The Devil’s symbol consists of three sixes (or six hundred and sixty-six, If you want to pick nits). The action of lighting three…
-
You’ve Gotta Love… Rape!
Not real rape, obviously, which is a horrible, unpleasant business. I’m more interested in cinematic rape, which gives us all manner of great (and not so great) films to choose…
-
Teensploitation!
Apparently (well, according to Ask.com at least), 47.9% of the world’s population are teenagers. Nearly half the planet. That’s a lot of precocious, bubble gum lovin’ upstarts, fact fans! It’s…