Hell on Wheels- Season 4 Starts August 2nd

 

Season three of the show was the best so far so I have really been waiting on this new season as I call it 'Escape from Mormon Mountain' based on this poster.

Comic Book Monday: The Thing vs. Rocky

"Absolutely."

Walker, Texas Ranger: One Riot, One Ranger

This is a strange release from last week as this is the pilot episode from 1993 for the long running Chuck Norris series.  This has been available on the season one box set for quite some time so I really am curious as to why the single disc release.  Is it just to put out a new package with Chuck on it?  Is CBS trying to gauge some interest on a new Walker TV movie?  Did Chuck threaten someone with a death spin kick?    Time will tell and I did see this on the new release shelf at the box store last week. 

I even had this episode on laser disc:

 

 I would rather see a release of the 2005 TV movie Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire.  This movie debuted on a Sunday night and was running late after an overtime NFL game and just got lost that night and even confused DVRs as most people ended up watching an episode of the CBS show Cold Case.  The movie was pretty good and ended with the most ridiculous cliffhanger ever with one of the main characters hanging on for their life and the movie was never followed up.  The U.K . has a release of this so maybe we will get this release in the near future.  

Drive-In Massacre

I love checking out old low budget horror movies and that has been made really easy over the years with these multi DVD packs you can find at the box store for $5 or even cheaper sometimes.  You can score some really good titles like Night of the Living Dead, White Zombie, The Last Man on Earth, Horror Express, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Driller Killer, and many others.  Now beware, the video and audio qualities are not the best on these sets but the movie is watchable and actually the low quality adds a little nostalgia to the viewing for me.  If these titles were not seen on the big screen back in the day then they were probably viewed on a twenty inch Zenith and possible in black and white too.  Ah, the good old days.

Drive-In Massacre is in one my latest sets.  I love watching these late at night and the 74 minute viewing time works great for my schedule.  This horror flick notifies you it is at a California drive-in and it is dusk so the cars are starting to line-up.  A couple are doing some smooching in their car and then the man decides they need some sound for the movie.  He has to stretch out really far to grab the speaker then all of the sudden we see a sword and off goes his head.  Then the lady in the care has a run in with the sword too as the movie continues as no one notices the murder until after the movie is over.

The cops arrive and interview the drive-in manager (Bald guy, with a beard.  Never trust a guy like this) and his goofy worker that cleans up and looks after the place.   Of course they don’t know anything but the worker is suspicious of a peeking Tom guy always moving his car around the drive-inn.  During the cop’s investigation more couples die at the drive-in and so does the peeping Tom so they start their case back at square one.  Then John Carpenter alum Buck Flower shows up threatening to kill a girl but the cops shoot and kill him and then the girl turns out to be his daughter.   She is pissed at the cops for killing her Dad who just escaped from the hospital that very morning.  Back to square one again for the cops.

Any way the police zero in on their killer who is at the drive-in at it once again and they come across a grisly scene.  As the movie is ending we hear an announcement that there is a killer loose in the theater and that the police have been called, please stay in your seats!  A great ending for a nice, cheap, fun little horror movie and I was entertained for the short run time.  Go to the drive-in and check it out sometime or pick it up in the bargain bin.

The Expendables-Simpsons Style

"Where's the choppa?"

New Release Tuesday

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.  This maybe the movie where the bad ass was born as Lee Marvin goes around and kicks ass and doesn’t take crap from anybody in this violent revenge flick.  This is a great movie and probably my favorite Lee Marvin flick.  Also stars the gorgeous Angie Dickinson and a great turn by Carroll O’Connor.   It is kind of hard to not laugh when ever O’Connor shows up on the screen as I have so rarely seen him play such a straight role.

Everyone raves about the first one and it is sitting on a shelf in my house collecting dust.  I really need to get around to watching this so I can check this sequel out.

Scream Factory brings us this fun horror flick with an all star cast and Betty White steals the movie.  If you like Swamp Hunters you will love this alligator flick.

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes.  Directed by the great Walter Hill (48Hours, Red Heat)

Lacking consciences because they were born during a solar eclipse, a trio of 10-year-olds embark on an indiscriminate killing spree.  That is a great poster.