Tim Gross Attacks – Part One

Tim Gross Attacks – Part One

The Mondo Film & Video Guide’s Contributor Tim Gross, author of the humorous and wildly successful series of film review books ” Gross Movie Reviews”  has just chimed in with yet another amazing round of Gross reports on B-movie sleaze, celluloid madness and even a mainstream surprise.  Pop open a beer, and get ready to laugh and be entertained.

Kitten With A Whip (1964)

Directed By: Douglas Heyes
IMDb.com Link

Kitten with a  Whip – An oldie but goodie… A classic black and white film from the 60’s  about a young woman (Ann Margret) who is a troubled girl who  is flirting with  womanhood but still has the child inside of her. This  young woman is on the run  from police until she breaks into a nice big home  that just happens to be owned  by a man whose ambition is to be a senator.  Instead of calling the police about  the break-in he tries to help her, whether  it’s him being curious, horny, or  just feeling deep sadness for this young  woman. Well of course, he doesn’t know  what he has gotten himself into as  she constantly tries to mess with him by  inviting friends over for a party  or just trying to drive him nuts period! The  film is an interesting piece of  cinema that captures what was popular at the  time that has been gone for  many years. Great ending, great film, and Ann was  great also I give it 3 stars.

Up In The Air (2009)

Directed By: Jason Reitman
IMDb.com Link

Up in the Air – Not my usual kind of  film to review but it does have of my favorite stars of “Return of the Killer  Tomatoes”, George Clooney.  Clooney stars has a man who most of his life is spent  traveling on the road or I should say in the air traveling from city to city for  a company that fires people for a living. He is constantlytraveling which of  course means he doesn’t have much of a social life and doesn’t seem to care  about seeing his apartment too much as most of his life is packed into this  travel bag on wheels he takes everywhere with him. His job and life get turned  upside down when a young, cute, college fresh, woman comes into his company and  comes up with a computer program that fires people right from their office in  Omaha and people do not have to travel no longer. Meantime, Clooney’s character has just met a woman who also spends her time on the road for her job and is  willing to hook up whenever they are near each other. So Clooney must  come to  grips with his future of not traveling and trying to have an actual relationship  that means something. The film is serious, funny, part documentary at times  about the crappy economy but all is all around very good and interesting film to  watch for any fan of film. The film also has a couple great supporting actors in  Jason Bateman and the legendary “Roadhouse” star  Sam Elliot. I give it 3 ½  stars.

Deadbeat At Dawn (1988)

Written & Directed By: Jim Van Bebber
IMDb.com Link

Deadbeat at Dawn  – A cult independent film from the late 80’s from the  now famous filmmaker  Jim Van Bebber who stars/directs/written/produces/stunt  man, all for the film.  This ultra low budget but daring film is about two gangs at war and one man who  is the head of the one gang trying to leave to  do the right thing for his girlfriend. Lots of boobs, blood, and gang fu go down in this film but the  biggest thing of this cool little film is that  Jim shows there isn’t anything  you can’t do if you are also a filmmaker with no budget. Jim stars as the leader  of the ‘Ravens’… When he attempts to leave the gang his girlfriend is sought out  by the rival gang leader and minions and they torture and kill his girlfriend.  Jim is distraught and goes on a drinking binge and visits his father, giving you  a peak of his unfortunate childhood and finally decides he is going to kill  himself only to be stopped by his fellow ex-gang members. They want him to help  them pull off a bank job that Jim knows is a set up but goes through it to get  revenge for his girlfriend. We get to see lots of gore and how a dirty white guy  is able to use the karate and mad skills to kill rival gang members! A fun movie  to watch but also a blueprint like “The Dead Next Door” and “The Darkness” for  budding independent filmmakers to not only make a film but a film on something  other than Digital film which a rare thing these days… Give it 4  stars!

Disco Fever (1978)

Directed By: Lamar Card
IMDb.com Link

Disco Fever – Think of listening and watching the Bee Gees on acid and you have this  generic and odd 1978 film that is suppose to be the overseas version of  “Saturday Night Fever”. Lots of disco, lots of drugs, and for the most lots of  twentysomethings actors posing as high school students fucking their brains out  when they aren’t discoing! This film makes it hard to keep yourself awake for  exception to see the nudity but the music gets  downright horrible at times and  the only thing you are waiting for is “KISS” to start performing their “Dynasty”  album! If you like stupid disco crap that isn’t the original “Prom Night” you’ll  enjoy this, if not and just like
taking acid still avoid it. I give it a ½ star.

Vampirella (1996)

Directed By: Jim Wynorski
IMDb.com Link

Vampirella – A mid-90’s film based on a comic book character developed by the legendary  Forest J. Ackerman. The film was directed by none other than cult horror film  legend Jim Wynorski with help of Roger Corman. Thirty centuries ago on a distant  planet where vampires live at peace with no killing and drink blood from the  rivers they must deal with a vampire named ‘Vlad’ (Roger Daltery) who refuses to  be apart of their peaceful existence. Vlad about to be put to death is rescued  by his cohorts and escape. Now present time a woman now known as ‘Vampirella’  has come to earth to seek out Vlad and his cohorts to seek revenge for them  killing her stepfather (Angus Scrimm). With the help of Adam Van Helsing and his  crew they seek to kill off Vlad and his cohorts before they put their plan in  action which would have all of earth in total darkness for all the vamps to feed  and take over! Its cheesy, low budget, but a lot of fun to watch as most of  Wynorski’s films are. He knows how to make something big and entertaining out of  nothing and sometimes along the way like this film you even are able to get a  cameo from a film legend such as John Landis! Vampirella isn’t a huge comic book  figure out there in the public but she does have a small but rabid fan base and this cult like film is must have for most fans. I give it 2 ½  stars.

Rock N Roll Frankenstein (1999)

Directed By: Brian O’Hara
IMDb.com Link

Rock-n-Roll  Frankenstein – Every idea has been pretty much been used up  for Frankenstein  films by now, but when you have no budget and still want to make a Frankenstein  film apparently you make a gay Frankenstein film with lots of bad jokes. A fat  New York music agent wants an act that has signed everything over to him so he  makes all the money so he funds a project for a scientist who was about to be  arrested for fucking a vagina that was brought back to life. The project is  about getting all the best parts from all the dead music stars and putting them  together to make the ultimate music act!  But when Jim Morrison’s penis is  accidentally destroyed by acid and they use Liberace’s penis which apparently  makes the being or Frankenstein creation gay! Who would of thought? At first the  gay creation doesn’t want to play music but with a little help he starts to make  music that all teeny boppers love but there is one problem the Frankenstein has  a weird unnatural urge to either bite off gerbil’s heads and stick them in his  ass, or just bang gay guys. Of course out of this action you get more than your  fill of bad gay jokes!  Once again I  cannot make this shit up if I wanted too… But its low budget, you get to hear  ‘fuck’ said at least a hundred times, a couple pairs of breasts, a little gore,  and one giant green penis that kills our eventual music star. I give it 2  stars.

Tim Gross is the author of the published book  film review series, Gross Movie Reviews.  The book are available to purchase through www.buy.com and www.amazon.com.  Tim’s reviews are also featured on his website www.bastardsofhorror.com

Share this:

This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.