Art, Exploitation and the Cannon Group

Remember the Cannon Group? It was a small movie studio purchased in 1979 by the Israeli duo, Menahem Golan and Yorum Globus, who quickly turned Cannon into one of the most prolific and ambitious film conglomerates of the 1980s.

1987: It Was Quite A Year

According to author Stephen Romano, “There may never again be another time in film history like the end of the eighties–or a year like 1987.”

The Novels of H.G. Lewis

The late H.G. Lewis was the writer and director of the 1960s-era gorefests BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! and COLOR ME BLOOD RED, which comprise a loose-knit trilogy. Lewis also wrote novelizations of the three films

CHICKEN PARK

An Italian take-off on JURASSIC PARK—and my God, what a piece of shit!