The Night of a Thousand Cats (1972)
In my Strays (1991) article, I made the point that it’s pretty much impossible to make cats scary thus leading to many belly laughs whenever a film attempts it. You can imagine my joy when I read the title The Night of a Thousand Cats… a thousand fucking cats. Joy is in fact the wrong...
Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Most of the films featured in this regular article, Shitizen Kane, are boisterous and relentless in their delivery of madness. They illicit massive belly laughs and howls of pain. They keep us glued to the screen; as hard a gluing as any solid Hollywood film could achieve. They are the kings of shit films. But...
Strays (1991)
Some time ago, I was thinking about Inferno – my favourite film by Dario Argento – and the fact that the only scene that lets that movie down is Daria Nicolodi’s death. Nicolodi meets her end by the claws of several cats. The scene, unlike the rest of the film, is poorly executed to comical...
The Rider of the Skulls (1965)
Every now and then, I come across a movie that leaves me speechless – and I’m someone that likes to talk. A movie that leaves me speechless will be one that bombards me with so much amazing shit – good or bad – that I don’t know where to start when recommending it to someone....
On Deadly Ground (1994)
My relationship with Steven Seagal is strange. Even I don’t entirely understand it. While Seagal is very much laughable now (yet still enjoyable), I genuinely love his early films – and that’s a mostly irony-free love. Above the Law (1988), Out for Justice (1991), Marked for Death (1990) and, to a lesser extent, Hard to...
End of the Wicked (1999)
Nigerian and Ghanian movie trailers have become somewhat of an internet phenomenon in the past few years. With their nonsensical dialogue and narration screamed at fever pitch, absurd video effects and general lack of adherence to the basic rules of filmmaking, they’ve captured the hearts of many an internet surfer. If you’re yet to join...
Shakma (1990)
My obsession with Shakma began with a trailer – the greatest trailer I’d ever seen: I watched it over and over again – the screams of “Shakmaaaa!” haunting my dreams. Part of me wanted to see the film, another part of me was terrified that it would not live up to its unbelievably tantalising preview....
Mad Foxes (1981)
While the title of this monthly article is Shitizen Kane, and, yes, these are shit films in a way, I feel a little bad throwing such an insulting word at movies I genuinely love. For me, the line between good and bad in cinema is not so black and white. If a terrible film entertains...
Munchies (1987)
As a child, I was very obsessive over a few select movies. I’d rent these same films over and over again from our local video shop. Their copy of The Dark Crystal was almost permanently in my possession, as well as both the Bill and Ted films. But the movies that I truly went...
