Ian Watson: 14 books

"Moon Monsters Launch Attack Against Earth!"The low-budget monster movie is a real guilty pleasure, especially when the monster suit appears to have been made using household items or purchased from a thrift store. You could laugh yourself into a hernia watching a guy in a gorilla costume and diving...

"Kiss Taste Goodbye..."Grindhouses and drive-ins may be lost to nostalgia and legend, but the b-string and basement budget pictures that played them have endured. With their bad acting, drooping mikes and constant mix of day/night shots, you wouldn't call them well-made but there's a strange...

Stephen king said: "If you love horror movies you've got to have a love for pure S#it!" Bear that in mind, friends and neighbours, as you suffer through another Michael Bay reboot or a sequel to a movie about a film crew that goes to a haunted asylum. Seriously, who goes to a haunted asylum?...

Pauline Kael wrote: "Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."Bear that in mind, friends and neighbours, as you read about Tinseltown's schlockiest missteps in Part 7 of our ongoing series, "Hollywood Horses#!t"....

"Nothing so appalling in the annals of horror!"They were the directors who didn't care what appeared on screen, who were interested only in nickles and dimes and viewed film-making as just another hustle. They shot laughably inept pictures in their backyards that were released with a great deal...

Sick of Big Budget Hollywood Horse$£@t?Tired of all those prequels to remakes of adaptations brought to you by the producers of a remake of a sequel?Of course you are! The $250m features playing the multiplex are so rarely great fun that anyone seeking a night at the movies had better learn to appreciate...

"The Ultimate In Alien Terror!"Recommended for anyone who prefers Ed Wood to Michael Bay, Movies That Witness Madness is an ongoing series dedicated to the trashy, schlocky, stupid joys of late-night creature features. Part II, "Strange Invaders", features reviews of Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster,...

"Remember, Boo Boo, we have one weakness." "What's that, Ratpfink?" "Bullets!" Bad action movies may be the guiltiest of pleasures , but they're also a ton of fun. Whether you're watching Rutger Hauer fight a rubber-suited monster or Chuck Norris thwarting a Communist...

"The dead will rise..."Greetings zombie fans! Want flesh-eating fiends, gratuitous gore and showering starlets? How about crazy camerawork and diabolical dubbing? In Part 7 of our ongoing series, "Spaghetti Flesh Eaters", you'll get the lowdown on those incomparable Italian filmmakers who gave...

He calls himself "Ol' Painless." He likes bad action movies, Italian zombie flicks and chasing locker room starlets. He's "kind of a dick." And now you can read his thoughts on Uwe Boll, Jean-Claude Van Damme and that mad scientist movie with exploding hookers...

They were illicit, outrageous, obscene. They were the films that were supposed to deprave and corrupt the minds of those who watched them. They were the Video Nasties....and everything you've heard is true.

"Not just one of them sequels..."You heard the soundtrack, played the videogame and bought the soft drink, then you had to ruin everything by watching the movie. Sucks to see a beloved screen character behaving in stupid and inappropriate ways but it double sucks to see it happen again and again....

From the author of Midnight Spookshow - 8 weird stories inspired by exploitation cinema.

Two shady characters decide that it is time to revitalise the economy and their plans coincide with sightings of unusual phenomena in the swamps and peat bogs. News of the sightings reaches national and international wire services. The press visits, accompanied by two paleontologists, who suggest...