Category: movies

Bombshells: Allison Hayes

In which we sing the praises of B-movie Bombshell Allison Hayes. In the late 1950s, if you needed a voluptuous, sexy, and beautiful Bombshell to headline your science fiction or horror B movie, you could do no better than Allison Hayes, born May Jane Hayes in West Virginia in 1930. The auburn-haired smokeshow was intensely … Continue reading Bombshells: Allison Hayes →

Michelle Monday

For more than thirty years now I’ve been completely obsessed with Michelle Pfeiffer’s hair and makeup in her post-transformation scenes as Selina Kyle in Batman Returns. I mean, what’s not to obsess over?? Frankly, I’d be concerned if I wasn’t obsessed. Excellent work by the film’s hair and makeup team, including Ronnie Specter, who’s done … Continue reading Michelle Monday →

Modern Scream Queen: Samara Weaving

I grew up during the Golden Age of Scream Queens. From horror franchise icons like Jamie Lee Curtis and Heather Langenkamp, to B-movie babes like Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer, horror cinema in the 1980s was bursting with feisty female protagonists. The Scream Queens never really went away, of course, and in recent years even … Continue reading Modern Scream Queen: Samara Weaving →

Marilyn Monday

The color red can signify love, lust, passion, sex, and eroticism, among other intense emotions and experiences. Marilyn Monroe embodied all of those things, no matter what color she wore, but as the Lady in Red she sure always stoked the flames of our hearts with extra intensity. From photographer Milton Greene’s “Red Dress Sitting”—from … Continue reading Marilyn Monday →

Lost and Found: Just Before Dawn

In which our Final Girl transforms from shy, modestly dressed wallflower to sexy and fierce survivor while vacuum-sealed into a pair of extremely tiny Daisy Duke shorts. Jeff Lieberman’s Just Before Dawn (1981) is an odd duck from the golden age slasher boom. Somehow I missed it all these years, but recently caught it streaming … Continue reading Lost and Found: Just Before Dawn →

Hot Shots of the Week: By Crom!

As Conan and Valeria, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandahl Bergman sure did bring the toned, glistening heat to barbarian cinema, no? Conan’s sword is ready for a little sorcery action with Valeria, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. Here are a few sizzling hot photos of Ah-nald and Sandahl doing the … Continue reading Hot Shots of the Week: By Crom! →