Brian Albright's Blog

Just a quick note -- my book on regional horror films is in the final stages of editing and it is due to go to press at the end of October, just in time for Halloween. Stay tuned!

I've been hard at work on a follow-up to "Wild Beyond Belief" ever since my first book was published, and I'm finally far enough along to share some details.I'm nearly 90% done with "The Dead Next Doo...

By the early 1980s, schlock director Al Adamson was winding down his career. The market for the types of cheap horror and exploitation films he'd been making for the past two decades was drying up, an...

The DVD market appears to be tanking, but there are still some good releases coming out from the Wild Beyond Belief era. There are only ten shopping days left until Christmas, and nothing says Merry C...

Michael "Mik" Mehas, producer of THE GIRLS FROM THUNDER STRIP (1968) and THE PINK GARER GANG (1971) passed away on July 12.Mehas, a former baseball player with Fresno State and the L.A. Dodgers who la...

Just a quick note that two of the interviewees in Wild Beyond Belief! now have books in print.First, Gary Kent kicks off the publication of Shadows & Light: Journeys with Outlaws in Revolutionary Holl...

The ballot is up for the 2008 Rondo Awards, sponsored by the Classic Horror Film Board. My article on the making of MADMEN OF MANDORAS/THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN (from FilmFax 118) is nominated in the ...

There are three new reviews of BCI's "Drive-In Cult Classics Vol. 2" 8-movies DVD set now online, and a few of them even reference the liner notes I wrote for the set. Reviews are up at DVD Drive-In, ...

An early, but forgotten, player in one of Al Adamson's first films passed away this spring. Joan Mahoney, a.k.a. Tacey Robbins, was the bouncy lounge singer and leading lady in Adamson's first color f...

The new "Drive-In Cult Classics Vol. 2" DVD set from BCI includes liner notes written by yours truly. I put together a long essay about five of the films: TERRIFIED, MADMEN OF MANDORAS/THEY SAVED HITL...