After a few movies where new things were tried – plots, locations and so on – we’re back in familiar territory for David A Prior, in the last of the 7 (!) movies he wrote or directed, or both, in 1990. We made it out of 1990, people! It’s been a while since we’ve seen … Continue reading
For those of you following the ISCFC’s review series of David A Prior, you may have noticed how he started to change – not having every movie be a weird Vietnam revenge story with a bad gunfight in it, for one – but prepare to be even more surprised by a movie which bears almost … Continue reading
Welcome to one of the more curious entries in the canon of AIP and David A Prior, a documentary made in the middle of their most prolific period (late 80s / early 90s) about their own movies. Well, I say documentary, it’s like a “greatest hits” collection from a band that didn’t really have any … Continue reading
Welcome back, dear reader, to our review series of the oeuvre of David A Prior. It would appear that around late 1989, someone told Mr Prior that his work was getting somewhat samey, and to keep the public’s interest he ought to widen the scope of movies he was borrowing from. So we got dystopian-ish … Continue reading
After a long, somewhat less-than-ideal run of very similar movies, our current featured director David A Prior has put something different into the mix. Okay, it’s still a war movie, features a command tent, has flashbacks and none of the characters can shoot worth a damn, but there’s a new thing in there. Vampires! “Based … Continue reading
“Born Killer” honestly feels like something the regular cast and crew of Action International Pictures (David A Prior’s company) made on a slack weekend. Ted Prior says to David “I’d like to do a movie where I’m the deranged villain”, the two of them knock up a script over a pot of coffee, Kimberley Casey, … Continue reading
We couldn’t keep away from the movies of David A Prior, dear reader – sadly (for us and you). We’ve been aiming to do them in chronological order, but it gets a little messed up around here as we did 1990’s “Invasion Force” last year, and did “Future Zone” as part of our “future-movies” series … Continue reading
The “space / future prison” genre has a long and honourable history. Well, okay, neither of those things are true, but there are certainly plenty of them. From the classic “Escape From New York”, to 1990’s “Moon 44”, to “Alien 3”, both “Fortress” movies, 1997’s “Moonbase”, “Assault On Dome 4”, then getting further down the … Continue reading
