The Black Hole (1979)
The Black Hole was one of many films that were released with the intention of cresting the sci-fi wave created by the huge success of Star Wars (1977). More specifically, this was Disney’s attempt at the genre and I think…
The Disembodied (1957)
After stumbling upon a house in the jungle, a team of explorers finds the seemingly-innocent wife of their host has connections to a local voodoo cult and tries to get away before they become part of the tribe’s ceremonies. This…
Gog (1954)
This film was ahead of its time in its style – the claustrophobia and (well, relative) realism in the portrayal of terror in an underground research lab predated The Andromeda Strain by about 15 years. And the final revelation (WARNING:…
Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
William Smith was a very good casting choice for the lead, Angel is his name of course, for Run Angel Run. He’s got a sympathetic side to his personality that somehow makes him work for Angel, who is sort of…
Diners, America and The Movies
One Spring break a couple of years ago I decided to introduce my son to some of his America. We loaded up my van; a friend of his accompanied us. As we headed down highway 70 I was mightily entertained…
The Death Wheelers (1973)
Tom Latham is the leader of a delinquent motorcycle gang known as The Living Dead – his fascination with the paranormal fed by the death of his father and the clairvoyant gift of his mother. When he is finally allowed…
The Electronic Monster (1958)
In Charles Eric Maine’s excellent (for its day) novel, a scientist invents a mind-tape-recorder (helmet on the head, bazillion-track tape), hoping to use it for Good, like studying mental disorders. A movie mogul gets hold of it and soon billions…
The H Man (1958)
One of the strangest and bizarre of all the monsters coming out of the Japanese Toho Studios in 1950’s the H-Man unlike Toho monsters Godzilla and Rodan is totally indescribable in it changing it’s shape like a “Silly Puddy” every…
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
When Bill (John Phillip Law) was a young child he witnesses a gang kill his father, and rape and kill his mother and sister, while he was spared. Now Bill is a young man who is now intent on exacting…
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
With the runaway success of the re-issue on a double bill of both “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” in the late nineteen thirties, Universal Studios decided it was time to resurrect their most lucrative property, the Frankenstein Monster, if the studio was…
The Big Gundown (1966)
Jonathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef), a famous gunman and bounty hunter, is sent to hunt down a Mexican small-time crook named Cuchillo Sanchez (Tomas Milian), who is accused of the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl. Corbett is an…
Django the Bastard (1969)
“DJANGO THE BASTARD” is a real odd horror flick. Usually in horror movies they take place in modern day. The setting for this movie is in 1880’s southern states. During the civil war, Army officers sold their entire regiment to…
Ride a Crooked Trail (1958)
RIDE A CROOKED TRAIL is an Audie Murphy western distinguished by good writing and a flamboyant early role for Walter Matthau as a silver-haired, hard-drinking, shotgun-toting judge in a growing river town. It has surprisingly little action for a Murphy…
The Quick Gun (1964)
The Quick Gun is directed by Sidney Salkow and written by Robert E. Kent. It stars Audie Murphy, Merry Anders, James Best, Ted de Corsia, Walter Sande and Rex Holman. A Techniscope/Technicolor production with cinematography by Lester Shorr and music…
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The wealthy Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow) organizes an expedition to the Florida Everglades with the scientists Dr. Thomas Morgan (Rex Reason), Dr. Borg (Maurice Manson) and Dr. Johnson (James Rawley) to capture the Creature. They navigate in the ship…
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
A giant meteor crashes on the Earth’s surface in Japan(where else?). Out from this comes a monster from Mars that destroyed the Martian race and now wants to destroy humankind. The monster is none other than Ghidrah(Ghidorah), perhaps the greatest…
Rodan (1956)
The first of the Toho “Dai Kaiju” series in colour and some of Eiji Tsuburaya’s best special effects. Although shorn to a miserly 69 minutes of the original Japanese footage (plus nearly 4 minutes of actual H-Bomb test footage stuck…
Rojo (1966)
EL ROJO is a 1966 spaghetti western featuring a role for none other than former peplum star Richard Harrison. The arresting opening sequence of the movie features a whole family of travellers attacked by a merciless Indian who murders each…
Gentleman Killer (1967)
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks…
Face to Face (1967)
Take three of the finest Spaghetti Western actors (Gian Maria Volente, Tomas Milian and William Berger), the great direction of Sergio Sollima (The Big Gundown) and a gripping topsy turvey story of power and you get Face to Face. Volente…