Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
It seems like this clever sequel has been rather commonly dismissed as inferior over the years. Well, I just watched the film for the very first time with the new DVD release. What a surprise! It is every bit as…
Pit Stop (1969)
Richard Davalos of “East of Eden” fame plays Rick Bowman, a punkish man who wrecks his car in a drag race. He’s bailed out of jail by cunning businessman & race promoter Grant Willard (Brian Donlevy, in his final feature…
The Gorgon (1964)
In 1910, in Vandorf, a painter commits suicide when his pregnant lover is turned in stone. The local authorities hide the truth and the young man is accused of murderer. However his father decides to clear his name and finds…
Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
You might actually get into this grade-z cannibal mummy movie. I know I did. The plot concerns the desecration of a centuries-old tomb, with the standard curse on it (an obligatory pre-credit sequence establishes that anybody who desecrates the tomb…
Q (1982)
This flick is a distinctive and haunting oddity , concerning about a winged serpent , a dragonlike , which carries out creepy killings , happening in N.Y. City . A pair of detectives (David Carradine , Richard Roundtree) are investigating…
The Wicker Man (1973)
On Sunday, April 29, 1973, Sergeant Neil Howie with the West Highland Constabulary flies solo to Summerisle off the coast of Scotland. He is there to follow up on a letter addressed specifically to him from an anonymous source on…
Vicious Lips (1986)
This is really a film in a weird genre – punk music combined with science fiction. Yet, taking into account the almost total lack of subject and action and the low-cost budget preventing any spectacular effects specific to science-fiction movies…
Silent Madness (1984)
Reasonably obscure, low-budget comprised b-grade slasher item with a misogynistic edge (though light exploitation) and with a scathing blast on the processes of a mental hospital. As it stands there’s nothing really out of the ordinary, but for such a…
Scream and Scream Again (1970)
‘Scream and Scream Again’ is one of my favorites, even though it is ratherly poorly put together. The director tried to make the movie mysterious — and succeeded too well, making it nearly incomprehensible. However, if you have patience, the…
Mission Mars (1968)
The year: 1968. The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” sets new technological and intellectual standards in the SF genre. Likewise 1968: The movie “Mission Mars” sets new standards of daftness and technological incompetence in the SF genre. The unsuitable, excruciating…
Marooned (1969)
Astronauts Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, and James Franciscus are on a several month mission in outer space. It’s scheduled for seven months, but NASA Director Gregory Peck decides to bring them home early as they are showing signs of fatigue….
The Kindred (1987)
This film is not the best around but is certainly worth a watch. The monster itself is very cool, it is like a hybrid of Alien and the monster from The Suckling. In fact the reason I got this film…
The Giant Claw (1957)
What a hoot!!!! This film tops them all……and the 50’s had some real “winners” in the genre. And like all that went before and after, this will win your heart. Knowing that computer generated effects and advanced use of the…
Go Boom: Streaming Walks A Razors Edge
I have been watching movies all my life. I had two forms of visual entertainment, the movies, and its younger brother television. For a long time, I have had what felt like a workable definition of television, one adaptable to…
First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Excavators at the site of the 1906 mystery explosion in Tunguska, Siberia, discover evidence that the explosion was the destruction of an alien spaceship. Evidence includes a “memory spool.” Scientist determine the alien spaceship came from the planet Venus, and…
Equinox (1970)
Bad, good, it doesn’t matter. This is one of the great film labors of love. Rent the criterion edition and do as I did. Listen to the commentary over the Muren cut of the film. Then Switch to the Jack…
Destination Inner Space (1966)
Watching this film always reminds me of the much superior “The Thing (from Another World)”, the wonderful 1951 Howard Hawks movie about an alien terrorizing an Arctic base. Here, the setting is an underwater research lab, staffed by naive scientists…
The Day the Earth Froze (1959)
Like with Sadko/The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and Ilya Muromets/The Sword and the Dragon, Sampo (or The Day the Earth Froze for its American version) is an Aleksandr Ptushko film spoilt by bad dubbing that wasn’t even necessary in the…
The Day It Came to Earth (1977)
This is pretty definitive of the campy science fiction movies that are just meant to be fun. In accordance with the campy aura, the film’s main focus are a group of teenagers who hang out together, and whose camaraderie is…
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
The local used for the film fits exactly. First of all, I loved the production quality, atmosphere and locale. The acting was first class and shows Jodie’s soon to blossom strong talents. Martin Sheen probably won’t be happy to see…