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Foundational Cinema

Month: March 2018

The Evictors (1979)

“The Evictors” takes place in a rural Louisiana town in 1942 and is also based on a true story. A young couple from New Orleans move into their dream house in the woods of Louisiana. The home seems ideal for…

Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)

A hard-to-come-by film, which is a shame as this is a real gem. A group of space travellers are accidentally stranded on a distant alien planet which turns out to be inhabited by prehistoric monsters. This is real edge-of-seat suspence…

Satan’s Satellites (1958)

“Satan’s Satellites,” like its 1958 companion feature “Missile Monsters,” was derived of footage from a Republic serial, in this case 1952’s “Zombies of the Stratosphere,” showcasing the famed Rocket Man costume introduced in 1949’s “King of the Rocket Men.” As…

Humanoids from the Deep (1980)

This movie seems to pick up where “Creature From The Black Lagoon” left off. We all know that the Gill Man wanted some hot, steamy Amazonian sex with the pretty girl in the white bathing suit…but no way were they…

The Crimson Cult (1968)

Robert Manning (Mark Eden) searches for his vanished brother in a rural English village, where he is entangled in the legend of Lavinia (Barbara Steele), a witch killed 300 years ago. Lavinia’s heir, J. D. Morley (Christopher Lee), wants revenge…

The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)

Here Steve Reeves plays as Glaucus, a Roman legionnaire, going back to his home from far-off wars ; Steve was a hunk man who made lots of roman epic films also called ¨Musclemen movies¨. Luck’s Reeves changed when Italian director…

Strange Invaders (1983)

In 1958, in Centerville, Illinois, a spacecraft lands on the city in an alien invasion and the population vanishes. Twenty-five years later, Margaret Newman (Diana Scarwid) leaves her daughter Elizabeth in New York with her ex-husband Charles Bigelow (Paul Le…

A Small Town in Texas (1976)

These cool seventies movies, courtesy of Mr Arkoff, set a cool trend in the movie world for me. If you expect a lot of gore in this, you’ll be plenty disappointed. What we have is a fatal love triangle. I…

Living The Matrix: The Rise of The Experiential Theatre Economy

Experiential is one word that people in the movie exhibition business are going to hear a lot of. It is a word that will re-define movie theatres and re-shape the vision of theatre operators. It is important and learning the…

Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)

This effectively creepy little Gothic horror tale is one of Hammer’s finest psychological-thrillers, and a valiant attempt to duplicate the success of American thrillers like “WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?” and “HUSH…, HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE” featuring aging, flamboyant female…

Fox Style (1973)

A.J. Fox is torn between his city cool and his country roots. In New York, he’s a successful club owner who made it to the top without drugs or guns or dirty deals. Yet back home, he finds that the…