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Foundational Cinema

Month: October 2020

A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971)

Although Lucio Fulci is most famous for the atmospheric and very gory series of zombie movies he made in the late 70’s and early 80’s, this early 70’s giallo might very well be his best film. It has all the…

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it–only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy…

The Ghost Galleon (1974)

Although one wouldn’t know by the title,this is the third entry in the Spanish Amanda De Ossorio directed Blind Dead series,and as usual doesn’t really have anything to do with the others except the Blind Dead themselves,those scary skeletal Templar…

Hands of Steel (1986)

Not only is this Italian flick a ripoff of THE TERMINATOR, but it predated the arm wrestling cinema classic OVER THE TOP. In an undisclosed future, cyborg Paco (David Steele) is sent to assassinate a blind environmentalist (whose slogan is…

Blue Monkey (1987)

Nothing too original here. The lighting sort of helps the movie at times; hiding the creature, but overall sort of a murky movie. Pretty much a waste of Steve Railsback (so good as Duane Berry in X-Files and Manson in…

Road Games (1981)

Stacy Keach plays a truck driver, he and his best friend, a dingo, are taking meat to Perth, along the way he wonders about other drivers and their life, a way to keep himself distracted. A suspicious green van catches…

Waxwork (1988)

Pretty fun horror movie! It’s not the newest idea in the world: there’d been a German silent horror anthology movie set in a Waxwork. In that, a man is hired to write stories about some of the characters in the…

Theaters: Taking Control Of Your Own Destiny

This year fall descended quickly in the Mid West. One minute it was hot and the next minute the leaves changed and there was a nip in the air. Things changed this year. In March it was looking like the…