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Foundational Cinema

Month: August 2021

Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)

Planet of Dinosaurs was one of those movies which I wanted for ages but got hold of it eventually. A spaceship crashes onto a mysterious planet and its occupants discover they are millions of years into the past as this…

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

‘Pit And The Pendulum’ sees b-grade legend Roger Corman (‘Little Shop Of Horrors’), talented suspense writer Richard Matheson (‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’), and horror master Vincent Price (‘The Tingler’) try and recreate the success of their first Poe adaptation ‘House…

Pickup on 101 (1972)

This used to play on late night TV all the time. A hobo (Jack Albertson), a runaway (Leslie Ann Warren) & an aspiring folk musician (Martin Sheen) hitchhike their way to California. This being a 1970s TV flick of course…

Phenomena (1985)

In Switzerland, the teenager Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly), daughter of a famous actor, arrives in an expensive board school and shares her room with the French schoolmate Sophie (Federica Mastroianni). Jennifer is a sleepwalker, is capable of telepathically communicate with…

Phantom from Space (1953)

As low-budget 1950’s sci-fi stuff goes, this movie turns out to be relatively entertaining, certainly better than a lot of similar type movies from the era. The movie is set on a single night, and follows various government officials (police,…