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Foundational Cinema

Month: June 2015

Rock N Roll Nightmare (AKA Edge of Hell) 1986,

This Canadian heavy metal horror film belongs to that special group of movies that are so ineptly made, that they have become cult sensations. As a testament to Rock N Roll Nightmare‘s popularity with schlock fans, it has appeared on…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1965)

Many years have passed since Geza Radvanyi directed this movie, an adaptation of an abolitionist cult novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, a very famous literary work that, similarly to other voices of truth in history, cried out…

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

This is a peculiar film to have come out of any studio in 1940, much less the stylish Paramount. Since the same year saw the equally bizarre Hal Roach production, One Million, B.C., it might not be unreasonable to assume…

The Mole People (1956)

There is just enough ‘oomph’ to “Mole People” to mark it as a minor classic (50’s Universal B flick division). The idea of an lost ancient civilization sealed away from the modern world by time and catastrophe and buried far…