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Hubrisween 2020 :: E is for Evil Laugh (1986)
We open on a lonely adobe house secluded on an isolated hill. You know, I once saw an adobe Wal-Mart in Taos, New Mexico. In fact, every building in Taos was seemingly made out of adobe. But I digress....
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Hubrisween 2020 :: F is for FIVE (1951)
Our feature begins with a bang -- several of them, actually, and big ones at that, as the whole world self-destructs under the shadow of multiple mushroom clouds. And after the air-raid sirens fade,...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: G is for The Giant Claw (1957)
Our vintage feature begins with, what else, a copious amount of stock footage and our good friend, the Overly Redundant Narrator, who does his best to explain just what in the holy heck it is we’re...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: H is for House on Bare Mountain (1962)
Now, I know I usually begin one of these things with a plot description of whatever film we’re covering, but to do that for this one would be admitting that House on Bare Mountain (1962) had a plot to...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: I is for I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
After some outstanding orchestral maneuvers over an opening credit sequence that give us an approaching extraterrestrial’s POV of the planet Earth -- he typed ominously, we open in a town like any...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: J is for JAWS 3-D (1983)
We open on the ocean floor, where something glides along that will eventually prove way too big to be fitting through all these narrow nooks and crannies as the camera moves through them, which soon...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: K is for Killer Party (1986)
After fading in and finding ourselves lurking in a spooky cemetery, we then creep among the fallen leaves and fog-enshrouded headstones until we’re lured into a chapel, where we observe four mourners...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: L is for The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
We open in darkness with a dubious disclaimer, warning the viewer that what we are about to see is based on a true story, with the majority of the people in the picture actually portraying themselves...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: M is for Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Our destination today is the Isle of Evil as we make our way from the beach, through a jungle, to a spooky old castle at its center -- specifically, the highest parapet, which houses the lab of Baron...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: N is for Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Okay. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Two bickering siblings are on their way to a rural cemetery to place a commemorative wreath on their mother’s grave. As they get closer to their...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: O is for One Body Too Many (1944)
We open in the offices of the Emperor Life Insurance Company, where Albert Tuttle is currently bragging-it-up to a co-salesman about how he managed to land as a client the eccentric tycoon, Cyrus J....
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Hubrisween 2020 :: P is for Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
After a brief cacophonous montage of overlapping images culled from several TV news sources, we cut to a slightly more serene video of an outdoor cookout dated March 13, 1997, held in celebration of a...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: Q is for Queen of Outer Space (1958)
In the far-flung future of 1984, three anxious astronauts are loitering outside their commander's office, waiting to find out what they're next assignment will be. Convinced it’s the pending prized...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: R is for Robot Monster (1953)
We begin in True Stereo Three-Dimensions as the opening credits roll. And while the menacing score bombasts over some forgotten sci-fi pulp of yore, our film proper begins with young Johnny, decked out...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: S is for Shock Waves (1977)
We open with a brief history lesson, where we learn that in this timeline, shortly before the start of World War II, the German High Command began an extensive covert operation to investigate further...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: T is for Target Earth (1954)
Our film opens with a slow, cosmic pan of our solar system. But then things start to accelerate as we speed toward the third planet from the sun, through the atmosphere, and zero in on a city. I...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: U is for Urban Legend (1998)
On a deserted stretch of highway on a dark and stormy night, when not nearly forcing oncoming traffic off the road as she weaves between lanes while fiddling with her SUV’s radio, channel surfing...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: V is for The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Our story begins at the turn of the 20th century down in Mexico, where the camera ominously sweeps along some desolate rock formations and canyon walls that are determined to keep their secrets hidden...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: W is for Werewolves on Wheels (1971)
On a lonesome highway, out of the heat and rippling haze of the desert, The Devil’s Advocates ride. Now that is one inspired name for a motorcycle club, and there appears to be about a baker’s dozen of...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: X is for the Crosshairs in Targets (1968)
Bedeviled ravens are screeching, a storm is raging, and an elderly man moves through a castle as our latest feature begins already in earnest. Apparently on a mission, this man, The Baron, will stop at...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: Y is for You'll Find Out (1940)
We open at the end -- of the show, that is, as bandleader Kay Kyser wraps up the latest edition of his weekly radio program, whose grand finale allows the spotlight to fall on all of his featured...
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Hubrisween 2020 :: Z is for Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1987)
Since this movie fails most epically to make this even remotely clear, whose confusion is compounded even further by the anachronistic model of semi slowly rolling toward us on a lonely stretch of...
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We Live ... Again. Well, Sort Of.
And so, our film journey begins anew at our new site, Confirmed Alan_01, where we finally try to herd all of my old film reviews, scattered all over the web these past 20 years, into one central...
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Looking for Something Spooky to Read this Halloween?
Hello, Boils and Ghouls. Long time, no read. So, about five years ago, I decided to try my hand at writing some fiction again, hoping to get published in an anthology of Ghost Stories whose theme...
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Hello, All! Been a While, Hasn’t It? Sit Down, Grab a Brew, and I'll Tell You...
Greetings, Boils and Ghouls, long time no see. Well, I guess we can count this one as a Shameless Plug to help those who wound up here and herd them over to our more recent online endeavors at...
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