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Cult Movie Project #11 (of 200) :: Binging on the Nectar of Gods and Monsters...
Sherman? Set The Way-Back Machine for the summer of 1978. The Rivoli Theater. (Or maybe it was The Strand? It doesn't really matter...) Somewhere, as you enter that darkened theater is a seven year...
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YouTube Finds :: The Devil and George Jefferson: The New Twilight Zone...
Video courtesy of Ray McDonough.I clearly remember the roar of approval when Sherman Hemsley pulled his own hash out of the eternal hellfire when he out-witted a Ron Glass-fueled demon the first time I...
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On the Big Screen :: A Trio of Recent Fright Flicks that I Saw and Finally...
I saw Poltergeist (2015) in a near empty theater with four different knots of teenage girls who were primed and ready to scream. So it was a small but a good, lively crowd; too bad there was nothing...
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Cult Movie Project #12 (of 200) :: Attention: Something's Wrong on Altair-4...
From concept to execution, I freely admit Forbidden Planet (1956) was a little over my head when first encountered on VHS tape back in junior high (-- though it might've been on one of those LP-sized...
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June Bugs :: Adjust Your Antennae for the Greatest Big Bug Movie of All Time!...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ "Well, Old Man Johnson could've died in any one of five ways: His neck and back were broken; his chest was crushed; his skull was...
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June Bugs :: An Uncomfortable Fear of the Known: The King of the B's Flames...
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___"We live."___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___I remember watching Bug (1975) when I was like, eleven or twelve, a movie of the week, and...
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In Memoriam :: Christopher Lee Takes the Devil by the Tail and Sends Him Back...
One of my most favorite characters the late, great Christopher Lee ever played was the famed adventure and occultist, The Duke de Richleau, in The Devil Rides Out / The Devil's Bride (1968). Mined from...
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Blogathon Alert :: Keep Watching the Skies!
Listen up, Boils and Ghouls!Once again the fine folks at Ferdy on Films, This Island Rod and Wonders in the Dark are hosting another For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon to raise money...
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Favorites :: Inks and Paints :: Dial "S" for the Subs, Then "D" for Disaster...
Once again artist Tom Fowler perfectly captures the disaster-prone essence of The Legion of Substitute Heroes. I have always held a deep affection for the 'Never say die' attitude of the Subs, who,...
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Cult Movie Project #13 (of 200) :: Finding the Missing Link Between the Old...
As the 1950s progressed and the proliferation of television had studios cutting their B-Units to offset the loss of plunging ticket sales, the Western kinda dried up, leaving the genre a parched...
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Shameless Plugs :: The Archive is Going Ape!
In lieu of actual content, here's a link for our sister site, The Poster Archive, where we spent the last month posting the poster campaigns for all five films in the classic Planet of the Apes...
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The Cult Movie Project #8 (of 200) :: The Asphalt's Lament on the Road to...
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) is a film that requires a lot of patience that can be read (and reward you) on many different levels, metaphorically speaking. I don't think I've ever seen a film so obsessed...
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Recommendations :: Should You Be Watching What I'm Watching? That Is the...
If you, like me, have about had it up to here with zombie movies, I would highly recommend The Battery (2012) that brings something fresh to a really rapidly tiring genre. What's odd about this new...
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Cult Movie Project #14 (of 200): Wrong Turns and Choosing Your Fate Before...
Is it the best film noir ever? Maybe. The darkest, bleakest, most twisted film noir ever? Definitely. And unrelentingly so. However, Edgar G. Ulmer's lean and mean no-budget miracle probably isn't as...
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Favorites :: Vintage Ads: If You Don't Tune in By Midnight...
Other Points of Interest:Newspaper ads for Prom Night's theatrical run at the Morgue.
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Cult Movie Project #15 (of 200): The Difficulty of Proving You're Not Dead,...
It began life as an old cattle trail in the late 1700s, skirting around the mountains that formed the Los Angeles basin, funneling travelers and stock toward the ocean. In 1877 it officially became a...
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Random Film Observation #478 :: How to Properly Accessorize Your Blood and...
I always pride myself whenever I notice something new in a film I've watched, like, a gazillion times before. And I get an even bigger charge of endorphins if the latest observation hasn't, as far as I...
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On the Big Screen :: Musical Transcendence, the Fall, and Back Again in Bill...
As the old cliche goes, there is a fine line between genius and madness. Somewhere along the way, that line was obliterated for Brian Wilson, lead songwriter for The Beach Boys, due to a combination of...
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Ephemera :: Random Screen Grab: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
I call it: "Atomic Gothic". Click here for a full review of Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.
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