Not long ago, I reviewed Specimens (1982), one of the best of the films made by Irish amateur filmmaker, Roy Spence, who works out of the cinema he owns in Comer, County Down. He’s made over forty films over his fifty year career, and you can find all of them in The Irish Film Archive. You […]
Read more "The Attack of the Saucer People (1981)"Wikizilla described this one as the first black and white Kaiju film since the original Gamera in 1965. Well…I guess. Maybe. You might call it that. If you absolutely had to. Now the reality is that this is instead a strange found footage film made during the height of the pandemic which just happens to […]
Read more "8-ka de shinda kaijû no 12-nichi no monogatari [The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8] (2020)"(aka, The Lost Coast Tapes, Bigfoot) I’m beginning to understand why so many people grumble about found footage films. There are a lot of them out there. And they tend to have certain, shall we say, family resemblances. I still haven’t watched that many of them — at least not compared to the vast hordes […]
Read more "Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)"
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