“Coming Soon: Alien Species 2 – The Invasion” “Interactive Movies.” It was one of those things that came and went fairly quickly. It probably would have been more accurate to call them videogames with filmed inserts, but that didn’t sound sexy enough, I guess. They were supposed to be like playing a movie. That is, […]
Read more "Alien Species (1998)"A spaceship full of buff Mexican wrestlers from Mars show up to conquer our planet, but fortunately, we’ve got the legendary Santo, aka, the Silver Mask on our side! I grew up in the Eighties, when the whole WWF wrestling thing was at its peak, and I have never understood the appeal of wrestling. And […]
Read more "Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs ‘La invasión de los marcianos’ [Santo vs. the Martian Invasion] (1967)"For no particular reason, H.P. Lovecraft’s classic story, At the Mountains of Madness, kept crossing my desk this past week. Admittedly, I’ve been on a Lovecraft kick for a while, but this legendary short story turned up again and again, thanks to several unexpected developments. The biggest one came when Guillermo del Toro released an […]
Read more "H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness (A fan made production)"Now even if you didn’t know that Battle for Pandora had been made by The Asylum, you probably would have guessed that on your own. After all, there’s that word “Pandora” right there in the title, while the “poster” (you can’t call it “box art” when the film is a Tubi “original”) shows someone with […]
Read more "Battle for Pandora (2022)"Sometimes I’m just not sure what to make of these films. Consider for a moment, Ray Bradbury’s Twilight Zone episode, “I Sing the Body Electric”: Ray liked it enough that he re-wrote it as a short story, which was then adapted once again for television in a TV Movie starring Maureen Stapleton in 1982. So […]
Read more "Elektronnaya babushka [Electric Grandmother] (1985)"If there’s anything you can count on with The Asylum it is that you really can’t count on them. Sure, they’ve made quite a few enjoyable films along the way, in that pulpy low budget made for SyFy sort of vein, the sort of non-challenging film which you can consume without worrying about being bombarded […]
Read more "Transmorphers: Mech Beasts (2023)"There’s been a lot written about Prey, which even from the more critical ends of the blogosphere seems almost equally divided between those who hate it and those who think it is a great movie. Frankly, I’ve never really thought of Predator as a “franchise.” Yeah, there was a sequel which came out a few […]
Read more "Prey (2022)"I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker for eager creatives trying very hard to put their vision on the screen. I’ll even find a good word to say about it if I can. And there is a lot of earnest hard work on display in Gammelgormium: First Contact. Craig Philip Peterson first tried to put The […]
Read more "Gammelgormium: First Contact (2023)"William Shatner directed a movie? And not only directed it, but he came up with the story and co-wrote the script? Well, I guess it isn’t that much of a surprise: after all, he’s done that at least four times — he wrote and directed the fifth Star Trek movie (you know, the one where […]
Read more "Groom Lake (2002)"I don’t know… There’s so much to like here. And then there’s the rest of this heavily Kids-centric anime take on the classic Japanese Movie Monster. It sounded so promising: we haven’t had any new Gamera projects for a very long time, except for that all-too-brief Fiftieth Anniversary short film which was so stunning that […]
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