This was Jerry Warren’s first film. Which makes it much harder to explain why it was so much better than most — or perhaps, nearly all — of his films that followed. In fact, he followed it up with the exceedingly dull Teenage Zombies. Go figure. Now don’t get the wrong idea here: this is an […]
Read more "Man Beast (1956)"(AKA Voodoo Blood Bath, Zombie Bloodbath, Invasion of the Zombies, Zombie, Zombies, Voodoo Island) Uggh. What a title. Fortunately it really doesn’t fit. Don’t be fooled by the date, either. Director Del “Horror of Party Beach” Tenney actually made this one in 1964 but it went unreleased until some marketing “genius” got the idea of […]
Read more "I Eat Your Skin (1971)"Maybe I was just in a good mood. Maybe this time I’d found a much better print. Or perhaps it was because it was a day when I really needed a Fifties-style Sci Fi film, –even one made in 1962. At any rate, I enjoyed The Day Mars Invaded Earth this time around. When I first saw […]
Read more "The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)"One of those classic dramatic challenges is creating a story which takes place in a single confined location. Now, if you look at Aristotle’s Poetics you’ll note that his ideal drama features a single action which takes place within a single day in a single location, so it is a very old challenge, although the […]
Read more "Tangent Room (2017)"Larry Cohen seems to have earned himself a reputation as a horror director in the Eighties, despite the fact that he only made a handful of horror films. Enough of a reputation, at least, that he got a chance to direct a “Masters of Horror” episode back in the Nothings. He is best remember for […]
Read more "The Stuff (1985)"
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