One of my biggest disappointments was the film The Last Mimsy. As happens far too often these days, it sounded like a good idea: a fun little children’s film based on a classic science fiction story written by the husband and wife team Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. But the end result was poor, even […]
Read more "Tout spliques étaient les Borogoves [Mimsy Were the Borogoves] (1970)"When someone says “The Werewolf” I suspect most people immediately think of Lon Chaney, Jr., in the old Universal classic, The Wolfman. However, Paul Naschy is almost as fondly remembered by Euro horror fans as “The Werewolf,” or “el Hombre Lobo.” He starred in a seemingly endless series of films as the tragic Polish victim […]
Read more "Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo [Dr. Jekyll vs. The Werewolf] (1972)"“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)"Let me be upfront about this: If someone makes a goofy, fun and pulpy B-monster movie of a film, I’m not going to make a fuss about it if it doesn’t pay any attention whatsoever to either the original stories or the lore it is supposedly based upon. I know there are a lot of […]
Read more "H. P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones (2024)"(aka, Les robots pensants; The Thinking Robots) The Fly: That’s the one story anyone remembers when it comes to George Langelaan. It’s not that it is the only story he ever wrote. Far from it. But a lot of his stories never appeared in English, and, outside of episodes of shows like Night Gallery and […]
Read more "Le collectionneur des cerveaux [The Collector of Brains] (1976)"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)"All right, I am abandoning any pretense of being an impartial reviewer. Yee Haw! Now I love — with all the passion of the five-year old me that still burns in my heart — movies with spaceships, and aliens and large model cities which get blown up. Throw in a lot of energetic practical effects […]
Read more "Psychon Invaders (2006)"I’m amazed that I’ve never heard of this one before. Or am I really? Yes, there was an English dubbed version of it, and it was apparently shown in the United States, but that version is now lost, and it never seems to have ended up playing endlessly on the late-night science fiction shows like […]
Read more "Le ciel sur la tête [Skies Above] (1965)"As I pointed out in my review of Gods of the Deep, Charlie Steeds has directed a lot of horror films in his very short career — thirteen feature-length films since 2018, to be precise. He’s made all these films on minimal budgets and without studio support, and seems to get better and more sophisticated […]
Read more "Freeze (2022)"In Cyborg, we get a glimpse of two notable careers at their very earliest stages. After all, Jean Claude van Damme had just starred in his first lead role in Bloodsport, while its director, Albert Pyun was just coming off his first (and, as it turned out, greatest) success, The Sword and the Sorcerer. Ironically, […]
Read more "Cyborg (1989)"
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