Back in 1977, East Anglia TV ran a strange and sinister little documentary, detailing their investigation into the disappearance of a number of important scientists. Their search led them deeper and deeper into what looked like a sinister government conspiracy, complete with similar disappearances around the world, hints of connections to NASA, the moonflights, and […]
Read more "Alternative 3 (1977)"(aka, Two Year Vacation) Honorable Mention Of all the wacky and inventive comedies made by Czech master animator, Karel Zeman, I think The Stolen Airship may have been his wackiest and most inventive. And that is saying a lot. Zeman is perhaps best remembered for his film The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, where he […]
Read more "Ukradená vzducholod [The Stolen Airship] 1967"This is where it started. Yes, it is true that Beginning of the End wasn’t Bert I. Gordon’s first film. He’d directed King Dinosaur first, but that was one of the many films built around leftovers from One Million B.C. But it really wasn’t an example of the sub-sub-genre Bert I. Gordon made his own, […]
Read more "Beginning of the End (1957)"(aka The Kirlian Force, The Kirlian Effect, The Death Dealer, Killer Force) Now let’s see: A fellow prisoner gives wrongly convicted nice guy Arnold Masters (Jim Hutton) what is clearly some sort of voodoo talisman, and the next thing you know, a scientist is busy telling us how scientific this all is… Right. You have […]
Read more "Psychic Killer (1975)"It’s always a bad sign when someone makes the sequel to a minor film almost a decade later. I quite liked the original Philadelphia Experiment: it wasn’t one of the great SF films of the Eighties — and there were quite a few of those — but it was actually quite good in a lesser film […]
Read more "Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)"Honorable Mention This is one of those films that attracted a lot of attention on the Indie circuit, yet never really got the wider audience it deserved. It’s good enough — and so closely linked to another film they made — that it gets a mention here, even if it seems unlikely that it is […]
Read more "Resolution (2012)"
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