Presumed lost for years, the 1933 film Deluge, released by RKO Pictures, but produced by a small company called Admiral Productions Inc, is a film that could be argued as to be one of Hollywood’s earliest true disaster films, preceding such films as The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), and the big earthquake movie San…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
City on Fire (1979) – Review
By the late 70s, the golden age of the disaster film was coming to a close – Irwin Allen’s 1980 commercial bomb When Time Ran Out would be the nail in that particular coffin – but in 1979, a joint American/Canadian venture released a movie about an entire city ablaze, a film called City on…
Monster on the Campus (1958) – Review
In the 50s, atomic monsters or alien invaders were all the rage – from giant tarantulas to flying saucers – but despite their inability to destroy buildings, one other science fiction staple overshadowed them all, and that would be that of the mad scientist. In fact, many of the atomic monster that rampaged across America…
When Time Ran Out (1980) – Review
The 1970s were the golden age of disaster films and producer Irwin Allen is the undisputed “Master of Disaster” with The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure still being the gold standard of the genre. But when the 80s rolled around, the well had just about dried up on disaster films; thus, when Irwin Allen’s…
The Land Unknown (1957) – Review
Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of a mysterious plateau – where dinosaurs miraculously still exist – in his 1912 book The Lost World, Hollywood has been more than eager to bring man and prehistoric beast together. Adapting Doyle’s book to the big screen in 1925 was certainly a no brainer, and basing a…