When it came to making a follow-up to AIP’s box office hit I Was a Teenage Werewolf, the studio did something rather unusual, and a little gutsy, as they could have simply gone with an easy sequel and rolled out something like Return of the Teenage Werewolf, instead, they took a different monster from the…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) – Review
What if James Dean’s character from Rebel Without a Cause had been bitten by a werewolf? That was the basic premise behind American International Pictures’ horror “gem” which kicked off a brief-lived series of “teenage monster” movies that would end with Herbert L. Strock’s How to Make a Monster, but the first in this brief…
Goliath Awaits (1981) – Review
There are many movies about ocean-going disasters, from depictions of the sinking of the legendary Titanic to Irwin Allen’s disaster classic The Poseidon Adventure, but in 1981 a made-for-television production tried to make a “Prime Time Event” about an ocean liner that was sunk during WWII and the surprising events surrounding the wreck’s discovery in…
Disney’s Tower of Terror (1997) – Review
When you think about it, turning a theme park attraction into a motion picture is a pretty strange idea, as most rides only last a few minutes it would seem hard to stretch that into a feature film, but back in 2003 Disney took one of their most popular rides and turned it into the…