In 1983 Stephen King released a short novel called “Cycle of the Werewolf” which was about a boy who believed there was a werewolf in his community while others decidedly did not, and this book was later turned into a film called Silver Bullet, and while that premise may be familiar to many fans of…
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When Worlds Collide (1951) – Review
The disaster movie has been a staple of cinema for quite some time, with RKO’s 1933 disaster epic Deluge being one of the earliest examples of a genre that is still going on strong today, but in 1951 legendary movie producer George Pal put his stamp on the genre with his film When Worlds Collide,…
It Happened at Lakewood Manor (1977) – Review
With the success of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, the “Nature Attacks” genre literally exploded in the 1970s, with moviegoers seeing the likes of William Girdler’s Grizzly and Joe Dante’s Piranha flooding the theatres and drive-ins, but even the small-screen was not safe from the influence of this nature gone wild explosion and thus people who tuned…
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977) – Review
The late 70s certainly brought to cinemas a dearth of “eco-horror” movies because if it wasn’t ants ruining your picnic then it was our eight-legged friends crashing the party, and not only did 1977 witness the horrors of The Kingdom of the Spiders, starring the great William Shatner it also bore witness to a made-for-television…
The Giant Worlds of Bert I. Gordon
The Auteur Theory deals with filmmaking in which the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture, a field that would include such luminaries as Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Dario Argento, but when discussing the Auteur Theory very few critics look to the B-movies and the many talented filmmakers who…