Steven Spielberg’s summer blockbuster Jaws has spawned so many rip-offs that it has almost become a genre all its own — with Star Wars rip-offs being the only rival in sheer numbers — but today we will look back at one of the early rip-offs by those crazy Italians, a film called Tentacles.
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The Invisible Man (2020) – Review
We must thank our lucky stars that Universal’s attempt at a Dark Universe imploded on impact, with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy failing miserably, for without this cinematic misfire we most likely would never have gotten writer/director Leigh Whannell’s wonderful take on the classic H.G. Wells story, The Invisible Man.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) – Review
The threat of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War may have been what kept people on edge during the 50s and 60s, with people building fallout shelters in their backyards, but without it, we wouldn’t have had so many fun atomic-fueled monster movies. One of the earliest examples of this would be the Ray Harryhausen…
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy’s Showdown (2017) – Review
The Scooby gang doesn’t spend a lot of time in America’s South West, preferring gothic settings or exotic locales to dusty prairies and ghost towns, but still, they are certainly no strangers when it comes to phantoms of the West. The gang tackled Miner Forty-Niner in the episode “Mine Your Own Business” from the original…
The Terminal Man (1974) – Review
Based on one of Michael Crichton’s “techno-thrillers,” The Terminal Man deals once again with men of science crossing the boundaries of the natural world and the dire consequences such actions eventually lead to. The basic premise of this film involves the use of computers and brain surgery to, if not heal damaged brains, at least…