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The Fly and Science Fiction Horror (1958 – 1989)

Posted on June 10, 2025June 7, 2025 by Mike Brooks

The history of The Fly in film is a fascinating journey of horror, science fiction, and transformation, while spanning decades of cinematic innovation. Originating from a short story by George Langelaan, The Fly has morphed into a cultural icon through its various iterations on the big screen. Versions of this story have often reflected the…

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The Fly (1958) – Review

Posted on October 8, 2024October 23, 2024 by Mike Brooks

As the 1950s were drawing to a close a science fiction entry would explode on the screen and bring the world one of cinema’s most disturbing creations, in a movie that wasn’t so much about “mad science” as it was “Oh my god, that is so gross” science. That film would be director Kurt Neumann’s…

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The Lost World (1960) – Review

Posted on July 2, 2021August 29, 2023 by Mike Brooks

When one hears the name Irwin Allen the title “Master of Disaster” leaps readily to mind as he was the man behind some of the greatest disaster movies of all time, such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, but before that, he was a well-respected television producer with such classic shows as Lost…

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Live and Let Die (1973) – Review

Posted on January 19, 2021October 4, 2021 by Mike Brooks

With Bond entering the 70s he was struggling to feel relevant in what was a changing cinematic landscape, Connery’s Diamonds are Forever seemingly particularly out of touch, and with the blaxploitation era in full-swing, it wasn’t too surprising that producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli would try to capitalize on this growing genre. Of…

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