When it comes to science fiction films the topic of making something huge is almost a genre unto itself, whether it be radioactively enlarged ants or amazing colossal men there were a lot of movies about things being embiggened but as for making things made small, well, we have Richard Matheson’s powerful novel The Incredible…
Tag: Donald Pleasence
Phenomena (1985) – Review
What do you get when you mix a psychic teen’s ability to control insects with that of a serial killer stalking the students of an all-girls boarding school, a straight-razor-wielding chimp and Donald Pleasence? If you’ve come up with the answer “A Dario Argento film” then you are clearly a student of Italian Giallo and…
You Only Live Twice (1967) – Review
What happens when you get the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to write the screenplay for a Bond film? As odd as that question sounds the world was treated to the answer in 1967 when children’s author Roald Dahl adapted Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice to the big screen. With this film,…
Dracula (1979) – Review
Before there were vampires being interviewed, and well before any of them sparkled, there was John Badham’s Dracula in what must be the earliest truly romantic vampire movie.