There’s something undeniably charming about the made-for-TV horror movies of the 1970s. Maybe it’s the sincerity. Maybe it’s the slightly off studio lighting. Or maybe it’s the sheer audacity of a film that asks you to fear a floppy-eared family pet with glowing eyes. Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell is one of those gloriously…
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“It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman!” (1975) – Review
The first Richard Donner/Christopher Reeve Superman movie was three years away when this Broadway musical adaptation was forced on the unsuspecting public and despite being well-reviewed on Broadway it was the biggest flop to hit “The Great White Way” at that time. This led to the creation of a heavily reworked TV special which was…
Tornado! (1996) – Review
When a major studio has a high-profile project in the pipeline it’s not unusual for smaller production houses to try and piggyback their own similar-themed films to capitalize on these bigger releases, especially if that larger film is getting a lot of good buzz, such was the case in 1996 when Hallmark Entertainment made-for-television tornado…
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010) – Review
Remaking a classic horror film is nothing new and has brought such classics as John Carpenter’s The Thing and David Cronenberg’s The Fly, but while those films were remakes of true classics of the genre the one we are looking at today is, at best, an in-name-only remake of the 1973 film The Boy Who…
Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (1994) – Review
In the history of Scooby-Doo movies, which does cover a lot of ground, Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights has two very key noteworthy points, number one being that this would be the last movie production to be produced by its original creators at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, afterwards, they would be produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and secondly,…