How do you make a sequel to a successful film when the setting of said film apparently sank beneath the waves? This was the quandary facing producer Irwin Allen after the success of his 1972 disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure, and while he wished to rush a sequel into production as soon as possible it…
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Killer Bee Movies of the 1970s
In horror films the “When Animals Attack” subgenre really carved its niche in the 1970s with such classics as Steven Spielberg’s Jaws and then in less than stellar entries like William Girdler’s Grizzly, but while Great White Sharks and man-eating bears were all well and good but there was a subgenre of that subgenre which…
The Swarm (1978) – Review
Producer Irwin Allen made a name for himself in television with such classics as Lost in Space, Time Tunnel, and The Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and in the 70s he earned the nickname “Master of Disaster” by bringing to the big screen such epic disasters as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering…
Jaws: The Revenge (1987) – Review
No movie series epitomizes the Hollywood sequel machine and the “Law of Diminishing Returns” more than the Jaws series.
The Last Witch Hunter (2015) – Review
It’s no secret that Vin Diesel is a fan of the role playing game Dungeons and Dragons, which is seriously cool, so it’s no surprise to learn that Mister Diesel would produce a movie based on one of his D&D characters, and to be fair what gamer wouldn’t love to see one of his D&D…