Despite being shot to death at the end of both previous instalments the Gill-man is back for this third and final entry in the Creature from the Black Lagoon Trilogy, where they bring the creature out of the “Rampaging Monster” category, where he’d found himself trapped in for Revenge of the Creature, and now he’s…
Tag: science fiction
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944) – Review
Discounting the comedic outing of Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, this would be the last in the series of Invisible Man movies from Universal, and we can be thankful for that because this water-downed installment was more a psychotic pot-boiler about revenge than it was a decent science fiction flick about an invisible…
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) – Review
Like many of the Universal Monster films, their 1932 The Invisible Man had a very definitive and fatal ending for the title character, who was shot dead in the snow by the police, but with the success of Son of Frankenstein the studio execs quickly looked around to see what other titles could be mined…
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) – Review
If you can’t trust a murderous lab assistant named Igor, who can you trust? While Bela Lugosi returns as the troublesome Igor, The Ghost of Frankenstein marks the first time The Wolf Man star Lon Chaney Jr. would step in to fill those over-sized shoes of the Monster, and it is also at this point…
Warlords of Atlantis (1978) – Review
Atlantis is the mythical island which supposedly sank beneath the waves thousands of years ago and it hasn’t stopped making trouble since, from the writings of Plato to the screenplays of Hollywood this fabled landmass has provided a great backdrop to some quite entertaining tales, also not so entertaining ones, and today we will be…