Some films are so bad they circle back around to being fun. Others are so bad they leave you with a headache and an existential crisis. The Horror of Party Beach is both; it’s a movie that wants to be a teen beach musical, a gore-soaked monster movie, and a public service announcement about nuclear…
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It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) – Review
The threat of nuclear annihilation during the Cold War may have been what kept people on edge during the 50s and 60s, with people building fallout shelters in their backyards, but without it, we wouldn’t have had so many fun atomic-fueled monster movies. One of the earliest examples of this would be the Ray Harryhausen…
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) – Review
There have been many adaptations and stories about Jules Verne’s famous submarine commander since his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was published back in 1870; from the excellent 1954 Disney version with James Mason to the abysmal screen version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but the film we are discussing today kind…