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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Snowbeast (1977) – Review
The amount of films that attempted to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws is quite staggering, unfortunately, the number of them that turned out to be bad is quite staggering as well. But as many of these low-budget shark films hoped to get some of that sweet Jaw’s money there were…
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) – Review
Most people alive today are familiar with the Grimm fairy tales through their popular Disney incarnations – Uncle Walt having basically made a decades-long career producing animated classic based on those old tales – but in 1962, MGM studios tackled the subject matter with an interesting “biographical” approach: instead of animated versions of the Grimm’s…
The Black Hole (1979) – Review
What do you get when you cross Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with Shakespeare’s The Tempest? Well in 1979 Walt Disney Studios kind of answered that question with the release of their first PG-rated film called The Black Hole, unfortunately, that answer was something audiences of the late 70s were not particularly interested in…