Archive for July, 2008

  • D.O.A. takes on its subject matter with a stark straightforwardness that literally shows the protagonist as a walking dead man. Frank Bigelow gets poisoned by some slow acting stuff that...

    D.O.A. (1950)

    D.O.A. takes on its subject matter with a stark straightforwardness that literally shows the protagonist as a walking dead man. Frank Bigelow gets poisoned by some slow acting stuff that…

  • A three part mega-event of the Disneyland television show back in 1963, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (better known by its video title of Dr. Syn, Alias The Scarecrow) introduced...

    Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)

    A three part mega-event of the Disneyland television show back in 1963, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (better known by its video title of Dr. Syn, Alias The Scarecrow) introduced…

  • Where the first Phibes misadventure was a decent horror movie spotlighting a quirky villain prone to playing the organ with his robot band and devising devious and convoluted methods of...

    Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)

    Where the first Phibes misadventure was a decent horror movie spotlighting a quirky villain prone to playing the organ with his robot band and devising devious and convoluted methods of…

  • You know, I can never get enough of these movies about deranged Hong Kong taxi cab drivers banging corpses. There’s just something life affirming about knowing that our country is...

    Dr. Lamb (1992)

    You know, I can never get enough of these movies about deranged Hong Kong taxi cab drivers banging corpses. There’s just something life affirming about knowing that our country is…

  • Dr. Jekyll’s research project consumes his every waking hour. He explains to his pal, Professor Robertson, that he is going to come up with something that will cure every disease...

    Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (1971)

    Dr. Jekyll’s research project consumes his every waking hour. He explains to his pal, Professor Robertson, that he is going to come up with something that will cure every disease…

  • The story goes (according to the two minute interview on the DVD) that Franco Nero and his good buddy Nello Rossati were in Columbia shooting Alien Terminator together when they...

    Django Strikes Again (1987)

    The story goes (according to the two minute interview on the DVD) that Franco Nero and his good buddy Nello Rossati were in Columbia shooting Alien Terminator together when they…

  • Django is widely regarded as the other movie that kickstarted the entire spaghetti western genre. Coming out about two years after Clint Eastwood’s and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars,...

    Django (1966)

    Django is widely regarded as the other movie that kickstarted the entire spaghetti western genre. Coming out about two years after Clint Eastwood’s and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars,…

  • If you’re tired of Italian movies about zombies, cannibals, ancient Greeks, and cross-dressing slashers, Dial: Help provides some welcome relief in that it strives to achieve something just a little...

    Dial: Help (1988)

    If you’re tired of Italian movies about zombies, cannibals, ancient Greeks, and cross-dressing slashers, Dial: Help provides some welcome relief in that it strives to achieve something just a little…

  • Duc de Richleu (Christopher Lee) is welcoming home his pal Rex for their annual reunion where they will do all manner of manly English things like sip tea, eat crumpets...

    The Devil Rides Out (1968)

    Duc de Richleu (Christopher Lee) is welcoming home his pal Rex for their annual reunion where they will do all manner of manly English things like sip tea, eat crumpets…

  • Anytime I watch a movie and the opening credits roll by saying that it is based on a play, I cringe. If you’ve ever been to a play the one...

    Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

    Anytime I watch a movie and the opening credits roll by saying that it is based on a play, I cringe. If you’ve ever been to a play the one…