Tag Archives: sci-fi

Nightmare City DVD

Posted on January 23, 2001 by Brian Thomas

Where the rent is an arm and a leg One of many zombie pictures made in the wake of Dawn of the Dead, this Italian epic by director Umberto Lenzi is known under many titles: City of the Walking Dead, … Continue reading →

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes DVD

Posted on December 8, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Beverly Hills chimps With the world apparently destroyed at the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Oops! Um… spoiler!), no one thought it likely that there would be another sequel. The box office tally, however, disagreed with them. The … Continue reading →

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Horrors of Spider Island DVD

Posted on November 14, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Eight babes versus eight armed horror In 1960, sexuality had only begun to become more explicit on U.S. screens in imported art films, or cloaked in the nervous laughter of nudie-cutie pictures shown in downtown grindhouses. Horror films were still … Continue reading →

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The Blob (1958) on DVD

Posted on November 10, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Classic slimy monster It was an idea so simple, it was no wonder the major studios hadn’t touched it. When B-movie producer Robert Lippert  challenged local distributor Jack H. Harris to tell him what he thought would be a sure-fire … Continue reading →

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Charlie’s Angels

Posted on November 3, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Fox Force 3 Not long ago, the TVLand channel ran a ten day marathon, showing all 109 episodes of the fluffy 1970s series Charlie’s Angels at least once – two or three times if bikinis were involved. I didn’t think … Continue reading →

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Organ DVD

Posted on September 26, 2000 by Brian Thomas

The Organ Grinders Numata (Kenjin Nasa), a tough cop, and his partner Tosaka are on the trail of a gang of human organ thieves that have been preying on runaways and homeless. When the gang picks up an unconscious man, … Continue reading →

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Gorgo DVD

Posted on September 21, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Wait til Mama comes home Director Eugene Lourie, working in the field created by Cooper and Schoedsack for King Kong, created the template for the modern giant monster movie in the 1950s, and then went on to become one of … Continue reading →

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Nude on the Moon DVD

Posted on September 12, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Lunar nature camp Okay, all you ladies — scram! I want to talk to just the men for a while. Go check out the Buffy bulletin boards for a while or something. Are they gone? Good. Hey cats, ever want to see … Continue reading →

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The Fly/Return of the Fly DVD

Posted on September 4, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Feel the buzz It’s a film that begins memorably with the sound of a huge hydraulic press coming down on a man’s head, flattening it to nothing. But the blood spilling over the machinery has never been so red as … Continue reading →

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Kronos DVD

Posted on August 22, 2000 by Brian Thomas

Giant robot gyros from space This prime example of 1950s science fiction has been much overshadowed in intervening decades by more expensive productions like Forbidden Planet. This is unfortunate, as in some ways Kronos (1957) was ahead of its time, and … Continue reading →

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