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Roger Corman’s New World Pictures decided that it was time to mash up the emerging martial arts craze with the unstoppable power of Blaxploitation. Enter TNT Jackson (released in the Philippines as Dynamite Wong and T.N.T. Jackson). Originally scripted by legendary character actor Dick Miller, the film hit a bump during production. Corman felt Miller’s […]
When I was a kid in the 1970’s, I sat in a B. Dalton’s reading room — parents routinely dropped kids off to read without any fear of kidnapping back then—and discovered a copy of Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex on a shelf. I had no idea what it was at the time, but […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: 100 Cries of Terror was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, August 12, 1972 at 1:00 a.m. There are two distinct stories packed into this chilling Mexican portmanteau, 100 Cries of Terror (Cien gritos de terror), a film that embraces the macabre styling of classic Gothic horror. The first segment, Pánico—hey, how about that […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again host a fundraiser for Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes. Today’s theme: 1970s House of Whipcord (1974) marks a monumental […]
Pete Walker (Die Screaming, Marianne; Frightmare; House of the Long Shadows) directed this movie, which is based on the comic strip by Pat Tourret and Jenny Butterworth. It fits nicely into both the comic book and spy genres. Anouska Hempel was one of the Angels of Death in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and she […]
21. BACK TO THE FUTURE DAY: Really though, any time travel flick will do the trick. Long before Hollywood handed $35 million to Steven E. de Souza to make the 1994 official Street Fighter movie—and decades before Legendary Pictures decided to try again with their upcoming live-action reboot—director Wong Jing did it. Released in July […]
This starts like a women in prison Phillipines-made Roger Corman movie but before you’re ready, the kidnapped ladies all end up in a camp run by Baru (John Considine), who has a crazy necklace and cape. I think it’s his fashion that made him ruler and part of their immortal cult that drinks the blood […]
Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) knows that he’s dying, but that’s why he’s getting his team of surgeons to do head transplants with gorillas. He’s running out of time, and Dr. Philip Desmond (Roger Perry) has hired a black doctor — Dr. Phillip Desmond (Don Marshall) –, and Kirshner shows off that he’s totally racist. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Battle of the Worlds was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 14, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, July 18, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. Known in Italy as Il Pianeta degli uomini spenti (The Planet of Extinct Men), this film was directed by Anthony Dawson, better known outside America as Antonio Margheriti. Dr. […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Spooks Run Wild was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 19, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. Phil Rosen made a ton of movies—six entries in the Charlie Chan series alone—but this is his only East Side Kids movie, made for Sam Katzman and Banner Pictures. The series had run for six films since 1940 […]
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