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Adapted from John Cheever’s classic 1947 New Yorker short story, “The Enormous Radio” filters mid-century angst through the cheap, synthy, twilight-tinted lens of late-80s anthology television. Directed by Bill Travis and scripted by Guy Gallo—marking Gallo’s sole foray into horror screenwriting—the Tales from the Darkside Season 3 finale trades monsters and ghouls for something far […]
During World War II, Ray Kellogg served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant in the O.S.S. Field Photographing Branch. There, he met John Ford, and when Kellogg returned to the U.S., he headed to 20th Century Fox, where he eventually became head of the special effects division and helped invent CinemaScope. He directed four films: The […]
Two movies saying the same thing from different countries and different genders in the lead this week with I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Unearthly Stranger. Do you say I do? Listen & Subscribe Catch the new Nightmare U.S.A. Podcast feed right where you love to stream! Watch it on You Tube! Support […]
I really dislike anyone who makes fun of this movie. It’s been riffed and goofed on for years, but it’s way better made than it has any right to be, and it’s filled with big ideas that other movies from its genre and time never would dare include. Shot independently around Tarrytown, New York, in […]
Got the post-Halloween blues? Well every night is Halloween, and the next DRIVE-IN ASYLUM double feature happens November 14 and just so you know we’re classy and all that, we’re watching ne of George Romero’s quieter films, Season of the Witch and Curse of the Demon. DIA chat regular Frank Polvino joins us on camera […]
Also known as Shadows over Bridge Farm (Skaduwees Oor Brugplaas), Curse of the Dead, Doctor Maniac and even retitled as Kill, Baby, Kill — what, that isn’t taken? — for video releases, this 1974 release is a South African/British co-production that attempts to mix gothic melodrama, science fiction and horror. Yes, distributors did just straight-up […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rubén Darío Basay Roberts is a writer, communicator and student of public policy. Visit his site at http://www.basayroberts.cl A movie theater can turn off its lights. But a victim’s pain does not disappear when the film ends. Thirty-five years ago, The Silence of the Lambs shook audiences around the world. Behind its […]
Directed by “King of Poverty Row” Edgar G. Ulmer, this was shot back-to-back with Beyond the Time Barrier over two weeks in Dallas, Texas. The cost? Around $100,000 or so. The story kicks off when disgraced former Army officer Major Paul Krenner (James Griffith) orchestrates the prison breakout of master burglar Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy). […]
Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci, the money behind Succubus, Castle of the Creeping Flesh, Two Undercover Angels, Death on a Rainy Day and Kiss Me Monster, wanted to make a movie for his wife, Pia Degermark, whose film Elvira Madigan had been a major success. We’ve seen it before, but have we seen it as […]
Directed by Robert Young, with a screenplay by Judson Kinberg and a story by George Baxt and Wilbur Stark, Vampire Circus is pretty great. Young hadn’t made a movie with the studio, so he was surprised that when he tried to get an extra week of filming, they just took the movie to be edited. […]
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