B&S About Movies is all about, well, movies. It's owned and operated by Sam Panico. He is the sole proprietor and chief writer. All others are guest contributors.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Sorcerers was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, July 4, 1970 at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, February 12, 1972 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, December 1, 1979 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, May 16, 1981 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, October 30, 1982 at 1:00 a.m. The original story for this movie came from John Burke, […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Hammer Time By 1964, director Terence Fisher and […]
27. SITE OF PASSAGE: This single location story doesn’t leave the property lines. John Carpenter took roughly $100,000 in cold cash—an amount that wouldn’t cover the craft services budget for a modern superhero threequel—and remade Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo as George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. He wrote the script in eight days, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Teenage Zombies was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, August 30, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. Jerry Warren made a career out of buying foreign films, hacking them to pieces, and inserting scenes of people sitting in offices talking about what we just saw. But Teenage Zombies is a special vintage of Warren: it’s one […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Return of the Ape Man was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 22, 1966 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, November 5, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 8, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. In 1943, Monogram Pictures gave the world The Ape Man. A year later, producer Sam Katzman doubled down on cheap studio […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Taiwan Director John Hsu (Detention) has traded the […]
26. THE THOUSANDS: This movie’s title must have a 4-digit number in it. Financed with German tax-shelter money, shot on green-screen soundstages in Montreal, starring an aging legend in his last parody-movie starring role and featuring an international cast where half the actors look like they were dubbed by someone standing in a different room, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Face at the Window was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 29, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 10, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. A series of murders happens, with a face appearing at each victim’s window: the image of what people begin to call the Wolf Man. A bank clerk named Lucien […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Horror of Party Beach was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 19, 1972 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 7, 1976 at 1:00 a.m.Shot in two weeks for $50,000 outside Stamford, Connecticut by local producer/director Del Tenney, The Horror of Party Beach was advertised as “The First Horror-Monster Musical.” Tenney would also direct I […]
After her publisher announces his impending retirement, Jessica heads to New York City, where she is wooed at the same time by potential new publishers and a smooth-talking jewel thief. Season 5, Episode 2: A Little Night Work (October 30, 1988) Jessica Fletcher is in New York City attending a posh publisher’s party, but before […]
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