FORGOTTEN HEROES: The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
Captain Invincible helped win World War 2 but couldn’t survive the McCarthy hearings. Angry that his country turned its back on him, he moved to Australia and became a drunk. Thirty years later, Mr. Midnight, his greatest villain, comes back and steals the hypno ray. The U.S. government now needs the Captain back. But is […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: 3 Giant Men (1973)
In the world of Turkish cinema, Spider-Man leads a gang of counterfeiter who use murders people with outboar dmotors, axes and man-eating guinea pigs. Santo is a secret agent who rarely wears his mask and puts things directly into his pants, pockets by damned. And Captain America doesn’t have a shield, smokes and brings his […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: Megaforce (1982)
In 1982, you could not read a comic book without seeing the ad for Megaforce. It’s the first hype I can truly remember, save for the similar ad strategy for 1977’s Orca. As a ten-year-old chubby geek, I needed to know all about Ace Hunter and his crew of super soldiers. I wondered, “As a small child […]
FORGOTTEN HEROES: Doc Savage (1975)
As a kid, I was obsessed with superheroes. And in the late 1970’s, there was an abundance of them on the small screen after 1978’s Superman. Captain America, Spider-Man, The Hulk, Wonder Woman and Dr. Strange all got their own TV movies or shows. And then there’s all of the non-comic book heroes, like Gemini Man, […]
DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DECEMBER ISSUE IS COMING SOON!
We’re always excited when a new Drive-In Asylum comes out! The new issue — due in December — is all about The Incredible Melting Man. Sam contributed an article about how this movie scarred his childhood (building on his podcast revelation that he lived in terror of some movie trailers), as well as a painting!
FORGOTTEN HEROES starts Monday!
As a kid, I could care less about Superman and Batman. I wanted to know about the superheroes people forgot. Ones I learned about in Don Thompson’s The Comic Book Book — characters like Airboy, Plastic Man, the Heap and more. The DC characters I loved didn’t even live on the main Earth, but were folks […]
FUCKED UP FUTURES: Gas-s-s-s (1970)
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It would be the last movie that Roger Corman would direct for AIP. And it would be the last film he’d helm for nearly twenty years, too. Why? Turns out Corman was unhappy to the cuts made to the film (AIP and Corman […]
FUCKED UP FUTURES: Idaho Transfer (1973)
Karen Braden just got out of a mental hospital. Now, her father and sister, Isa, have taken her to a secret government facility in Idaho where they’re working on matter transference. However, they’ve learned how to travel through time instead, which has taught them a sad fact: an ecological event will soon wipe out civilization. […]
‘Revenge of the Nerds’ is a Rape Liturgy
I normally write for blog called Grindhouse theology, which deals almost exclusively with ‘the intersection of Christian faith and horror Cinema’. On paper, Revenge of the Nerds is a comedy, which means I’m outside my comfort zone. It is a comedy, I guess, maybe in the Twilight Zone, or some other dystopian nightmare world where affluent young men […]
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
I was in a meeting with some business friends early this year when we started to discuss the troubling nature of how films from the past seem horrifying when viewed through the prism of today’s more woke culture. In fact, that conversation is exactly when I decided to take our podcast and turn it into this […]
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