Mil Mascaras contra Las Vampires (1968)
Back in Drive-In Asylum #8, I wrote about “John Carradine vs. Mil Mascaras” and this movie is the film where it happens. Carradine had sold everything he owned to start a traveling Shakespeare actor’s company and when it folded, he was penniless, which led to the kind of roles that we love him in. In fact, […]
Mil Máscaras (1969)
Mil Máscaras means Thousand Masks and the man behind those multiple faces became one of the most recognizable wrestlers in the entire world as well as the star of twenty movies. The character of Mil Mascaras was announced before he even wrestled in the ring, with the character created by “El Rey Midas de la […]
Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021)
A conundrum: I’ve already watched Fear Street 1994 and Fear Street 1978, so I feel obligated to finish the series*. I also am battling the urge to say that this feels like the tween version of The Witch — THE VVITCH! — and that I hate every slasher made after 1981, but I also realize that I need to grow […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews) has a goal. Work as a stenographer to a rich man and become his wife. She becomes friends with the naive Miss Dorothy Brown (Mary Tyler Moore) as she checks into the Priscilla Hotel, which has a secret: the house mother Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) find girls with no family or […]
Santo contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)
Don’t you think Santo would stop and look at his cases and say, “You know, I fought Satan himself. Like, I have first-hand evidence of Lucifer, the First of the Fallen, the Lord of the Flies. I’ve battled aliens, vampires — male and female, werewolves — also both genders, gone back in time and tangled […]
Santo contra los Cazadores de Cabezas (1971)
You may notice that as I expound on the films of Santo, I often refer to him as a storytelling engine. John Seavey wrote a book on this subject, Storytelling Engines: How Writers Keep Superhero Sagas Going and Going! As he broke down several comic book characters setting, origin, characters and their motivations, he realized that […]
El Mundo del los Muertos (1970)
Let me tell you, if life isn’t doing it for you any longer, watch this movie. It will reaffirm your faith in the utter strangeness that this world can deliver to all of us. I mean, who knew that Santo would be in a remake of Black Sunday? A ripoff? Don’t speak ill of the man […]
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
The first A Quiet Place left me kind of cold. Once you get past the conceit — aliens that attack based on sound attacking a mostly hearing impaired family — and the nail to the foot scene (repeated in the movie Haunt, which was also written and co-produced by Scott Beck and Bryan Wood), I came away […]
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