Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum made a career out of comedy, starting TV and debuting their first movie script here. They also wrote The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Shakiest Gun in the West, Angel in My Pocket and The Reluctant Astronaut. Greenbaum’s talent also was used to create the sculptures in this movie. Sam […]
Mill Creek Through the Decades: 1960s Collection: Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
Hogan (Jack Lemmon) has quite a life. He’s an independently wealthy landlord of a California apartment complex that he rents exclusively to beautiful women for just $75 a month. Women are his passion, which is why he has a swinging bedroom to rival Dudley Moore’s pad from Foul Play. Now, he has his sights set on […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Shock (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally ran on October 17, 2017, which was early in the life of this site. I’ve adjusted it, added to it and hopefully improved it to celebrate Arrow Video’s release of Shock. We went to see Blood and Black Lace in the theater once and there was someone who talked about the movie […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: The Killing Kind (1973)
Terry (John Savage, The Deer Hunter) was forced to participate in a gang assault and served two years in prison, losing his sanity. His mother Thelma (Ann Sothern, so many roles, but also the titular voice of My Mother the Car) runs a boarding house for old women who all gossip about the strange nature […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: The Cat Creature (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve added some things to this article, which originally appeared on our site on May 22, 2020. Originally airing December 11, 1973 on ABC, this Curtis Harrington-directed, Robert Bloch-written take on Cat People was originally planned as a starring vehicle for Diahann Carroll. However, her ABC contract ended and the film needed to be rewritten. […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Mata Hari (1985)
13 year old me didn’t care about any 80s starlet that you’d care to mention. I’d already discovered the forbidden fruit that was Eurosleaze and with it, probably one of its classier stars, Sylvia Kristel. You know who agreed with me? Well, at least in the theory that he could make money off of her? […]
CURTIS HARRINGTON WEEK: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
When Roger Corman bought the Russian movie Planet of Storms (Planeta Bur), he used that footage to make Peter Bogdanovich’s Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women and this film, which had to confuse filmgoers. Corman doubled down on that mind-altering sensation that audiences had seen this before by shooting new scenes at the same time that Harrington was […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Red Angel (1966)
We’ve been covering many of Yasuzo Masumura’s films — Giants and Toys, Irezumi, Black Test Car, The Black Report, Blind Beast — lately and that’s because Arrow Video has been putting them out on blu ray, sometimes for the first time in the U.S. Sakura Nishi has been sent to a field hospital in Tientsin, the frontline of […]
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