MILL CREEK SCI-FI FROM THE VAULT: It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)
Directed by Robert Gordon and written by Hal Smith and George Worthing Yates, the real star of this movie is the stop motion animation special effects of Ray Harryhausen. It gave me a childhood fear of octopuses as this movie is all about radiation making one of them gigantic and attacking San Francisco after nuclear […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI FROM THE VAULT: Creature With the Atom Brain (1955)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a past article about this film when it was released as part of Arrow Video’s Cold War Creatures: Four Films From Sam Katzman. Director Edward L. Cahn started by directing Our Gang shorts but made some of the most important science fiction movies of the 50s, including Invasion of the Saucer Men and It! […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: The Velvet Vampire (1971)
At some point in the late 60s, female vampires started to rival their traditional male ancestors. Sure, Dracula’s Daughter and Brides of Dracula were unleashed in 1936 and 1960, but they were tied to a man. The world of female vampires first rose in Carmilla-influenced movies like Blood and Roses and Daughters of Darkness, as well as Eurohorror like the films […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Angels Hard as They Come (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally posted on July 27, 2018. Jonathan Demme (Married to the Mob, Silence of the Lambs) impressed Roger Corman with his writing ability and was asked if he wanted to try a motorcycle movie. His idea? Rashomon on motorcycles. He turned to his friend Joe Viola, a commercial director, and created this film. Long John (Scott Glenn, Silence of the […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Private Duty Nurses (1971)
Roger Corman got the idea for this movie — a sequel of sorts to The Student Nurses — after being sent a letter of complaint about that movie from the Private Duty Nurses Association. It’s written and directed by George Armitage, who wrote Gas-s-s-s, Hot Rod, Vigilante Force and Darktown Strutters. He’d go on to direct and write Grosse Point Blank. It’s […]
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