MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Sci-Fi from the Vault
The Mill Creek Sci-Fi from the Vault set has four films: Creature With the Atom Brain, It Came From Beneath the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth and The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. There are commentary tracks for some of the movies and two featurettes, They Came from Beyond and Fantastic Features. Here’s an overview of each of the films: […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI FROM THE VAULT: The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
The only movie — outside of when he was a bit player and stuntman — that Lou Costello starred in without Bud Abbott, this movie was based on an original screenplay titled The Secret Bride of Candy Rock Mountain. Directed by Sidney Miller (who started as an actor and also wrote songs for musicals like Moonlight […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI FROM THE VAULT: 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
The first of three collaborations between producer Charles H. Schneer, director Nathan Juran and special effects master Ray Harryhausen, this movie jump starts the space program past the moon and takes it to Venus, as a manned trip — the XY-21 — crashes into the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Italy. Only one astronaut […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: The Woman Hunt (1972)
After the success of The Big Doll House, Roger Corman and John Ashley would have to work together again. However, this would be the last movie Eddie Romero would make for the producer. It’s a Jack Hill-written remake, remix and ripoff of The Most Dangerous Game with mercenaries Tony (John Ashley), Silas (Sid Haig) and Karp (Ken […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Lady Frankenstein (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on November 12, 2018. Imagine a Hammer movie where instead of implied nudity and strange sexuality, everything is laid, well, bare. It’s not hardcore, but compared to where horror was pre-1971, Lady Frankenstein is a somewhat audacious concept: the man is no longer in charge and it […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Women In Cages (1972)
How important is this movie to Quentin Tarantino? Well, it’s the movie his character is watching in Planet Terror and he referred to it as “harsh, harsh, harsh.” He also took the name of Pam Grier’s character Alabama for his first published script, True Romance. Director Gerry de Leon is a force of exploitation nature, making movies […]
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