Spagvemberfest 2023 and Arrow Video Savage Guns box set: The Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
Salt Flats, Utah. 1873. Professional gambler Stubby Preston (Fabio Testi, Contraband) is arrested the moment he steps off the stagecoach, thwarting his plans to win money from the town’s casino. It turns out that he’s actually lucky, because the town has become a vigilante mob that burns that den of iniquity to the ground, leaving only […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Eegah (1962)
In The Golden Turkey Awards, the Medveds claim that Arch Hall Jr.’s performance as Tommy is “one of the low points in the history of American cinema” and that he has “a face only a mother could love.” He was sixteen when he made this movie, so that feels like a lot of punching down. Well, […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Destroy All Planets (1969)
American International Television renamed nearly all of the Gamera movies for television. This is really Gamera vs. Viras. This time, Gamera is defending our planet from aliens. He starts off by destroying one of their ships, but not before an entire planet declares that he is their enemy. The aliens come back to Earth and learn […]
EXPLORING: Sons of Hercules
I’m obsessed with the packages that were sold to UHF channels in the 1960s. Through these collections of movies, which are almost the Mill Creek fifty packs of their time, these small stations got a ton of films that they could show at any time, however they wanted. For an example of another syndicated package, […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Crash of the Moons (1954)
Hollingsworth Morse went from the casting department at Paramount Pictures to serving under director George Stevens in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He saw plenty of Europe and helped capture footage of the Battle of Normandy and other significant events of World War II. When he came back to the U.S., he directed plenty of […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
For an entire article on the space films of Alfonso Brescia, visit this link. Space is all about computers, at least in Italy in 1977. It’s also very close to when Star Wars was a big deal, so if there could be some cheaply made versions of an already big movie, Italy knew how to do […]
VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: Vampires and Other Stereotypes (1994)
Kevin J. Lindenmuth is still making movies as recently as 2015 with The Life of Death. Yet he started his career here, directing and writing a movie that seems to come fully aware and alive from a world already built. It begins with Ivan (Bill White) being told by a woman that he’s about to meet […]
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