RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1967)
Zontar, the Thing from Venus is one of the many remakes of Roger Corman movies — this one is It Conquered the World — directed by Larry Buchanan. This starts at a dinner party. That’s where NASA scientist Dr. Keith Ritchie (Anthony Huston) reveals to Dr. Curt Taylor (John Agar) that he’s been secretly meeting with an alien […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Woman Eater (1958)
At the Explorers’ Club in London — yes, it’s all rich white dudes — Dr. Moran (George Coulouris) tells everyone that he’s going to the Amazon to get “a miracle-working JuJu that can bring the dead back to life.” While there, he watches Marpessa Dawn, a year removed from being in Black Orpheus — get eaten by […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Signal 30 (1959)
Made by the same people who brought you Wheels of Tragedy and Mechanized Death, Signal 30 refers to the radio code used by the Ohio State Highway Patrol for a fatal traffic accident. Today, there’s no way they would just show the dead bodies of people torn apart by car accidents and tell you how they […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty, this film remixes newsreels, military training films and other footage made during the Cold War to ease peoples’ minds about the inevitability of nuclear destruction and survivability. I’m so glad to report we no longer — oh, Putin said he’s going to fire nuclear missiles at […]
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