Tales from the Darkside S3 E22: The Enormous Radio (1987)
Adapted from John Cheever’s classic 1947 New Yorker short story, “The Enormous Radio” filters mid-century angst through the cheap, synthy, twilight-tinted lens of late-80s anthology television. Directed by Bill Travis and scripted by Guy Gallo—marking Gallo’s sole foray into horror screenwriting—the Tales from the Darkside Season 3 finale trades monsters and ghouls for something far […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: The Killer Shrews (1959)
During World War II, Ray Kellogg served as a U.S. Navy lieutenant in the O.S.S. Field Photographing Branch. There, he met John Ford, and when Kellogg returned to the U.S., he headed to 20th Century Fox, where he eventually became head of the special effects division and helped invent CinemaScope. He directed four films: The […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 163: People who married aliens
Two movies saying the same thing from different countries and different genders in the lead this week with I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Unearthly Stranger. Do you say I do? Listen & Subscribe Catch the new Nightmare U.S.A. Podcast feed right where you love to stream! Watch it on You Tube! Support […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
I really dislike anyone who makes fun of this movie. It’s been riffed and goofed on for years, but it’s way better made than it has any right to be, and it’s filled with big ideas that other movies from its genre and time never would dare include. Shot independently around Tarrytown, New York, in […]
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