35 Years of The Silence of the Lambs
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rubén Darío Basay Roberts is a writer, communicator and student of public policy. Visit his site at http://www.basayroberts.cl A movie theater can turn off its lights. But a victim’s pain does not disappear when the film ends. Thirty-five years ago, The Silence of the Lambs shook audiences around the world. Behind its […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH:The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
Directed by “King of Poverty Row” Edgar G. Ulmer, this was shot back-to-back with Beyond the Time Barrier over two weeks in Dallas, Texas. The cost? Around $100,000 or so. The story kicks off when disgraced former Army officer Major Paul Krenner (James Griffith) orchestrates the prison breakout of master burglar Joey Faust (Douglas Kennedy). […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Vampire Happening (1971)
Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci, the money behind Succubus, Castle of the Creeping Flesh, Two Undercover Angels, Death on a Rainy Day and Kiss Me Monster, wanted to make a movie for his wife, Pia Degermark, whose film Elvira Madigan had been a major success. We’ve seen it before, but have we seen it as […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Vampire Circus (1972)
Directed by Robert Young, with a screenplay by Judson Kinberg and a story by George Baxt and Wilbur Stark, Vampire Circus is pretty great. Young hadn’t made a movie with the studio, so he was surprised that when he tried to get an extra week of filming, they just took the movie to be edited. […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Up Yours (1979)
I have no idea who this is for; porno chic was long over, this is softcore, and the jokes are, at best, not very funny. Maybe it was an attempt to make an even dirtier Kentucky Fried Movie. I mean, I know it’s for me, but I’m one person, and I was seven when it […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Up Your Teddy Bear (1970)
Clyde King (Wally Cox, the iconic voice of Underdog) is a mild-mannered, dorky toy store employee with two main pastimes: hand-carving wooden finger puppets and creeping around public spaces to stalk beautiful women. Enter Mother (Julie Newmar), the ruthlessly sultry CEO of a failing toy empire. Desperate to steal Clyde’s artisan puppet designs to save […]
Tremors Makes Knowing Your Neighbors a Survival Skill
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Paul Michael Durivage is a Michigan author and lifelong machinist with more than twenty-five years in precision manufacturing. His books include the supernatural horror novel The Crossing and the comic apocalypse novel Is the Apocalypse a Valid Use of Sick Days? Explore his books at https://www.paulmichaeldurivage.com/books Spoiler warning: This essay discusses the […]
NIGHTMARE USA PODCAST episode 11: Horror Gives Back
In this episode, Adam and Sam recap their picks for the annual Horror Gives Back challenge, sponsored by the Unsung Horrors podcast. This year, over $2000 was raised, mostly benefiting Best Friends Animal Society. A good time for a great cause. You can listen to the show on Spreaker and Spotify. Check out Unsung Horror’s […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Up Your Alley (1971)
Imagine The Immoral Mr. Teas, but way after that movie was erotic. Yes, it’s Up Your Alley—also released under titles like Sex or Bust and Bang, Bang, the Mafia Gang—and it’s Art Lieberman’s singular directorial effort, unless you watched the Marilyn Monroe short he made in 1986. I mean, how does a softcore director get […]
MILL CREEK MAD SCIENTIST THEATER MONTH: The Wasp Woman (1959)
Produced and directed by Roger Corman, this movie was originally a double feature with Beast from Haunted Cave. When it aired on TV two years later, director Jack Hill added a new prologue to extend its runtime. The film’s musical score may seem familiar because it’s the same music from Corman’s A Bucket of Blood. […]
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