Mill Creek Nightmare Worlds month recap
Every November, B&S About Movies tackles a Mill Creek 50 pack. In 2018, we did Chilling Classics, then in 2019 we did the Pure Terror set. 2020 had the Sci-Fi Invasion set, as well as Savage Cinema and Explosive Cinema. In 2021, a team of writers finished the Drive-In Classics, Excellent Eighties, B-Movie Blast 50-Film Pack and Gorehouse Greats sets. In 2022, […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Men with Steel Faces (1940)
Men with Steel Faces is an edited movie version of the serial Phantom Empire, which stars Gene Autry as — who else? — Gene Autry, a singing cowboy who also has a Radio Ranch where he broadcasts a show every day and also has a dude ranch for kids where Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy King Ross […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974)
Oh man, 1970s TV movies and UFOs go together like blood and half-naked teenage camp counselors. U.S. Air Force Colonel Pete Moore (Glenn Ford), the commander of the Whitney Air Force Base 458th Radar Test Group, has sent a crew made up of Captain Bishop (David Soul), Capt. Riggs (Robert F. Lyons), Lt. Ferguson (Stanley Bennett […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Shadow of Chinatown (1936)
Shadow of Chinatown is a 65-minute version of the 300-minute long serial of the same name. It’s all about San Francisco’s Chinatown is being destroyed by Victor Poten (Bela Lugosi) and The Dragon Lady (Luana Walters), hired by white businesses to decimate the new Chinese businessmen who are taking away their profits. Unlike most serials […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Menace from Deep Space (1956)
Clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones of the Space Rangers was the lead character of a syndicated science fiction series that ran for two seasons from February to November of 1954. Shot in black and white, the show was about Rocky’s adventures as the space policeman for the United Worlds. Flying in his Orbit Jet XV-2 — […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Eternal Evil (1985)
Hungarian-born Canadian director George Mihalka is probably better known for My Bloody Valentine than this movie, which also has the title The Blue Man. Paul Sharpe (Winston Rekert) is a TV producer who meets the mysterious Amelia Lambro (Karen Black and wow, what a mysterious woman to meet) who teaches him how to astral project. The only […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Evil Brain from Outer Space (1965)
About the Author: Paul Andolina is one of my favorite people to talk movies with. If you like his stuff, check out his site Wrestling with Film. This was previously a part of two other Mill Creek months, the first on November 15, 2019 and the second appearance on November 24, 2020. Evil Brain from Outer Space […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Lost City (1935)
Kane Richmond went from being a football star at the University of Minnesota as Fred Bowditch to becoming a film salesman before testing and getting the lead in the boxing serial The Leather Pushers and becoming a fixture in serials like Spy Smasher and Brick Bradford as well as playing Lamont Cranston — otherwise known as […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: End of the World (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on October 25, 2018. Bill from Groovy Doom and Drive-In Asylum always jokes about movies where nothing happens as being his favorite movies. If that’s true, he must absolutely adore this movie. Christopher Lee, the main selling point of this movie, said, “Some of the films I’ve been […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: House of the Dead (1980)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bill Van Ryn is the genius behind Groovy Doom and the zine Drive-In Asylum. This was first on the site on November 28, 2018. Ultra low budget films really turn me on sometimes, and House of the Dead has another sexy thing going for it: it’s a horror anthology. It’s one of those obscurities […]
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