MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Good Against Evil (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on December 5, 2018. Originally airing on May 22, 1977, this attempt at a weekly series comes from director Paul Wendkos (The Mephisto Waltz, Secrets, Haunts of the Very Rich) and Hammer veteran Jimmy Sangster (The Legacy; Scream, Pretty Peggy; Horror of Dracula; The Revenge of Frankenstein). I was really excited about […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Fury of the Wolfman (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on August 23, 2020. La Furia del Hombre Lobo is a 1970 Spanish horror film that is the fourth in the saga of werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played as always by Paul Naschy. It was not theatrically released in Europe until 1975, yet an edited U.S. version […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Doomsday Machine (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on March 3, 2020. You have to admire a movie that was originally filmed five years earlier under the titles Armageddon 1975 and Doomsday Plus Seven before the money stopped rolling in. The rights got sold, a new ending was filmed with totally different actors and plenty […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Embryo (1976)
Directed by Ralph Nelson (Charly) and written by Anita Doohan and Jack W. Thomas — who had stopped screenwriting for more than a decade to become a Los Angeles County deputy probation officer and write a series of books on troubled youth — Embryo finds Dr. Paul Holliston (Rock Hudson) living a life of solitude after […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Lost World (1925)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on October 5, 2021. Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, The Lost World is most famous for its stop motion special effects, which were created by Willis O’Brien and predate his work on the original King Kong. In some prints of this film, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: This Is Not a Test (1962)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. She currently works as a freelance ghostwriter of personal memoirs and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international politics. For links to her work, please visit https://www.jennuptonwriter.com or send her a Tweet @Jennxldn This is Not […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: All the Kind Strangers (1974)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on March 6, 2018. Let’s not judge Burt Kennedy for directing the Hulk Hogan vehicle Suburban Commando. Let’s remember him for something much better — All the Kind Strangers. Written by Clyde Ware — a writer/director/producer who worked on shows like Airwolf and Gunsmoke, as well as TV movies […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Death Warmed Up (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was on the site for the first time on October 10, 2019. New Zealand was ready to represent when it came to the slasher boom, thanks to this bonkers entry into the canon. It’s so violent that it was banned in Australia, a country that was originally made up of convicts. Director […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Counterblast (1948)
Born in Austria and settling in England, Paul L. Stein directed a ton of movies over his career and this was his next to last, a spy movie which was one of the two genres he worked in most, the other being female-friendly movies. One of its writers, Jack Whittingham, was the screenwriter that worked […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Idaho Transfer (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on November 23, 2017. Karen Braden just got out of a mental hospital. Now, her father and sister, Isa, have taken her to a secret government facility in Idaho where they’re working on matter transference. However, they’ve learned how to travel through time instead, which has taught […]
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