MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Piranha (1972)
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 Not to be […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Hands of Steel (1986)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sean Collier is a writer and movie critic. Listen to his podcast, The Number One Movie in America, on all major podcast apps. Follow him on Twitter for more reviews: @seancollierpgh It’s an Italian/American ’80s cyborgsploitation arm-wrestling action western. You know, just another one of those. After The Terminator hit, the overarching mode […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Queen of Atlantis (1932)
After Jacques Feyder refused to make a sound version of his 1921 film L’Atlantide, G.W. Pabst stepped in to make three this, shot in English, French and German with three different casts yet always having Brigitte Helm (the robot from Metropolis) in the lead. Based on Pierre Benoit’s novel L’Atlantide, this movie has two French Foreign […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Werewolf Woman (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on September 21, 2021. A section 3 video nasty, this movie was made by Rino Di Silvestro, who claimed that he wanted to make a serious werewolf movie. We should take the director of Deported Women of the SS Special Section at his word, I guess. Daniella Neseri (Annik […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Night Fright (1967)
Shot in 1967 around Dallas, Texas, who could foresee a time when this monster movie would be re-released in England under a whole bunch of titles like E.T.N.: The Extraterrestrial Nastie, E.T.N.: The Extraterrestrial Nasty, The Extraterrestrial Nastie and The Extraterrestrial Nasty. How did people feel when they rented this and got a movie about […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Warriors of the Wasteland (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on March 13, 2018. After 1990: The Bronx Warriors, director Enzo G. Castellari created this film, originally entitled The New Barbarians. The title change reflects the name New Line Cinema would use when they released the film in the United States. This movie checks off nearly every box when […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: How Awful About Allan (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on May 19, 2020. Along with What’s the Matter With Helen?, this movie is one of the two collaborations between writer Henry Farrell and director Curtis Harrington. It was the ABC Movie of the Week on September 22, 1970 and has stood the test of time as one […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Return of Doctor Mabuse (1961)
The second of the 1960s CCC Films Dr. Mabuse film series, this movie follows up Fritz Lang’s The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Gert Fröbe, who plays Inspector Lohmann, was the selling point in the U.S., as he had become known as Goldfinger. The lawman is called away from his vacation to investigate a series […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Panic (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on November 13, 2018. Also known as Bakterion, Nightmare Killing and even Zombie 4 in Greece, this film was directed by Tonino Ricci, Fulci’s assistant director on White Fang and Challenge to White Fang. It all starts with lab rats going nuts and killing one another, which was not what I was […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Emergency Landing (1941)
William Beaudine made movies in almost every genre and not only that, he made tons of them. His career started in 1909 and ended in 1966 with Billy the Kid Versus Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter. He made 75 movies in the forties and Emergency Landing also known as Robot Pilot is one of seven he made in […]
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