B&S About Movies is all about, well, movies. It's owned and operated by Sam Panico. He is the sole proprietor and chief writer. All others are guest contributors.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Unearthly Stranger was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, August 9, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, January 1, 1972 at 11:30 p.m. Also known as Beyond the Stars, this British science fiction movie was directed by John Krish, who also made plenty of documentaries, as well as Out of the Darkness and The […]
Don Schain is probably best known for directing his wife and muse, Cheri Caffaro, in the infamous, low-budget Ginger exploitation trilogy (Ginger, The Abductors and Girls Are For Loving). Too Hot to Handle marks her final film before completely disappearing from the public eye. As for her director and one-time husband, Schain moved away from […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Sorcerers was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, July 4, 1970 at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, February 12, 1972 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, December 1, 1979 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, May 16, 1981 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, October 30, 1982 at 1:00 a.m. The original story for this movie came from John Burke, […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Hammer Time By 1964, director Terence Fisher and […]
27. SITE OF PASSAGE: This single location story doesn’t leave the property lines. John Carpenter took roughly $100,000 in cold cash—an amount that wouldn’t cover the craft services budget for a modern superhero threequel—and remade Howard Hawks’s Rio Bravo as George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. He wrote the script in eight days, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Teenage Zombies was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, August 30, 1969 at 11:30 p.m. Jerry Warren made a career out of buying foreign films, hacking them to pieces, and inserting scenes of people sitting in offices talking about what we just saw. But Teenage Zombies is a special vintage of Warren: it’s one […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Return of the Ape Man was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, January 22, 1966 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, November 5, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 8, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. In 1943, Monogram Pictures gave the world The Ape Man. A year later, producer Sam Katzman doubled down on cheap studio […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Taiwan Director John Hsu (Detention) has traded the […]
26. THE THOUSANDS: This movie’s title must have a 4-digit number in it. Financed with German tax-shelter money, shot on green-screen soundstages in Montreal, starring an aging legend in his last parody-movie starring role and featuring an international cast where half the actors look like they were dubbed by someone standing in a different room, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Face at the Window was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 29, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, August 10, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. A series of murders happens, with a face appearing at each victim’s window: the image of what people begin to call the Wolf Man. A bank clerk named Lucien […]
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