The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Dance Hall Racket (1953)
Roadshow Rarities (June 30 – July 6) In the old days of theatrical releases some of the more lavish movies would be promoted by holding limited screenings in large cities. These roadshow releases would generate hype before the nationwide release and allow producers to tweak the film to the audience’s reaction. This model also worked […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Robot Monster (1953)
Phil Tucker invented a rotary engine known as the CT Surge Turbine that he successfully patented and unsuccessfully tried to sell to the automobile industry as a more efficient alternative to the internal combustion engine. And years after directing movies like this and The Cape Canaveral Monsters, he did actually contribute to some movies as an […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Planet Outlaws (1953)
Planet Outlaws is the edited Buck Rogers serial from 1938. It was edited again to feature length and titled Destination Saturn as it was syndicated to television,. It was edited again into in the late 70s and called Buck Rogers with the theatrical poster advertising, “Star Wars owes it all to Buck Rogers.” Lieutenant Buck Rogers […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Phantom from Space (1953)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I feel bad that this ran just a few weeks ago, but hey, it’s in this box set. Director W. Lee Wilder formed a film production company in the early 1950s called Planet Filmplays to quickly make low-budget science fiction films with screenplays co-written with his son Miles. Directing was in the Wilder […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Before Ron Ormond went off and made his religious films, he was making some really out there movies. Actually, the religious films are just as bonkers, but Mesa of Lost Women is plenty strange as well. Originally called Tarantula, Ormond came in, added some new footage and gave it the kind of name that would draw drive-in […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Robot Monster (1953)
Phil Tucker invented a rotary engine known as the CT Surge Turbine that he successfully patented and unsuccessfully tried to sell to the automobile industry as a more efficient alternative to the internal combustion engine. And years after directing movies like this and The Cape Canaveral Monsters, he did actually contribute to some movies as an […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2023: The Maze (1953)
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 is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: 1950s William Cameron Menzies invented the term production […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Phantom from Space (1953)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Phantom from Space was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 28, 1963 at 3 p.m. It was also on June 19, 1965; January 1, 1966; March 8, 1969 and February 6, 1971. Director W. Lee Wilder formed a film production company in the early 1950s called Planet Filmplays to quickly make low-budget science fiction […]
Drakula İstanbul’da (1953)
Obviously, Dracula in Istanbul is a Turkish version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It’s based on Ali Riza Seyfi’s Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Voivode), which is nearly a translation of the Stoker book the Mina Harker analogue being a showgirl named Güzin. It’s also the first Dracula movie to explicitly show his fangs and also the first film […]
El Monstruo Resucitado (1953)
Miroslava was born Miroslava Šternová Beková in Prague, Czechoslovakia and in 1941, er family moved to Mexico to escape the war. After she won a national beauty contest, she made tons of movies in her adopted country and three in America — Adventures of Casanova, The Brave Bulls and Stranger on Horseback — and her […]
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