CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Snow Creature (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Snow Creature was first on Chiller Theater on Saturday, December 22, 1963 at 11:10 p.m. It also aired on June 12, 1965; February 11, 1967 and April 19, 1969. Dr. Frank Parrish (Paul Langton) is collecting botanical samples in the Himalayas when the wife of his guide Subra (Teru Shimada) is kidnapped. The guide […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: A Race For Life (1954)
April 18: Vroom — A movie mostly about cars. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Competing since 2014, Demaras Racing is made up of three committed family members: No. 12 Daniel Demaras, No. 29 Michelle Demaras and Chris ‘#16’ Demaras. They also have an awesome website where they share Fast Films every Friday. Here’s one of them! Your eyes do not deceive […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954)
Kenneth Anger is a near-daily part of my life. He’s a nexus point who has opened my mind to older film, to the power of gossip, to Crowley and to the art that film can be. His first words in the seminal Hollywood Babylon, quoting Crowley, inspires me: “Every man and every woman is a […]
Ismail Yzassin Meets Frankenstein (1954)
The world of strange film is, well, strange. Just as Mexican director Benito Alazraki remade Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein for his own country as Frankenstein el Vampiro y Compañía, Isa Karamah made it for Egyptian audiences as Haram alek, which was also released as Pitié! (Pity!) in France, Ismail Yassin Meets Frankenstein in the UK, Ismail and Abdel Meet Frankenstein and Have […]
Mill Creek Drive-in Classics: This Island Monster (1954)
Well, for me, this tale of an Italian undercover treasury agent infiltrating an island-based drug smuggling ring that results in the kidnapping of his young daughter isn’t a drive-in classic: it’s a scratchy n’ snowy, UHF-TV classic (well, bore). Those UHF days were the days when a young kid was enamored with all things Boris […]
Girl Gang/Pin-Down Girl (1954)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We covered Pin-Down Girl under its other title, Racket Girls, earlier this year. Thanks to this Kino Lorber re-release of Something Weird’s The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture imprint, we’re watching it again. Girl Gang is really about Joe (Timothy Farrell), who leads the titular group of young ladies. He hooks them on drugs, then gets […]
El Enmascarado de Plata (1954)
In 1952, José G. Cruz created a comic book that turned Santo into a Mexican hero. This series ran for 35 years and was the basis for the Santo films, yet before that, director Rene Cardona wanted to make this film. Santo decided to not be in this, as he thought it would fail. Who can […]
SON OF KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Godzilla (1954)
It’s difficult to remember, but the cuddly Godzilla that emerged in the 70’s as monster kids watched the films repeatedly on TV was anything but when he first emerged from the waves and brought the same destruction to Japan that it had endured just one decade before. Director Ishirō Honda completely shot Tokyo rampage with […]
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger may have come from America, but their films were all over UK screens through the 50’s and 60’s. Devil Girl from Mars is a great example of the kind of movies they made money with. Patricia Laffan was Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis — with costumes by Herschel McCoy, hairstyles by […]
The Fast and the Furious (1954)
Before “Racer X,” the 1998 Vibe magazine article that detailed an illegal street racing circuit operating within New York City . . . before Vin Diesel and Paul Walker . . . there was this tale of romance and cops-on-the-case originally known as Crashout, written by Roger Corman. In a deal similar to the one […]
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