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Crucible of Horror (1971) opens on a dreary day with drops of rainwater hanging from bare tree limbs. A man snips a dead flower from a plant in front of the house. This is the kind of movie I love to watch in a movie theater on a day as dreary as the one depicted.
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The descriptions of early sci-fi television series are getting repetitive. We’ll learn next week about a show that was cancelled due to copyright infringement, but there’s little difference in the ones we’ve discussed so far, so I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner. I suppose the thing to remember is that some of these shows began
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It’s kind of sad that one of the four movies IMDb says Brian Clemens is “known for,” Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), is listed, but Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) is not. The latter even has an average rating that’s two point higher than the former. Oh, well, the 1960s British television show The Avengers
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Any science-fiction fan is undoubtedly aware of author Robert A. Heinlein (The Puppet Masters, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land.) His third novel, Space Cadet, was published in 1948 and (depending on your source) inspired another author, Joseph Greene, to create a character named Tom Ranger. Other sources say that Greene was first with
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Prior to watching Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951), I had never seen an entire serial. To be fully transparent, I still haven’t. I watched one-half of it, which is 10 chapters and a nearly three-hour running time. (One, 26-minute introductory episode and nine 16-minute episodes.) I didn’t dislike it. It’s just a big
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Crucible of Horror… Crucible of Terror… two 1971 horror films that have caused me perpetual confusion. Even when I popped in the new Severin Films Blu-ray for the latter, I thought I was going to be watching the former. I don’t know the difference because I’ve never seen Horror. The most confounding thing about Terror
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The knowledge we have about Captain Video & His Video Rangers (1949-1955) hasn’t come from watching its estimated 1,537 episodes; most of the original broadcasts have been destroyed. However, we have a surprising amount of knowledge about it. The low budget show first aired on June 27, 1949, and was televised live five to six
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Penny Gold (1973) opens like a poor man’s giallo. As a woman takes a shower, a man dressed in black and wearing black leather gloves breaks into her apartment and throws the breaker. When she investigates, he attacks her. It’s not gory at all, but when the crime scene is later investigated, there’s blood everywhere.
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For the foreseeable future, #TVTerrorGuide is becoming #SciFiSaturday. Every Saturday (beginning November 16) we’ll discuss some of the earliest science-fiction television shows, from Captain Video & His Video Rangers to Tales of Tomorrow… and beyond? (This could be a longer series than even the 1970s TV Movies series that ran for -gulp- over four years!)
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In Craze (1974), Neal Mottram (Jack Palance) never forsakes his god, the African idol, Chuku. When a woman dances naked and slices her stomach in front of it, he says, “I pray that the bloodletting pleased you.” When he discovers gold coins in his desk, he tells it, “We shall always serve you.” And when
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