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All good things must come to an end. World of Giants (WOG) wasn’t always a great series, but it was a fun one. Too little, too late, the final episode, ‘Panic in 3-B’ demonstrates just how fun it could be. Producer William Alland is joined by director Jack Arnold to inject some energy that was…
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Doomwatch (1972) is not the movie I thought I would be watching. The title has appeared in my research so many times over the years, that I did a blind-buy of the Blu-ray a while back. IMDb describes it as a “Horror, Mystery.” If anything, it’s science-fiction, but it’s barely even that. It’s more like…
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The murder in the titular “Unexpected Murder,” episode 12 of World of Giants (WOG) is so unexpected that, unless I blinked and missed it, it didn’t happen at all! Nevertheless, I enjoyed this as the penultimate episode of the series. Mel (Marshall Thompson) is sick, and when Bill (Arthur Franz) goes to the drug store…
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There’s a fun bonus feature on the Severin Films Blu-ray of The Beast in the Cellar (1971.) It provides a high level look at the genre output of Tigon Films, the distant third of the trio of British production companies in the 1960s and 1970s, behind Hammer Films and Amicus Productions. However, it spends most…
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There’s an amusing sequence in episode 11 (‘Off Beat’) of World of Giants (WOG). Miniature Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson) climbs inside a piano to look for stolen Egyptian art treasures that might have been placed inside for hiding. Jazz pianist Chick Crescent (Johnny Silver) is nervous about his part in the robbery, so he sits…
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Few movies capture a sense of authenticity with their setting as does The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971.) Of course, we don’t know what it was really like living in the 18th century, but after watching this film, I’d swear this was it… a gloomy countryside where the sun never shines, stone buildings that look…
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Before becoming a scapegoat for the demise of once-popular television shows (Star Trek, Space: 1999, and The Six Million Dollar Man), Fred Freiberger was a prolific writer of television westerns who had a couple of big-screen genre credits. He co-wrote The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) and Beginning of the End (1957.) He also wrote…
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Putting the “C” in the Classic Horrors Club Podcast, Jeff and Richard finish this year’s annual summer at the drive-in with two bonafide classics: Them! (1954) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956.) With a double-time hop, they visit the Tri-City Drive-In in Loma Linda, California, on two different days. Alas, there never was a…
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So far, episode nine of World of Giants (WOG), ‘Rainbow of Fire,’ has been my least favorite… by far. Our trio of heroes, Bill Winters (Arthur Franz), Mel Hunter (Marshall Thompson), and Dorothy “Brownie” Brown (Marcia Henderson) head to South America to search for a crashed missile. I missed what specifically it is they need…
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During the summer of 1983, I had the best time of my life. I was home from college following my sophomore year and had reconnected with a group of high school friends who were a year behind me. We loved movies and pop culture, so stood in line to see Return of the Jedi, made…
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