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Good anthologies save the best of their short stories for last. Of course, opinions differ, but for me, Night Gallery (1969) has the order wrong. That’s not to say the overall package is bad in any way. It’s just that Rod Serling gives us the scariest, most effective segment at the beginning. I’m going to…
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Eloy de la Iglesia was a gay filmmaker best known for portraying “urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency.” Many of his films dealt with homosexual themes. He became addicted to drugs and stopped making films for 15 years, but returned sober in 2003, making one more film before dying of kidney…
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While Daughter of the Mind aired on television in 1969, there’s no doubt it should be included in discussions about TV-movies of the 70s. First, we’re nitpicking if we exclude anything due to a few months’ difference in release dates. More importantly, it follows a template that many more will use into the next decade……
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David E. Durston wrote and directed episodes of Playhouse 90 in the mid-1950s through 1960, before branching into movies. After four films, though, he shifted to hardcore gay pornography with movies like Boy ‘Napped (1971) and Manhole (1978.) He died in 2010 of complications from pneumonia. With as lurid a title as I Drink Your…
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The great Edward G. Robinson was 77 years old when he made The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970), playing a man who was just turning 70. Age plays a big part in the movie, adding a layer of emotion to what’s already a gripping thriller. So compelling is Robinson’s performance that it’s one of…
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Surprise! We’re hitting the road early with the first of four summer trips to the drive-in. It’s the weekend of June 15, 1973, and Battle for the Planet of the Apes has just opened, giving the Hillcrest Drive-In in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the opportunity to host an unofficial “Go Ape” marathon. We both started our…
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Although I can’t remember where I’ve seen it before, the plot of The Face of Fear (1971), while a good one, is not original. Since the source material, the novel, “Sally,” by E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast) was written in 1967, maybe this is just another in a long line of films based on the…
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The third “Yokai Monsters” movie, Along with Ghosts (1969) is the strangest, not because of its content, but because of its lack of content. It has a decent story: When her grandfather is killed by the equivalent of gangsters, a little girl named Miyo ventures toward the city to find her father. However, there are…
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Dead Men Tell No Tales (1971) has a terrific, cinematic opening. In a stunning aerial shot, the camera travels over the sea and zooms in to a beautiful Spanish villa on the shore. Then, in what looks like the same shot, the camera pulls back out as we watch Larry Towers (Christopher George) run outside…
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If this is the kid-friendly Yokai movie I was expecting, then I must have it confused with something else. Even more than 100 Monsters (1968), The Great Yokai War (1968) has truly terrifying moments with pre-1970s melted Crayola blood and Yokai that curse like drunken sailors. It’s only when the “good” monsters appear to battle…
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