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Arriving immediately after Duel (1971), you have to be at least a little disappointed in Steven Spielberg’s next-to-last TV movie, Something Evil (1972.) However, a comparison of the two provides a good example of how a minimalist approach can work perfectly for one movie and not so perfectly for another. As you’ll read, I don’t
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In addition to Universal, Roger Corman, Dean of the Poe films, made his mark on the man-monster genre. His contributions were mostly in terms of science fiction: Day the World Ended (1956), with its atom-spawned mutants, and Night of the Blood Beast (1958), an astronaut turned into a crusty tendrilled being by an outer space
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When The Screaming Woman (1972) began, I immediately liked the music and therefore closely watched the credits to see the name of the composer. Either I missed it, or it was not in the opening credits. In any case, I have now learned it was none other than John Williams! This was apparently one of
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Rich and Jeff are honored to have author and film historian David J. Skal as their special guest for this month’s meeting. You may have seen David on TCM last Friday night discussing with Dave Karger four of the 62 movies from his latest book, Fright Favorites. We chat with David about that, as well
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The headline here is that She Waits (1972) was written by Art Wallace, the man who created the bible for Dark Shadows and wrote its first 40 episodes, plus many more after that, including those introducing the reluctant vampire, Barnabas Collins. Here, he focuses strictly on ghosts. The story isn’t quite as soapy as Dark
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There I was, a still-young monster kid in the process of graduating from Famous Monsters of Filmland to Fangoria, from Universal and Hammer to Michael Myers and Jason. In the pages of Fangoria, I read this about an upcoming movie: Fade to Black: Irwin Yablans, the man who made film history when he asked John
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Yes, that’s Ida Lupino, award-winning actress from the golden age of Hollywood, playing prison guard Claire Tyson and punching women in the stomach. This was, in fact, her 1970s television movie debut. During the following two years, she appeared in five more. She was no stranger to television, though, having appeared in many series throughout
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After last meeting’s part one cliffhanger ending, Jeff and Richard return with their Fall Preview TV Guides for the 1973 and 1974 seasons. They watch the beloved Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (Oct. 10, 1973 – ABC Movie of the Week) and Where Have All the People Gone (Oct. 8, 1974 – NBC.) How
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The cat in Black Noon (1971) is yellow, not black, matching the blonde witch in the film, Deliverance, played by the lovely Yvette Mimieux. This isn’t a spoiler; we see her in a pre-opening credits scene in which she strokes the cat as she watches a church burn. Granted, we don’t exactly know her role
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Robot Monster (1953) is one of those supposedly awful sci-fi movies that I’ve never been able to bring myself to watch. However, when Amok Time Toys advertised a 13” deluxe vinyl figure of the titular creature (technically called “Ro-Man”), I realized how darned fun it might unexpectedly be. I mean, the gorilla body with a
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