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In the Movie Archaeologists bonus feature on Criterion’s beautiful new Blu-ray edition of The War of the Worlds (1953), Craig Barron and Ben Burtt mention an original Variety review in which the critic called the movie, “socko entertainment.” I had to find and read this review. Sure enough: War of the Worlds is a socko
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Sweet, Sweet Rachel (1971) earns points for its atmosphere and style; but, it unfortunately loses a larger number of points for its convoluted and nonsensical plot. I wanted so much to love it and had been looking forward to its arrival in the chronological order in which this series has been traveling. After watching it,
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The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) is the closest thing to a prestige picture one might find at the beginning of the 1970s TV horror movie boom: Of course, it’s not really a horror film. Instead, it’s a suspense thriller in which the secret society that Professor Andrew Patterson (Ford) joined in college comes collecting
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In his on-air introduction of The Hitch-Hiker (1953) on TCM, Ben Mankiewicz shared the kind of perceptions about the film that I wish I were smart enough to realize myself. The fact that it was directed by a woman (Ida Lupino), though, doesn’t impress me in and of itself as much as the fact that
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Out of five desperate women, I’d rate this one… three desperate women. Technically, they don’t become desperate until one of them is dead, leaving only four desperate women. Then, the volume of desperation in their situation is so low that I’d subtract one desperate woman. But, hey, it’s a great title for the next movie
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Had I known the pedigree of Terror in the Sky (1971), I probably wouldn’t have watched it at this point in time. Its genesis was a 1956 Canadian TV movie called, Flight Into Danger, written by Arthur Hailey (Airport.) A year later, Hollywood remade it as Zero Hour! A year later, Hailey turned it into
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Added to the many miracles performed by modern science that have accounted for the saving of thousands upon thousands of human beings, comes its newest and most modern discovery – frozen therapy. Estimates of how long frozen therapy can produce a state of suspended animation range from days to years. But on the fact that
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At least I found two brief references to Destination Inner Space (1966) in my vintage monster movie reference books. I found none for From Hell It Came (1957.) This made me realize how many genre films must have been “discovered” sometime after the 1980s. Not worth mentioning in two decades’ worth of publishing, it’s well
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Although I cannot verify it in my research, I’d bet good money that Escape (1971) was the pilot for a television series. The concept is both a good and a bad one. The good is that a weekly series about the James Bond of escape artists could be fun. The bad is that for Cameron
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In Horrors from Screen to Scream, Ed Naha calls Dinosaurus! (1960) an: Amusing romp for the small fry… It’s been a long time since I’ve been considered a “small fry,” but the movie was plenty amusing for me. Somehow I was able to overlook its flaws and watch it through the eyes of a child,
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