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For a movie that reeks of the 1980s, New Year’s Evil (1980) doesn’t feel very authentic. Punk rock fans of disc jockey, Diane Sullivan (Roz Kelly), flood into a New Year’s Eve party that’s airing live over the airwaves, an act that in and of itself seems more commercial than I perceive punk rockers would
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While it’s hard to imagine Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out) being made without the success of Halloween (1978), it was supposedly written before Halloween was released. At some point in the 1970s, director Lewis Jackson smoked a little weed and had a vision of Santa Claus holding a knife. This became the basis
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The fundamental requirement for enjoying an atomic age horror/sci-fi film is suspension of disbelief. It’s not usually difficult for me to not only accept, but to also embrace, ridiculous scientific actions and nonsensical reactions. However, every once in a while, I see a movie that strikes me as so silly, I can’t see beyond them.
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Who’s heard of the movie, Z.P.G. (1972)? I never had until I gazed upon the groovy cover art on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray release, read a quick synopsis on IMDb, and then promptly purchased it. Having finally watched it (I needed a “Z” for the Countdown to Halloween, you know), I can report what a
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For all intents and purposes, You’ll Like My Mother (1972) is an early 70s television movie of the week thriller… except that it’s not really. It received a theatrical release. With the exception of the subject matter for one particular scene, though, there’s no reason I know that it shouldn’t have been made for the
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Since I take every chance I can to defend the appearance of the bird that’s as big as a battleship in The Giant Claw (1957), it would be hypocritical of me to criticize the kaiju, Guilala, in The X from Outer Space (1967). Therefore, let me just get it out of the way. The appearance
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At 63 minutes, the theatrical version of The Wasp Woman (1959) is perfectly efficient with its storytelling, and that story is perfectly simple. It’s the 23rd movie directed by Roger Corman, who also makes a cameo appearance as a doctor at the hospital, and I’d say his creative machine was firing on all cylinders. It’s
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The way that The Vampire & the Ballerina (1960) begins, you’d think we were going to experience a standard vampire tale. Brigida, a pretty young farm girl, is pursued by a shadowy figure as she returns from fetching water. A caped figure overcomes her and some men later find her lying in the woods, “the
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Although one of its producers is Milton Subotsky, it’s not an Amicus Production. Nevertheless, The Uncanny (1977) would fit nicely among the studio’s horror anthologies. A Canadian/British co-production, the movie was made three years after Amicus had transitioned from anthologies to adventure films like The Land that Time Forgot (1974) and At the Earth’s Core
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There’s no reason I should have any fondness for Teenage Zombies (1959), a movie that, perhaps not surprisingly, does not feature any teenage zombies. Well, two young women do become under the influence of an experimental gas that causes them to stand speechless for a few minutes. Somehow, though, I enjoyed it. It’s not a
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