Category: Movie Discussions
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War Between the Planets (1966)
Well, I couldn’t have been any more wrong about what I thought the next movie in the “Gamma 1 Quadrilogy” was going to be, at least as far as the characters established in the two previous movies. Say goodbye to Cmdr. Mike Halstead (Tony Russel) and Lt. Connie Gomez (Lisa Gastoni); we hardly got to…
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The War of the Planets (1966)
Wow, talk about being disappointed. After my surprise affection for The Wild, Wild Planet, my expectations for the second film in the “Gamma 1 Quadrilogy” were way too high. My smile after seeing the familiar spinning space station, and realizing Tony Russel and others were reprising their roles, soon turned to a frown because as…
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The Wild, Wild Planet (1966)
There’s a lot to love about The Wild, Wild Planet (1966), and I love a lot about it. From the opening shot of a futuristic city with miniature vehicles on the road and rockets launching, I knew the movie was going to be fun. Sure, the special effects are simple, but they’re not terrible. In…
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Night of the Lepus (1972)
There was a time I wouldn’t have considered giving Night of the Lepus (1972) a higher-than-average (or even average) rating. My memory of it was that it was boring, featuring endless scenes of giant rabbits bouncing across the countryside in slow motion. It’s still no masterpiece, but when I re-watched it recently, I was surprised…
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Night Monster (1942)
For a 73-minute movie, Night Monster (1942) has a lot happening! In fact, it took a while for me to get acclimated and understand exactly what was happening. The cast is large, and the set-up is complicated. It left me a little tired, just like I imagine the actors felt each time they ran up…
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The Land Unknown (1957)
After descending through a thick fog in Antarctica and landing a damaged helicopter in a crater where the temperature is 91 degrees, one of the characters in The Land Unknown (1957) asks, “Can you tell where we got hit?” Since the movie was recorded on a Saturday night, Svengoolie interrupts to answer, “Yeah, in the…
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Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
When the Video Warehouse in Chanute, Kansas, was one of the locations I managed in the 1990s, I distinctly remember two movies we could not keep on the shelf. These were not blockbuster titles by any means, so it was always odd for me at the time when someone asked about Embrace of the Vampire…
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I Saw What You Did (1965)
Great idea; poor execution. What could go wrong with a film about teenagers making prank phone calls and accidentally telling an actual murderer, “I saw what you did, and I know who you are?” Unfortunately, in the screenplay for the movie, I Saw What You Did (1965), enough goes wrong that I didn’t really like…
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Night of the Creeps (1986) starts strong. In glorious black and white, an alien (“that experiment”) escapes its spaceship and crashes on Earth near “Sorority Row,” circa 1959. At a nearby make-out spot, Johnny (Ken Heron) and Pam (Alice Cadogan) witness the crash and investigate. Meanwhile, the radio reports that a criminally insane man has…
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Chopping Mall (1986)
There’s not much I feel like I can write about Chopping Mall (1986.) My instinct is to say it’s just good, dumb fun. But you know what? It’s not really dumb at all. For a movie about robot security guards at a mall that are called “Protectors,” and that a character says look like the…
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