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April 12th, 2013: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

Apr12 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged adults playing teens, AIP, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, DDT, Drive-In, gym, high school, James H. Nicholson, low-budget, music summons the monster, musical interlude, rip-off, rock and roll, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Science!, scientists, teachers, teens

April 5th, 2013: Teenage Caveman (1958)

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Black and White, Coming of Age, Drama, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "And I would have gotten away with it...", "it was the future all along", adults playing teens, AIP, bad special effects, before they were famous, cave, cavemen, Drive-In, futures past, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, low-budget, Malibu Pictures, Robert Vaughn, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, teens, terrible bear suit, twist

October 15th, 2012: Matango aka Attack of the Mushroom People

Oct15 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Drama, Horror, Killer Plants, Movie of the Day Tagged addiction, AIP, Akira Kubo, allegory, Eiji Tsuburaya, fungi, hallucinations, Hiroshi Koizumi, insanity, Ishiro Honda, it's not over, James H. Nicholson, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, lone survivor, movie stars, mushrooms, musical interlude, radiation, sailors, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shipwrecks, Takeshi Kimura, temptation, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, transformations, twist, William Hope Hodgson

August 20th, 2012: The Haunted Palace (1963)

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2 Comments Posted in Horror, Adaptation, Possession, Cults, Monster, Gothic Horror, Movie of the Day, Based on a Short Story(ies), Based on a Poem Tagged AIP, cash-in, Charles Beaumont, cursed town, Debra Paget, Edgar Allan Poe, Elisha Cook Jr., H.P. Lovecraft, James H. Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr., Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Vincent Price, warning from beyond the grave

July 5th, 2012: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

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Leave a comment Posted in Comedy, Espionage, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, Spoof Tagged adults playing teens, AIP, androids, Anette Funicello, Beach Movies, Drive-In, Frankie Avalon, Harvey Lembeck, James H. Nicholson, Les Baxter, Norman Taurog, Samuel Z. Arkoff, secret agent, sexy robots, stock footage, teens, The Supremes, Vincent Price

July 1st, 2012: Wild in the Streets (1968)

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2 Comments Posted in Black Comedy, Comedy, Dark Future, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Drive-In, musical interlude, double cross, teens, secret police, children of famous people, it's not over, before they were famous, cameos, generation gap, AIP, corrupt politicians, Ed Begley, Paul Frees, revolution, concentration camp, politician, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Hal Holbrook, James H. Nicholson, Les Baxter, Shelley Winters, Richard Pryor, LSD, musicians, Senator, Barry Shear, old men, political group, Robert Thom, Millie Perkins, Larry Bishop, Dick Clark, Bill Mumy, Bobby Sherman, Peter Tork, Barry Williams, Walter Winchell

April 5th, 2012: It Conquered the World

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Black and White, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged "hell hath no fury", AIP, alien ultimatum, aliens as Communism allegory, allegory, bad special effects, Beverly Garland, burning, cash-in, cave, Charles B. Griffith, Cold War, Dick Miller, goofy monster suit, James H. Nicholson, Jonathan Haze, Lee Van Cleef, Lou Rusoff, low-budget, mind control, Peter Graves, rip-off, Roger Corman, Sally Fraser, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, Venus

October 7th, 2011: Masque of the Red Death (1964)

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Leave a comment Posted in Revenge, Period Film, Horror, Adaptation, Remake, Cults, Gothic Horror, Movie of the Day, Based on a Short Story(ies) Tagged AIP, Britain, burning, Charles Beaumont, corruption, Drive-In, dual role, Edgar Allan Poe, Hazel Court, Italy, James H. Nicholson, Little People, low-budget, masquerade, Nicholas Roeg, Patrick Magee, plague, Red Death, reused sets, Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, satanism, secret identity, Skip Martin, twist, Vincent Price

June 24th, 2011: Invasion of the Saucer Men

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Comedy, Horror, Independent, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Spoof, The Original Tagged "Nobody Here but Us Monsters", AIP, alcoholic, boy who cried wolf, Drive-In, Edward L. Cahn, flying saucers, Frank Gorshin, James H. Nicholson, low-budget, rednecks, Samuel Z. Arkoff, teens

April 28th, 2011: The Dunwich Horror (1970)

Apr28 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Based on a Short Story(ies), Cults, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day Tagged AIP, cash-in, Curtis Hanson, damned tome, Dean Stockwell, Drive-In, Ed Begley, H.P. Lovecraft, James H. Nicholson, Les Baxter, Lloyd Bochner, Lovecraftian, rip-off, Roger Corman, Sam Jaffe, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Sandra Dee, Talia Shire

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