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May 29th, 2012: Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century (1977)

May29 by professormortis

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2 Comments Posted in Event Film, Family, Giant Apes, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Skippy the Wonder Dog", Canada, cash-in, dogs, double cross, Drive-In, frozen in ice, Gianfranco Parolini, industrial espionage, industrialist, Italy, Newfoundland, rip-off, scientists, suspended animation, teens, Toronto, Yeti

April 22nd, 2012: The Food of the Gods (1976)

Apr22 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Animals Attack, Based on a Book, Disaster, Ecological Disaster, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, The Original Tagged "this enormous X could feed the world", AIP, bad animation, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Belinda Balaski, Bert I. Gordon, Drive-In, evil businessman, farm, farmers, flood, football player, football team, freely adapted, giant chicken, giant maggots, giant rats, giant wasps, H.G. Wells, Ida Lupino, it's not over, John Cypher, Marjoe Gortner, Ralph Meeker, rats, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, shotgun, tunnel

April 17th, 2012: 28 Days Later (2002)

Apr17 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Apocalypse, Arthouse, Horror, Indy, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original, Zombies Tagged Alex Garland, attempted rape, Brendan Gleeson, Britain, British Film Council, Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, coma, Danny Boyle, deserted city, digital, homage, hospital, insanity, it's not over, land mines, London, low-budget, multiple endings, Naomi Harris, rip-off, scientists, virus zombies

April 10th, 2012: The Crazies (1973)

Apr10 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Disaster, Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, The Original, Thriller Tagged "too expensive to show", allegory, biological warfare, burning, Drive-In, fire, firefighters, George A. Romero, grindhouse, helicopter, high school, incest, insanity, it's not over, low-budget, Lynn Lowry, murder, National Guard, nurse, Pennsylvania, priest, pyromaniac, quarantine, rape, scientists, self immolation, small town, spineless bureacrats, suicide, town doctor, tragedy of errors, veteran, Vietnam allegory, Vietnam veterans

April 5th, 2012: It Conquered the World

Apr5 by professormortis

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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

March 30th, 2012: Re-Animator (1985)

Mar30 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black Comedy, Horror, Mad Scientist, Movie of the Day, The Original Tagged Barbara Crampton, Brian Yunza, Bruce Abbott, Charles Band, Dennis Paoli, Empire Pictures, evil cat, gore, grindhouse, H.P. Lovecraft, it's not over, Jeffrey Combs, low-budget, medical student, reanimation, Richard Band, roommate, scientists, Stuart Gordon

March 9th, 2012: Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Mar9 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Black and White, Crime, Detective, Espionage, Film Noir, Independent, Movie of the Day, Mystery Tagged Albert Dekker, before they were famous, Classical allusion, Cloris Leachman, detective, Ernest Laszlo, ethnic stereotype, femme fatale, Frank DeVol, hitchhiking, Jack Elam, low-budget, MacGuffin, mechanic, Mickey Spillane, Paul Stewart, Ralph Meeker, Robert Aldrich, scientists, Strother Martin, United Artists

March 7th, 2012: A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Mar7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Black Comedy, Crime, Dark Future, Juvenile Delinquent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Director Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Picture Nominee, brain washing, Britain, cops, corrupt cops, David Prowse, double cross, futures past, it's not over, Malcolm McDowell, Nazis, Patrick Magee, political group, priest, prison, rape, scientists, Stanley Kubrick, street gang, Warner Brothers

March 4th, 2012: Giant from the Unknown

Mar4 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in So-Bad-It's-Good, Sci-Fi, Western, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Independent Tagged Drive-In, low-budget, giant, the declining years, sheriff, archaeological dig, scientists, storm, Morris Ankrum, Jack P. Pierce, American Indian, Bob Steele, California, "Native American Face", geologist, conquistadors, Albert Glasser, Richard E. Cunha, suspended animation, archaeologist, "we don't like strangers in these parts", cattle mutilation

March 3rd, 2012: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Mar3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Dracula, Horror, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sequel, Slapstick, Spoof, Vampires, Werewolves Tagged Bela Lugosi, brain transplant, brains, Bud Abbott, children of famous people, delivery men, femme fatale, Frank Skinner, Glenn Strange, in over their heads, Invisible Man, it's not over, Larry Talbot, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello, musical interlude, scientists, Universal International Pictures, Universal Pictures, Vincent Price

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