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Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 4

Nov29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Aliens, Animation, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Camp, Comedy, Dracula, Family, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Made for TV, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Short, Silent, Slasher, Space Travel, Thriller Tagged "homage is French for rip off", Brian Cox, Britain, cartoon, Donald Pleasence, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Klaus Kinski, London, meta, Peter Cushing, Porky Pig, rip-off, sylvester cat

The Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 3

Nov3 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Aliens, Comedy, Ghost, Holiday, Horror, Independent, Lists, Mad Scientist, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reboot, Remake, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Slasher, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Spoof, Thriller, Time Travel, Zombies Tagged audiobook, Bela Lugosi, Britain, brothers, California, Canada, cartoon, Chris Hemsworth, Danny McBride, Disney, dogs, epistolary novel, Friday the 13th, George Zucco, Halloween, haunted house, homage, hotel, intelligent zombies, island, Italy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeff Bridges, John Carradine, Judy Greer, Mexico, Nevada, radiation, radiation mutation, rape, rip-off, Scarlett Johansson, sister, tool using zombies, TV special, Umberto Lenzi, virus zombies, Voodoo, yacht

December 29th, 2014: Solaris (1972)

Dec29 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in "Foreign Film", Adaptation, Aliens, Arthouse, Based on a Book, Drama, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Space Travel, Speculative Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Cosmonauts, Mosfilm, Russia, Soviet Union, space exploration, space station, Stanislaw Lem

December 17th, 2014: Repo Man (1984)

Dec17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Comedy, Espionage, Independent, Movie of the Day, Satire, Sci-Fi Tagged Alex Cox, children of famous people, covenience store robbery, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, homage, Iggy Pop, Michael Nesmith, Miguel Sandoval, punks, repo men, revolutionaries, robbery, robbery gone wrong, scientists, secret agent, secret military project, secret police, Sy Richardson, teens, televangelists, television, Tracey Walter, UFO, Vonetta McGee

December 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars

Dec4 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Foreign Film", Aliens, Arthouse, Black and White, Drama, Event Film, Fantasy, Issue Film, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Propaganda, Sci-Fi, Silent, Space Travel Tagged aliens as monarchist allegory, allegory, aristocracy, Communism, engineers, extraterrestrial radio signals, king, Mars, Queen, Radio, revolution, Soviet, Soviet Union, Soviets, space exploration, workers

October 30th, 2014: The War of the Worlds (1953)

Oct30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Aliens, Based on a Book, Based on a Radio Show, Event Film, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original, War with Aliens Tagged "germs kill the monster", Air Force, Ann Robinson, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Sound Recording Nominee, Best Special Effects, Byron Haskins, Cecil B. DeMille, Cedrick Hardwicke, force field, Gene Barry, George Pal, H.G. Wells, Les Treymane, Mars, Martians, mob, nuclear weapons, Paramount Pictures, Paul Frees, riot, scientists, square dance, stock footage, U.S. Army

October 8th, 2014: Aliens (1986)

Oct8 by Professor Mortis

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5 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Aliens, Event Film, Horror, Last Stand, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Thriller, War Movies Tagged "nuke 'em from orbit", 20th Century Fox, androids, before they were famous, Best Actress Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Effects Best Visual Effects, Best Effects Sound Effects Editing, Best Film Editing Nominee, Best Original Score Nominee, Best Sound Nominee, Bill Paxton, double cross, evil businessman, feral child, Gale Ann Hurd, homage, it's not over, James Cameron, James Horner, Jeanette Goldstein, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, mumbldypeg, nightmares, nuclear power plant, nuke, parasite, Paul Reiser, space colony, space marine, Stan Winston, the company, The Marines, traumatized children, Walter Hill

October 3rd, 2014: Chôjikû Yôsai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka aka SDF-1 Macross: Do You Remember Love? aka Macross: The Movie aka Macross in Clash of the Bionoids

Oct3 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Adaptation, Adventure, Aliens, Animation, Anime, Based on a TV Show, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Remake, Romance, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good, War Movies, War Soap Opera, War with Aliens Tagged alcoholic, Bad Dubbing, cash-in, clones, Japan, love triangle, Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS), mecha, music calms the savage beast, musical interlude, protoculture, quotably bad dialogue, singer, space cannon, spaceship crash, stilted dialogue, transformable robot, war of the sexes

July 25th, 2014: Mekagojira no Gyakushu aka Terror of Mechagodzilla

Jul25 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Dinosaurs, Drama, Event Film, Kaiju, Melodrama, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Tragedy, War with Aliens Tagged "I can't love you, "sound defeats the monster", Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, aliens from a dying world, Bad Dubbing, black hole, cuts in U.S. version, cyborg, daughter, dinosaurs, disgraced scientist, father, father-daughter relationship, femme fatale, Godzilla, Godzilla noir, gojira, Goro Mutsumi, Henry G. Saperstein, I'm a cyborg", Interpol, Ishiro Honda, Japan, JDF, Kenji Sahara, mad scientist, Mechagodzilla, prison, prison break, prisoner, scientists, silver space man jumpsuit, sonar, sonic weapon, submarine, suicide, superhero Godzilla, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

June 24th, 2014: Invasion of the Saucer Men

Jun24 by Professor Mortis

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5 Comments 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

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