Month: May 2013

We close out '70s Wolfmen Week with this oddity (which, unlike yesterday's subject, is available on DVD). Genre-crossing films were a lot rarer back then, although this film is a lot like Robert Quarry's Deathmaster, made during the same period only with werewolves instead of vampires.  The pace is pretty slow and the scenes…

Oddly, I couldn't find a good color still of this. This seems like the old Sam Arkoff sort of thing, where they thought of a title and then made the movie around it. For all that, it's pretty good. It really is a very traditional wolf man movie, with the guy (Kerwin Matthews, Harryhausen's…

Take that, Nixon!

The prime time movies of the week back in the '70s tended to be pretty solid. The studios supplying the networks eventually fed the maw by creating TV movie units. Like the B-movie units the studios ran back in the '40s, these churned out films that were generally inexpensive and derivative but also professionally…

So, '70s wolf man week, because...I don't know, I found five pictures? Sure, why not. I don't recall this as being any great shakes--we wait until the end to see the werewolf, and as you'll note, he was pretty minimalist--but the cast was typically fantastic (for us old fart character actor fans), and like…

So...many...puns! I think Sandy went for the Hydra, but this is my favorite beastie from the movie.

Sandy and his son Arthur and I watched this after the Fest, before I left Dallas. Sandy and I had both seen this in the theater back in the day. It's not up there with Harryhausen's films, but it holds up quite well in a cheesy sort of way. (Although Sandy was highly amused…