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NBC has passed on a pilot based on the incredibly cool horror western comic The Sixth Gun. In a way, I'm relieved. In theory, there should have been no way they could have screwed the pooch no this. The comic itself is basically a long storyboard; all you have to do is film it.…
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Cool Kickstarter…

While we wait for Sandy to start his new Kickstarter for the board game version of his Cthulhu game (he ran a round of the prototype during T(ween) Fest weekend a few weeks ago, and it looked incredibly fun), there's this: Harbinger Down  Kickstarter A monster movie with all practical effects, AND to star…
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Monster of the Day #687
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Monster of the Day #687

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…
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Monster of the Day #686
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Monster of the Day #686

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…
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Monster of the Day #684
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Monster of the Day #684

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…
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Monster of the Day #683
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Monster of the Day #683

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…
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