Month: July 2020

Yesterday I featured the recent killer gator movie Crawl, which is available on both Hulu and Amazon Prime. Maybe you'd like to pair that one with a more old school example though. Prime has been, er, snapping up a multitude of killer gator/croc and shark movies, dozens of them. Most, obviously, are recent movies…

OK, this one is on both Amazon Prime and Hulu, so hopefully many of you could watch it. SYFY (ugh) managed to largely kill my lifelong love of killer animal movies, and many of the theatricals that they poor out--wow, they make a lot of shark movies--aren't really that much better. Well, OK, they…

Time to help a brother out. BChasm writes: "Hi Ken, attached is a picture of Satan, from the 1985 film "The Adventures of Mark Twain," directed by Claymation pioneer Will Vinton. Mr. Vinton's other credits include the Oscar winning short "Closed Mondays" (1974) and the excellent Claymation effects in "Return to Oz" (also from…

Horrible day. The last standing member of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Olivia De Havilland, has passed at the age of 104. A generation older than even the recently deceased Kirk Douglas, her death truly marks the end of an era. Also gone is John Saxon, one of cinema's most reliable B-movie actors. Unlike…

Certainly the lesser of the two '50s Brit sci-fi flicks Forrest Tucker starred in (obviously Crawling Eye is the other), this is one of those overly convoluted flicks that tosses a few too many elements in. However, basically it's a big bug flick. So you can't go too wrong there. On YouTube for free…

If you have a whole afternoon to blow this weekend, you could certainly do worse than to watch the Daimajin trilogy. All three films are (currently) available on YourTube with sweet widescreen subtitled versions. The films are pretty fun. Have a great, safe weekend everyone!

It's sad to think how few people are left who would go, "Ohhh, George Zucco and Glenn Strange?!" Anyway, the Cult Cinema Classics channel on YouTube had added 1942's The Mad Monster. I love the scene in this where Mad Scientist Zucco has an imaginary argument with The Science Council (you know, the guys…

Speaking of old school obscurities on Amazon Prime, they have The Ghoul. This never played on TV in Chicagoland when I was a kid, despite starring Boris Karloff. (Remember when Karloff and Lugosi were all over the airwaves? Remember airwaves?) That's probably because it was a British independent film and not made available in…

Amazon Prime week. The last couple of days we've looked at some AIP flicks there, but they also have some of the more little-seen '70s Hammer movies; Captain Kronos, Vampire Circus, and today's feature, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. That's the last of the Cushing Frankensteins, I think, and I've always heard pretty…