Year: 2020

"No, no! "In" the pants! "In" the pants!" I remember watching Ants on TV when it premiered in 1977, although I only remember it taking place in a lodge and that all the advertising played up the fact that it 'starred' a suddenly famous Suzanne Summers, much like the TV premiere of Logan's Run…

  Might was well keep the theme going with a bit of a minor classic. Yep, it's Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling and the great Woody Strode. Content Warning: Spiders are clearly killed in the movie, so avoid if you find that sort of thing alarming. Otherwise, it's pretty great.

Yesterday I suggested giving The Bees a watch. I thought another killer animal film would be good for a weekend double bill. So how about Beaks, with Christopher Atkins working that Blue Lagoon heat. You can find it on YouTube by searching under Beaks 1987. I tried to think of a pithy way to…

One of the great recent finds at a T-Fest, courtesy of Sandy, was The Golden Bat, a 1966 crazy Japanese superhero movie that inspired near Ship or Monsters or Super Inframan levels of ecstasy.  And yept, it's on YouTube. Also, Japanese junk media archeologist Kenny Lauderdale today released a fascinating short history of the…

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…