Year: 2023

Sorry about the late post. Frankly, I overslept a little this morning and didn’t have time to post before I left to work. The reason I overslept is that I *gasp* not only saw a movie in a theater yesterday, I saw two movies in a theater yesterday. For those who don’t know, I…

Although Mr. Gordon’s work in the 1960s often involved the macabre, he was definitely straying from his giant monster work of the 1950s. The ‘60s saw a kiddie film, a ghost story, a TV pilot built around that ghost story, a kid-oriented sword and sorcery flick, another TV pilot ripping off My Favorite Martian,…

Following 1960, Bert I Gordon slowed down production a bit. He seems to have spent a hunk of the next couple of years, for instance, trying to break into syndicated TV.  In 1961, for instance, he hired Vincent Price as the host for the television pilot Famous Ghost Stories. In this, Mr. Price introduced…

After the frenzy of releasing six special effects-driven movies in two years, Bert I Gordon actually took a year off. In 1960 his work returned to the screen, via the kiddie movie (and his first color film) The Boy and the Pirates. We actually watched that on an Amazon Watch Party several months back.…

Bert I Gordon wrapped up his streak of six films released in two years with 1958’s The Spider (aka Earth vs the Spider, as it was known to us young TV viewers back in the day). This is my favorite of Mr. Gordon’s movies. Indeed, as I have noted in the past, I like…

Mr BIG returned to form with his one sequel, War of the Colossal Beast, sort of a mash-up of Amazing Colossal Man and The Cyclops. There's a really good remastered copy on YouTube, for those who want to give it a look. Clocking in at a lean 69 minutes (including flashbacks from the first…

Following The Amazing Colossal Man, Mr. BIG switched things up (sorta) by putting out a movie about smallified people rather than embiggoned ones. However, as this follows the path set down by Dr. Cyclops, it also features the doll-sized folk being menaced by a (comparatively) gigantic regular man and dog. Therefore, the difference is…

Back to Bert I Gordon tomorrow. Actually, I was planning to substitute Magic Sword for the Watch Party last Friday, in honor of Mr. Gordon. However, I checked the print on Amazon Prime and it was awful. So back to the long delayed Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf. And great timing, because…