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Movies Seen Recently: Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Big Gundown, It’s Alive
Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) – Yeah, yeah, big B-movie guy who never watched this before, sue me. It’s obvious that none of the people involved in creating this… thing (all marshaled together by writer/director/producer/star Harold P. Warren) had never made a movie before. It’s also a supportable contention that none of them had…
Things I Learned at FanX.
Well, not just at FanX, but it did drive the education home: Sometimes I’m just too clever for my own good. My latest poster, Clan of the Cave Mouse, got absolutely no attention. Partly that was because the prints I got from a local print shop were a lot darker than the image looks on…
FanX Stalking Guide
So hey! If you’re planning to attend the FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (aka The Artist Formerly Known As Salt Lake Comic Con) this Thursday through Saturday, you can catch me in all of my caffeinated glory. I’m on the following panels: Aliens & UFOs 101: The Truth is Out There :: 250A Daniel Bishop,…
Movies Seen Recently: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four, Avengers: Infinity War
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) – And how, you may ask, does Larry Talbot, the ill-fated Wolf Man, return for his first sequel after dying at the end of the original? Simple: He can’t die! No, really — even after a silver bullet dispatched him, all it takes is for the full moon to…
Movies Seen Recently: Graveyard Shift, Florence Foster Jenkins, Vampire Doll
Graveyard Shift (1990) – There are so many unimpressive movie adaptations of Stephen King short stories that they can form a grading continuum. This one isn’t as bad as The Mangler (1995), but not as good as Children of the Corn (1984). The problem here is that the adapters obviously had to add things to…