In this Spanish/German/Italian film, a detective’s investigation turns up a plot by aliens to revive and duplicate earth’s most famous monsters in order to conquer the planet. Originally released as Los Monstruos del Terror and under various titles in translation, it eventually came to be another Dracula vs Frankenstein, perhaps in order to cash in on the cult success of Adamson’s movie. Alas, the vampire in this film isn’t Count Dracula, and he doesn’t fight Frankenstein’s Monster, who does, however, duke it out with star werewolf, Waldemar Daninsky.
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October Discussion: Dracula vs Frankenstein (1969)
The third (as of this writing) Dracula vs Frankenstein fell to Spain, and cult/exploitation director Jesús Franco.
Shot around the same time as Adamson’s film, this one is also a loose sequel to Franco’s Dracula, Christopher Lee’s non-Hammer excursion as the vampire lord.
Although released before the others, it didn’t receive the title until later in its history.
Teaser Trailer for Logan
The latest (and presumably last) Wolverine movie is coming out next March. The scale and scope of this one seems very personal (helped along by some nice Johnny Cash music).
And who doesn’t want a road trip movie with Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart?
A First Look at Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
The team is back for more fun.
October Review: Shin Godzilla (2016)
It’s a new era for the Big G in Japan. There’s a new Emperor, and with that usually comes a changing of the continuity and a changing the tone of the series. This week the latest Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla, has gotten a limited release in the US. I saw today, and it’s time to give my thoughts. Continue reading →
Daredevil (2003) – Silver Screen Superheroes #46
The latest topic in Silver Screen Superheroes is Daredevil (2003), starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.
October Review: The Blair Witch (2016)
October falls again! Expect polychromatic corn, terrifying masks, and (this year) a spike in the sale of cornhusk-colored wigs and pumpkin-colored foundation. And expect the Bureau to run reviews of horror movies old and new, counting down to the haunted thirty-first.
We’re beginning with a release from this autumn, a sequel to the film that initiated the found-footage horror genre, and demonstrated the power of the internet to convince people horrific fantasy was real.1 And that sequel begins with evidence that Heather Donahue did not die those twenty years ago…
Our full schedule for October appears below.
Weekend Review: The Green Slime (1968)
We’ll get you something new next weekend when our annual October Countdown begins. Specifically, we’ll have a review of The Blair Witch, currently shaking up theatre audiences.
For now, with summer ’16 just gone and the horrors of the Presidential Debate nigh, we present one more retro review, from a more innocent time.
This film holds a strange place in the history of SF cinema. Made in Japan with a non-Japanese cast, The Green Slime plays like the love child of Star Trek and a 1950s drive-in movie creature feature, presages (and possibly helped inspire) Armageddon and Alien, and was the basis of Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s unaired pilot episode.
That’s probably all you need to know but, if you want more, read on.
“Green Lantern” (2011): Silver Screen Superheroes #45
The next episode of “Silver Screen Superheroes” covers Green Lantern (2011) and is available for download here.
Weekend Review: Marooned (1969)
Some people divide 1960s SF into 2001: Space Odyssey and Everything Else: A Cheesy Outing. One exception came along in 1969. Marooned features A-list actors and production values.
A few months before Apollo 13, the theatres ran a movie in which American astronauts, returning from a very-near-future space station, must inform Houston that they have a problem.