(1943) dir. Roy William Neill
viewed: 10/30/09
The “B” side to The Wolf Man (1941) DVD was the film’s apparent follow-up, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, possibly the first of the “…Meets the…” movies, teaming up more than one monster at a time (my guess, not based on evidence). Oddly enough, I had some other sequels to Frankenstein [...]
Archive of entries posted on October 2009
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
The Wolf Man
(1941) dir. George Waggner
viewed: 10/30/09
Well, the halloween spirit and our adventures in the “classics” of Hollywood monster movies brought us to The Wolf Man, oddly enough another story that the kids didn’t exactly know. And truth be told, of all of the old films that we’ve watched, The Wolf Man was one that I really [...]
Show Me Love
(1998) dir. Lukas Moodysson
viewed: 10/29/09
This Swedish lesbian coming-of-age film, I’m not sure exactly how it came into my queue, though it was in relationship to Let the Right One In (2008), “the Swedish vampire movie” in that it’s a “coming of age” film with a sweetness to it. Sounds like a Netflix recommendation. But I think [...]
The Girlfriend Experience
(2009) dir. Steven Soderbergh
viewed: 10/26/09
There was a period, right after director Steven Soderbergh had released Schizopolis (1996), Out of Sight (1998), and The Limey (1999), that I thought he was the most under-rated director in Hollywood, reeking of promise. Of course, that is when a great deal of the media picked up the same belief, [...]
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
(2008) dir. Mark Hartley
viewed: 10/19/09
This film just blew through town a couple weeks ago, and it got covered a fair amount in the local rag. It seemed interesting and fun, and it brought to mind a little documentary extra that I saw when at the end of the DVD for Lady Terminator (1984), which was about [...]
Them!
(1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
viewed: 10/16/09
The first of the “big bug” monster movies, and apparently one of the first monster movies that stemmed the origin of the monster from nuclear radiation, Them! is a recognizable classic in 1950’s B-movie horror. It’s funny, but growing up with a particular penchant for these films, I had my group [...]
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
(2008) dir. Sacha Gervasi
viewed: 10/12/09
While many reviewers referred to Anvil! The Story of Anvil as a real life This is Spinal Tap (1984), and while there is a modicum of truth there, the story of the Canadian heavy metal band Anvil is really something much more substantial than just some cheap laughs at the lovable [...]
From Beyond
(1986) dir. Stuart Gordon
viewed: 10/10/09
H.P. Lovecraft was not really ever recognized in his time, but somewhere along the 20th Century, he was brought back to culture, and then eventually came to have a huge influence on the culture of Horror writing and filmmaking, both in adaptations, concepts, and style. Yet, he’s still on the obscure [...]
Night of the Demon
(1957) dir. Jacques Tourneur
viewed: 10/10/09
One of those movies that I’d wanted to see for years and for reasons impossible to understand, I never did until now. Director Jacques Tourneur is one of my favorites, noted mostly in his pairing with producer Val Lewton, but he made a number of the most haunting horror films (Cat [...]
Zombieland
(2009) dir. Ruben Fleischer
viewed: 10/09/09 at AMC Loews Metreon 16, SF, CA
I was up for a double feature of horror films, if not a triple feature (turned out “if not”), so after watching Paranormal Activity (2007), I turned into the next theater to watch Zombieland. The funny thing about Zombieland (and there are a few funny [...]
