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From another planet… sent to enslave mankind! A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to “help solve man’s problems”. However, it quickly becomes apparent the three-eyed, bat-winged, alien creature wants to destroy man. Director: Larry Buchanan Writers: Hillman Taylor, Larry Buchanan,...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s How this crispy-told beautifully-mounted character-driven western ever languished among the also-rans is beyond me. I suspect the specter of John Ford hung heavily over it in the eyes of critics at the time but it more correctly belongs to the cycle of Cecil...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Half a century ago it would have blasphemy to do anything but mock this oh-so-obvious James Bond rip-off. That was the year, if you remember, when another bigger-budgeted spoof, Casino Royale, took an almighty chunk out of the box office of You Only Live Twice. ...
In a post nuclear Earth, survivors are stuck in a valley and have to protect themselves from cannibalistic mutant human beings, and each other in some cases. Original title: In the Year 2889 AKA: The Day the World Ended (1967) Director: Larry Buchanan Writer: Harold Hoffman Stars: Paul Petersen, Quinn...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s You wouldn’t have figured Audrey Hepburn – she of the model looks (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961) and upmarket twang and belonging to the highest echelons of the movie business – for a Scream Queen. But there were precedents – Doris Day had at...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s I didn’t realise that the Prohibition gangsters who invented the drive-by shooting were perfectionists. Just to be make sure of completing the job, I found out here, they might send a dozen cars one after the other rolling past the chosen restaurant/cafe, machine...
Paolo is a documentary filmmaker on a mission to see the world and present human nature in its true and raw form, even pushing his crew to the limit to capture the brutality of a world gone mad even at the expense of safety and a moral price. Original title:...
Terror from the depths of hell! Various factions, including a half-breed bandit, a gang of homosexual cowboys, and a priest, feud over stolen gold in a surreal town. Original title: Se sei vivo spara Director: Giulio Questi Writers: Franco Arcalli, Giulio Questi, María del Carmen Martínez Román Casting: Tomas Milian,...
Navarro, an outlaw in the service of a certain Alvarez, kills Mr. Foster who had just concluded a deal with Alvarez for 100,000 dollars for a herd of horses. Django, son of Foster, intends to take revenge and recover the family money. Arriving in a village, he meets Navarro, and...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s So underrated it doesn’t even feature on Wikipedia’s chart of 1960s crime pictures, this tight little gem, with an early reflection on police brutality, dream cast, violence in slow motion (prior to The Wild Bunch, 1969, mind you) and stunning score from Jerry Goldsmith...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The second version of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral follows on from the Burt Lancaster-Kirk Douglas 1957 version also directed by John Sturges and precedes Doc (1971) reviewed yesterday. Good chance to compare the differing approaches. Destroy a legend at your peril. Mythic western...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Top-class cast and occasional stylish direction get in the way of a thriller that can’t make up its mind whether it is in reality just a spoof. On the one hand we have a killer in a white suit complete with straw boater...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s An absolute hoot – and I suspect deliberately so. Forget the spaghetti western tag, this is a black comedy – and wild at that. And while its most obvious antecedent is Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) it really belongs in a different...
On this episode of Weird Movies With Mark, I talk about Night Fright (1967) Credits Music by: OVERWERK Chapters: 0:00 Intro 2:35 Cheap Date 7:04 Sheriff Clint 8:08 Wes 9:47 No Dancing Allowed 11:32 He Called Me FUZZ 12:23 Special Delivery 13:12 You Gotta Eat Something 14:25 Gone Dancin’ 14:57...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Come the apocalypse, you’d want someone like Capt Ramsay (Neil Fletcher) in your corner. He’s not the kind to be surprised by the sudden onset of a nuclear holocaust. He’s prime boy scout – always prepared. Not only has he got three months...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Don’t get too hung up on the supposed rampant sexism in this third iteration the Matt Helm series. These women – bikini-clad or not – are weaponized to the hilt rather than our hero Matt Helm (Dean Martin) who has to make do...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Tarzan (Mike Henry) has been repurposed as an international adventurer dropped into trouble spots an ocean away from his African roots. He’s the male equivalent of the bikini-clad females peppering the espionage genre, kitted out in only a loincloth, torso kept bare for...
The nightmare terror of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a screaming world! Car headlights help a teen and his girlfriend save the world from flying-saucer alien “eye” creatures invade a small town. Director: Larry Buchanan Stars: John Ashley, Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack Genres: B movies, Cult Comedy,...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Takes considerable brass neck to treat master of the macabre Christopher Lee as nothing more than a red herring. A very slow slow-burn with a pinch of the vampiric, quartet of characters with a mysterious past, Grand Guignol Parisian setting, some decided sleight...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Had this emanated from France or Italy or arrived bearing an arthouse imprimatur it might well have gained some critical traction. Not just because it is as far from the screen persona of star Steve Cochran (Mozambique, 1964) as you could get, but...
Directed by Michael Reeves. With Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey and Ian Ogilvy. Find on this channel many different trailers from all around the world in the best quality. If you like this channel, don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe! 😉 HD Retro Trailers
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Aliens, would be your first guess these days should you happen upon strange disturbances emanating from underneath the earth’s surface, citing the examples of War of the Worlds or an iteration of Transformers, whereby creatures from outer space had remained dormant buried in our habitat for...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s The easiest ways to acquire cult status are a) to be impossible to find and b) in a genre piece add in the unexpected. In this case, although originally devised as the support feature to They Came from Beyond Space (1967), in an Amicus sci...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Shock beginning, shock ending. In between, while a rift on Stagecoach (1939/1966) – disparate bunch of passengers threatened by renegades – takes a revisionist slant on the western, with a tougher look at the corruption and flaws of the American Government’s policy to Native Americans....
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s A hoot. Definitely a contender for that most sought-after of categories – the cult movie. When I tell you it’s Vincent Price in a western you’ll see how much fun this could be. Price spent virtually a whole decade locked into horror typecasting,...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Woefully under-rated western with three A-list stars at the top of their game in a taut drama with an explosive ending. Not surprising it was overlooked at the time with John Wayne duo El Dorado and The War Wagon, Paul Newman as Hombre and an onslaught of spaghetti...
In a post nuclear Earth, survivors are stuck in a valley and have to protect themselves from cannibalistic mutant human beings, and each other in some cases. Director: Larry Buchanan Writer: Harold Hoffman Stars: Paul Petersen, Quinn O’Hara, Charla Doherty Genres: Classics, Cult, Horror, Sci-Fi , TV Survivors of a...
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s For a movie intended to set up a series character in the vein of James Bond, it was ironic that it was the women who stole the show, not just from their tendency to turn up in bikinis but for their outrageous villainy....
Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s If you’re familiar with the Amicus output from its portmanteau horror movies this excursion into sci fi might come as a surprise. On the other hand, should you be a fan of Dr Who you might well be acquainted with Amicus’s two excursions into this...
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Cyril Cusack. Find on this channel many different trailers from all around the world in the best quality. If you like this channel, don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe! 😉 HD Retro Trailers
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