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RvB's After Images: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
Filed under: Comic/Superhero/Geek », After Image »
NASA's Phoenix lander has its rendezvous with Mars, and that, as well as the upcoming Puerto Rican primary, gives a torn-from-today's-weblogs quality to this purported horror film, aka'd both as Mars Attacks Puerto Rico and Mars Invades Puerto Rico. But Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster is a film for all seasons anyway. Lou Cutell's alienating Doctor Nadir (above) in bald wig, goblin ears, and loads of clown white makeup, isn't even the most uncanny part of this particularly inexpensive sci-fi epic, which pits a disfigured robot Frankenstein against the gorilla-suited, skull-headed Mull: a sort of an alien attack dog.
Made by Robert Gaffney, a long-time second-unit director for Kubrick (this piece from dvdtalk.com considers Gaffney's career), FMTSM is a good-looking li'l crapburger. It's remembered fondly for Mull, and the hoity-toity aliens who keep him on a leash. Recently at the Super-Con in San Jose, I saw two separate TV horror hosts on a panel endorsing FMTSM as their favorite bad film. Could it give Plan Nine From Outer Space a run for its money? Hard to say, but it shares four essential qualities of Plan Nine; four things that may be completely necessary to the making of a memorable turkey. You've heard it said that it's as hard to make a bad movie as it is to make a good one. Fair enough: there are plenty of filmmakers out there who want to work hard making a bad movie.
Top Ten Horror DVDs of the Year (...ok, 20)
Filed under: Horror », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Home Entertainment », Remakes and Sequels », Best/Worst »
My good pals over at DVDTalk.com have a horror division that's called (cleverly enough) DVDStalk.com, and it's there you'll find the latest reviews of the newest horror DVDs. (And on a weekly basis, too. These guys aren't lazy.) So to commemorate the end of another year, the DVDStalk managers decided to cobble together a nifty little list of the year's finest horror DVDs. And because it was so darn fun, they decided to throw another ten discs into the mix.Their rankings are awarded by measure of A) movie quality, B) audio/video presentation, and C) quantity/quality of supplemental materials -- and since the DVD(S)Talk.com crew* reviews pretty much every platter that hits the streets, you can trust their expertise where digital excellence is concerned. (You might not agree with their picks, but it's a solid pair of lists all the same.)
Movies/DVDs earmarked for year-end accolades include camp classics like Tromeo & Juliet, Street Trash and Magic; recent splat-fests like Slither and The Hills Have Eyes; catalog re-issues for Black Christmas, Elm Street and the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacres; and TV goodies like Medium, Supernatural and (of course) Masters of Horror. (And yes, I've saved a few surprises for you, but I knew what the #1 pick would be -- and I love it.)
Plus the gang threw some love towards Event Horizon, and that just makes me smile.
[*Full disclosure: I am a staff writer at DVDTalk, so feel free to take all the nice things I just said with a grain of salt. Still an awesome website, though. Nyeah.]
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