Richard Matheson scripted the entire miniseries adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, and the second part of the series aired on 28 January, 1980. The series aired on three consecutive nights. This episode, as hinted by the title follows the Earth settlers on Mars, and their encounters there with the remnants of the Martian…
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Curse of Chucky (2013) – Don Mancini
Child’s Play writer Don Mancini, who has penned all of the entries so far, continues to guide us through Chucky’s (voiced by Brad Dourif) murderous adventures. Like the previous entry, Seed of Chucky, he also directs this one. Curse of Chucky didn’t get a theatrical release; it was straight-to-video, the first in the series to…
House (1977) – Nobuhiko Obayashi
It took me forever to get around to seeing this one. And I openly admit to having built it up in my mind, and was worried that it wouldn’t stand up to what I thought it should be. And while it wasn’t really horrific, it was a laugh-out-loud horror film that plays as part satire,…
Get Smart (1968/1969) – One Nation Invisible, Hurray for Hollywood, and The Day They Raided the Knights
One Nation Invisible delivers another bit of domestic trouble story for Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) and 99 (Barbara Feldon). Written by Lloyd Turner and Gordon Mitchell, this episode was first broadcast on 28 December, 1968. Trouble arrives in the form of an invisible female doctor, Canyon (Lyn Peters). She arrives in Smart’s life as part…
Graveyard Shift (1990) – Ralph S. Singleton
It’s bad. It’s so bad. Graveyard Shift, based on th short story by Stephen King, has been dismissed by the author. It’s not as unnerving as the story, and it’s nowhere near as well-produced as it could have been. The only upside is that a lot of it was actually shot in Maine. It also…
Jumanji (1995) – Joe Johnston
I hadn’t seen this movie since I saw it in the theaters. I remember that it was on all the loop tapes we played in the video store I worked in. I saw the clips of the monkeys in the police car, and the animal stampede countless times, so much so that it almost overpowered…
The Beastmaster (1982) – Don Coscarelli
I remember seeing The Beastmaster back in the early 80s on one of the free First Choice/Super Channel weekends. I liked it a lot at ten years old, and hadn’t seen it since. So I was curious if I was going to enjoy it. The opening credits and title cards made me dubious, but over…
Clerks (1994) – Kevin Smith
I remember when Clerks came to VHS. I was working at a video store and it resonated with everyone of us. It was like someone had taken our lives and put it on the screen. We as a crew identified so much with the film that we’d printed up labels with our names on it…
If Looks Could Kill (1991) – William Dear
Richard Grieco takes on the super-spy genre in this teen action comedy. There are nods to the established tropes of the genre, filled with lots of teen humor. Grieco is Michael Corben. An almost high school graduate. He’s receives an incomplete. The only impossible way for him to get the missing credits… join the French…
Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024) – Brian Taylor
I love the character of Hellboy, both the cinematic and the source material brought to life in the Mike Mignola’s comic books. However, this time out, thanks to budget constraints, which directly impacted actors, effects, camera et. al. what fans are given feels like a fan-film and not a studio one. Set in the early…
The Mind Reels 