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Grim and gross, the uncompromising The Beast Within is a quasi-werewolf story but featuring a cicada instead of a wolf. The lycanthropy arises from...
Produced by Bernard Woolner Written by Mark Hanna Directed by Nathan Hertz Starring Allison Hayes, William Hudson, Yvette Vickers, Roy Gordon, George Douglas, Ken...
A fair number of sci-fi and horror pictures in the 80s betray worries over television: it fools us, it makes us violent, it brainwashes...
After Joe Dante’s Gremlins became a surprise hit in summer 1984, it spawned a small but popular bunch of imitators. Like the gremlin creatures...
I thought it would be fun to list actors and actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood who are famous for dramas, comedies, or...
Because the 80s brought the beginning of the digital age, computer culture, synth music, and so much else that we associate with newness, it...
With Disneyland’s “Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror” reskinned as “Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout,” I fear that today’s kids will have less...
The most influential science fiction film of 1977 was obviously Star Wars, and you can check out my December 2015 FOG! column to read...
H.P. Lovecraft is often compared with Edgar Allan Poe: his works are inconsistent, overwrought, and redundant (which we tolerate) but also twisted, imaginative, and...
In my previous two columns (Read Part 1 / Read Part 2), I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The...
In my previous column, I introduced the subgenre of post-apocalyptic action films that pointedly imitated The Road Warrior. I listed the first five such...
Who doesn’t love the post-apocalyptic sci-fi films of the 1980s? If you define the subgenre broadly, you’ll count at least 100 such films. They...
In our first installment, we introduced blobs and British blob films (three films). Last installment, we listed blob films from the late 1950s into...
Last installment, we introduced blob monsters, and we listed the three British movies that initiated the blob movie tradition. This installment we’ll list the...
What exactly are blob movies? Do they count as monster movies? Or giant insect movies? Or disaster movies? Or something else? However you classify...
It’s been wonderful seeing the resurgence of 80s fantasy. Films that were critical and financial failures at the time – like Krull, Legend, or...
Last installment, I listed seven nutty devices from sci-fi films and serials released in the 1930s and 40s. As I stated last time, the...
Strange futuristic machines, robots, or vehicles are just what we mean when we say “science fiction.” They’re scientific rather than supernatural, they have some...
Sometimes, the best way to allay a fear is to confront it. In the early 1980s, in the midst of a Cold War that...
I’ve always liked Lou Ferrigno. He was born in Brooklyn, like my dad. He’s hard of hearing, like my wife. I loved him as...
Not until the mid-late 1950s did Hollywood realize there was a distinct teen audience for edgy genre films. Historians usually credit Samuel Z. Arkoff...
After you have a kid, you find yourself revisiting kids’ movies that you haven’t seen in 30, 35, or in my case sometimes 40...
In the previous installment, I treated anthology films released during the roughly 10-year period when England’s Amicus Productions reigned supreme. Amicus’s triumphs remain the...
Last installment, I covered anthology movies (which are almost invariably horror movies) from their 1920s beginnings up through Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath in 1963....