A little fin de siècle science fiction, from the great-granddaddy of the fantasy film:
FROM THE VAULT
- Rosemary's Exorcist — posted by lyzard on August 28, 2010
- Ever wonder what we would consider to be a bad Bollywood film? — posted by KeithA on September 4, 2008
- Czechs in Space! — posted by KeithA on July 10, 2009
- God bless those pagans… — posted by lyzard on May 14, 2009
- Your Blast from the Past — posted by KeithA on August 26, 2011
Pages
- About the Cabal
- Full Index of Reviews
- Roundtables
- 01: Brainathon ’99
- 02: Bangs'n'Whimpers
- 03: Post-Apocalypso
- 04: Review All Monsters
- 05: Pretty Mad Scientists
- 06: Tainted Love
- 07: Days of Future Past
- 08: Secret Santa
- 09: Catch a Throwing Star
- 10: Four-Color Features
- 11: Big Bugs
- 12: Fish With Bicycles
- 13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
- 14: paLe IMITATIONS
- 15: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Roundtable
- 16: Whoa… Deja Vu.
- 17: Month of the Living Dead
- 18: B-Masters Beach Party
- 19: Kinji Fukasaku – The Man No Genre Could Tame.
- 20: Home Video Holocaust – The Video Nasties
- 21: Father Dearest: Who's Your Daddy?
- 22: So Sorry…
- 23: Back to the Well
- 24: Another Month of the Living Dead
- 25: The Ottoman Empire Strikes Back
- 26: Rubber Soul
- 27: Shhhhhh
- 28: Month of the Alternative Living Dead
- 29: On Time & Under Budget
- 30: These Kids Today…
- 31: Mea maxima culpa
- 32: Stingathon ’09
- 33: 10,000 B.S.
- 34: Foot Notes
- 35: Don’t Touch That Dial!
- 36: He Conquered the World
- 37: Secret Santa’s Revenge
- 38: At the Movies of Madness
- 39: They Might Be Giants
- 40: The Other Elizabeth Taylor
- 41: The Dark Guys of London
- 42: Falling Stars
- 43: To Be or Not To Be! (Pilot Error)
- 44: Teeth and Tentacles
- 45: Brunoween
- 46: Howl of the B-Masters
- 47: It’s Alive!
- 48: Bad, Black and Beautiful
- 49: Don’t Quit Your Day Job
- 50: B-Mentia 15
- 51: Quelle Horreur!
- 52: Carradine, Thou Wayward Son!
- 53: Tall, Dark and Gruesome
- 54: Pets Gone Wild
- 55: The Bad Place
- 56: From The Bible To Barbarella
- 57: A Fistful Of Pennies
- 58: Hello, Dolly
- 59: No, Not That One!
- 60: Dr Terror’s House Of Honours
- 61: WTF!?
- 62: In The Key Of B
- 63: The Forgotten Dawn Of Horror
- 64: The Most Dangerous Roundtable
- 65: Room For One More
- 66: Were-WHAT?
- 67: The China Anniversary Syndrome
- 68: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 2
- 69: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 3
- 70: The China Anniversary Syndrome: Part 4
- The Links We Love
#1 by Blake Matthews on August 10, 2008 - 11:12 am
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I really liked “A Trip to the Moon”. It struck me on first viewing as a precursor to platformer video games. I also must agree that the pictures of Giant of the Ice and the Man in the Moon are absolutely unforgettable. I saw them in monster movie books back in the 3rd grade and have never forgotten them.
#2 by lyzard on August 11, 2008 - 3:43 am
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There was a still of the Ice Giant in one of the first film books I ever owned – incredible to think it took me about thirty years to actually see the film!
#3 by Blake Matthews on August 11, 2008 - 6:45 am
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It wasn’t “Monsters from the Movies” by Thomas Aylesworth by any chance was it? (that’s the one I have).
#4 by El Santo on August 11, 2008 - 9:01 am
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It took me about 25 years to get a crack at The Hands of Orlac. For that matter– and this is almost embarrassing– I spent about 20 years on the hunt for a movie that turned out to be Night of the Blood Beast. There was a picture of the creature in some book with a title like The A-Z of Movie Monsters, and at the age of ten or so, I thought it looked really cool. In case you fail to understand why that would be embarrassing, I hasten to remind you that the monster in Night of the Blood Beast is a humanoid parrot made out out of muddy burlap. It’s not quite as sad as the thing in Caltiki, the Immortal Monster, but it’s pretty close.
#5 by Chad R. on August 11, 2008 - 6:27 pm
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It’s also the same “monster” from Teenage Caveman, but in that movie Corman tries to pass it off as a radiation suit.
#6 by supersonic on August 11, 2008 - 8:21 pm
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You make Méliès sound like a paleolithic Michael Bay.
#7 by supersonic on August 11, 2008 - 9:29 pm
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I just did, and I was unable to positively identify a single piece of North America seen from space, except under the space station was something that might have been the coast of Georgia and South Caroline. I am still trying to figure out what that body of water is in the very first space shot; it looks kind of like the Caspian Sea, kind of like the Gulf of Bothnia, kind of like the Adriatic Sea or the Persian Gulf… it doesn’t match any of them! It certainly isn’t Lake Michigan.
#8 by lyzard on August 11, 2008 - 9:51 pm
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I was referring to its “Americans only” potted history of flight and space travel. “Attitudes”, not visuals; sorry if that was unclear.
#9 by MatthewF on August 12, 2008 - 4:23 am
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“You make Méliès sound like a paleolithic Michael Bay”
Hey check out the deleted scenes in Armageddon, the dancing girls on the asteroid are pretty freaky. Seriously though I think that Melies would have been just as puzzeled about the demands for scientific accuracy as Michael Bay appears to be.
#10 by KeithA on August 12, 2008 - 3:28 pm
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My summary of the history of space travel:
Americans flew all over space and did amazing things, usualyl accompanied by sweet music. Russians sent a dog up, but it died, and then some cosmonauts got attacked by wolves so now they all carry sawed off shotguns. China sent some guy up there and he was sad he couldn’t see the Great Wall because he fell for that “big enough to be seen from space” urban legend. Then England brought back some space vampires, but it was cool because one of them was naked and totally hot. Although America sent many chimps into space,no one has sent full grown gorillas into space, but when they do, it’ll be awesome. The End.
#11 by Blake Matthews on August 12, 2008 - 3:52 pm
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Keith, you forgot to mention that the American space flights generally had wacky astronauts with names like Corky or Scooter on them. Oh, and that Korea had a space program so that it could spy on China and detect giant monsters.
#12 by lyzard on August 12, 2008 - 4:04 pm
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You can’t see the Great Wall of China from space, but you *can* see Brooklyn. Fact.
#13 by KeithA on August 12, 2008 - 8:08 pm
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Oh man, I forgot Corky the mechanic, just like he forgot there’s no gravity in space! Ha ha ha, oh Corky! Will you ever learn?
#14 by lyzard on August 12, 2008 - 9:47 pm
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You’d think he would, the way that crazy harmonica of his keeps floating away! Hi-LARIOUS!!
#15 by MatthewF on August 13, 2008 - 2:55 am
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You’re totally overlooking the fact that the Japanese regularly visited other planets in the 1960s, sadly proving themselves easily duped by aliens with cool looking wrap-around shades on.
#16 by KeithA on August 13, 2008 - 8:54 am
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Nah, the Japanese stuff was all faked on a soundtsage that was also being used to shoot Devo videos.
#17 by lyzard on August 13, 2008 - 2:07 pm
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Wait! You mean— All those sexy Japanese women were just….sexy Japanese women!?
#18 by MatthewF on August 14, 2008 - 2:59 am
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So, you’re saying that Godzilla is a man in a suit? Christ.
#19 by lyzard on August 14, 2008 - 2:14 pm
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GET HIM!! HE IS A BLASPHEMER!!
#20 by Blake Matthews on August 14, 2008 - 2:37 pm
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I know, might as well say that he enjoyed GINO (or ‘Zilla or whatever people call him now).
#21 by KeithA on August 14, 2008 - 3:57 pm
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No, Godzilla’s real. It’s a really big soundstage.
And to redeem myself somewhat — I’ve never even seen GINO. When it came out, I watched Godzilla vs. Megalon instead. Robert Dunham in a tiny tunic = Oo la la!
#22 by Joshua on August 15, 2008 - 6:25 am
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Y’know, I thought the Tristar Godzilla was pretty fun once I stopped thinking of the monster as *the* Godzilla; it works pretty well as just a giant monster movie.
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