Week 2 of Reader Revenge Month finds me covering movies of widely divergent genres and levels of quality:
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 on April 15, 2010 - 5:00 am
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I remember watching “Galaxy of Terror” with my neighbors years back. It was an interesting experience, especially in the strange, crackpot climax. The bit we had a good laugh with was when the guy (Sid Haig) gets a piece of his super ninja shuriken stuck in his arm and my neighbor yelled, “Cut off your arm, buddy!” When did just that, we all burst into laughter.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on April 15, 2010 - 5:46 am
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Super CRYSTAL ninja shuriken.
#3 by Blake on April 15, 2010 - 6:14 am
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I did appreciate that Corman didn’t go for the phallic-headed monsters in this one. I’m told that the sequel/follow-up to this film, Forbidden World, is a lot better.
#4 by El Santo on April 15, 2010 - 1:34 pm
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It does, however, have a phallic-headed monster.
#5 by The Mud Puppy on April 16, 2010 - 8:02 am
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I have an odd fondness for Galaxy of Terror, but it’s definitely a heavily flawed film. For one thing, I recall digging it a lot right up until the climax.
Even putting aside the fact that I tend to be a little skeeved out by films where all the women end up dead, the logic of the climax is all wrong.
My memory is a little hazy, but: Supposedly the Pyramid is there to serve as a test to determine who shall be the new Master, right? But originally it served as a tool to help the children of whatever species built it to face and overcome their fears. That’s all fine and dandy, as long as you ignore that it was hardly a fair test since nobody knew they’d be facing their fears made flesh so they could hardly have done anything but die uselessly, except for one huge problem:
The hero never faced his fears. He just didn’t apparently have any. The closest he came to facing his fears was when the Master threw everybody elses’s fears at him. The only person who actually faced his fear and successfully overcame it was Robert Englund’s character–and he just kind of disappears from the story after that. Seems like he should have been the choice to take over as Master, really.
#6 by Nathan Shumate on April 16, 2010 - 8:12 am
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Which would have been awesome.
I think the pyramid was designed mostly to test people whose fears came in the form of rubbery monster props.
Or maybe the hero’s fear was to be stuck in a dull, murky sci-fi adventure. He passed!
#7 by The Mud Puppy on April 16, 2010 - 8:42 am
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It’s also kind of amusing to see what the creature effects people could and could not pull off. The giant maggot and that adorable little skull-crushing bug monster were pretty impressive. Yet somehow they couldn’t pull off “tall guy in a monster suit with glowing eyes” to save their lives.
#8 by Blake on April 16, 2010 - 9:14 am
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i forget, what exactly did Robert Englund have to confront?
#9 by Nathan Shumate on April 16, 2010 - 9:19 am
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Himself. Or rather, a version of himself who fought better.
#10 by MatthewF on April 17, 2010 - 2:16 am
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This makes me imagine an alternate universe James Cameron, who never graduated from making these flicks and now spends his time bombarding the owners of the Ayslum with three hour scripts about blue aliens realising that race is less important than love, “yes James, but when will you finish Croctopus II?”
#11 by Nathan Shumate on April 17, 2010 - 6:59 am
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That’s the universe for me!
#12 by El Santo on April 18, 2010 - 2:22 pm
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Damn it, Matthew… Now you’ve got me pining over the non-existence of a lousy-ass monster movie called Croctopus in this version of the timestream.
#13 by MatthewF on April 19, 2010 - 10:02 am
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If you watch enough of those Crocodile, Octopus, Shark movies at three in the morning whilst drunk, you may wake up believing that you actually did see it.
#14 by KeithA on April 19, 2010 - 5:01 pm
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Having never seen Galaxy of Terror, I still have the benefit of judging it on the title and poster alone, which means it is the greatest movie ever made