John Carradine had a long career, and appeared in many great movies. He seldom starred in them, however. Twenty years after a few memorable turns as Count Dracula, he reprised the role. Even better, he was the film’s star. Sadly, though, it’s not a great movie. There are no winners after the title match of Billy the Kid vs Dracula.
Ken Begg is the proprietor of Jabootu: The Bad Movie Dimension.
May 30
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And yes, this should have been my first Roundtable entry, but technology intervened…
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…in which a mad scientist transforms a female gorilla into an attractive young woman, as the first step in his quest to create a race of supermen.
Though overall this exercise in extremely mad science is spoilt by too much stock footage of circus animals being “trained”, John Carradine is a delight in his first ever genre film—which, as in his second genre film, finds his schemes being thwarted chiefly because he underestimates the female sex.
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!May 29
Albert Einstein as Cupid? That’s the premise for the romantic comedy I.Q., a thoroughly charming movie.
John Carradine lent his voice to several animated movies during his career, The Mouse And His Child being one of them. In this particular one, he’s given very little to do. Though considering the end results, he got off lucky.
May 12
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…in which a German scientist attempting to create an army of the living dead to serve the Third Reich uses his own wife as an experimental subject—and discovers that, dead or alive, she still has him whipped…
This Monogram anti-epic is an improvement over its predecessor thanks to a focus on John Carradine doing mad science rather than on the antics of Mantan Moreland—but it’s Veda Ann Borg who unexpectedly steals the show.
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!May 12
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…in which agents of the US government searching for a missing admiral stumble across the operative of – *cough, cough* – an unidentified European nation, who uses a combination of voodoo and hypnotism to create zombies and exert mind control.
A horror-comedy in which “horror” takes a seat right up the back, this film is chiefly a vehicle for the, uh, idiosyncratic comedy stylings of Mantan Moreland.
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
From New Zealand comes the horror comedy Last Of The Living. Unfortunately, writer/director Logan McMillan is no Peter Jackson.
The drama Streets is interesting for being a somewhat more serious than usual production for Roger Corman. But don’t worry – he made Christina Applegate almost get naked in one scene.
The idea of a revolution by kids in a summer camp had potential, but the Roger Corman production Summer Camp Nightmare doesn’t work in just about any angle you can think of.
The low budget science fiction movie The Angry Red Planet is unusual because it entertains in two ways, being both unintentionally amusing and surprisingly effective.