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Teenagers From Outer Space – Squeaky Clean 1950s Entertainment 26 Aug 2013 | 03:16 am
By Steve D. Stones If it wasn’t for the wooden acting and poor production values, the 1957 sci-fi film - Teenagers From Outer Space could pass with flying colors as a well-made, entertaining piece of...
Book on Columbia comedy shorts offers a fascinating glimpse of two-reeler history 22 Aug 2013 | 01:01 am
By Doug Gibson The Columbia Comedy Shorts, Ted Okuda and Ed Watz’s interesting history — courtesy of McFarland Press — of the 25 ye...
Adjust Your Tracking ... nails the life of the hard-core VHS horror collector 17 Aug 2013 | 10:37 am
Review by Plan9Crunch co-blogger Doug Gibson There's a scene in "Adjust Your Tracking," the new micro-budget, partially funded by kickstarter.com, film documentary, from fans Levi Peretic and Dan Kin...
Lon Chaney Jr. ... Mantan Moreland, and Jack Hill's classic 'Spider Baby' 13 Aug 2013 | 10:08 am
Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told, B&W, 1964. Directed by Jack Hill. Starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Bruno, the chauffer, Carol Ohmart as Emily Howe, Quinn K. Redeker as Peter Howe, Beverly Washb...
Friday sanity break -- check out the Castle Films' mini-version of Dracula! 9 Aug 2013 | 09:33 am
Courtesy of Castle Films and YouTube comes this eight minute-plus version of the classic Universal Bela Lugosi Tod Browning directed 1931 Dracula. Castle Films' heavily edited adaptations of classics ...
'Peach-O-Reno' is Wheeler and Woolsey at their best 7 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
By Doug Gibson To be honest, I hadn't had much experience watching the old-time vaudeville/film comedian team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, but I'm glad I was introduced in full to the pair in ...
Another look at Monster-A-Go-Go 4 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
By Steve Stones I have sat through many awful films in my lifetime, but this one definitely takes the cake. Monster A Go-Go began production in the early 1960s by director Bill Rebane, who brought us...
The original "The Wizard of Gore" 3 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
By Steve D. Stones Over the years, gore specialist Herschell Gordon Lewis has not spoken fondly of his 1970 film - The Wizard of Gore. He claims he was unable to achieve the believable gore effects t...
An interview with "For Art's Sake: A Biography and Filmography of Ben Turpin" author Steve Rydzewski 31 Jul 2013 | 06:17 am
Hello Plan9Crunch readers, on Sunday, July 28, 2013, I had the opportunity to have published in the Standard-Examiner a review of two biographies, "Little Elf: A Celebration of Harry Langdon” by Chuck...
An interview with "Little Elf: A celebration of Harry Langdon" authors Michael J. Hayde and Chuck Harter 29 Jul 2013 | 05:02 am
Hello Plan9Crunch readers, on Sunday, July 28, 2013, I had the opportunity to have published in the Standard-Examiner a review of two biographies, "Little Elf: A Celebration of Harry Langdon” by Chuck...
