Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 27, 2007, it’s Allan Arkush on Bucket of Blood. “Life is an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.” The wit and wisdom of writer Charles B. Griffith, Roger Corman’s hipper-than-thou alter-ego, is in even fuller flower here than in his classic…
Here’s another installment featuring Joe Dante’s reviews from his stint as a critic for Film Bulletin circa 1969-1974. Our thanks to Video Watchdog and Tim Lucas for his editorial embellishments! Soft‑core sex antics, pseudo‑documentary style, with enough nudity to get by in appropriate markets. Rating: Self-imposed X. Surmising that “we all have a need…
1955’s Artists and Models, directed by Frank Tashlin, neatly satirizes the cold-war paranoia of the fifties (and the McCarthy hearings in particular) by focusing on a similar witch hunt, the war against comic books. Tashlin’s film, starring Dean Martin as a failed “fine” artist reduced to drawing for comic books and Jerry Lewis as the fella who reads…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 21, 2007, it’s Sam Hamm on 20 Million Miles to Earth. The dino-like Ymir is one of Ray Harryhausen’s most personable stop-motion creations and the last to benefit from his brilliant black-and-white lighting. Currently available in a lamentably colorized video version which shows Ray’s work…
Entertainment Weekly compiled a list of the 10 Most Criminally Underrated Movies, five of which can be found on TFH. We’re confident this proves we are only half criminal. Fat City Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Rolling Thunder Near Dark Gremlins 2 Read the full list.
Most movie trailers boil down a film to its essence, resulting in 2½ minutes of unbridled sensationalism. That’s pretty much a trailer’s raison d’être and we love ’em for it. But what if the entire movie was like that? Such is the case for another of the films in our Great Global Trailer Search, 1960’s The…
Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…
Westerns – the Great American Movie Genre. Yes, the Italian cinema has its Spaghetti Western – Cameriere, more Sangiovese, please! But we’re talking real, honest-to-John-Wayne American westerns here. The kind with a big, wide-open-spaces theme by somebody like Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, orLerner and Loewe. Morricone magic is better served with the aforementioned grape of Chianti – and…
A former vaudevillian, the great comedian Fred Allen found his fame in radio but was unable to navigate a suitable transition to TV (“Television is a medium,” he once observed, “because it is neither rare nor well done.”). He made a few casual appearances in movies but only once, in 1945, did he take full…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From September 27, 2007, it’s Joe Dante on The Revenge of Frankenstein. Terence Fisher returns to direct the first (and best?) of six sequels to the groundbreaking Curse of Frankenstein, bringing new complexity and plenty of gallows humor to the character of Baron Frankenstein, the alternately malevolent…
Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From January 24, 2008, it’s Joe Dante on Confessions of an Opium Eater. Albert Zugsmith’s shining moment in an amiably disreputable career that nonetheless included producing pix by Sirk, Welles and Jack Arnold. Only Fu Manchu is missing from this hypnotically retrograde yellow peril hallucination starring Vincent…
Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From August 28, 2007, it’s Sam Hamm on 13 Ghosts. Aiming squarely at the allowances of moppet readers of Famous Monsters of Filmland, William Castle followed “Percepto” with a new gimmick in 1960, “Illusion-O”. Paul Frees’ scary narration probably got him the job as the voice of…
Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…
Today marks Trailers From Hell debut on FEARnet‘s On Demand service! Now you can tune into FEARnet and check out over 90 classic commentaries from directors like Joe Dante, John Landis, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth and Many More! Where can you find Trailers From Hell with FEARnet On Demand? Here’s the information for the menu…
Ok, The ‘Burbs is fairly maniacal in and of itself, but today especially so… it’s the 25th anniversary of Joe Dante’s surreal small-town comedy, which not only signifies its place in the cult classic pantheon but as a darn funny movie, too. Here’s Indiewire’s The Playlist on the 25th Anniversary. Here’s the Film School Rejects…
Here’s another gem from the TFH Vault. From August 28, 2007, it’s Allan Arkush on The Trip. Writer Jack Nicholson and star Peter Fonda told Roger Corman he couldn’t make a movie about LSD without trying it at least once. So Roger took a caravan of pals to Big Sur, where he dutifully dropped…
Trailers From Hell welcomes all movies great and small but sometimes a particular trailer may not be up to the visual quality of the rest of our catalog or is simply too oddball to present in our usual format. Nevertheless, there’s such a wealth of exciting, strange and unusual films out there, we’d be remiss…