Since we’re covering Sword and Sorcery movies this month , here is a quick list of films that you can watch online now . 1- SORCERESS If an article about movies that were inspired by the success, or just outright ripped off another film , doesn’t include at least one movie produced by the great […]
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Thoughts and Writings from the boys on American Cinema.
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Oct
Oct
While the Slasher sub-genre got kicked off properly in 1978 with the release of John Carpenters Halloween, and Kicked into high gear in 1980 when Friday the 13th Hit theaters. It wasn’t until one year later when the Slasher cemented itself as the Horror Sub-genre of the Decade. By the end of the year 25 […]
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Oct
Oct
In the 1980’s Video stores were everywhere, and if you were a horror fan . There was no greater thrill than roaming the aisle of your local rental place and searching for that awesome scary movie ( with equally awesome box art ) that you’ve never seen before , or that you’ve seen 100 times […]
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Jul
Jul
Film History is full of movies that never got made. Kubrick’s ” Napoleon “ Jodorowsk’s ” Dune ” Burton’s ” Superman Lives “ However None of those movies had a 50 foot Frankenstein fighting King Kong ! Which is why I’m not writing about them. King Kong may have been conceived and directed by Merian […]
Garrick’s hypothesis on the Game of Thrones Legacy Continues At the half way point of my journey back through Westeros, I have found a whole different piece of land that needed exploration. I was turned on to the actual George RR Martin books. I just finished the second book, CLASH OF KINGS and ironically […]
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Jul
Jul
For some reason the Library at Boiling Springs Elementary school, had a excellent book case full of what you could refer to as Nerd Fuel! One shelf was full of 60’s era Marvel comics in large hard bound volumes. Directly below that was a shelf of thin orange and black hard backs called the Crestwood […]
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Jun
Jun
I’ve been into movies as long as I can remember, but Monster movies where my first love! My folks did not share my love of Movies or Monsters for that matter. However they always tolerated and sometimes even encouraged it. On Saturday nights there was a local TV station had a shock theater that ran […]
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Jun
Jun
I’f you’ve never set foot in the insane world of Hong Kong Horror, Here are a few films to get you started ! 1- Encounters of the Spooky Kind , 1980 ( aka Spooky Encounters ) If there was one man responsible for the boom of horror movies made in Hong Kong in the 1980’s […]
Well, we managed ten episodes….. In that I mean, that’s how I will feel about production returning to my home state of North Carolina after the tax incentives for production were reinstated by our new Governor. Swamp Thing, produced for DC’s Streaming Universe, wrapped three episodes early but never the less wrapped bringing their production […]
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May
May
In the 1980’s Martial Arts were everywhere you looked. On movies , TV shows , comic books , cartoons and video games . Even in the classic toy line G.I. JOE, the two most popular characters were a couple of Ninjas named Snake Eyes ( granted a very American one ) and Storm Shadow. It […]
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