Category Archives: Theater Fantastique
World Without End (1956)
While on a mission to Mars – which, ambitiously, also happens to be the first manned flight into space – Rocketship XRM (not to be confused with Rocketship X-M) travels so fast that it is flung into an “exponential time displacement” … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Alberto Vargas, Christopher Dark, cyclops, Edward Bernds, giant spider, Hugh Marlowe, Lisa Montell, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Post Apocalyptic, Rod Taylor, Science Fiction, Shawn Smith
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Chandu the Magician (1932)
In The Spider (1931), Edmund Lowe (Dinner at Eight) portrayed Chatrand the Great, a hypnotist and magician who solves a murder. Its success led Lowe to take on the role of the similar (and similarly named) Chandu the Magician (1932), reuniting … Continue reading
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Tagged 30's, Action, astral projection, Bela Lugosi, Chandu, death ray, Edmund Lowe, Egypt, Fantasy, hypnotism, Irene Ware, Marcel Varnel, William Cameron Menzies, Yogi
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), shot on location in the Canary Islands, is the most notable of Hammer’s attempts to recreate the global success of One Million Years B.C. (1966). It didn’t have Raquel Welch, and it didn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, cheesecake, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Hammer, Jim Danforth, prehistoric, Stop Motion, Val Guest, Victoria Vetri
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