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Category Archives: Theater Fantastique
The Warrior and the Sorceress (1984)
To any teenage boy growing up in the 80’s, this was “the one in the video store with the four-breasted woman on the cover.” Since this came from Roger Corman’s New Horizons Pictures, he would make damn sure there was … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, cheesecake, David Carradine, Fantasy, Roger Corman, Sword and Sorcery
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The Green Slime (1968)
Here’s what they are: first frothing green spit in a petri dish, then quivering mounds of Jell-O, then pulsating green rocks, and finally, rocketing through any intermediate evolutionary stages, wobbling five-foot-tall cyclopes with waving tentacles for arms that terminate in … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Alien Invasion, horror, Luciana Paluzzi, Science Fiction
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Alien (1979)
Here is how I first become conscious of Alien (1979). I was very young – no idea how young, but too young – and my family had innocuously left “Entertainment Tonight” on the television. This was back when ET covered … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Alien Invasion, horror, Moebius, Ridley Scott, Science Fiction
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