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Horrors of Spider Island (1960)

Posted on June 20, 2020 at 7:23 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The 1960 German film Horrors of Spider Island (Ein Toter hing im Netz, or “A Corpse Hangs in the Web,” among its many titles) is famously terrible – it was deservedly included in the tenth season of Mystery Science Theater … Continue reading →

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World Without End (1956)

Posted on March 31, 2017 at 11:26 am by Jeff Kuykendall

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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Stephen King’s “It” (1990)

Posted on March 25, 2014 at 2:29 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Monday, November 19th, 1990, all anyone could talk about in my high school cafeteria was Part I of Stephen King’s “It” (1990), which had aired the night before: the wounds in our psyche were fresh. A well-publicized two-part “Television Event” … Continue reading →

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