Category Archives: Double Feature
Double Feature: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes/Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1972/1973)
Producer Arthur P. Jacobs just couldn’t leave his monkeys well enough alone. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) picked up the saga right where it seemed permanently roadblocked – Charlton Heston had detonated the entire planet, and every … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Fantastique
Tagged 70's, Action, John Huston, Paul Williams, Planet of the Apes, Roddy McDowall, Science Fiction
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Double Feature: Planet of the Apes (1968)/Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Has there ever been a more unexpected cinematic franchise than that spawned by Planet of the Apes (1968)? Actors in ape makeup, their moving lips unglimpsed beneath a coconut-shaped mouthpiece, arguing over matters of politics, science, and philosophy. Each film … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, 70's, Action, Charlton Heston, Planet of the Apes, Rod Serling, Roddy McDowall, Science Fiction
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Double Feature: Schoolgirl Hitchhikers (1973)/Bacchanales Sexuelles (1974)
The story is that while Jean Rollin was filming Requiem for a Vampire (1972), production manager Lionel Wallman encouraged him to include some scenes of a graphic sexual nature to make the film more commercial (Rollin relented, and filmed the … Continue reading
Posted in Double Feature, Theater Psychotronic
Tagged 70's, Jean Rollin, sexploitation
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