*contains spoilers It seemed to immediately go pear-shaped with his appearance as a bad-tempered lover in the unremarkable The Young Lovers (1964) which was nothing in terms of quality when compared to his earlier role in star-studded The Interns (1962). By this stage, Nick should have perhaps taken the hint and gone back to television…
Read more The Cult of Actor Nick Adams as The Oedipal Rebel (Part Two)
*contains spoilers When I mention the name of actor Nick Adams (1931-68 drug overdose) to anyone and most people don’t know who I am talking about and cannot picture his face. Yet this is an iconic and troubled actor who was one of the first tv stars to get nominated for an Oscar for his…
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*contains spoilers As we are told at the beginning of Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), mankind knows little about the mysteries of space and has “hardly been able to penetrate the unknown secrets!” This movie asks us “Why must we wait? Why not now?” as the voice of alcoholic actor Sonny Tufts (1911-70 pneumonia) narrates…
Read more The Cult of Actress Marie Windsor in Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
*contains spoilers Do you know The Three Sisters? No, they are not a wholesome singing group or a Motown invention… Otherwise known as The Three Mothers, they are evil witches from the Dario Argento (1940-) movie Suspiria (1977) and its remake (2018) of the same name… They can invade your mind and give you nightmares,…
Read more The Insidious Witchcraft and Toxic Femininity in Suspiria and its remake
*contains spoilers The best in the original series of Planet of the Apes movies is Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). It is the most futuristic, the deepest as well as the film with the greatest climax of all of the ape movies – perhaps one of the best of all time… And the…
Read more The Cult of Earth’s Psychic Evolution in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
