*contains spoilers and confronting images Enter at your own risk! The movie Lords of Chaos (2018) was released a couple of years after a conversation I had with a Christian friend. I told him, when we were talking about heavy metal music, that I heard there was a Scandinavian black metal band that went around…
*contains spoilers The screenplay for the cult end of the world movie The Omega Man (1971) is based on writer Richard Matheson’s (1926-2013) novel from 1954 – I Am Legend – a title which younger people may recognise. There have been three official adaptations of this novel and these are The Last Man on Earth…
*contains spoilers Director Ursula Dabrowsky, I am surprised to find, is the alter ego of producer Sue Brown. Hailing, originally, from Canada, she studied film at university. Settling in Adelaide, she worked in Australia on the series Chuck Finn (1999) and made her first feature entitled Getting the Dirt on Trish in 2001. She also…
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*contains spoilers Lest we forget the Snowtown murders, otherwise known as the bodies in the barrels case which was turned into a South Australian film in 2011. My cousin was a witness at the trial and an uncle who was on the police force said when the cops discovered the barrels in the old Snowtown…
Read more The Demons of Horror Director Ursula Dabrowsky and Others (Part Two)
*contains spoilers Adelaide director Ursula Dabrowsky (no info) has made two modest but vastly entertaining horror movies and they are entitled Family Demons (2009) and Inner Demon (2014). Family Demon is presented in the strangest of narratives – like the crime or crimes in the movie, they too are strange – physically and psychically. And…
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*contains spoilers Hollywood did, however, give Tallulah financial independence and she left with $200,000 and a resolve to return to the stage. It would be a decade before she made another film. She opened on Broadway to rapturous applause in Forsaking All Others. Joan Crawford would star in the film version a year or so…
*contains spoilers Stage and screen actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-68 pneumonia) was never a fully-fledged movie star, but she left, at least, a few interesting performances on celluloid. Tallulah was more of a force of nature, a personality, witty and bisexual, she was a woman who liked to talk and talk. “I’ve just spent an hour…
*contains spoilers Two rather well-known celebrities of their day “disappeared” for a short time within around six months of each other back in the 1920s, and in the 1970s within a few years of one another a couple of interesting movies resulted about each disappearance. The first is The Disappearance of Aimee (1976 tv movie)…
Read more The Disappearances of Aimee Semple McPherson and Agatha Christie
*contains spoilers Bloch and Harrington did The Cat Creature together and there is a “cat woman” to be found in that movie similarly dressed as the one in the 1942 Cat People movie. Obviously, both were fans and influenced by producer Val Lewton’s movies from the 1940s – the running times of the tv movies…
Read more Actor Ray Milland Meets The Sea Serpent (Part Two)
*contains spoilers If there is a career which ended with a bad movie it is that of actor Ray Milland (1907-86 lung cancer). The Welsh actor began his career in the late 1920s and he won an Oscar for his portrayal as an alcoholic in the classic Billy Wilder directed movie The Lost Weekend (1945).…
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