*contains spoilers It was in the wake of citizen Bernhard Goetz (1947-) shooting in ‘self-defence’ four teenage criminals on a subway in New York in December of 1984 which had him dubbed The Subway Vigilante – a scene which seems to have been totally inspired by a scene in the first movie – which led…
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*contains spoilers Was writer Grace Metalious (1924-64 cirrhosis) some sort of genius or was it the screenwriters which helped to make the movies based on her novels Peyton Place (1957) and Return to Peyton Place (1961) such memorable experiences which sit together with some kind of trashy perfection? They are not great movies, but in…
Read more The Genius of Writer Grace Metalious and Return to Peyton Place (1961) Part One
*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)
*contains spoilers Writer and cartoonist James Thurber (1894-1961 blood clot on the brain) was blinded in one eye by his brother at the age of seven when an arrow was shot into his eye while they played a game of William Tell, that folk hero who could shoot an apple off the top of your…
Read more The Cult of Writer James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
*contains spoilers The Linda Blair (1959-) movie Dead Sleep (1990) looks into a part of Australian medical history which should not be forgotten like this movie unfortunately is. The fundamental question of whether a family and the patient themselves should listen and take psychiatric treatment and advice as the gospel truth and not just as…
Read more The Aussie Cult of Actress Linda Blair in Dead Sleep (1990)
Italian director Ivan Zuccon (1972-) is an experienced filmmaker who started his career with the short film Berenice (1997). He made several other short films before his interest in the American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft turned his mind to create horror movies related to that writer’s stories. His early features which were shot on video…
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*contains spoilers Prolific British author and screenwriter Paul Finch (1964-) comes from a family where writing was the norm as his father was television scriptwriter Brian Finch (1936-2007) who for many years wrote for the British soap opera Coronation Street among others. Paul has reportedly written over 300 short stories which have appeared in countless…
*contains spoilers When we look at the trilogy of the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) movies from the early to mid 1950s, we must give credit to the producer Ivan Tors (1916-83 heart attack). Tors was a European émigré, he came from Hungary in 1939, and his name is probably more familiar to those who…
Read more The Cult of The Magnetic Monster and the Office of Scientific Investigation
Writer/Director Michael Farkas went to USC to study film. He quickly went on the make his first feature movie Prime Risk (1985) which has become a cult movie. After Prime Risk, he spent several years developing new scripts, then moved from Los Angeles back to Washington D.C. in 1988 where he opened Infocus Communications, a…
Read more Writer/Director Michael Farkas on his Cult Movie Prime Risk
*contains spoilers When you mention the screenplays of David McGillivray (1947-), you must mention in particular the films of director Pete Walker (1939-) in the same breath. And also mention the films of Norman J. Warren (1942-). All three started off in the British sexploitation film business but gravitated for a time into horror movies,…
Read more The Cult of Horror Screenwriter David McGillivray (Part One)
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