Category: Forgotten Films

Forgotten Films: Nightmare at Shadow Woods

The 1980s was a turbulent time for American cinemas.  The studio system was methodically reclaiming the movie theaters and home video was beginning to spread its blight but there was still a little of the old grindhouse magic left.  By ...

Forgotten Films: Asylum

Amicus Productions always had the rather dubious, and debatably inaccurate, distinction of being a poor man’s Hammer Films.  While Amicus shared many talents in common with their higher profile competitor, they were wise enough to carve out a niche for ...

Forgotten Films: Melody

Who is the girl with crying face, looking at millions of signs? She knows that life is a running race; her face shouldn’t show any lines. - Melody Fair, The Bee Gees The 1968 musical film adaptation of Oliver! was both a box ...

Forgotten Horrors: Island of Terror

Hammer Films dominated the British science fiction and horror movie industry from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. There were many competing companies that tried to emulate their successful formula and reap similar profits. Some of these studios, like Amicus, prospered ...

Crisis In Infinite Comics: The Man Who Hated Laughter

In 1985, DC Comics orchestrated one of the most spectacular events in comic book history with a year long, twelve issue series designed to merge all of their existing comic worlds into one linear multiverse. The Crisis on Infinite Earths ...

Forgotten Films: SANTA CLAUS (1960)

Kenneth Gordon Murray may not have created the Kiddie Matinee but he is certainly one of the foremost pioneers of the format. The flagship of his Childhood Productions distribution company was a 1959 Mexican holiday film, Santa Claus. K. Gordon ...

Great White Hype

In 1975, the motion picture Jaws redefined the horror movie. Its phenomenal box office performance garnered the film a string of increasingly lackluster sequels and a slew of imitators that has only been rivaled by Star Wars. These cash-ins ranged ...