tom thumb (1958)
Dec 18, 2000Miniature Boy/Fairy Tale
George Pal adapts the Brothers Grimm fairytale with Russ Tamblyn as a miniature youth amid colourful effects and extended slapstick scenes
Russ Tamblyn
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
Dec 19, 2002Brothers Grimm Anthology/Biopic
Anthology of Brothers Grimm stories from George Pal where the brothers are wound in as characters. The film’s effectiveness is killed by Pal pitching everything down at a mawkish and simple-minded level
The Haunting (1963)
Nov 3, 1999Haunted House
This is the finest haunted house film of all. In Robert Wise’s hands, the ghosts are unseen and only ever psychological and suggested – the results are terrifying. Adapted from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
War of the Gargantuas (1966)
May 20, 2015Japanese Monster Bash
From Ishiro Honda, the creator of Godzilla, this bizarrely features two giant Frankenstein monsters battling it out. A fairly typical Japanese monster movie of its era featuring cheesily ridiculous rubber monsters, copious mass destruction and a largely irrelevant human element
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Jun 30, 1999Mad Scientist/Monster Bash
One of the great title matches of all-time and a surprise that Universal never thought to do it. In the hands of Z-budget director Al Adamson it is a wasted opportunity nd Zandor Vorkov the worst screen Dracula ever
Human Highway (1982)
Aug 21, 2015Gonzo Comedy
Musician Neil Young directs a science-fiction film! I was hoping this would be another Repo Man, instead we get an incoherent mess that throws in a jumble of sf concepts and feels like it was made without a script
Cabin Boy (1994)
Dec 6, 2002Idiot's Absurdist Adventures
A conte cruel that delights in piling humiliations onto obnoxious rich kid Chris Elliott who is shanghaied aboard a ship. This comes in an absurdist vein not dissimilar to the works of producer Tim Burton
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds (1995)
Apr 21, 2013Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Spoof
Fred Olen Ray offers up a bimbo movie take on Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Where the original was an early feminist parable, Olen Ray offers up a giant woman whose only motivation is wanting a bigger set of breasts
Invisible Mom (1995)
Dec 6, 2002Invisible Housewife
B-budget director Fred Olen Ray makes an invisibility comedy with impoverished effects. Olen Ray's usual parade of bimbos and cynical one-liners is kept under restraint and this made as a children’s film
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Dec 22, 2018Haunted House
The original The Haunting is the finest ghost story ever made. One was sceptical that this remake as a tv mini-series of ten 50 minute episodes would come anywhere near that. Happily, Mike Flanagan proved me wrong.
Blood and Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019)
Sep 27, 2020Genre Director Documentary
A fascinating documentary about B movie and exploitation director Al Adamson, covering the frequently hilarious making of his films and the bizarre circumstances of his murder