See Me

Fiona’s VERY keen to see REPTILICUS but I keep telling her we have to wait until I’ve seen every other film illustrated in Denis Gifford’s Pictorial History of Horror Movies. A quest which has been on hiatus recently, you may have noticed. Well, when you title something See Reptilicus and Die, somehow you find you’re […]

Fat Man and Little Boy

Two atom-age ubermensch fantasies came my way in quick succession this week — I’m just lucky that way. THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE is kind of a hiccup in my growing appreciation of Allan Dwan, because it’s really not very good. Petulant gangster Ron Randall, escaping the gas chamber, is caught in an A-bomb test, […]

Whiteface

My goodness me! During the years-long quest to see every movie illustrated in Denis Gifford’s A Pictorial History of Horror Movies, a quest I have entitled See Reptilicus and Die, I have seen some stinkers. I don’t regret any of them. And now I doubt I shall ever see a stinkier stinker than BLACK DRAGONS, […]