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Danse Macabre :: Кинг Стивен
Страница: 179 из 359The taillights double neatly as blinking redspider eyes. It is impossible to see such a budget-conscious special effect without feeling a wave of admiration.
Other bad movies abound; each fan has his or her favorite. Who could forget the large canvas bag that was supposed to be Caltiki, the Immortal Monster in the 1959 Italian movie?
Or the Japanese version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-The Manster ? Other favorites of mine include the flaming Winston cigarette filter that was supposed to be a crash-landing alien spaceship in Teenage Monster and Allison Hayes as a refugee from a pro basketball team in The Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman . (If only she could have wandered across into Bert I.
Gordon's The Amazing Colossal Man . . . . Think of the children if they had clicked!) Then there was the wonderful moment in the 1978 film Ruby, a routine terror job about a haunted drive-in, when one of the characters punches a button on the Coke machine and gets a cup of blood.
Inside the machine, you see, all of the tubes have been hooked up to a severed human head.
In Children of Cain , a Western horror picture (almost, but not quite, up to the level of Billy the Kid Meets Dracula ), John Carradine goes West with barrels of salt water instead of fresh strapped to the sides of his Conestoga wagon. All the better to preserve his collection of severed heads (maybe because the historical period would have made the Coke machine an anachronism). In one of those lost-continent-type pictures-this one starring Cesar Romero- all the dinosaurs were cartoons. Nor should we forget Irwin Allen's The Swarm , with its unbelievable matte jobs and its cast of Familiar Faces. Here is a picture that manages to even better Prophecy 's time; it is a twelve-million-dollar picture that manages to look like a buck-ninety-eight.
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From Castle of Frankenstein : The Blob This sf-horror comes out as a slightly flat imitation of both "Rebel Without a Cause" and "The Creeping Unknown." Oozing out-of-space horror consumes humans until destroyed in ridiculous ending.
This uncharacteristically out-of-patience review of a film which was the first starring vehicle for an actor who then billed himself as "Steven McQueen" ignores several fine touches: the theme song, for instance, by a group that sounds suspiciously like the Chords doing outtakes from "Sh-Boom," is played over a happy little cartoon of expanding blobs. The real blob, which arrives on earth inside a hollow meteor, looks at first like a melted blueberry Popsicle and later quite a bit like a giant jujube.
Other bad movies abound; each fan has his or her favorite. Who could forget the large canvas bag that was supposed to be Caltiki, the Immortal Monster in the 1959 Italian movie?
Or the Japanese version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-The Manster ? Other favorites of mine include the flaming Winston cigarette filter that was supposed to be a crash-landing alien spaceship in Teenage Monster and Allison Hayes as a refugee from a pro basketball team in The Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman . (If only she could have wandered across into Bert I.
Gordon's The Amazing Colossal Man . . . . Think of the children if they had clicked!) Then there was the wonderful moment in the 1978 film Ruby, a routine terror job about a haunted drive-in, when one of the characters punches a button on the Coke machine and gets a cup of blood.
Inside the machine, you see, all of the tubes have been hooked up to a severed human head.
In Children of Cain , a Western horror picture (almost, but not quite, up to the level of Billy the Kid Meets Dracula ), John Carradine goes West with barrels of salt water instead of fresh strapped to the sides of his Conestoga wagon. All the better to preserve his collection of severed heads (maybe because the historical period would have made the Coke machine an anachronism). In one of those lost-continent-type pictures-this one starring Cesar Romero- all the dinosaurs were cartoons. Nor should we forget Irwin Allen's The Swarm , with its unbelievable matte jobs and its cast of Familiar Faces. Here is a picture that manages to even better Prophecy 's time; it is a twelve-million-dollar picture that manages to look like a buck-ninety-eight.
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From Castle of Frankenstein : The Blob This sf-horror comes out as a slightly flat imitation of both "Rebel Without a Cause" and "The Creeping Unknown." Oozing out-of-space horror consumes humans until destroyed in ridiculous ending.
This uncharacteristically out-of-patience review of a film which was the first starring vehicle for an actor who then billed himself as "Steven McQueen" ignores several fine touches: the theme song, for instance, by a group that sounds suspiciously like the Chords doing outtakes from "Sh-Boom," is played over a happy little cartoon of expanding blobs. The real blob, which arrives on earth inside a hollow meteor, looks at first like a melted blueberry Popsicle and later quite a bit like a giant jujube.