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| 1982:
Larry Cohen's good-old-fashioned-monster-story about a giant
Aztec god/bird-creature terrorizing New York city. Benefits
from gritty, on-location filming -- including scenes shot inside
the Chrysler building. Okay stop-motion effects by David Allen,
with a cast featuring David Carradine (TV's Kung-Fu,
Bound for Glory, Death Race 2000), Richard Roundtree
(Shaft), and Michael Moriarty (star OF Cohen's The
Stuff, It's Alive III, and A Return to Salem's
Lot) in a unique performance as a sorry loser. And there's
also a funtastic flaying scene!
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| 1967:
Third in Hammer's series about Professor Quatermass, following
The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2. Blends
sci-fi and the supernatural expertly, and it's loaded with neat
ideas - most of which aren't fully developed, probably because
this was based on a much longer TV serial. Still, it's very
well done (even with the funny-looking martian special effects)
-- In particular, those who enjoy the Doctor Who TV series
should definitely take a look. Back
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| 1958:
Zsa Zsa Gabor stars not as the titular character, but as a sympathetic
romantic interest for three Earth astronauts who land on the
all-woman planet. Director Edward Bernds (NOT of The Brothers
McMullen) worked on a number of Three Stooges shorts,
so the treatment isn't too straight-faced, although with these
movies, it's sometimes hard to tell. There's a funny rubber
spider and colourful costumes as the astro-men find themselves
trapped in the living hell of being the only men on all-woman
Venus! No, please, help us! Get us out of here! No, anything
but this! Someone should make sure these guys have a pulse,
or a brain stem.
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