Pulp Cover Friday On Sunday: Close Enough For Government Work The chaos here continues unabated, but at least the latest veternarian crisis has been averted and Mrs. Miggins is her old self. I only wish I felt as good. This week’s delayed entry will take a look at DIME MYSTERY, which was the first weird menace pulp. It started out …
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MESA OF SEXY SPIDER-WOMEN How’d I miss THE MESA OF LOST WOMEN for so long? Just lucky, I guess. This legendarily bad movie had potential, but in the end, I can’t really recommend it, and here’s why. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a script that makes less sense. While this in itself is not necessarily a reason to give …
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Somebody didn’t have time to write one full review, so you get three little ones!
Classic Rock Sunday: The J. Geils Band
Classic Rock Sunday will blow your face out with the J. Geils Band!
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PRESENTS PULP COVER FRIDAY, ACTUALLY ON FRIDAY Well, I made it, but just barely. I had to abandon my plan of presenting more DETECTIVE STORY MONTHLY covers about half-way through putting this post together, because I could just not find enough interesting covers for the rest of the magazine’s run. They were mainly dark toned, confusing, or just plain boring, and I was …
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THE KIDS AREN’T ALL RIGHT Unsurprisingly, as drive-ins became more popular during the 1950’s the teen audience for sf (and movies in general) expanded. More films were aimed at that demographic, many of which had “teen” on their title. We’re going to take a look at two of these this time around, TEEN MONSTER and TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE. These …
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PULP COVER FRIDAY: ONLY ONE DAY LATE! I had hoped to get this up yesterday, but life intervened again (I hate it when that happens) and it got away from me. I am determined to get back on schedule, however, and back to what this column is about — pulp covers — though I am running short of pulps. Requests …
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS SPECIAL DELAYED EDITION: DAMNED HOLIDAYS! Pulp Cover Friday was delayed due to the inordinate amount of time we had to spend on other stuff during the past week or so including driving up to Santa Fe four times in nine days. Then, among other things, we had to put together the exercise bike I bought on …
Angel Unchained (1970)
The cycle freaks and the dune buggy straights!
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SPACE MASTER X-7 SPACE MASTER X-7 (1958) is so obscure that I had never even heard of it before seeing it mentioned in Bill Warren’s indispensable KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES. Now that I’ve viewed it, I know why. Say you’re getting ready to watch a movie called SPACE MASTER X-7. You eagerly pop the DVD into your player anticipating, A) an …
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PULP COVER FRIDAY WANDERS EVEN FARTHER AFIELD We’re getting even farther away from pulp covers this week, but I stumbled across this website the other day that proved to be a great way to waste a whole lot of time and I wanted to share it with you-all so I wouldn’t be the only one whose productivity has drastically declined …
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TARZAN IN PANTS In the late 1940s Sam Katzman lost the Tarzan movie license. Coincidentally, Johnny Weismuller was getting a little long in the tooth to keep strapping on the loincloth. So, Katzman had a brilliant idea. Why not put pants on him and call him Jungle Jim? Problem solved. Someone’s hip to the scheme Which brings me to today’s …
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PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS: MONSTERS! I know that we’re straying a little out of the pulp range, but indulge me on this. I love the old monster mags almost as much as the pulps. They were a window to a magical world of fantasy films which were not as accessible as today, when you can own your own copy of …
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THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS The movies are piling up here, so here’s another SF clasic from 1957, THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS. What we have here is probably John Agar’s finest performance (I know, not saying much), ever, possibly the shortest outing for a sidekick, ever, and a floating brain who’s probably the horniest invading alien, ever. Add heroic …
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FROM HELL IT CAME And, as one (perhaps apocryphal) review succinctly put it when this film was first released (1957), “And to Hell it can go!” Considered one of the notoriously bad sf films of the 1950s (though no one seems to notice that it’s not actually a sf film), despite its obvious failings it’s really not that bad and …