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Reading THE LOST WORLD
Meta fiction, anyone? Photo insert from the first edition of THE LOST WORLD, playfully picturing Professor Challenger (portrayed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself) and other members of his fabled...
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Where Are Those China Blues?
Annie Potts and John Laughlin share their sorrows in CRIMES OF PASSION.Arrow Video recently issued, on both sides of the Atlantic, the best-looking and most revealing version of Ken Russell's CRIMES OF...
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Familiar THINGS
Enthusiastic notes on my Facebook news feed led me to check out the Duffer Brothers' new Netflix series STRANGER THINGS within a day or two of its July 15 premiere. Most uncommonly, my friends were...
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The South Is Gonna Rise Again in October
Limited to 2500 units each in the US and UK.Making huge internet waves today was Arrow Video's surprise unveiling of their October titles, which include two deluxe box sets devoted to the 1960s shock...
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A Horror of Numbers: Robert Siodmak's THE GREAT SINNER
Robert Siodmak's THE GREAT SINNER begins inauspiciously with a writer (played by Gregory Peck), traveling alone, aboard a train bound for Paris. Before the train departs, his lonely compartment is...
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Enid At the Crossroads: Surviving GHOST WORLD
Enid leaves town in GHOST WORLD.Last week I revisited - as I occasionally do - Terry Zwigoff's GHOST WORLD (2001). I consider this adaptation of Daniel Clowes' 1997 graphic novel one of the finest...
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Hitchcock's SABOTAGE: Beloved Faces in the Crowd
I've been enjoying myself the last couple of days, exploring the extensive supplementary contents of Criterion's recent CLASSIC HITCHCOCK box set, and I believe I've just spotted something that may...
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Welcome To The Architecture of Ruins
Imagine a derelict movie theater - not just one, but dozens of them, all eroding from a virus no more virulent than a village of eyes pointed some other way, arranged in a deluxe catalogue of cultural...
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The Sale You've Been Waiting For
Mark Maddox's original "Carmilla" cover art for VIDEO WATCHDOG 183 - available now!We're already a week into the month, so it's high time that I mentioned here - as has already been done on our website...
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Every Car Needs A Jack
Here's a thing or two you may not know about Richard Harbinger's hot rod quickie T-BIRD GANG, starring Ed Nelson, Pat George and a young Vic Tayback, which was released by The Filmgroup back in 1959....
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In Search of Lost Chords
This picture shows the kind of transistor radio I owned between 1963 and 1965, when popular music (IMO) was at its zenith. It was a gift from my mother and it became my Siamese twin; I carried it with...
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Three Thursday Passings
RIP to the wonderful comic actor and voice artist Marvin Kaplan, who has reportedly passed at the age of 89. Fans of my generation remember him as the voice of "Choo-Choo" on the Hanna-Barbera animated...
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Revisiting LAST SUMMER
Richard Thomas as Peter in LAST SUMMER.I revisited the Frank and Eleanor Perry film LAST SUMMER (1969) tonight for the first time in probably 20 years. Unfortunately it hasn't had an official home...
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KING KONG VS GODZILLA - In Cincinnati
The above illustration is a clipping from an article in the film industry trade magazine BOXOFFICE, circa 1963, picturing the marquee of the Twin Drive-In Theater when it hosted the local premiere of...
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We Are The Dead: Nicolas Winding Refn's THE NEON DEMON
"Beauty isn't everything. It's the only thing," says a character named Sarno in Nicolas Winding Refn's latest, THE NEON DEMON. It may take years for me to finally decide whether I love this film or...
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Revealing the Secrets of THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK
Robert Flemyng sets the mood in Riccardo Freda's THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK.Before there was HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT, there was HICHCOCK/HAMPTON - better known under its theatrical release title:THE HORRIBLE...
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On Reading THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT
Ever since I first discovered it on late night commercial television at the end of the 1960s, Joseph Losey's THESE ARE THE DAMNED (aka THE DAMNED, 1962) has been one of my favorite science fiction...
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Red, White and BLUE SUNSHINE
Zalman King, keeping tabs on things in BLUE SUNSHINE. In the hairy heyday of 1970s horror, Jeff Lieberman was on the short list of North American names to watch, along with George A. Romero, David...
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Dark Radiance: TENEBRAE Restored
For a film that passed its 30th anniversary a few years ago, Dario Argento's TENEBRAE (1982) continues to exert remarkable freshness. Despite its title (Latin for "shadows"), the film is characterized...
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Discovering HARD CONTRACT
Last night, I finally caught up with a film that has long intrigued me from afar, HARD CONTRACT (1969), starring James Coburn and Lee Remick. It was the only film ever directed by screenwriter S. Lee...
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