This week, we travel back in time to honor an indie icon, Roger Corman, and begin a month-long series dedicated to 70s horror.
This week, in our retro movie spotlight, we pay tribute to the legendary Roger Corman, who recently passed away on May 9, 2024, leaving behind a remarkable legacy.
When you are going to review a Roger Corman movie, it is hard to decide what to do. There are just so many of them. And his resume is so varied that even the most cursory look involves diving into a deep rabbit hole. So we decided to go with one that starred Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, and Dick Miller.
Little did we know there was more to The Terror than just a bunch of famous names.
After six directors, nine months, and days of filming without an actual script, the movie hit theaters. Unsurprisingly, it is not very good, but how well did its strong cast fare? Corman wanted his own take on Edgar Allen Poe, which he did manage to pull off, but the way he did it will surprise you (or not if you know anything about Corman’s methods). Do modern eyes have a different take on The Terror?
You can watch The Terror on Tubi.
We kick off “Home is where the DIE! is” Month with a dip back into the well of obscure 70s horror.
Over the course of five years and almost three hundred episodes, we have covered all sorts of topics. Most recently, we had Bruceploitation Month, but we have also done Black Horror, LGBTQ Horror, and Trucksploitation. It is so difficult that it took one of our loyal listeners to point out that we had never covered movies made in the area where we grew up (70s).
We begin with a movie that has been on our radar. While 1972’s Gargoyles was not what we specifically had in mind, we have wanted to cover a made-for-TV movie for a long time. Lucky for us, we were able to find one that was filmed in Carlsbad Caverns and Laredo.
With special effects done by the Academy Award-winning Stan Winston (who also won a Primetime Emmy for his work here), Bernie Casey playing a winged gargoyle who rides a horse, and plenty of halter tops, the film does everything it can to pull in eyeballs.
Despite the strange use of slow motion, the plot moves quickly. Is it an overlooked treasure of Southwest cinema, or is it best left in the 70s?
You can watch Gargoyles on Tubi.
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Every week AIPT Movie Editor Nathaniel Muir and his cinema partner in crime Blake Heath discuss indie and genre movies you have have never heard of, the ones you cannot hear enough about, and the ones you never want to hear about again.
Episode 279: ‘The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout’ (2024)/’The Omicron Killer’ (2024)
It is not often that we discuss Hallmark movies. But when it involves the Kansas City Chiefs, how can we avoid it? We also talk about the trailer for the upcoming remake of Nosferatu by Robert Eggers and a M3GAN spinoff with a really neat premise. We also discuss the importance of an AI girlfriend.
Whenever we review a movie for our humble little podcast we inevitably ask ourselves, “Who is this movie for?” Never has the answer been harder than with The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout. There is definitely something here for those who liked to hear stories about trouble productions, but overall, this is not that kind of movie.
The film has a much darker story to tell. Along with the multiple cases of cancer among the cast and crew, it also goes into how the production affected the surrounding towns. A hard hitting watch, this is one of those releases that seems like it is for one audience that is accessible to anyone.
Then there is The Omicron Killer which is not for anyone. This is bad in more ways than we can adequately describe. Awful comedy, a confusing plot, and nude scenes that even we find pointless, the film seems to go out of its way to alienate audiences. And not in the cute Troma way that ends up being charming.
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Adventures in Movies! is hosted by Nathaniel and Blake. You can find Nathaniel on Instagram at nathaninpoortaste. Blake can be found on Twitter @foureyedhorror and on Instagram at foureyedhorror. You can reach us personally or on Twitter @AdventuresinMo1.
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