Monthly Archives: December 2011

Christmas Riffing with MST3K

Posted on December 9, 2011 at 6:42 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Now that the holidays are upon us, and we are a few decades deep into the Age of Irony, why not spend this Christmas season with some silhouettes in the front row, riffing on absurd and/or awful cinema misadventures of … Continue reading →

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Witches’ Hammer (1969)

Posted on December 7, 2011 at 5:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

At one point in Witches’ Hammer (1969), Otakar Vavra’s document of a 17th Century witch hunt in the Czech Republic, an accused witch, tied to a stake, screams through rising smoke, “I was made to acknowledge my guilt! I was … Continue reading →

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Cash on Demand (1962)

Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:12 am by Jeff Kuykendall

For Cash on Demand (1962), Hammer Films took on Charles Dickens for a modern “Christmas Carol” – one delivered as a nail-biting heist thriller. Peter Cushing stars as our Scrooge stand-in, Fordyce: a cold-hearted bank manager who casually bullies and … Continue reading →

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