Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Before there was Doctor Who, there was Professor Quatermass, the British scientist who battled the strangest of alien invasions in the 1953 BBC serial The Quatermass Experiment. The hit science fiction series, starring Reginald Tate as Quatermass, was blessed with … Continue reading
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Tagged 50's, Hammer, horror, Science Fiction
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She (1965)
Hammer Films had grown steadily since the box office breakthroughs of The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Distributors knew that the British studio’s genre product was reliably classy and literate, but also sexy and violent; they … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, Action, cheesecake, Christopher Lee, Fantasy, Hammer, Peter Cushing
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Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966)
Like almost everyone else, I first saw Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) on Comedy Central’s Mystery Science Theater 3000, probably on one of its reruns. My strongest memory of that first viewing was of women in diaphanous gowns and … Continue reading
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Tagged 60's, horror, lovable animals, Satanism, Surreal
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