Category Archives: Double Feature

Double Feature: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes/Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1972/1973)

Posted on August 29, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Producer Arthur P. Jacobs just couldn’t leave his monkeys well enough alone. Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) picked up the saga right where it seemed permanently roadblocked – Charlton Heston had detonated the entire planet, and every … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: Planet of the Apes (1968)/Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Posted on June 6, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Has there ever been a more unexpected cinematic franchise than that spawned by Planet of the Apes (1968)? Actors in ape makeup, their moving lips unglimpsed beneath a coconut-shaped mouthpiece, arguing over matters of politics, science, and philosophy. Each film … Continue reading →

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Double Feature: Schoolgirl Hitchhikers (1973)/Bacchanales Sexuelles (1974)

Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The story is that while Jean Rollin was filming Requiem for a Vampire (1972), production manager Lionel Wallman encouraged him to include some scenes of a graphic sexual nature to make the film more commercial (Rollin relented, and filmed the … Continue reading →

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