Tag Archives: 60’s

Bedazzled (1967)

Posted on June 26, 2020 at 1:36 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The exploding British comedy scene of the 60’s was fueled in large part by the breakthrough success of Beyond the Fringe, a theatrical revue with an emphasis on anti-establishment satire – both intellectual and unapologetically silly – featuring Peter Cook, … Continue reading →

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Horrors of Spider Island (1960)

Posted on June 20, 2020 at 7:23 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The 1960 German film Horrors of Spider Island (Ein Toter hing im Netz, or “A Corpse Hangs in the Web,” among its many titles) is famously terrible – it was deservedly included in the tenth season of Mystery Science Theater … Continue reading →

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The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Posted on June 10, 2020 at 7:21 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend is one of the 20th century’s most influential pieces of genre fiction, the saga of a weary, grief-ravaged man who believes that he’s the last of his kind on Earth, all others having … Continue reading →

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