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Dr Hugo Wagner: But you're sacrificing a human life!
Dr Alfred Brandon: Do you cry over a guinea pig? This boy is a free police case. We're probably saving him from the gas chamber.
Dr Hugo Wagner: But the boy is so young, the transformation horrible--
Dr Alfred Brandon: And you call yourself a scientist! That's why you've never been anything more than an assistant!
-----"I Was A Teenage Werewolf" (1957)
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It's another B-Masters' Roundtable! This time around we take a look at one of the 1970s less embarrassing aspects: the Made-For-Television movies that dominated the airwaves throughout the decade and into the early 1980s. Horror, science fiction, disaster movies, thrillers, serious uplifting drama--- You'll find it all here!
Well, maybe not serious uplifting drama.
It's DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL! - all through August at the B-Masters' Blog!
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Once again, AYCYAS! joins forces with The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Duck Speaks. Join Chad Denton, Zack Handlen and myself as we examine how the film-makers of three different eras went about adapting that most idiosyncratic of writers, Edgar Allan Poe.
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08/08/2010: Attention: recent e-mail correspondents. I have lately had an awful run of having my attempts to reply to site mail bounced back. Andrew, Sarah and Matthew, my apologies, but I have been unable to get through to any of you. I'm not sure what the problem is but nothing I have tried has worked.
12/07/2010: I have recovered and revised Orca (1977) (see below).
13/06/2010: I have re-formatted and added screenshots to The Great Gabbo (1929), The Mysterious Island (1929) and The Unholy Night (1929).
04/04/2010: I have recovered and revised Around The World Under The Sea (1966) (see below), and re-formatted and added screenshots to Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961).
05/03/2010: Apart from recovering The Devil Bat (1940) and Devil Bat's Daughter (1946) (see below), I have re-formatted Revolt Of The Zombies (1936) and Rocketship X-M (1950), and fixed up the screenshots in The Walking Dead (1936).
14/02/2010: Still more SCIENCE IN THE REEL WORLD! This time we have Dr Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), a very fine biopic that shows us how science really happens, and Powder Town (1942), a comedy-action-romance-thriller that shows us how it really doesn't.
In other news, I have now recovered, re-formatted and added screenshots to my review of Destination Moon (1950), and re-fomatted and fixed up the screenshots in my review of The Flying Saucer (1950).
01/02/2010: This week we update SCIENCE IN THE REEL WORLD, looking at two romantic melodramas that have a scientist for their hero, His Brother's Wife (1936) and Dishonored Lady (1947).
Please note: following the Great Computer Meltdown of 2009, much of my early material was lost - temporarily, I hope. I am still very slowly recovering, re-formatting and in some cases revising those pieces; and I will post updated information here as it arises.
"When she was under hypnosis, we got the definite impression that what she’s carrying is something.... It’s a composite, of her and....and...."
"You must find a house, a woman; that woman. You must find the child she is carrying in her womb; you must find me. If you succeed in bringing the child to birth, if you succeed in ripping it out of that woman, maybe I’ll let you live for a few more years...."
Recent Reviews: Terror In The Sky / Zero Hour! / Orca / Half Human / Snowbeast / Seven Footprints To Satan / Around The World Under The Sea / Devil Bat's Daughter / The Devil Bat / The Sword And The Sorcerer / Conan The Barbarian / Powder Town / Dr Ehrlich's Magic Bullet / Prehistoric Women (1950) / Dishonored Lady / His Brother's Wife / Homesdale / The Wizard Of Oz (1933) / L'Anticristo / Amityville: A New Generation / Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932) / The Mummy's Hand / Sting Of Death / Tentacoli / Zombi Holocaust / The Snake Woman / Without Love / Yellow Jack / Gojira No Gyakushû / Ercole Alla Conquista Atlantide / Mesa Of Lost Women / Jurassic Park / The Raven (1915) /
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