After a week off for Christmas, The Movie Night Diaries is back! This time we’re looking into Hammer Horror’s The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), directed by Freddie Francis. The Evil of Frankenstein stars Peter Cushing as the cursed Baron Frankenstein and Kiwi Kingston as his hapless creature in a re-booting of Hammer’s Frankenstein mythology. I …
The Movie Night Diaries at Where the Long Tail Ends looks at 1990′s science-fiction romp Circuitry Man, directed by Steven Lovy. Circuitry Man stars Vernon Wells (of Road Warrior fame) and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (Fletch, Tombstone). We’re shifting gears a bit here at The Movie Night Diaries. This is the first science-fiction film we’ve had a …
This time, The Movie Night Diaries at Where the Long Tail Ends is having a look Mario Bava’s 1963 horror trilogy, Black Sabbath, or, The Three Faces of Fear. Black Sabbath stars Boris Karloff as both the anthology’s host and star of one of the entries in this trilogy of frightful tales. It’s time for …
The Movie Night Diaries at Where the Long Tail Ends looks at 1984′s C.H.U.D., directed by Douglas Cheek. This Eighties take on the Atom-age creature-feature stars John Heard, Daniel Stern, and Kim Greist. C.H.U.D. — for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers — is another of the several horror or science-fiction films that eluded me in my …