THE RAVEN (MGM)

This Roger Corman gem stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson plus lovely Hazel Court.
This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen thanks to Price and Lorre doing improvise dialogue which is very funny. Lorre steals the show and the entire 93 minutes moves along briskly. This is part of the Midnight Movies series from MGM and I have been told it is OOP, but you can still find it very easily. The other movie on the disc is Comedy Of Terrors, and it makes for the funniest DVD release in the Midnight Movies series.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO......

Turhen Bey turns 89 and John Astin turns 81.

COMING ATTRACTIONS......

Shout Factory brings us more great movies from the Roger Corman collection on April 5th with the Action Pack Triple Feature of Georgie Peaches, Great Texas Dynamite Chase and Smokey Bites The Dust.
April 19th sees the Cheezy Flicks release of Bloodsucking Nazi Zombies which is a title i used to own on VHS many years ago.
April 26th in the date for Roger Corman's Dinoshark to finally come to DVD.
June 21st in Shout factory's date for the Roger Corman Women In Cages Triple Feature which has such films as Big Bird Cage, Big Doll House and Women In Cages. Good fun for all.

RAMBLINGS

Well first off I want to thank everyone who has left their comments and I appreciate it very much. I have been somewhat struggling to keep everything running since my divorce, which has left me a little less time to do the things I really want to do.
I have many, many reviews to get to but just haven't had time, however I promise they will be here.

THE SHINING (WARNER BROTHERS)

This is the 1997 TV version of the classic Stephen King story about the evil Overlook Hotel and the three people who go there and stay. Jack Torrence is the man who is hired as caretaker and Steven Weber does an excellent job of playing the role. Rebecca DeMorney is his long suffering wife and Courtland mead is their son, who has very strong psychic abilities.
Jack slowly enters a world of demons and madness from the past and this movie does have some very good shocks including the scene with wasps, the living bushes and the woman in the bathtub...all very unsettling images.
This has been called much better than the version for the big screen which starred Jack Nicholson, but I think both are good and have merits all their own. This version is about 4 and 1/2 hours and covers much of which the movie couldn't.

RIP...

One of the greatest American actors to ever grace the silver screen has passed away. Farley Granger dies at the age of 85 on March 28th. He is best known to movie fans who visit this site for such great film noir classics as Strangers On A Train, and Edge Of Doom.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO.....

Lucy Lawless turns 53, Elle Macpherson turns 48, Terence Hill is 72.

NIGHT TIDE (IMAGE)

Great film starring Dennis Hopper as a young sailor who falls in love with a woman who might actually belong to a long lost race of sea people who murder men they fall in love with.
Crisp black and white photography, and a great cast including Hopper, Linda Lawson and Luana Anders only add class. Curtis harrington directed and Roger Corman's Filmgroup released this in 1963 after is sat on a shelf for three years.
Highly recommended and atmospheric.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO......

Quentin Tarantino turns 48, Mariah Carey turns 42, Julian Glover is 76, and Talisa Soto turns 44.

SANTO AND THE BLUE DEMON VS. DRACULA AND THE WOLFMAN (RISE ABOVE)

The two most popular Mexican wrestlers in history team up to defeat two monsters and their army of demons. This is a very colorful film full of action, monsters, gorgeous women and, of course, wrestling. The movie is presented in Spanish with English subtitles. Highly recommended fun!!!

RAMBLINGS

Well, from Rueters comes the story of a new "El Santo" film, that is not really new to people who are familiar with his movies. Go to the link listed and read something rather interesting.http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/us-santo-sex-idUSTRE72N4VQ20110324?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=76

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO....

James Caan turns 71, Leonard Nimoy turns 80, Sara Jean Underwood turns 27, Diana Ross is 67, and Johnny Crawford turns 67.

CURSE OF THE STONE HAND (DVD-R)

This is a Jerry Warren movie made from a 1959 Mexican film entitled Suicide Club and a 1946 Chilean horror film with new footage starring Lloyd Nelson, Katherine Victor and John Carradine. The results are a little confusing but I still have to admit I like this movie, especally the Suicide Club.
I first saw this movie back in 1981 on WTCG (now TBS) and Creature Features and maybe it hit me at the right time.
I may be the only person in the world who likes this film, but so be it. Recommended.

CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON (IMAGE)

Very low budegt film about 5 people who travel to the moon and find a race of cat women living there who plan on stealing the spaceship and heading back to earth to take it over. Sonny Tufts, Marie Windsor, Douglas Fowley, Bill Phipps and Victor Jory star in this delightful fun film from 1953.
I love this film for it's sheer innocence and fun approach to the subject. Don't take it too serious and just have a good time with it.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO......

Bonnie Bedelia turns 63.