The unlikely saga of Escape From The Planet Of The Apes began with a telegram from Arthur P. Jacobs, producer of the original Apes film series, to Paul Dehn, t...
Making a sequel to the Planet Of The Apes must have seemed inevitable and impossible all at once. The international success of a film with such a tantalizingly...
In 1968, you had two towering examples of big-budget Hollywood sci-fi. On one side, you had 2001: A Space Odyssey: intellectual, technically dazzling, artsy an...
Once the biker movie became a standard of the film
business in the late '60s, enterprising filmmakers at all levels of the
business put everything on a bike to...
Transport your mind back to the distant era called
"the mid-'80s." The VHS revolution was in full force in that glorious
time before Blockbuster took its ultim...
As the '70s gave way to the '80s, the writing was on the
wall for drive-in filmmakers. People were starting to watch movies at home via
VCRs and cable, major s...
One of the coolest and most progressive aspects of
International-Independent Pictures was their willingness to work with all sorts
of talent. Anyone from...
The dawn of the '70s brought a new permissiveness to
American cinema, one aided and abetted by the development of a ratings code
that allowed filmmakers to bri...
Horror films were always a reliable staple of drive-ins
so it was inevitable that the prolific and money-conscious Al Adamson would
make a few, often with busi...
Al Adamson's prime period as a director of drive-in
films was that hothouse period where the '60s gave way to the '70s. The hippie
dream was dead, America was ...
The event of the summer for exploitation film collectors
is Al Adamson: The Masterpiece
Collection, a jaw-dropping 14-disc set from Severin Films that includes...
"A
Hard Day's Night meets Star Wars": this is how Bill Aucoin,
manager of Kiss, pitched the t.v. film Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park to
the band. What they...
