‘Reviews’
More often than not, cinematic orphans like Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark sputter toward their inevitable release, earning a token weekend, then off to DVD and Netflix, but in this case, the result is a ferocious, deliciously spooky chiller, destined for sleeper status and ready to shred its bloated summer competition.
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Jeff Bond reviews Automat Pictures’ DVD presentation of Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary on cinema’s master of exploitation and manipulation, William Castle — Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story.
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Any kid on a playground on November 22, 1972 was undoubtedly speaking in hushed tones about what they’d witnessed—even if only fleetingly—the night before: the premiere of the horror TV-movie Gargoyles. Jeff Bond reviews the DVD from Classic Media.
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This long out-of-production resin kit is the quintessential figure showcasing the mammoth horned lord played in the film by Tim Curry. Sculpted to perfection by Mike Trcic (former Stan Winston Studio creator of the T-Rex from JURASSIC PARK), the proportions are expertly crafted from horns to hooves, exquisitely capturing his defiant pose and maniacal smirk.
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Jeff Bond review’s Criterion Collection’s special feature-packed DVD/Blu-ray presentation of Guillermo del Toro’s 1993 horror thriller Cronos.
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The skeleton warriors from Ray Harryhausen’s Jason and the Argonauts have long confounded toy and action figure makers because of the difficulty of building articulation into the stripped down human chassis. Fortunately Kaiyodo’s patented “Revoltech” joint system is just about the perfect remedy to this dilemma, and in their Sci-Fi Revoltech Series 20 they’ve produced a killer reproduction of skeleton warrior that is probably the finest reproduction of the characters done yet—and they’re completely poseable.
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Most ‘60s sci fi movies were schlock, relegated to matinee and drive-in fare, and quite often they weren’t even of American vintage. Warner Archives has just put out two nicely preserved perpetrators — The Green Slime and Wild, Wild Planet — that demonstrate how little the art form had advanced between the heyday of the genre in the mid-‘50s and the height of the space race ten and fifteen years later.
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Ah, Greedo—the galaxy’s most misunderstood bounty hunter. Was he a bumbling screw-up who let that shifty Han Solo get the drop on him, or a trigger-happy hothead who forced that nice guy Han Solo to shoot him in a clear act of self-defense?
Jeff Bond examines Sideshow Toy’s 1/6 scale Greedo Bounty Hunter action figure from Star Wars.
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Movie poster artist legend Drew Struzan appears to be getting his revenge on Hollywood in the early pages of this 160-page coffee table book, reaching back to the very first lowlife that screwed him over all the way forward to the studio “suits” that finally drove him to retirement out of sheer frustration in 2008.
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In his massive 650-page tome on special effects artist Ray Harryhausen, author Mike Hankin views Harryhausen’s work with the eye of an experienced effects man and most importantly, leaves no magic stone unturned in terms of digging up sources for his story. Book review by Jeff Bond.
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John Ballentine, co-author of The Monster Magazine & Fanzine Collector’s Guide, picks the Top 50 most influential issues from the hallowed history of genre publications.
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