Studio portrait of B-movie actor and model Mona Knox, 1955
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This past week I went to the Merrill Historical Society to visit their (free!) exhibit on Wisconsin's very own Bill Rebane. At the exhibit they had the original cage used to make one of the two giant spider props (the one with the Volkswagen was stolen long ago, unfortunately). The fur on it is a recreation of the original, though some of the original fur still exists. Of interest is a short comic used to promote the film to distributors.
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Fake movie poster in Simpsons Illustrated #2 1991
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The Phantom Empire (Fred Olen Ray, 1988)
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A bewigged and chiffon caftan-clad Beryl Reid conducting a séance and speaking in the voice of a child … suave Hollywood bad guy George Sanders (in his final film role) as her sinister butler Shadwell … a surly antisocial biker gang called The Living Dead, whose hellraising members are named things like Hatchet, Gash and Chopped Meat but whose tough skull-and-crossbones image is belied by the fact the actors all speak in upper-crust posh tones like they’ve received elocution lessons from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art … Robert Hardy from All Creatures Great and Small as the chief of police on their case … grocery shoppers at the Hepworth Way shopping centre in Walton-on-Thames being terrorized by The Living Dead (the camera really ogles the pram-pushing young “dollybird” mums wearing miniskirts and hotpants) … occultism centred around the worship of “The Frog God” (prepare for a lot of close-ups of a frog under a bell jar ribbiting) … and a fleeting appearance from June Brown long before she played Dot Cotton in Eastenders … YES! I can only be talking about Psychomania (1973) (aka The Death Wheelers). Tagline: “The Dead Still Ride...the living howl in TERROR!” I revisited this endearingly terrible British exploitation horror oddity last weekend. For anyone squeamish: there’s a high body count, but absolutely zero blood or gore. And Psychomania is brimming with kitschy early seventies charm (and every outdoor scene features typically drab overcast British weather).
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Hallowmonth Begins!
(Drawn earlier this year in honor of Roger Corman's birthday)
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All that remains of the fur used to cover one of the giant spider props from The Giant Spider Invasion
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If I had a nickel for every time Indominus Rex was mistaken for a real dinosaur, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
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