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Entries tagged with 'Sci-Fi'
Posted May. 22, 2008,
Tobor Is Robot Is "Joyfully Idiotic."
By Dennis Dermody
God I love bad '50s sci-fi. Especially when it features a big dumb man-made mechanical creature and a little kid. Available now on DVD Tobor the Great is one of the dumbest, but what a blast. Planning to man spacecrafts to the stars is only in the planning stages and Professor Nordstrom in his remote lab has created a extra special robot named Tobor (that's Robot spelled backwards stupid!) to man the rockets. Even annoying cute grandson Gadge (Billy Chapin) bonds with Tobor and that comes in handy when the boy and egghead Grandpa are kidnapped by foreign agents hoping to steal the formula to make the robot. Directed by Lee Sholem this 1954 kiddie adventure is joyfully idiotic.
Posted Mar. 13, 2008,
Socket to Me!
By Dennis Dermody
Check out Socket, a wonderfully deranged gay sci-fi horror film directed by Sean Abley about Doctor Bill Matthews (Derek Long), struck by lightening, who wakes in the hospital alive, but super-charged, so to speak. A good-looking intern named Craig (Matthew Montgomery) slips him a card and advises him to call it. It’s the number for a secret society of like-minded electricity fiends who meet to hold hands and attach themselves to a live wire for that extra jolt. Craig and Bill become lovers, but bored with having to stick a fork into an electrical outlet for a quick thrill, Bill surgically implants plugs and actual sockets into their wrists for easy access. But like a junkie, Bill needs more and more juice, and when he accidentally kills a mugger with his charged bare hands he lights up like a Con Edison plant. With plenty of nods to David Cronenberg, not to mention Mr. Wizard, Socket gives new meaning to calling your date a dim bulb. It comes out on DVD on March 25th and all I can say is: Socket to me!
Posted Jul. 3, 2007,
Universal Horror & Sci-Fi DVDs!
By Dennis Dermody
Here's a scoop: Universal is putting out another Best Buy exclusive this fall -- two 5-movie box sets. "The Sci-Fi Collection" includes: The Deadly Mantis, The Land Unknown, Dr. Cyclops, Leech Woman, Cult Of The Cobra. "The Horror Collection" includes: Horror Island, Night Monster, Man Made Monster, The Black Cat and my favorite, Captive Wild Woman starring Acquanetta!
The last exclusive "Classic Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection" from Best Buy, which had Tarantula, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Mole People, The Monolith Monsters and Monster On The Campus, is out of print and goes for $190 and up at www.Amazon.com.