Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Theme Song of the Week # 6: The Alpha and Omega of MST3K
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1... -
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...
Classic! I had never seen the first opening before. This was easily one of the greatest TV shows ever. So many memories! The first one I ever watched was Ring of Terror, which was way back in the long, long ago of (I believe) 1992. I remember myself and only about 50 others in the now gone theater in Willow Lawn shopping center. I remember telling everybody I knew that I was busy the night the last one aired on Sci-Fi.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the look back, John...and keep circulating the tapes!
What's that strange, maddeningly rhythmic tamborine music I hear...oh, no, it's Torgo!
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