A research team on a fruitless search for life in space encounter a lost spaceship perched on the event horizon of a black hole where they find an Earth scientist who harbours a terrible secret...
In 1960 producer-director George Pal's The Time Machine reshaped HG Wells' thoughtful, ironic novel into a two-fisted action movie, but one that still appeals to children and adults immensely and deserves its classic status. Wells' themes of biological and social evolution are played down, but there is a surprisingly melancholy thread as Rod Taylor's Time Traveller keeps stopping off at future wars to find that human stupidity still persists. In the first week of 1900 a group of fussy Victorians gather in Taylor's chintzy, overstuffed parlour to hear him tell of his expedition to the future, where the world is divided between the surface-dwelling, childish, beautiful Eloi and the hideous, underground, cannibal Morlocks. Wells intended both factions to seem degenerate, the logical final evolution of the class system, but Pal has Taylor pull a Captain Kirk and side with the Eloi and teach them to fight against their oppressors. The time travel sequence remains a tour de force, with a shop window mannequin demonstrating a parade of fashions as the years fly by in seconds and charming but still-effective stop-motion effects. The future is a wonderfully coloured landscape with properly gruesome cave-dwelling monsters and a winning Eloi heroine in Yvette Mimieux. It may not be totally Wells, but it's a treat. On the DVD: The Time Machine arrives on disc in a lovely widescreen print which makes the film seem new all over again. The featurette "Time Machine: The Journey Back" combines some mild behind-the-scenes stuff about the film (and its star prop) with a moving mini-sequel reuniting stars Rod Taylor and Alan Young in a scene that actually addresses a plot point skipped over in the original. --Kim Newman
Frustrated with the stuffy Midwest four college girls go on the road to seek fun in the sun of Fort Lauderdale during their spring vacation. But can they find happiness and romance while avoiding the pitfalls that await young ladies travelling alone?
The legendary creature is half man... half animal... and a cold-blooded killer! Mystery hangs over the Rill Ski Resort in Colorado after a young skier is found dead by an animal. But no ordinary animal. The Town Sheriff (Clint Walker) and Naturalists believe it could be a Yeti - the creature that was seen for years in the Colorado Rockies and North Western America. After many other skiers are found dead Tony Rill (Robert Logan) a good hunter sees a white creature disappearing into the woods. Worried he informs his Grandmother (Silyva Sydney) the ski resort supervisor but in order to keep her business she keeps the Resort open and says creatures are legends. After more attacks 2 ski champions (Bo Svenson and Yvette Minieux) go into pursuit to stop the beast.
Rudolph Valentino was the first male sexual icon of the modern media world. For 5 years from 1921 until 1926 other men watched with envy as Valentino the quintessential Latin screen lover made women swoon over the mere thought of his embrace. This romanticised film covers the career of Valentino from his arrival in Hollywood in 1917 and his emergence in 1921 as American cinema's first great lover.
Case Of The Bloody Iris (Dir. Giuliano Carnimeo 1972): Jennifer a young model moves into a flat that was previously occupied by a performer who was brutally murdered. The crime is yet unsolved and Jennifer's neighbours - from an elderly lady and her disfigured son to a lecherous lesbian - may be possible suspects. The killer slices more beautiful girls open. Dressed in black leather and tooled with a cutthroat razor Jennifer could be the killer's next victim in the movie's chilling conclusion. Snowbeast (Dir. Herb Wallerstein 1977): Mystery hangs over the Rill Ski Resort in Colorado after a young skier is found dead by an animal. But no ordinary animal. The town sheriff and naturalists believe it could be a Yeti - the creature that was seen for years in the Colorado Rockies and North western America. After many other skiers are found dead Tony Rill a good hunter sees a white creature disappearing into the woods. Worried he informs his Grandmother the ski resort supervisor but in order to keep her business she keeps the resort open and says creatures are legends After more attacks 2 champion skiers go in pursuit to stop the beast.
As preparations for the Winter Carnival at Colorado's Rill Ski Lodge begin an unseen presence haunts the snowy slopes. When a young girl is found murdered her friend claims that a 'beast' was responsible but her story disbelieved - until it becomes clear that something has come down from the mountaintops to satisfy its hideous appetite.
In 1960 producer-director George Pal's The Time Machine reshaped HG Wells' thoughtful, ironic novel into a two-fisted action movie, but one that still appeals to children and adults immensely and deserves its classic status. Wells' themes of biological and social evolution are played down, but there is a surprisingly melancholy thread as Rod Taylor's Time Traveller keeps stopping off at future wars to find that human stupidity still persists. In the first week of 1900 a group of fussy Victorians gather in Taylor's chintzy, overstuffed parlour to hear him tell of his expedition to the future, where the world is divided between the surface-dwelling, childish, beautiful Eloi and the hideous, underground, cannibal Morlocks. Wells intended both factions to seem degenerate, the logical final evolution of the class system, but Pal has Taylor pull a Captain Kirk and side with the Eloi and teach them to fight against their oppressors. The time travel sequence remains a tour de force, with a shop window mannequin demonstrating a parade of fashions as the years fly by in seconds and charming but still-effective stop-motion effects. The future is a wonderfully coloured landscape with properly gruesome cave-dwelling monsters and a winning Eloi heroine in Yvette Mimieux. It may not be totally Wells, but it's a treat. On the DVD: The Time Machine arrives on disc in a lovely widescreen print which makes the film seem new all over again. The featurette "Time Machine: The Journey Back" combines some mild behind-the-scenes stuff about the film (and its star prop) with a moving mini-sequel reuniting stars Rod Taylor and Alan Young in a scene that actually addresses a plot point skipped over in the original. --Kim Newman
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