Blogdrax in # movies • 2 hr. ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)Ever since Mary Shelley first mentioned her in the closing pages of her seminal novel, the Bride of Frankenstein has become something close to a staple in virtually every subsequent adaptation of the Frankenstein mythos. The very idea of a female counterpart to the monster—beautiful yet tragic, created yet doomed—carries an irresistible dramatic…drax in # movies • 10 days ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)Much of Christopher Lee's early career stardom was built upon his iconic portrayal of the Count in Hammer's 1958 Dracula (released in America as Horror of Dracula ). That film didn't merely launch a franchise—it fundamentally reimagined the vampire for cinema audiences. Lee's Dracula was no longer the theatrical, continental gentleman…drax in # movies • 22 days ago • 7 min readFilm Review: Forty-First (Sorok pervyy, 1956)The "Red Western," or Ostern as it is sometimes called, occupies a peculiar niche in cinema history—a genre that could only have emerged...drax in # movies • 27 days ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Sikandar (1941)Alexander the Great stands as one of history's most towering figures—arguably the greatest individual the Ancient World ever produced, and...drax in # movies • 1 mo. ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Miss Europe (Prix de beauté, 1930)The transition from silent to sound cinema in Europe occurred roughly a year or two later than in Hollywood, but this delay was not...drax in # movies • 1 mo. ago • 7 min readFilm Review: The Wind (1928)Among the many films throughout the history of cinema that suffered from the misfortune of being released in the worst possible time, a...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Up the Academy (1980)In many Hollywood films, desperate parents try to deal with their rebellious and misbehaving teenage sons by having them sent to military...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 6 min readFilm Review: The Shining (1980)Films that age like wine and get better with each subsequent viewing are rare. It is even rarer for films to be panned by critics after the...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 4 min readFilm Review: The Long Riders (1980)Nothing demonstrates the power of modern media like Hollywood’s ability to transform bloodthirsty killers and ruthless criminals into...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Humanoids from the Deep (Monster, 1980)If you are uninitiated into the world of B-films and want to know what exploitation cinema in its pure form looks like, there are few films...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Fame (1980)Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film studio recently acquired by Jeff Bezos’ Amazon, used to be the greatest among the major studios of Classic...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 3 min readFilm Review: Friday the 13th (1980)John Carpenter’s Halloween is often credited with creating the modern slasher film genre, but it took a series of its cheap and often...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 5 min readFilm Review: Death Watch (La Mort en direct, 1980)Watching old science fiction films can be interesting when their plot settings allow our present-day world to be compared with what the...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Bad Timing (1980)So many cult films owe their cult status to merely being rejected, censored, or suppressed at their premiere, thus allowing a small...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 3 min readFilm Review: North Sea Hijack (ffolkes, 1980)Action films are less likely than other genres to provide commentary on social issues like the change in the position of women in society....drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Tom Horn (1980)The story of the Old West had a happy ending, at least for the United States, white settlers and Hollywood, which would milk the last drop...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 3 min readFilm Review: S.H.E.: Security Hazard Expert (1980)Feminists among film critics and scholars like to complain about the lack of action film heroines, at least those strong enough to carry...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 4 min readFilm Review: Saturn 3 (1980)Among the many attempts to repeat the success of Star Wars by making a high-budget science fiction epic, few were as strange as Saturn 3, a...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 6 min readFilm Review: Cruising (1980)Just as there are films that are praised unjustly and for the wrong reasons, there are films that are vilified unjustly and for the wrong...drax in # movies • 2 mo. ago • 3 min readFilm Review: The Fog (1980)Great concepts are wasted on mediocre and subpar films more than anyone would like to think. And this could happen even to the great film...
