Sunday 29 April 2018


Little Shop Of Horror 1986


Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey's boyfriend, Orin (Steve Martin), to the plant after Orin's accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.

Initial release: 19 December 1986 (USA)
Director: Frank Oz
Featured song: Little Shop of Horrors (from "Little Shop of Horrors")
Screenplay: Howard Ashman
Music composed by: Miles Goodman

Monday 16 April 2018

Marte Distruggera la Terra! (The Angry Red Planet)




Chief Warrant Officer Sam Jacobs (Jack Kruschen), Dr. Iris Ryan (Nora Hayden), Professor Theodore Gettell (Les Tremayne) and Col. Tom O'Bannion (Gerald Mohr) are astronauts aboard the spaceship MR-1, the first mission to Mars. Shortly after their rocket reaches the mysterious red planet, the band of brave space explorers discovers monstrous yet highly intelligent alien life forms, which first attack, then deliver a haunting word of warning intended for all mankind.
Initial release: 23 November 1959 (USA)
Director: Ib Melchior
Music composed by: Paul Dunlap
Budget: 200,000 USD
Initial DVD release: 1 April 2003 (USA)

We Moon Men


To Marry Superman!


Electric elevator desks in Prague, 1937.


Sunday 8 April 2018

This Island Earth

Scientist Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) solves a mysterious puzzle that allows him access to a highly secretive program -- led by the mysterious Exeter (Jeff Morrow) -- that has assembled the world's greatest scientific minds in an attempt to quickly learn how to generate and store nuclear power. But with the help of fellow scientists Ruth Adams (Faith Domergue) and Steve Carlson (Russell Johnson), Meacham soon discovers that his host is not what he claims to be.
Initial release: 1 June 1955
Directors: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold
Budget: 800,000 USD (estimated)
Box office: 1.7 million USD
Screenplay: Franklin Coen, Edward G. O'Callaghan

1968 Automodule concept car by Jean Pierre Ponthieu.


Tuesday 3 April 2018

DC poison ivy




the time machine



Scientist H. George Wells (Rod Taylor) builds a time machine, and despite the warning from his friend David (Alan Young) against "tempting the laws of providence," decides to visit the future. Jumping ahead 14 years, he observes changes in women's fashion. Jumping ahead 40, he meets David's son (also Young) amid a terrible war. Finally, he travels thousands of years ahead to discover a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by humanoid Eloi and the monstrous Morlocks that feed on them.
Initial release: 17 August 1960 (USA)
Director: George Pal
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Adapted from: The Time Machine
Awards: Academy Award for Best Visual Effects


No: 6



Synthetic love.


Soylent Green



In a densely overpopulated, starving New York City of the future, NYPD detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) investigates the murder of an executive at rations manufacturer Soylent Corporation. With the help of elderly academic Solomon "Sol" Roth (Edward G. Robinson), Thorn begins to make real progress -- until the governor mysteriously pulls the plug. Obsessed with the mystery, Thorn steps out from behind the badge and launches his own investigation into the murder.
Initial release: 19 April 1973 (New York City)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Story by: Harry Harrison
Screenplay: Stanley R. Greenberg
Box office: 3.6 million USD (rentals)

Old Road Sign.



DC Bombshells


Hiway 55