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Horror of the Blood Monsters, a review by Jimmy

Title: Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)

Genre: Science fiction
Director: Al Adamson (I Spit on Your Corpse!)           
Rating: PG
Length: 1h26
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: No Subtitles

Stars:
John Carradine (The Howling)
Robert Dix (Forbidden Planet)
Vicki Volante (Brain of Blood)
Joey Benson (Blood of Ghastly Horror)
Jennifer Bishop (Impulse)   

Plot:
One of cult movie director Al Adamson's most popular films, known for its use of weird color effects by "Spectrum-X," stars horror icon John Carradine as scientist Dr. Rynning, who leads a space journey to a distant planet of blood-sucking vampires intent on contaminating Earth. While exploring the planet, the crew becomes entrapped by warring tribes of primitive vampire-like men and, in order to escape bloody death, must battle snake-men, bat-demons, and the other hideous denizens of this evil world!


Al Adamson in vampire make-up 

The movie really start with a spaceship expedition to another planet. The expedition will arrive on the planet and explore it. At this point we will learn that there was a nuclear incident who happens on the planet and that's why all the image are tinted (red, blue, yellow,...). That's how Adamson had incorporated the Tagani footage and I think that it was a really brilliant idea.


As seen on Robot Monster

This is a prehistoric planet and 2 tribes fight each other the Taganis and the Tubatons. The Taganis are human and the Tubatons are bat-man (not Batman, but some kind of vampire humanoids), by the way this is the Filippino movie. So the expedition will encounter a member of the Tagani tribe on the run and implant her brain with some kind of translating device.


Do you find the Tagani lovely?

The story will continue they will encounter crab monsters, Bat-man and caveman untill they will have to quit the planet urgently.

So, how I've found the movie? Quite good to be honest. It makes me think at another sixties sci-fi movie (Women of the Prehistoric Planet), but it's much better. John Carradine does a good job in one of his rare leading role (he had made more than 300 movies, but a lot of them are just small parts). The rest of the cast is so-so, but none of them are really bad. As I've said I like the idea of the tinted colour, really clever and original. This is a small budget movie, so it shows : bad miniature for the spaceship, bizarre editing (they use the same footage when the spaceship arrive and quit the planet), ...

I don't know if all the film of Al Adamson are that good (probably not), but expect a massive addition of his movies in my collection soon. I recommand this one, this is really a good little drive-in sci-fi movie (it is market as an horror movie, but I don't see it as one at all).

Usually I don't comment on the extra on the DVD, but the commentary track by Sam Sherman (the producer of the movie) is one of the best that I've listen. It is very informative about the film and the making of a low budget movie in the seventies.

Rating :

Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj-78jRaWJ4

(From The little known movie review depot on March 21st, 2008)

Stripes, a review by addicted2dvd

Stripes: Extended Cut (1981/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Ivan Reitman Writing: Len Blum (Writer), Daniel Goldberg (Writer), Harold Ramis (Writer) Length: 123 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, French: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, German: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Portuguese: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Spanish: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish

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Stars:
Bill Murray as John
Harold Ramis as Russell
Warren Oates as Sgt. Hulka
P.J. Soles as Stella
Sean Young as Louise

Plot:
When quick-witted slacker John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his apartment, girlfriend and job all in one day, he decides to embark on a new adventure: he joins the US Army, nearly starting WWIII.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• BD-Live
• Added footage marker

As you can see by the cover this film is part of a Bill Murray double feature along with Groundhog Day. I found this movie to be just as much fun as I remembered it to be. A good solid '80s comedy. One that I would recommend everyone to see at least once. This film had me literally laugh out loud more then once. The film has a lot of familiar faces in it as well. So if you have never seen this one... put it on your list. And if you have seen it before... maybe it is time to revisit this classic comedy.



(From Within My Lifetime Marathon on May 5th, 2015)

"Friends" Marathon, a review by Rogmeister

The One With The Prom Video  Monica's old home video elicits the true feelings Ross has for Rachel.  Joey gives Chandler a gift.

Joey's gift for Chandler is a gaudy bracelet..."You are so wearing that bracelet" he says but it's pretty gaudy.  "It's pretty flashy" Chandler admits..."Oh no," corrects Ross..."it's not gaudy...not for a GoodFella..."  I like this episode a lot, especially the comments made while the gang watches the video and we get a good look at how Monica looked back then when she weighed a lot more...

Joey: Some girl ate Monica!
Monica: Shut up!  The camera adds 10 pounds!
Chandler: So just how many cameras are on you?

The One Where Ross and Rachel...You Know  Ross and Rachel encounter romantic obstacles while Monica falls for a romantic older doctor (Tom Selleck).

Ross: Doctor Burke?  Why, why, why...should that bother me?  I love that man...he's like a brother to...dad.

The One Where Joey Moves Out  Joey decides to move out into his own place while Monica's parents find out about her and Richard (Tom Selleck).

This begins a plotline where Joey and Chandler are apart and Monica and Richard are now an item.

The One Where Eddie Moves In  Chandler gets a new roommate named Eddie while Phoebe makes a video for Smelly Cat.

Chandler will be sorry when he finds out that Eddie is a real nutbag...Phoebe's friends find out when she shows them her Smelly Cat video that the record company didn't use Phoebe's own voice for the video.

The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies  In an interview with a soap opera magazine, Joey boasts that he makes up some of his own dialogue, so the writers counter by having his character fall down an elevator shaft.  That's gonna leave a mark...

Joey's obviously going to have problems in this episode's aftermath while Chandler learns just what kind of nut Eddie really is.

The One Where Eddie Won't Go  Joey feels the crunch of unemployment, especially regarding his Visa bill and the expense of paying for some paying for some items he can't afford.  Chandler can't abide his new roommate Eddie who acts nuttier and nuttier.

Chandler does get rid of Eddie finally...as Joey moves back in.

(From "Friends" Marathon on August 24th, 2009)