Movie of the Day

The Emerald of Artatama (1969)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:59:34 GMT

The Emerald of Artatama (1969) aka The Girl of the Nile, La muchaca del Nilo
#3009
Viewing Date: 8-3-2009
Posting Date: 11-9-2009
Directed by Jose Maria Elorrieta
Featuring Pilar Arenas, Frank Brana, Rory Calhoun
Country: Spain

An adventurer seeks financing for an expedition to the tomb of Artatama to recover a legendary emerald.

In the first half hour of the movie, we have some voice-over narration, a fistfight, a little exposition about how...

The Medusa Touch (1978)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:56:46 GMT

The Medusa Touch (1978)
#3008
Viewing Date: 8-2-2009
Posting Date: 11-8-2009
Directed by Jack Gold
Featuring Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick
Country: France / UK

When a man is found bludgeoned almost to death in his apartment, a police inspector seeks to find the murderer. His search leads him to the knowledge that the victim may have powers of destruction that make him a threat to society. Furthermore, despite his injuries, the victim...

Matchless (1967)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:52 GMT

Matchless (1967)
#3007
Viewing Date: 8-1-2009
Posting Date: 11-7-2009
Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Featuring Patrick O'Neal, Ira von Furstenberg, Donald Pleasence
Country: Italy

An American journalist, while a prisoner in China, acquires a magic ring that can turn him invisible for limited periods of time. When he returns to the U.S., he is sent on a mission by the military to track down a genius master criminal to acquire his secrets.

...

Mark of the Devil (1970)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:54:19 GMT

Mark of the Devil (1970) aka Hexen bis aufs Blut gequalt
#3005
Viewing Date: 7-31-2009
Posting Date: 11-6-2009
Directed by Michael Armstrong and Adrian Hoven
Featuring Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katrina
Country: West Germany

A town hopes the arrival of witch-hunter Lord Cumberland will free them from the tyranny of their local witch hunter, who has been abusing his authority for personal satisfaction. However, the new witch-hunter may be even...

Doctor Dracula (1978)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:39:50 GMT

Doctor Dracula (1978) aka Svengali, Lucifer's Women
#3005
Viewing Date: 7-30-2009
Posting Date: 11-6-2009
Directed by Paul Aratow and Al Adamson
Featuring John Carradine, Don 'Red' Barry, Larry Hankin
Country: USA

Svengali has been reincarnated into a college professor by satanists who want him to deliver Trilby to them. Meanwhile, Dracula is killing women and plotting against the Satanic cult. John Carradine looks on.

In which Al...

Mad Monster Party? (1967)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:38:35 GMT

Mad Monster Party? (1967)
#3004
Viewing Date: 7-29-2009
Posting Date: 10-4-2009
Directed by Jules Bass
Featuring the voices of Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett
Country: USA

Dr. Frankenstein plans to retire as head of the monsters and plans to put his nephew in his place, a human named Felix Flankin. However, the other monsters hatch a plot to do away with Felix so they can get a hold on all of Dr. Frankenstein's secrets.

It's...

In Search of Noah's Ark (1976)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:23:42 GMT

In Search of Noah's Ark (1976)
#3003
Viewing Date: 7-28-2009
Posting Date: 11-3-2009
Directed by James L. Conway
Featuring Vern Adix, Brad Crandall, Lee Sollenberger
Country: USA

Does evidence exist of Noah's Ark on top of Mount Ararat? This movie sets out to examine the proof...

I always feel like I'm walking on thin ice with movies whose fantastic content ties them with Biblical themes; the very fact that I'm covering them in...

The Ice House (1969)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:13:32 GMT

The Ice House (1969) aka Love in Cold Blood
#3002
Viewing Date: 7-27-2009
Posting Date: 11-2-2009
Directed by Stuart E. McGowan
Featuring David Story, Robert Story, Jim Davis
Country: USA

An ice house worker is humiliated by a buxom blonde who hits him over the head with a beer bottle. This gives him a trauma so that he strangles any woman who raises a drink to him. Pretty soon, his twin brother, a cop, is on a case to track down disappearing...

Dave's Essential 300 - An Exploratory Guide

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:30:30 GMT

Hello, all!

I've been toying with a project to celebrate the posting of my 3000th entry in my Movie of the Day series. I decided that, from the list of 3000 movies that I've covered, I wanted to compile a recommended list of 300 of them. My hope is that this list will not only highlight the most significant, important and essential movies, but also give an idea of the range of movies I've seen for this project, as well as a chance to highlight some obscurities I think...

Past Midnight (1991)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:54:54 GMT

Past Midnight (1991)
#3001
Viewing Date: 7-26-2009
Posting Date: 11-1-2009
Directed by Jan Eliasberg
Featuring Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Clancy Brown
Country: USA

A social worker takes on a case of finding a job for a parolee who was in prison for killing his wife and unborn child. She begins to suspect that he was framed for the murder, and she investigates on her own while falling in love with him. However, she may be in greater danger than...

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:02:04 GMT

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966) aka Se tutte le donne del mondo
#3000
Viewing Date: 7-25-2009
Posting Date: 10-31-2009
Directed by Henry Levin and Arduino Miauri
Featuring Mike Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone
Country: Italy

An American CIA agent investigates the dealings of a man in Rio de Janeiro who is suspected of being a white slaver. He discovers a plot to render the entire population of the world sterile.

For an Italian...

The Killer Spores (1977) TV-Movie

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:47:33 GMT

The Killer Spores (1977) TV-Movie for the series "Man from Atlantis"
#2999
Viewing Date: 7-24-2009
Posting Date: 10-30-2009
Directed by Raza Badiyi
Featuring Patrick Duffy, Belinda Montgomery, Kenneth Tigar
Country: USA

An Oceanic science team is sent out to retrieve a space probe that landed in their vicinity. However, the space probe has brought back a surprise; a bizarre life form that can only be seen in the daylight by Mark Harris, the...

Killer Bees (1974)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:11:22 GMT

Killer Bees (1974) TV-Movie
#2998
Viewing Date: 7-23-2009
Posting Date: 10-29-2009
Directed by Curtis Harrington
Featuring Edward Albert, Kate Jackson, Gloria Swanson
Country: USA

A young man brings his pregnant girlfriend to his ancestral home, much to the consternation of his family and his domineering grandmother. The girlfriend tries to gain acceptance to the family, but she is troubled by a series of local accidents... and the grandmother's...

Jungle Moon Men (1955)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:29:45 GMT

Jungle Moon Men (1955)
#2997
Viewing Date: 7-22-2009
Posting Date: 10-28-2009
Directed by Charles S. Gould
Featuring Johnny Weissmuller, Jean Byron, Helene Stanton
Country: USA

Jungle Jim - er, pardon me, Johnny Weissmuller, that is, helps guide a woman writer to the realm of a tribe of pygmies known as moon men.

This is one of those Jungle Jim movies where the Jungle Jim references were dropped; Johnny Weissmuller plays Johnny Weissmuller, and...

Journey to Midnight (1968)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:04:33 GMT

Journey to Midnight (1968)
#2996
Viewing Date: 7-21-2009
Posting Date: 10-27-2009
Directed by Roy Ward Baker and Alan Gibson
Featuring Sebastian Cabot, Chad Everett, Bernard Lee
Country: UK

Two stories of the supernatural are presented. In the first, an American is invited to a costume party at a provincial English manor despite not knowing anyone there. There he discovers a dark secret. In the second, a woman seeks to communicate to her dead...

It! (1966)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:57:33 GMT

It! (1966)
#2995
Viewing Date: 7-20-2009
Posting Date: 10-26-2009
Directed by Herbert J. Leder
Featuring Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell
Country: UK / USA

When a museum's warehouse burns down, the only surviving piece is an ominous-looking statue. When people begin dying mysteriously in its proximity, the assistant to the curator begins to suspect that the statue is the Golem of legend. Now, if he can only find the scroll that will...

Night of the Big Heat (1967)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:02:33 GMT

Night of the Big Heat (1967) aka Island of the Burning Doomed
#2994
Viewing Date: 7-19-2009
Posting Date: 10-25-2009
Directed by Terence Fisher
Featuring Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing
Country: UK

An island near England is having unseasonably warm weather. A scientist on the island discovers that the weather is not a meteorological fluke, but a symptom of something far more ominous...

I'd heard about this movie for years,...

Infra-Man (1975)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:34:42 GMT

Infra-Man (1975) aka Zhong guo chao ren
#2993
Viewing Date: 7-18-2009
Posting Date: 10-24-2009
Directed by Shan Hua
Featuring Danny Lee, Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang
Country: Hong Kong

In order to battle an attack by subterranean monsters led by the evil Princess Dragon Mom, a Professor transforms his assistant into the indestructible super-hero Infra-Man.

In this movie, the Shaw Brothers take the basic Japanese superhero premise (Starman, Ultraman,...

Galaxy Express 999 (1979)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:13:31 GMT

Galaxy Express 999 (1979) aka Gingo tetsudo Three-Nine
#2992
Viewing Date: 7-17-209
Posting Date: 10-23-2009
Directed by Rintaro
Featuring the voices of Saffron Henderson, Kathleen Barr, Don Brown
Country: Japan

A young boy steals a train ticket to the interplanetary Galaxy Express in the hopes of going to the planet of Andromeda to get a machine body, and to seek revenge on the evil Count Mecha for the murder of his mother. In order to keep from...

I Dismember Mama (1974)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:32:08 GMT

I Dismember Mama (1974) aka Poor Albert and Little Annie
#2991
Viewing Date: 7-16-2009
Posting Date: 10-22-2009
Directed by Paul Leder
Featuring Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl, Joanne Moore Jordan
Country: USA

A young man is kept in an institution after attempting to kill his mother. After he attacks a nurse, he is marked to go into an institution with higher security, but he escapes, intent on finding his mother and killing her.

I found Paul...