Movie of the Day

Shadow of Evil (1964)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:18:47 GMT

Shadow of Evil (1964) aka Banco a Bangkok pour OSS 117
#3069
Viewing Date: 10-2-2009
Posting Date: 1-8-2009
Directed by Andre Hunebelle
Featuring Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Pier Angeli
Country: France / Italy
What it is: Spyghetti

A secret agent is sent to Thailand to investigate outbreaks of plague which are tied to the distribution of a certain type of inoculation.

This isn't a particularly good example of the Spyghetti genre,...

Primal Impulse (1975)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:41:28 GMT

Primal Impulse (1975) aka Le orme
#3068
Viewing Date: 10-1-2009
Posting Date: 1-7-2010
Directed by Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Fanelli
Featuring Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery, Lila Kedrova
Country: Italy
What it is: Bizarre arty horror / science fiction movie

A woman discovers that she has lost two days of her life. She investigates the reasons for the memory loss, with her only clues being a torn-up postcard of a Hotel and recurring memories of a...

Tainstvenny ostrov (1941)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:29:58 GMT

Tainstvenny ostrov (1941) aka Mysterious Island
#3067
Viewing Date: 9-30-2009
Posting Date: 1-6-2009
Directed by Eduard Penslin
Featuring A. Krasnopolsky, Pavel Kiyansky, A. Andriyenko-Zemskov
Country: Soviet Union
What is is: Jules Verne adventure story adaptation with science fiction elements

Some civil war prisoners make an escape in a hot-air balloon and end up on a deserted island, but mysterious events lead them to believe they are not...

Begegnung im all (1963) aka Mechte navstrechu

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:26:34 GMT

Begegnung im all (1963) aka Mechte navstrechu, A Dream Come True
#3066
Viewing Date: 9-29-2009
Posting Date: 1-5-2009
Directed by Mikhail Karzhukov and Otar Koberidze
Featuring Larisa Gordeichik, Boris Borisenko, Otar Koberidze
Country: Soviet Union
What it is: Russian space epic

Aliens from another planet decide to visit Earth when they hear a transmission of a song from there. However, their spaceship crashes on one of the moons of Mars. It is...

La valse du gorille (1959)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:17:35 GMT

La valse du gorille (1959) aka Operation Top Secret
#3065
Viewing Date: 9-28-2009
Posting Date: 1-4-2010
Directed by Bernard Borderie
Featuring Roger Hanin, Charles Vanel, Jess Hahn
Country: France
What it is: Probably a Gizmo Maguffin spy thriller

Plans for a method of returning space rockets to earth become the prize in a battle of wits between spies.

The title above translates into THE GORILLA'S WALTZ, which is an interesting title;...

The Night Nurse (1978)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:44:53 GMT

The Night Nurse (1978) TV-Movie
#3064
Viewing Date: 9-27-2009
Posting Date: 1-3-2010
Directed by Igor Auzins
Featuring Gary Day, Kate Fitzpatrick, Kay Taylor
Country: Australia
What it is: Oddball horror thriller

A woman gets a job as a night nurse for a reclusive former opera singer known as "The Diva". The recluse's daughter (who has been selling her mother's art collection and replacing them with prints) attempts to drive the...

Valley of the Dragons (1961)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:17:53 GMT

Valley of the Dragons (1961)
#3063
Viewing Date: 9-26-2009
Posting Date: 1-2-2009
Directed by Edward Bernds
Featuring Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley
Country: USA
What it is: Low-budget caveman antics masquerading as Jules Verne epic

Two duellists are whisked up by a comet, where they find themselves in a prehistoric world that had been whisked up on the comet's previous journey to earth.

I've been curious about this movie...

Shadow on the Land (1968) TV-Movie

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:31:14 GMT

Shadow on the Land (1968) TV-Movie
#3062
Viewing Date: 9-25-2009
Posting Date: 1-1-2010
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Featuring Jackie Cooper, John Forsythe, Gene Hackman
Country: USA
What it is: Alternate universe United-States-under-dictatorship thriller

In an alternative universe, the United States is under the control of a dictator who uses a special band of law enforcers known as the ISF to control the people. A resistance group known as...

The Lord of the Rings (1978)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:52:45 GMT

The Lord of the Rings (1978)
#3061
Viewing Date: 9-24-2009
Posting Date: 12-31-2009
Directed by Ralph Bakshi
Featuring the voices of Christopher Guard, William Squire, Michael Scholes
Country: USA
What it is: Animated version of epic fantasy

When it is revealed by Gandalf that the magic ring possessed by Frodo the hobbit is actually the one ring created by the evil lord Sauron, the hobbit must embark on a quest that will ultimately bring about the...

The Underwater City (1962)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:13:43 GMT

The Underwater City (1962)
#3060
Viewing Date: 9-23-2009
Posting Date: 12-30-2009
Directed by Frank McDonald
Featuring William Lundigan, Julie Adams, Roy Roberts
Country: USA
What it is: Science Fiction of the "New Frontiers" variety

A project is undertaken to build a self-sufficient underwater city.

This is an earnest, well-intentioned slice of Heinleinian science fiction; it generally eschews melodrama in favor of the...

Track of the Moon Beast (1976)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:00:20 GMT

Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
#3059
Viewing Date: 9-22-2009
Posting Date: 12-29-2009
Directed by Richard Ashe
Featuring Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, Gregorio Sala
Country: USA
What it is: Wolf Man variation of the lizard variety

A geologist is hit by a meteor from the moon. A piece of it lodges in his brain, and he turns into a murderous lizard monster on a nightly basis.

This movie sat on the shelf for four years before it found a...

Time After Time (1979)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:49:06 GMT

Time After Time (1979)
#3058
Viewing Date: 9-21-2009
Posting Date: 12-28-2009
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
Featuring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen
Country: USA
What it is: Time travel story with horror overtones and a comic edge

Writer H.G. Wells is appalled to discover that one of his closest friends is actually the notorious Jack the Ripper... and is doubly shocked to discover that that friend has stolen his time machine to...

Supervan (1977)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:59:43 GMT

Supervan (1977)
#3057
Viewing Date: 9-20-2009
Posting Date: 12-27-2009
Directed by Lamar Card
Featuring Mark Schneider, Katie Saylor, Morgan Woodward
Country: USA
What it is: Lowbrow van worship movie with science fiction touches

A man takes a solar-powered supervan that shoots laser beams to a van "freakout", where he hopes to win the $5000 prize.

This movie features -

1) endless CB chatter

2) nonstop songs about...

Strange Illusion (1945)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:57:11 GMT

Strange Illusion (1945)
#3056
Viewing Date: 9-19-2009
Posting Date: 12-26-2009
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Featuring Jimmy Lydon, Warren William, Sally Eilers
Country: USA
What it is: Crime Thriller with mystic overtones

While on a fishing vacation, a teenager has a nightmare in which his family is threatened by a shadowy figure who plans to marry the boy's widowed mother. When he returns home, he discovers that his mother has become attached...

Till Dawn Do Us Part (1972)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:34:33 GMT

Till Dawn Do Us Part (1972) aka Straight on Till Morning
#3055
Viewing Date: 9-18-2009
Posting Date: 12-25-2009
Directed by Peter Collinson
Featuring Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, James Bolam
Country: UK
What it is: Offbeat Hammer psychothriller

A plain young woman dreams that her life can become like the fairy tales she writes. She leaves home and goes to live in London to find the man of her dreams. She is eventually drawn to a young man who...

Son of Samson (1960)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:09:20 GMT

Son of Samson (1960) aka Maciste nella valle dei re
#3054
Viewing Date: 9-17-2009
Posting Date: 12-24-2009
Directed by Carlo Campogalliani
Featuring Mark Forest, Chelo Alonso, Angelo Zanolli
Country: Italy / France / Yugoslavia
What it is: Sword-and-Sandal fantasy of the evil queen variety.

The son of Samson (known as Maciste) comes to ancient Egypt to do battle with an evil queen who has joined forces with the Persians to enslave the villagers...

Sergeant Dead Head (1965)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:07:07 GMT

Sergeant Dead Head (1965) aka Sergeant Deadhead the Astronaut
#3053
Viewing Date: 9-16-2009
Posting Date: 12-23-2009
Directed by Norman Taurog
Featuring Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Eve Arden
Country: USA
What it is: Beach party movie transmogrified into a non-Disney shopping cart movie with a military milieu.

Sergeant Deadhead is accidentally shot into space with a monkey. The space trip alters his personality, and when he returns, the...

Till Death (1978)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:00:36 GMT

Till Death (1978)
#3052
Viewing Date: 9-15-2009
Posting Date: 12-22-2009
Directed by Walter Stocker
Featuring Keith Atkinson, Marshall Reed, Belinda Balaski
Country: USA
What it is: Love from beyond the grave

A man has a nightmare that he is locked in a crypt with a dead woman stalking him. He is awoken by a phone call from his fiancee, who he will marry that day. They marry, but she dies in a car accident on their wedding night. He survives...

Un soir... par hasard (1963)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:11:30 GMT

Un soir... par hasard (1963) aka One Night... by Accident
#3051
Viewing Date: 9-14-2009
Posting Date: 12-21-2009
Directed by Ivan Govar
Featuring Annette Vadim, Michel Le Royer, Jean Servais
Country: France / Belgium
What it is: Mystery thriller with science fiction and possible Gizmo Maguffin overtones

An atomic scientist has a motorcycle accident. When he awakes, he finds himself in the castle of a man who claims to have brought him back from...

The Secret of the Black Trunk (1962)

feeds@yuku.com (Dave Sindelar) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:04:43 GMT

The Secret of the Black Trunk (1962) aka Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer
#3050
Viewing Date: 9-13-2009
Posting Date: 12-20-2009
Directed by Werner Klingler
Featuring Joachim Hansen, Senta Berger, Hans Reiser
Country: West Germany
What it is: Son of Edgar Wallace krimi, with slight horror elements.

A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths....