With The Amazing Spider-Man opening in a few weeks, we thought it was important to look back at Spider-Man's cinematic history, and using director Sam Raimi's previous Spider-Man trilogy felt too easy. Instead, we found the first purported live-action movie ever featuring the Marvel comics character.
Since the character debuted in August 1962 in Amazing Fantasy #15 & courtesy of writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko), Spider-Man was been a highly popular figure in television and movies, quickly ending up in a 1967 self-titled cartoon before moving on to brief appearances on the PBS kids show The Electric Company and, eventually, a live-action TV show called The Amazing Spider-Man (1977 to '79). Somewhere in the middle — 1969 to be precise — an enterprising young writer, producer and animator named Donald F. Glut finished his final amateur movie by adapting the webslinger into his first (fan-made) movie (via io9. Lacking a budget of any kind,...
Since the character debuted in August 1962 in Amazing Fantasy #15 & courtesy of writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko), Spider-Man was been a highly popular figure in television and movies, quickly ending up in a 1967 self-titled cartoon before moving on to brief appearances on the PBS kids show The Electric Company and, eventually, a live-action TV show called The Amazing Spider-Man (1977 to '79). Somewhere in the middle — 1969 to be precise — an enterprising young writer, producer and animator named Donald F. Glut finished his final amateur movie by adapting the webslinger into his first (fan-made) movie (via io9. Lacking a budget of any kind,...
- 6/22/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
The William Castle Film Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $80.95) includes eight pictures produced and directed by master showman Castle. In Part One of this lengthy DVD review, I dissected four of them—13 Ghosts, Homicidal and the two best, The Tingler and Mr. Sardonicus. Believe you me, it was a ghastly business! As Sardonicus would say, “I have known a ghoul—a disgusting creature that opens graves and feeds on corpses.” Like a DVD reviewer. See here.
In this epic conclusion, I am fitted out with a Strait-jacket (about time!) and also chronicle Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls and The Old Dark House, the three Castle entries new to DVD (which lack the short, individual “making of” documentaries accompanying the other five). Only two of these eight flicks were shot in color (Girls, House); theatrical trailers are included with all of the movies. And that’s all you need to know as we continue—in amazing Screamarama,...
In this epic conclusion, I am fitted out with a Strait-jacket (about time!) and also chronicle Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls and The Old Dark House, the three Castle entries new to DVD (which lack the short, individual “making of” documentaries accompanying the other five). Only two of these eight flicks were shot in color (Girls, House); theatrical trailers are included with all of the movies. And that’s all you need to know as we continue—in amazing Screamarama,...
- 10/21/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
The William Castle Film Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $80.95) assembles the master showman’s eight Columbia Pictures features in one set. Three (Zotz!, 13 Frightened Girls, The Old Dark House) are new to DVD. Only two are in color (Girls, House), but black and white works far better here to evoke film fear anyhow. Castle produced and directed them all (though he shares a producing credit with Hammer Films’ Anthony Hinds on the House remake). Three were scripted by Robb White (who also wrote Castle’s earlier gimmicky genre hits MacAbre and House On Haunted Hill) while Ray Russell and Robert Dillon racked up two scripts each and Starlog contributor Robert Bloch penned one.
The films (fantasies, thrillers, comedies) are grouped sort of by theme, two per disc. So, 13 Frightened Girls (a.k.a. The Candy Web) is teamed with 13 Ghosts for the triskaidekaphobia entry. Homicidal and Strait-jacket represent the murder,...
The films (fantasies, thrillers, comedies) are grouped sort of by theme, two per disc. So, 13 Frightened Girls (a.k.a. The Candy Web) is teamed with 13 Ghosts for the triskaidekaphobia entry. Homicidal and Strait-jacket represent the murder,...
- 10/20/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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