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The Unknown Terror
Three explorers search for a lost fiancé in West Indian caves inhabited by fungus monsters created by a mad scientist in Regal’s 1957 low-budget effort. Good visuals and an original idea, but the script is a mess. 4/10
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I Got the “Journalist of the Year” Award
This is very off-topic, but I just wanted to share an update from my day job with my regular readers. Yesterday I was awarded the Topelius Award, given annually to the journalist of the year within Finland’s 6% Swedish language minority.
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New look on the blog!
My old blog theme has apparently been abandoned by Wordpress, and this apparently resulted in a bug, which prevented me from using the Wordpress block editor. Thus, I have switched the theme. Please give me feedback in the comments!
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10 Worst SF Movies Pre-1950
Buster Keaton, Bela Lugosi and Claude Rains are all featured in our list of the worst science fiction movies released during the first half of the 20th century.
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Fly by Night
Robert Siodmak shows his skill as a director in this early 1942 screwball comedy starring later SF star Richard Carlson and Oscar nominee Nancy Kelly, as they chase a Nazi superweapon, trying to prove Carlson’s innocense in a murder case. 7/10
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Two Lost Worlds
Originally posted on Scifist.: ∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗∗ (1/10) In 1950 former ballet master and style adviser to Mae West, Boris Petroff, produced a bewildering mishmash of pirates, Australian farm romance, western action and slurpasaurs starring later TV star James Arness. Two Lost Worlds is a low-budget patch job with new dialogue scenes…
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Gentleman adventurer Bulldog Drummond gets into hot water as he chases a mysterious villain who’s stolen a death ray machine in this 1938 spy-fi romp. It’s a silly but fun little film, and the British ensemble cast shines. 6/10
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