Well, thanks to some help from Savant correspondent Gary Teetzel, we have two reviews today instead of just one ...

Gary's contributed a thorough look at The Return of the Vampire, an oddball Bela Lugosi movie from the WW2 era that has the Hungarian loverboy playing Dracula in all but name. There are some interesting effects, and a werewolf assistant who might as well be JoJo, the dog-faced boy, but this is a pretty unique Lugosi offering, from a major studio at a time when the actor was only seen in films at the Monogram level.

Image Entertainment's The Giant Gila Monster should have been given a Truth in Advertising prize: there's a Gila Monster here, and he really does seem kind of big crawling next to those model cars and HO trains. This was a Texas production directed by Ray Kellogg (The Green Berets) and produced by Ken Curtis, 'Festus' on Gunsmoke.

Savant hopes to keep a minimal number of reviews cranking out here - I just came from a production meeting that promises to have me editing from dawn 'til dusk for a few days, minimum. I'll check in, in any case ... Thanks! Glenn Erickson