Nice weather in Los Angeles, cloudy and cool ... and Savant has a trio of genre goodies today ...
MGM's Midnite Movies has a science fiction double bill this month: Invisible Invaders is a cheapo walking-dead concoction with John Agar blasting down reanimated corpses, kind of a Plan 9 & Four fifths from Outer Space. With John Carradine, for one scene only. Co-feature Journey to the Seventh Planet takes place in the year 2001, which is the closest it gets to quality entertainment. Sid Pink's Danish delight has undersized carboard sets, monsters so terrible they had to be replaced by Sam Arkoff, and a bevy of phantom ladies pulled like wet dreams out of our horn ... heroes' subconscious-es. (whew!) Together they're paydirt for genre fringe fans.
Universal's Bob Hope Tribute Collection disc of The Ghost Breakers has smoothie Hope in a role at least a little subservient to a plot, with sprightly Paulette Goddard and take-charge Willie Best around to keep things bright and cheerful. It's a good example of comedy mixing well in a horror millieu, as we cogknow ..congosc .... people in the know, know.
Lots of goodies coming up, including the Cole Porter Musicals, a preview review of the Russki epic of epics, and some hot Truffaut pictures. Thanks for reading, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at April 21, 2003 02:08 PM