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Oct 12, 2021 · Oct 12, 2021. Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman LE Blu-ray Review. Arrow Films. Blu-ray Release: September 14, 2021. Video: 1.78:1 & 1.85:1/1080p/Black & White. Audio: English LPCM 1.0 Mono. Subtitles: English. Run Time: 293+ minutes. Director: Edward L. Cahn and Fred F. Sears.
Sep 14, 2021 · Four fantastic feature presentations from prolific producer Sam Katzman with a bounty of brand new extras and a raft of new writing by a range of respected raconteurs. These Cold War Creatures are coming for you!
Mar 5, 2020 · Any chance of you mates at Powerhouse/Indicator to release the 4 Sam Katzman Collection films (released as a DVD set by Columbia in the U.S.) before Mill Creek gets its sloppy mitts on those sci ...
- Creature with The Atom Brain
- The Werewolf (1956) – Modern-Day Lycanthropy
- Zombies of Mora Tau (1957) – Disney Zombies?!
- The Giant Claw (1957) – Psychotronic Monster Movies
Originally paired with another Katzman creature feature, It Came from Beneath the Sea, this radioactive b-side is even more bonkers than the main feature, revolving around atomic-powered zombie Nazis that have been resurrected for a rampage of revenge! There’d been a couple of Nazi zombie movies before Creature With The Atom Brain – King of the Zom...
In The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction, Phil Hardy claims that The Werewolf, “Marks precisely the point in which horror, which had been a dormant genre in the early ’50s, began to take over from science fiction” It would already be important for that fact alone, but The Werewolfis special for another reason – it resurrected the werewolf...
Unless you’re a psychotronic freak like me, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Zombies of Mora Tau, let alone seen it. But you probably have seen Pirates of the Caribbean, or at least heard of it. You’ll definitely have heard of Disney, a company that was once led by absolute Zombies of Mora TauMANIACS. It’s the only way to explain the fac...
Now, I’m certainly not saying The Giant Claw is the first, or the most important, American giant monster movie. That honour goes to King Kong (1933), the astonishing film that (along with Japan’s 1954 Godzilla) most inspired the ‘50s wave of massive creature features that stomped across drive-ins. It’s not even the most important big beast movie re...
Sep 18, 2021 · Film Collector Archive. 2.37K subscribers. 32. 581 views 2 years ago. In this episode of UNBOXED, we take a look at "Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman", a new Limited Edition...
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Sep 11, 2021 · Cold War Creatures – Four Films From Sam Katzman (Part One) Yes, sometimes a producer could earn ‘auteur’ status making B pictures. A name that’s never going to be uttered in the same breath as Val Lewton is Sam Katzman, who for the 1950s settled into a profitable tenure making Columbia program pictures. They pretty much stayed in the ...
