Yearly Archives: 2008

Released By: VCI Entertainment Release Date: September 30, 2008 Number of Discs: 4 Approximate Running Time: 800 Minutes Special Features: US Promotional Sales Film Suggested Price: $49.99 The Source: The giant Earth ship Ark, drifting through deep space over 800 years into the far future. Its passengers, descendants of the last survivors of ...

When a friend of mine asked me how I rated this year’s Extravaganza inMt.Dora, I told him it was either very good or freaking fantastic depending on events yet to develop. It’s always important to remember that networking is a ...

Released By: BCI Eclipse Release Date: November 18, 2008 Number of Discs: 1 Approximate Running Time: 106 Minutes Special Features: Audio Commentaries, Still Gallery, Documentaries Suggested Price: $19.99 The Source: A Seminole Indian veteran of the Vietnam War returns to his Florida home and finds injustice everywhere he turns. Using his special bond ...

For the past several years, I have had attending Universal Studios Orlando’s annual Halloween Horror Nights high on my “To Do” list. I had only visited this theme park one time shortly after it opened and many new rides had ...

Once again it’s that time of year when the stores all fill with candy and cheap scare props to squeeze some additional revenue out of consumers before the Christmas season starts. It’s also the time of year when we take ...

On Wednesday July 17, 1968, the film Yellow Submarine premiered at the Pavilion Theater in London’s Piccadilly Circus, the same venue where A Hard Day’s Night and Help had made their debuts a few years earlier. Reporters who covered the event described it as the last ...

Released By: VCI Entertainment Release Date: September 2, 2008 Number of Discs: 4 Approximate Running Time: 900 Minutes Special Features: Photo Galleries, Vintage Commercials Suggested Price: $39.99 The Source: By the mid 1960’s, the cold war was still a hot topic and Americans were becoming obsessed with spies and secret agents. Television was ...

With Florida’s long list of defunct tourist attractions getting longer every day, we are fortunate that some smaller venues still survive. Monkey Jungle is one of those more laid back attractions that still manage to entertain without thrill rides, stage ...

Released By: Anchor Bay Release Date: September 23, 2008 Number of Discs: 1 Approximate Running Time: 57 Minutes Special Features: None Suggested Price: $19.97 The Source: Originally produced for the Starz cable network, this documentary attempts to explain the public’s long standing fascination with the vampire mythos in the cinema. Directors, actors, and ...

With a resemblance of a script finally in hand, staff and materials acquired, and individual sequences well underway, it would seem that it should have been smooth sailing for the production crew of the Yellow Submarine but dark skies were ...

Released By: VCI Entertainment Release Date: February 5, 2008 Number of Discs: 3 Approximate Running Time: 480 Minutes Special Features: Audio Commentaries, Grindhouse Trailer-O-Thon Suggested Price: $49.99 The Source: The Psychotronica Collector’s Set from VCI bundles three double feature DVDs together that were also released individually. The six films in the collection range from ...

Released By: Anchor Bay Release Date: August 28, 2008 Number of Discs: 1 Approximate Running Time: 90 Minutes Special Features: Audio Commentary with Don Coscarelli, Reggie Banister, and Angus Scrimm, Behind-The-Scenes Footage, Promotional Trailer Suggested Price: $14.98 The Source: Almost twenty years after the release of the first film, the popular Phantasm series comes to ...

Most fans of the late Dick Bennick are aware that the legendary Dr. Paul Bearer was not his first attempt at creating a horror host character (if this is news to you then please read The Lost Interview of Dr. Paul ...

Released By: MGM Release Date: September 19, 2000 Number of Discs: 1 Approximate Running Time: 90 Minutes Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer, Fun Facts, Standard and Widescreen Formats. Suggested Price: $19.99 The Source: An annual family reunion at a remote Florida mansion turns into a nightmare when all manner of reptiles and creepy ...

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Summer Fun Movies series every summer for around eight years. This took me from the midst of their heyday to at least the midpoint of their decline before I finally ...

As we enter into the final month of the summer vacation season, I wanted to revisit a related phenomenon from about 30 years ago. The advertisements reproduced in this two part article are all from the archives of the Ocala ...

  For those of you expecting this week’s column to be about the 1981 slasher film starring the dynamic duo of Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford, let me apologize up front and promise to put that on the back burner ...

The credits for Yellow Submarine attribute the screenplay for the film to four writers. According to various accounts though, the number of contributors to the story that eventually found its way to the screen could be as high as forty! In a ...

Released By: BCI Release Date: July 1, 2008 Number of Discs: 3 Approximate Running Time: 286 Minutes Special Features: Interviews with the show’s creators and host John Waters. New introductions by John Waters. Suggested Price: $29.98 The Source: Imagine Tales from the Crypt as done by CourtTV (now TruTV) and featuring a wedding theme and ...

Growing up in Ocala, the local Morrison’s Cafeteria was one of my grandmother’s favorite restaurants – this was back in the days when they actually had waiters to carry your tray to your table for you. Our Morrison’s was ...

I have always said that I appreciate the full experience of reading a comic book from cover to cover. That includes the advertisements, letter page, and any other ancillary entertainment found within the pages. That’s also why I would rather ...