75 Years of The Green Hornet, Pt. 2
The GREEN HORNET STRIKES the silver screen — twice! Universal brings the radio hero to the movies.
Category: Retrospectives
Retrospective articles take a look back on historical topics. Some are in-depth examinations of individual titles. Others are more general explorations of topical trends.
75 Years of The Green Hornet
2011 is the 75th Anniversary of THE GREEN HORNET, hero of radio, comics, television and movies.
Stephen Rebello on PSYCHO: A Celebration of 1960 Retrospective
One of the proudest moments in the history of Cinefantastique was the October 1986 publication of a double issue (Volume 16, Number 5) devoted to the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO. The exhaustive and richly illustrated article was written by Stephen Rebello, who went on to publish an expanded version in book form, under the …
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Supernal Dreams: Boris Karloff on THRILLER
Image Entertainment’s new 14-DVD set of 67 episodes of THRILLER is quite a marvelous treat, and it fits in perfectly with Cinefantastique’s celebration of movies released in that seminal year for terror, 1960. Among the impressive authors who wrote episodes for THRILLER were Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Donald S. Sandford and Barre Lyndon. …
Alakazam the Great (1960): A 50th Anniversary Review
Let’s see, how do I compare the first movie I ever saw as a five year old to how I see it 50 years later? I’ll begin by sharing that I believe in fate; coincidence is not coincidence. The anime ALAKAZAM THE GREAT (1960) is the first movie and “martial arts” film per se that I …
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The Last Woman on Earth (1960): A 50th Anniversary Review
Back in 1960, with the Cold War at its hottest, the end of the world seemed less like a vaguely disturbing distraction about a possible distant future than like a very real possibility – something that could happen tomorrow. That anxiety fuels THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, an odd-ball effort from producer-director Roger Corman, about …
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The Silent Star: A 50th Anniversary Celebration of 1960
THE SILENT STAR (Der Schweigende Stern, a.k.a. FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS) is an oddball artifact of the year 1960: a science fiction film that echoes its 1950s predecessors while simultaneously foreshadowing the decade to come, the German-Polish co-production is poised somewhere on the cusp of the artistic and the absurd. Its ambition as serious cinefantastique …
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Tormented (1960) on Mystery Science Theater 3000: A 50th Anniversary Horror Movie Review
Producer-director Bert I. Gordon is most well known for his low-budget 1950s science fiction pics like THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, EARTH VS. THE SPIDER, KING DINOSAUR, and ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, but this little seen relic from 1960 is actually one of his better efforts. It is also one of the more entertaining installments of …
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13 Ghosts: A Celebration of 1960 Horror Retrospective
In the hot summer of 1960, one of the few places that had air conditioning in the small town where I lived was the local movie theater. That summer we went to the movies a lot. I can’t remember if it was during THE BELLBOY or THE ALAMO, but there was a preview for William Castle’s …
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The Vampires of 1960: A 50th Anniversary Photo Retrospective
1960 was a blood-red year for the vampire’s kith and kin, with over a half-dozen variations on the theme: some old school, some modern; some ugly, some sexy; some classic, some camp. In short, there such a rich diversity of undead revenants and blood-drinking monsters that it is hard to generalize; you have to take each on on its own terms. Here then is a Photographic Retrospective of the Vampires of 1960.