From the daily archives:

Friday, July 23, 2010

King Kong (1933) – Merion C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack

July 23, 2010

"It was beauty killed the beast." The original and still the best of the great ape series. On a mysterious and dangerous island, a film producer captures a giant ape and brings him back to New York in the hopes of capitalizing on his prize. But the imprisoned ape, known as Kong, has the hots [...]

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Dark Reprieve – Richard Boddington

July 23, 2010

Imagine waking up alone in a cold abandoned prison with no idea how you wound up there…or why. Now, imagine that your horror is just beginning. Shawn Storer (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Sarah Jackson (Deal or No Deal, Rescue Me) star in this bloody, bizarre tale of torture, murder and the will to survive [...]

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Hercules (1983) – Paul Wendkos

July 23, 2010

Lou Ferrigno stars as the semi-divine son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene. Hercules must rescue Princess Cassiopea from her kidnappers, fight off grotesque monsters and banish a giant bear into space where it becomes Ursa Major, the Big Dipper or "Great Bear" constellation.

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It Happens – Sugarland

July 23, 2010

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The Thirteenth Floor – Josef Rusnak

July 23, 2010

The barriers that separate fantasy from reality are shattered in this stylish, mind-jarring thriller, where two parallel worlds collide in a paroxysm of deception, madness and murder. On the thirteenth floor of a corporate tower, high-tech visionary Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko, The Long Kiss Goodnight) and his high-strung colleague, Whitney (Vincent D’Onofrio, Men In Black), [...]

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The Monster That Challenged the World – Arnold Laven

July 23, 2010

An underwater earthquake in the Sargasso sea yields up the eggs of a long-extinct sea monster. Once hatched, the monster’s offspring sustain themselves by sucking the life forces of various unlucky human land dwellers. Even worse, these horrendous creatures procreate at an incredible rate, laying 3000 eggs per sitting. Eventually, the monsters are neutralized by [...]

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