The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 24, 2023

This is another of the many crime-mystery movies Terence Fisher directed for Hammer in the early 1950s. MANTRAP (known in the U.S. as MAN IN HIDING), released in 1953, has the advantage of a fine cast including Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, and Kay Kendall. The story literally begins with a...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 17, 2023

So it's finally come to this. The most notorious title in Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set is the 1974 French film TENDER DRACULA, also known as LA GRANDE TROUILLE. TENDER DRACULA is known among Peter Cushing fans for being the strangest, and possibly the worst, movie in the actor's...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 10, 2023

Included in Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set is BLOODSUCKERS, one of the weirdest English Gothic entries ever made. BLOODSUCKERS is also known as INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED, and it also has an alternate title of FREEDOM SEEKER. There's a number of different versions of this movie on the in   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 9, 2023

This is the first part of a major production adapting Dumas' famed novel. There have been several Three Musketeers films over the years, and this new one has the advantage of being filmed in France, and featuring a French cast & crew. Richard Lester's two Musketeer films in the 1970s...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 4, 2023

THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED (1963) shares a disc along with SUSPECT in Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set. The movie is based on a British TV serial, and both projects were directed by Quentin Lawrence. A man who calls himself Joe Newman (Stanley Baker) arrives in a town in...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 3, 2023

The 1960 film SUSPECT (also known as THE RISK) is included on Severin's CUSHING CURIOSITIES Blu-ray box set. The movie shares the same disc with THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED. SUSPECT is a very effective low-budget realistic espionage tale produced and directed by the Boulting Brothers. A research team   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on December 2, 2023

GODZILLA: MINUS ONE isn't just a great Godzilla film, it's a great film, period. Writer-Director Takashi Yamazaki's kaiju tale strikes the right balance between FX spectacle and human drama, and it's far more memorable than any brand-name franchise movie made in the last five years. It must be poin   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 26, 2023

If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you are well aware of the fact that Peter Cushing is my favorite actor of all time. It shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that when Severin Films announced a six-disc Blu-ray set based around Cushing, I pre-ordered it...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 25, 2023

Ridley Scott's NAPOLEON makes the mistake of trying to tell the entire story of Napoleon Bonaparte's mammoth life and conquests in a single film, and even at 158 minutes, it just isn't long enough to properly do so. The result is the movie feels like a list of Napoleon's Greatest...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 24, 2023

Earlier this year I wrote a blog post on an episode of the 1960s American TV series 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, which featured Hammer horror stars Barbara Shelley and Hazel Court as guest stars. Hazel Court appeared on a number of classic TV shows in the sixties after she married actor-director...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 18, 2023

I didn't get a chance to see THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER on the big screen--it didn't stick around too long in the theaters in my area. I did finally catch up to it this week. LAST VOYAGE has the ultimate horror high concept--it's based on the chapter in...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 12, 2023

The Cohen Media Group and Kino Lorber have released a magnificent silent movie double feature on Blu-ray, featuring the legendary Douglas Fairbanks. THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1921) and THE IRON MASK (1929) are on this Region A disc, and the sources for both films are from recent major restorations. Ale   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 11, 2023

THE DISEMBODIED (1957) is another film in which its characters are referenced in my friend Frank Dello Stritto's latest book PATRON SAINTS OF THE LIVING DEAD. There's only one real reason to watch THE DISEMBODIED, and that's Allison Hayes, the sultry femme fatale of 1950s low budget sci-fi/horror f   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 6, 2023

Director Martin Scorsese's latest film, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, is based upon an historical incident, a series of murders which took place in 1920's northern Oklahoma. What makes these murders particularly stand out is that most of the victims were members of the Native American Osage Nation, a   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 5, 2023

VERTIGO is one of my favorite films of all time. You could say that I'm as obsessed with it as James Stewart was obsessed with Kim Novak in the actual film. It wasn't until recently, however, that I read the original novel upon which Hitchcock's classic work was based upon....   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 4, 2023

A major highlight of Criterion's TOD BROWNING'S SIDESHOW SHOCKERS Blu-ray set is a restored version of the 1927 MGM film THE UNKNOWN. THE UNKNOWN is also a major highlight of the careers of director Tod Browning and actor Lon Chaney. It's a disconcerting, memorable tale that is one of the...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on October 29, 2023

HORROR OF DRACULA (1958) The most famous Hammer film of them all. What can I say about this that hasn't already been said?? Well, can we give some love to Barbara Archer, who plays Inga the barmaid? After all, she's the one who gave Jonathan Harker's diary to Van Helsing....   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on October 28, 2023

Earlier this year, a Facebook friend and Twitter follower of mine, Jeff Duncanson, suggested that I do a list of my ten favorite Hammer movies. This was an idea that I had been mulling over from time to time, but I just never got around to doing it. One reason...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on October 22, 2023

In the mid-1960s, American actor Nick Adams went to Japan and appeared in three films for Toho Studios. Two of those films, FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD and INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER are well-known among movie geeks. The third, THE KILLING BOTTLE, is basically forgotten due to the fact that it h   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on October 21, 2023

Just in time for Halloween Criterion has released a two-disc Blu-ray set called TOD BROWNING'S SIDESHOW SHOCKERS, containing three films directed by the man called the Edgar Allan Poe of the screen. The set contains two of Browning's most famous features: FREAKS, the ultimate cult movie making its   read more