A Monster Bash Recap of Movies, Kong and Memorabilia
For those who have been regulars here at Mike’s Take, you know I like to make the 500 km drive down to Mars, PA located just north of Pittsburgh to […]
Midway (1976)
This Walter Mirisch production represents a style of movie making we’re not likely to ever see again. Not only is it a star studded effort done in a documentary style […]
The Exterminator (1980)
You want gritty? A 1970’s feel as we rang in the 80’s. A guilty pornographic look by way of 42nd street? Then this Death Wish meets Taxi Driver, Paul Kersey or […]
Enter the Ninja (1981)
Though I wasn’t old enough to see this or any of the other Ninja films that were surfacing at the dawn of the 1980’s, I do recall the trailers that […]
A Trio of Ray Milland Television Terrors
By the time the TV Movie of the week became a regular feature on the television networks, Ray Milland was one of those actors perfectly suited to the medium. The […]
The Long Shadow of JAWS in Movie Posters
When Steven Spielberg unleashed the terror of Peter Benchley’s novel upon innocent movie goers in the summer of 1975, it opened up a whole sub genre in horror of animals […]
I Escaped From Devil’s Island (1973)
With the success of the Steve McQueen film Papillon it should be expected that Roger Corman and brother Gene would put out a low budget knock off to capitalize on […]
Grizzly (1976)
At an impressionable age I saw both Jaws and Grizzly and to this day I will watch any footage of either of these large predators on Discovery channel. Must be […]
The Devil’s 8
This 1969 low budget effort from AIP written by John Milius stars the late Christopher George as an undercover agent leading a group of escaped cons into a moonshine war […]
