Christopher Saunders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 655 )

• Graveyard Shift

  

  (1990) is one of the interminable list of B-grade Stephen King adaptations from the '90s. Like The Mangler, it's based on a story from Night Shift which is... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Mangler

  

  There was a time where Stephen King's every coke-fueled brain fart inspired a movie. His serviceable short story "The Mangler" was originally optioned as part o... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Dark (1979)

  

  The '70s were a particularly bad time for low budget horror, as filmmakers abandoned the goofy charm of the '50s B cycle for excess gore, grime and general... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2024 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Island Earth

  

  One of the iconic titles in '50s science fiction, This Island Earth (1955) is something of a puzzler. Hailed by some as a masterpiece and others as... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Oppenheimer

  

  Christopher Nolan is one of the most important and successful filmmakers of the past two decades, yet I've never been a fan. While I respect his talent and... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Frogs

  

  The '70s were perhaps the best decade for truly mad horror movie premises, with filmmakers trying to find menace in the mundane and madness in the everyday. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Day of the Locust

  

  John Schlesinger's The Day of the Locust (1975) has alienated audiences and polarized critics for a half-century; even today, reviewers are split labeling it... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2023 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• State of the Blog?

  

  Well, I'd more or less ended Nothing is Written until earlier this year, when I posted a couple of quick reviews of crappy horror movies in the summer and more... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Fall of the Roman Empire

  

  For a few years in the early '60s, Samuel Bronston ran a private moviemaking empire in Spain, spending the GDP of a small nation to produce big historical epics... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gorilla at Large

  

  I first saw Gorilla at Large (1954) during some late night television showing as a toddler. My dad assures me that scenes of the ape lunging at the screen... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion

  

  I failed to review Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Rebellion (2013) after tackling the recap movies, in part, because it's impenetrable unless you're already immerse... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Bride of the Gorilla

  

  One might expect Bride of the Gorilla (1951) to be a more upscale version of The Bride and the Beast, the gonzo Ed Wood spectacle we reviewed the other day. Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Bride and the Beast

  

  One of the great delights in watching old B Movies is how they give free rein to berserk ideas that major studio films wouldn't ever touch. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Beginnings and Eternal

  

  I'll admit it: the appeal of anime eluded me for a long time. Like a lot of Western viewers, I allowed my perception of the genre from stereotypes, cultural... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Night of the Lepus

  

  Ever since its release, Night of the Lepus (1972) has been one of Hollywood's greatest jokes. A horror movie about giant, killer rabbits is surely the silliest... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Bat People

  

  (1974) is notorious both for its confusing plethora of titles (It Lives By Night, Winged Death, Angel of Fear, etc.) and its appearance on Mystery Science... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2022 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Black Legion

  

  It says something about Black Legion's (1937) reputation that it's rarely mentioned except as a footnote in Humphrey Bogart's career. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Conduct Unbecoming

  

  Michael Anderson's Conduct Unbecoming (1975) is an odd hybrid: part courtroom story, part military drama, part whodunnit. This adaptation of Barry England's pla... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Mummy (1999)

  

  I probably watched Stephen Sommers' The Mummy (1999) more than any other film in my adolescence, revisiting it so many times that I broke our VHS tape. Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2021 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pet Sematary (2019)

  

  With Stephen King adaptations in vogue again, a new version of Pet Sematary was probably inevitable. Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer's 2019 version is... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES