Showing posts with label Peter Bogdanovich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peter Bogdanovich. Show all posts

14.12.10

voyage to the planet of prehistoric women (1968)


"Venus a planet named after the godess of love."
1998 and when astronauts journeying to Venus loose contact with Earth, a rescue mission is sent to find them. They find a planet full of dangerous creatures, which they dispatch before finding their compatriates. What they don't know is that these creatures are being controlled by some sexy Venusian go-go girls, whose existance seems to consist of sunbathing in ski-pants and seashell bras.
Roger Corman basically seems to have had a Russian Sci-fi film hanging around the office and realised if he cobbled it together with some film of Mamie Van Doren and friends standing around, he'd have something approximating a film. So he did just that, and all for a budget that was probably blown on buying some pretzels for the crews lunch.

30.12.09

targets (1968)

aka Before I Die.
"Hardly ever missed, did I?"
The film starts with elderly horror film star Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) announcing to his agent that he is retiring. All try to persuade him to reconsider whilst he makes one last personal appearance at a drive-in. Meanwhile a young Vietnam veteran, who looks every bit like the clean cut all American boy, Bobby (Tim O'Kelly) plans out his revenge on the world using his skills as a snipper. Both these worlds are set to collide at the drive-in.
Peter Bogdanovich's debut feature is an accomplished piece of work using the then recent Charles Whitman shootings at the University of Texas as the basis for this fiction.