And You Thought It Was…Safe(?)

Tag: Robert Cornthwaite

  • The Thing from Another World (1951)

    In 1951, science fiction movies took two booster shots to the arm and entered into the public consciousness on a scale so grand that, looking back on it now, it’s like watching a dam burst in slow motion. So much so that one can easily drown in the torrent of “creature features” America produced in […]

  • The War of the Worlds (1953)

    I’m sorry. That title line should read, “And now, fought with the terrible weapons of Super Science(!), menacing all mankind and every creature on Earth comes: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS!” So our Humble Narrator concludes as the black-and-white pre-title montage of World War stock footage gives way to the bright, technicolor titles of this, […]