The loss of Jess Franco has me wanting to dedicate a film on this blog in his memory. To me--and a few others--feel he had some great films, even though his notoriously poor ones often are used to polarize his reputation as a filmmaker. I consider his "golden age" to be early in his career, but I can't totally fault him for delivering inferior product when he had such little to work with in budgetary terms. I am thinking Vampryos lesbos is probably the right way to go, but I had been planning to review Venus in Furs on this blog, so I'm still undecided.
4th of July 2025 Marathoning
McDowell and Comi prepare to leave for Mars. Aliens visiting the UN, dropping off their cook book, providing goodies for humans on Earth, easing them into trusting them, spiriting them away to be food for them on their home planet. To Serve Man is nearly 60 years ago. I've been watching Twilight Zone since I was a teenager in the mid 90s thanks to Sci Fi Channel. Many of my family have passed since (for instance, my mother's siblings are all about gone except one last sister), and it wouldn't be right to avoid a marathon during the 4th if just for nostalgic reasons. Syfy didn't see the value of TZ on Independence Day, except last year, so even though I cannot watch episodes like I do during New Year's Eve and Day, it is nice to try and sneak in a block of episodes whenever possible. I started with Death Ship from the fourth season, continuing with Stopover in a Quiet Town and The Gift . To Serve Man would feel like a later afternoon watch but SYFY showed it at 3:...
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