Wonderful and mindmelting compilation of films by director Bill Rebane. Before I acquired this beautiful dvd BOX SET released by Arrow Video, I was only familiar with Rebane's Blood Harvest that features a very iconic and menacing Tiny Tim in the lead role so I went into this completely in the dark and what a great surprise it was.
Bill Rebane was born in 1937 in Latvia and emigrated to the United States when we was just 15. He is the writer/director/producer of many feature films such as The demons of ludlow, Twister's revenge and Monster A go-go! among other jewels.
Rebane is also credited at having introduced the 360 degree (wrap around) motion picture process.
I watched these movies chronologically from the oldest to the more recent and what a trip it was.
Monsters a go-go! is Rebane's first feature released in 1965 and it is a science-fiction horror film about an astronaut who crashes back into Earth and becomes a radioactive monster. It is considered to be one of the worst films ever made but what does that mean anyway? Not much, at least to me. The abundance of narration may be a reason to quit for some but the most adept of b-movie shenanigans will surely appreciate it. Interesting but the most slowburn of this collection.
The Alpha Incident is another science-fiction horror film and was released in 1978 and it features a fascinating premise, the gist of it being that a deadly organism was released in a train station that has to be quarantined and those that get trapped work hard to find a cure and unable to sleep because that is what triggers the micro-organism.
Another fascinating premise is that of The Demons of Ludlow that is about a piano that has evil inside! More specifically murderous pilgrim demons. If that does not attract the more hardened b-movie fan I don't know what will.
Twister's revenge is one of the more straightforward of the bunch even though it does feature a talking truck.
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