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[ February 25, 2011; 7:30 pm; 7:30 pm; ] The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a double bill of rare television pilots created by Joseph Stefano, the producer-writer of the classic series THE OUTER LIMITS. The screenings take place on February 25, starting at 7:30pm, in the Billy Wilder Theater of the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024.

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The original short subject 9, on which the new feature film is based, is a cryptic little gem. Without the time to develop its premise fully into a dramatic story, writer-director Shane Acker instead presents an eerie vignette that throws us into a seemingly post-apocalyptic world. Without dialogue or exposition, Acker’s film leaves us to [...]

Courtesy of Fancast, here is our latest free movie, the uncut version of COUNT YORGA – VAMPIRE! (under its original title THE LOVES OF COUNT YORGA). This is a fine example of 1970s exploitation horror at its best – crude but effective, graced with some fine performances, especially the late Robert Quarry in the title [...]

Yesterday, we mentioned the website Fancast, which offers a variety of free movies and television epsidoes, including writer-director Brian DePalma’s 1980 giallo-style thriller, DRESSED TO KILL, starring Michael Caine, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon. Since Fancast has an embed function, we thought we would give you a chance to enjoy the film here at Cinefantastique [...]

Courtesy of the Starz Media YouTube Channel, today we present Dario Argento’s 2005 made-for-television giallo thriller DO YOU LIKE HITCHOCK. As the title implies, DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? deliberately emulates the American Master of Suspense. Fans will recognize plot elements borrowed from several sources, most notably REAR WINDOW. The story follows a young man who rents [...]

The remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL comes out on home video this week, and one of the nice features of the 3-disc Blu-ray set is that the third disc contains the 1951 original, widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction flms ever made (a reputation in no way threatened by [...]

Produced by Thomas Edision, this is the first film adaptation of Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein- a ten-minute short subject written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, who takes a few key incidents and weaves them into an imaginative, mystical take on the story. (In keeping with the novel, this film has little to say about science; [...]

A couple days ago we offered up free viewing of 20,000 MILLION MILES TO EARTH. Now, with ALIEN TRESPASS opening in theatres today, it seems like a good time to offer INVADERS FROM MARS. ALIEN TRESPASS, of course, is a spoof of old sci-fi films about aliens invading Earth, so why not return to the [...]

20,000 MILLION MILES TO EARTH (1957) is one of the early black-and-white science fiction films from Ray Harryhausen, the special effects expert who used stop-motion techniques to bring numerous monsters to life throughout his long career. Thanks to Google Video, you can watch this classic example of his work for free. It’s all about an [...]

What started with a small core of avid viewers equipped with the first home VCRs continues now on the web through the work of fan-subbers. A brief look at the birth and evolution of anime fandom in the United States.
This was originally created for the Independent Film Channel to promote the broadcast debut of the [...]

On the one hand, you have the Russian director; on the other, you have Japanese animators who, out of necessity and by either accident or design, find themselves resorting to his theories to create a unique genre of film. A brief look into how a cinematic pioneer helped form what’s come to be known as [...]

by Dan Persons
That title is pretty much a metaphor for this film’s ultimate fate. MULHOLLAND DRIVE, David Lynch’s next effort, caught all the critical praise, while LOST HIGHWAY has undeservedly languished alone and unloved. With its hallucinogenic paranoia; its time/space anomolies; its supporting cast that includes Robert Loggia, Henry Rollins, Gary Busey (Gary Busey!), Richard [...]

by Dan Persons
Who knew Bob Balaban — the nerdy translator from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND; the asshole critic from LADY IN THE WATER; Russell Dalrymple from SEINFELD; and the dispeptic Jewish guy from A MIGHTY WIND and countless other movies — had it in him? A weird and nasty a meditation on natural [...]