Archive for Kevin McCarthy
You are browsing the archives of Kevin McCarthy.
Actor Kevin McCarthy dead at 96
Kevin McCarthy in INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that actor Kevin McCarthy, who starred in the 1956 science fiction classic INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, has died of natural causes at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Although McCarthy had a varied career, his performance in BODY SNATCHERS earned him [...]
Piranha (1978) horror film review
Along with DEATH RACE 2000, this fun-filled exploitation horror film from 1978 is one of the great achievements to emerge from New World Pictures, a low-budget company that Roger Corman created after giving up hands-on directing to become an executive. New World churned out enjoyable exploitation fare for drive-in theatres and multiplexes in the 1970s, [...]
Clint Eastwood praises pod film
With THE INVASION opening this Friday (a remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, first filmed in 1956), I thought I would dip into the archives for a relevant tidbit. In July of 2005, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launched a tribute to late director Don Siegel with a screening of the [...]
