Category: Directed by Kevin Connor
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Take one bad movie–At the Earth's Core–running eighty-nine minutes and take one inept editor and tell him or her (the editor is uncredited) to cut it down to fourteen minutes. It's a lousy movie anyway, so what are you going to lose…. Well, some bad things. Definitely some bad things. Like most of Peter Cushing's…
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Fairly awful sci-fi adventure picture about a scientist and his sidekicks discovering Atlantis; along the way there are sea monsters and other such things–if you’ve ever wanted to see John Ratzenberger fight a giant octopus, here’s you go. The Atlantians are fascists so the explorers aren’t just trying to save themselves, they’re trying to save…
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Apparently, all Kevin Connor needs–besides a decently concocted screenplay–is location shooting and a good score. The People That Time Forgot–around the halfway point–became a movie I found myself enjoying too much. I got self-conscious about it, questioning its quality even more than usual, just because it seemed so good. It’s an adventure film, one told…
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Inoffensively bad–but still real bad–adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough’s novel about Victorian-era scientists Doug McClure and Peter Cushing (both are terrible but Cushing is much worse) drilling into the Earth and finding it hollow. Hollow earth has cavemen, dinosaur monsters, and scantily clad Caroline Munro. Will McClure stop being a disaffected blue blood and become…
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Okay Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation about a WWI German submarine–but one taken over by Allied sailors, including American Doug McClure–gets lost at sea and finds its way to a lost eighth continent, where dinosaurs and cavemen still roam. The dinosaur effects aren’t great but they’re not distracting and they work in favor of the story.…
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