"B" Movies/Elvira Future Hits

Hold onto your science fiction hat before you watch this one! Truly an original! Don't want to give much away, but this movie starts as a pseudo- documentary but continue watching for a most original idea. My closest analysis would be transformer meets The Fly...

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Very morbid, no budget, but 2 stars just for originality. This collection of horror shorts had a couple of very original pieces, including my favorite, "Devil Rat." I liked its ending (Devil Rat)! The very cliche nature of these various vignettes shot locally made for "had to watch" viewing just to see where it was going!

I might be wrong (think I'll write him and ask) but I believe Dr. Phil McGraw himself [or his amazing Doppleganger] co-stars in this campy 2002 DVD release filmed sometime in the 90's. I own its VHS tape. Story of oversized spiders which "appear" devouring local ostriches, etc.! Horror/comedy flick filmed right here in our own Arizona backyard, so to speak! In the movie it is called Prosperity, Arizona, and was filmed largely in and near one of our former malls. Throw in David Arquette for some male eye candy & lookie there an ultra young Scarlett Johansson as Ashley. Director: Ellory Elkayem.

1964 C.A.M.P.Y. low budget B movie is the bomb! More than half way thru (& trying to complete a semsester of Spanish, Student Intershipsips & endless essays & research & & &...) FUN with a capital F! Whew! Incredibly erotic written by Frank Herbert. There are 5 sequels (books) to the original "Dune" Patrick Stewart is one of his trainers--his comparable martial arts/military weapons coach! You won't recognize him but Kyle MacLachlan plays the young Paul Atriedes (Sex in the City's Charlotte's 1st hubby)!! {"quoting"This Hugo and Nebula Award winner [author Frank Herbert] tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. . . The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege, though, and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what's rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium.

Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting. Five sequels follow. --Brooks Peck [ALSO SEE A FRIEND'S REVIEW OF THIS MOVIE (UNDER PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO!) he FORGOT MAX VON SYDOW PHOTO BELOW...see him at his more recent best in Snow Falling on Cedars]

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P.S. HALF OF THE FUN OF THIS MOVIES IS PRECISELY THAT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS SHOW THEIR AGE, GRASSHOPPER!! (1964 Director: David Lynch) How I lLoved reading thiis Frank Herbert SCIENCE FICTION BOOK.