Where are you Larry Buchanan?
I tuned into one of those new (free) digital oldies channels last night called Comet TV, and was surprised by a double feature of Larry Buchanan's AIP TV productions. CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION and CURSE...
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I wish MGM owned Buchanan's light sex/fantasy drama STRAWBERRIES NEED RAIN. There's quite a few Buchanan films that appear to be orphans at this time.
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I find the Sci-fi titles very bizarre, not only because of how cut-rate they are, but in that they're almost blow-blow remakes of better films B films. I remember fist being exposed to them as a kid,...
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Exactly my reaction. I caught THE THE EYE CREATURES on the late show in 1972, never before having heard of it or Larry Buchanan. I recognized very quickly that it was INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN...
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SWAMP CREATURE is wonderfully bizarre and highly watchable in a train-wreck rubbernecking sort of way. Other than that, I can't fathom wanting to own anything created by Buchanan other than the...
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I watched his SHE CREATURE ripoff CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION Sunday night for the first time, and found it fascinating in a dire sort of way. The approach was so perfunctory that it quickly started to...
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pulp novelties wrote:Where are you Larry Buchanan?Where is he? Nary a day goes by when a crappy remake isnt made. Just walk down Hollywood Boulevard and call out his name. People will appear, replying...
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CapnDunsel wrote:pulp novelties wrote:Where are you Larry Buchanan?Where is he? Nary a day goes by when a crappy remake isnt made. Just walk down Hollywood Boulevard and call out his name. People will...
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pulp novelties wrote:I find his zero-budget crap more endearing than the multi-million dollar variety of remake. As tiresome as pointless big-budget remakes can be, I find nothing "endearing" about...
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IT'S ALIVE is probably my least favorite. It was very hard to stay alert. I think of Buchanan as sorta made-for-TV H.G. Lewis.
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I have a copy of IT'S ALIVE from MGM HD, it makes me happy. Was not a big fan when I was a kid in the late 60's & early 70's, stayed as far away as possible through out the 80's & 90's, but...
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CapnDunsel wrote:pulp novelties wrote:Where are you Larry Buchanan?Where is he? Nary a day goes by when a crappy remake isnt made. Just walk down Hollywood Boulevard and call out his name. People will...
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John Bernhard wrote:somewhere after Y2K, like Andy Milligan's work, these suckers started growing on me.Somehow I think films this cheap end up being kind of emblematic of their time in a way polished...
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I find them all pretty tough sledding EXCEPT for CURSE OF THE SWAMP CREATURE which perhaps like you I have a sort of train-wreck fascination with - Agar's presence makes it all somehow more "fun" in a...
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Voice actor Les Tremayne slumming in CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION lends it another surreal layer familiarity, in that you know the voice from a so many places, but seldom get the face to go with it. It's...
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Mentioned this on another thread, but will toss it in here....Met Les Tremayne on an airport courtesy bus many a yar ago....We were talking about his radio days and how they morphed into arather...
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Oh my. It's a terrible film, but he obviously took it seriously delivered a respectable performance.
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The thespians toughing it out in these films is absolutely part of their appeal for me. How badly did they need paycheck? Add in Al Adamson's flicks to this love 'em / hate 'em genre
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In Buchanan films they also worked pretty hard for that paycheck. Talk is cheap, so there was a lot of talking to do. Few got off with a mere cameo.
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Jameson281 wrote:Yes, MGM is the proud, proud owner of the Larry Buchanan AIP films, except for ZONTAR and ATTACK OF THE EYE CREATURES, which Susan Hart has. I wonder how in hell did Susan Hart end...
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