Coming Soon to Friday Night Freak Show : Maniac – aka Assault on Paradise

This 1964 film is a great adaptation of  the Richard Matheson I Am Legend.  Matheson helped write the screenplay but decided to be credited as “Logan Swanson”.  The book inspired Night of the Living Dead(which we showed last week), as well as Omega Man. If you haven’t read the book or seen the Omega Man,…

Star Odyssey (Italian: Sette uomini d’oro nello spazio / Seven Gold Men in Space) is a 1979 Italian film directed by Alfonso Brescia. The film is also known as Space Odyssey, Metallica and Captive Planet in other video markets. The 4 films in Alfonso Brescia’s 1978 sci-fi series are Cosmos: War of the Planets (1978,…

anta Claus (sometimes known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a 1959 Mexican fantasy film directed by Rene Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo. In the film, Santa works in outer space and does battle with a demon sent to Earth by Lucifer to ruin Christmas by killing Santa and “making all the…

Captain Video rand from 1949 – 1955 on the DuMont TV network from 1949 – 1955. It was the first science fiction show to run on TV.  It aired daily at 7:00pm. Few episodes are extant since most were destroyed after the original broadcast. Despite being  popular among a wide demographic the show was hampered…