THE BOOGENS Slithers into Your Heart with its Simple Charms

  “The Boogens” is a 1981 monster movie directed by James Conway, featuring fanged turtles with tentacles that are viciously guarding an abandoned silver mine. When the mine is bought and reopened, the Boogens go on a killing spree in an attempt to keep people out of the mine.   … Read More

Global Warming: A Tale of Two Blobs

In 1958, a small town in Pennsylvania was host to a terror of epic proportions. Brought to Earth by a meteor, a Blob emerged. It moved through the town, ingesting many of its inhabitants and growing large enough to cover an entire diner. This is big! Fortunately, a plucky teenager, … Read More

Economic and Social Woes of the 1950’s: An Atomic History

  With advances in science in the 1950’s, along with the lasting effects of nuclear testing, America found that for every up, there was a down. The post-WWII decade saw an enormous spike in mutations that menaced many an American city, causing billions in damage and years of rebuilding. Fortunately … Read More

B-Movies and Childhood: Why we Love the Best Worst Movies

    According to “Wikipedia,” a B-Movie is “a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an Art House film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood” (roughly 1929 to 1948), “the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as a less-publicized, bottom half of … Read More