Starcrash is an interesting flick. I’m not sure it would be worth watching if Caroline Munro wasn’t in it. I first saw it on TV in the early 80s and loved it just because I loved anything to do with “space” while I was growing up and I thought Caroline was very groovy in it. If Christopher Plummer thought the sound of Music was slumming he must have blocked Starcrash from his mind. He’s obviously in deep denial or thinks we’ll all just forget about the movie. Obviously some of us have not forgotten about it.

I’m happy to hear you got a chance to watch Alucarda even if you didn’t enjoy it as much as I did. It’s an interesting movie and I’d like to see the rest of the director’s films become available on DVD.

I’m happy to hear you’ll be going to the British Horror festival in LA! I really wish I lived more south and could catch some of the movies being played since many of my favorites will be shown.

I’ll send you an email about the horror films since I’m not sure where to begin with recs. Horror films are my first love and I’ve probably seen thousands at this point.

Thanks again Dennis! I’ve enjoyed getting to meet various other film fans through this blog like yourself. I wish I had started this thing a few years ago.

I saw Star Crash in a drive-in as the second feature with Laserblast back in 1978– I always felt like that was the movie Joe Dante was explictly parodying with the drive-in feature seen in Explorers. And if Christopher Plummer thought he was slumming when he made The Sound of Music, well, let’s just say I’d love to have a peek at his diary entries during this production!

Thanks so much for all your great posts here. I’m so glad I discovered your site (or did you discover mine? Oh, who cares!)– it’s rapidly become one of my favorites. And I did see Alucarda this past weekend– I can’t say I was enamored of it as you are, but I still enjoyed it immensely. I watched it immediately after seeing William Lustig’s Maniac, and I was so grateful for film craft and style of any kind that it seemed like a gift! (I’ll be mentioning it in my upcoming underappreciated horror round up, for sure. If there’s any other titles available on DVD you’d like to suggest, please e-mail me!)
And I finally got around to Mario Bava’s A Bay of Blood last night, which I thought was terrific. That’s definitely on the list.

Okay, gotta go back to work right now. Thanks again, K, for putting a big smile on my face today. (Oh, and it seems I’ll be posting some Hammer stuff in the next day or so too, as the American Cinematheque here in L.A. is doing a Hammer series in June, along with a bunch of other great stuff, that I want to highlight. Whoo-hoo!)