The Shark Film Office

To understand what you are seeing in 90210 Shark Attack , you have to go in with some basic knowledge of director/producer David DeCoteau. In the late '80s and early '90s, David DeCoteau's films could be counted on for two things: boobies. Lots of them. Specifically, the boobies of scream queens like Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, Julie Strain, and Brinke Stevens (my personal fave of the bunch, and ex-wife and model of the late Rocketeer creator, Dave Stevens). I got to know his name well and count on him for quality in that department (and that department only, really). In films like  Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama , Creepozoids , Nightmare Sisters , and Dr. Alien , DeCoteau kept scream queen fans happy while also providing Joe Bob Briggs with plenty of material on his Drive-In Theatre show. DeCoteau also released films under the name "Ellen Cabot" as well, such as  Beach Babes from Beyond , and its sequel, Cave Girl Island (which each ...

Of the many things that I wish existed somewhere on the internet, one definite would be the full hour long "Marineland Carnival" special that CBS ran on Easter Sunday in April of 1965. I would not normally get wound up to see what must have amounted to nothing more than an extended primetime advertisement for a theme park, but dammit... this one featured the Munsters!  Herman, Lily, Grandpa, little Eddie, and Marilyn Munster – the entire family – running amok at Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, California.  CBS, which was also home to their own sitcom show, got a little cross-promotion in by having their first family of horror visit the park. Fortunately, while we don't get to see the whole special (which is probably pretty creaky and stilted anyway, I would guess), there is a minute-long promo for the special that still exists and can be found floating about on Youtube in various places. Here's a look... Of course, the purpose of discussing...

[For the month of September 2016, I am writing a series of shared posts in conjunction with my animation website,  Cinema 4: Cel Bloc , about cartoons that feature sharks in them. You can read the reviews on either site, but please do visit the other one if you like the content I have to offer.] Rabbitson Crusoe  (1956) Dir.: Friz Freleng TC4P Rating: 7/9 Species: a purple shark named Dopey Dick, who is a little bit dopey and kind of a dick. Believe it or not, I still own my very first edition of Daniel Defoe's classic novel,  Robinson Crusoe . Please don't read that incorrectly. I do  not  own the first edition of  Robinson Crusoe . Considering that the novel is just a hair under three hundred years old – having been first published in 1719, and thought by many scholars to be the first true novel in the English language – that would now make me a multi-thousand-aire, at least (and I am definitely not that at the moment). No, the first edition of...