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...Coppola's The Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...
Brooks went back to the '30s ostensibly looking for a sci-fi classic to spoof, and got carried away. At first he appears to be parodying the original Dr. Frankenstein, made forty years ago. In fact, he takes his original material quite seriously and treats it with respect. He has to; he's not only getting story, structure and characters gratis, but he's getting a perfect medium for parody of a much broader scope. Dr. Frankenstein was a first, a great film, which provoked a rash of science fiction movies over the next decade or so that decreased...
...illustrated cover. "See the werewolf turn into a real flesh-and-blood woman-right before your very eyes." This pitchman's approach, aimed at newsstand buyers of books on the occult, is misleading, for the product, a slim volume entitled The Circus of Dr. Lao, is no tawdry sci-fi thriller. It is instead a blending of the sardonic style of Ambrose Bierce and the homespun hyperbole of Mark Twain...
...script has one major surprise in it, but that apparently exhausted the writers, leaving them no energy to work the characters up even to the customarily low average of cheapie sci-fi entertainments. Director Roley does not enhance audience involvement by shooting everything through a diffusion filter. Obviously derived from The Birds, Chosen Survivors is also strictly for them. Or maybe for the made-for-TV movie market, where most of the cast - Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Diana Muldaur - customarily find work...
...SHAME that more people aren't going to see Zardoz. Perhaps homosexual rape and man's battle against nature ring more resonantly than sci-fi satire in the vacuous American psyche: No other hypothesis can account for the low popularity of John Boorman's latest film, which is almost as exciting and far more provocative than the same director's excellent and well-received Deliverance...