Abominable Advent Calendar Day 18: All’s Faire in Love (2009)
Hail, good gentlefolk, and welcome to the post in in whiche I describe the travestye and odd charme of the lifeless rom-com in whiche the ultimate goth girl, Christina Ricci—whom thou mayest know as Wednesday Addams—did find romance at a Renaissance faire.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 17: The Devil’s Rain (1975)
Ernest Borgnine. William Shatner. Ida Lupino. Tom Skerritt. Eddie Albert. A baby John Travolta. Not all be A-listers, but they’ve all had respectable careers. So if they’re together in one film, it should be halfway decent, right? Oh, so very, delightfully wrong.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 16: Golden Queen Commandos (1982) and Pink Force Commandos (1984)
Women-in-prison, martial arts, spaghetti western, WWII spy movie mashup!
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 15: Star Knight (1985)
A medieval Harvey Keitel battles a space-alien dragon while Klaus Kinski tries to help a princess with her love life. Makes perfect sense.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 14: The Mole People (1956)
The Mole People has it all—implausible plot, dodgy science, adventure, square-jawed heroes, girls to be saved, monsters with zippers up their backs, John Agar—and it’s dialed up to 11.
Abominable Advent Calendar Day 13: The Haunting Passion (1983)
Jane Seymour does what she does best—made-for-TV romance—except this time it's a gothic, and she gets steamy with a ghost.
