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"Doonesbury for cineastes... Witty and even political... Film lovers no longer have to die before going to movie heaven; Peet Gelderblom brings it to us, with Directorama."
— Don Mancini
(Child’s Play, Seed of Chucky)

"Hilarious... If you're a movie fan--particularly a fan of great film directors--you're gonna eat this up page after page. It's a gem."
— Jamey Duvall & Jerry Dennis
(Movie Geeks United!)

"We all know that deceased auteurs have achieved immortality in their movies, but now they have an off-screen place to hang out as well. It’s called Directorama and only somebody as talented, knowledgeable and infatuated with movies as Peet Gelderblom (who knows his Ozu from his Antonioni) could have conceived and realized such a place.
To paraphrase the Righteous Brothers: If there’s a cinema heaven, well you know they’ve got a hell of a credit arbitration process.”
— Jim Emerson
(Scanners / RogerEbert.com)

"Critics who are struggling to fit a film’s core issues in 800 words, take notice! Peet is able to capture filmmaker’s essences in a few word balloons, while still being funny and illuminating."
— Pablo Villaça
(Cinema em Cena)

"That movie-mad medium Peet Gelderblom has been to the Great Beyond and lived to tell about it. If you’ve ever wondered about the great mysteries of life (i.e.: What does Andrei Tarkovsky think of The Bourne Ultimatum?; Would I like Ingmar Bergman when he’s angry?), look no further than Directorama, the Antonioni-esque urtext of cinephilia, a Kubrickian head-trip beyond the widescreen veil.”
— Keith Uhlich
(The House Next Door)

"Peet Gelderblom: the master of cine comics."
— Juergen Lossau
(Smallformat Magazine)

"One of Peet’s singular achievements with the series is that he has found a voice within the comic strip medium that invites serious consideration of cinematic issues as well as imaginative flights uncommon to more conventionally grounded criticism."
— Dennis Cozzalio
(Sergio Leone and The Infield Fly Rule)

"This is movie satire of the highest order... (Peet's) angular and stylized characters perfectly capture the figures that he’s parodying, probably the best work of that kind that I’ve seen this side of Kate Beaton or the earlier Dave Sim caricatures."
— Michael Petersen
(Patchwork Earth)

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Movies doomed to never top their posters #2

November 25th, 2006

You need to love this, don’t you?
The hard evidence, courtesy of DVD Talk:

Take a good look at the DVD cover art for Evils of the Night (which is taken from the film’s original poster) and you see the definition of an exploitation film. We see a buxom blonde whose blood is being drained from her body by tubes as skeletal hands reach for her and a quartet of skeleton-head aliens look on (as the cousin of the Millennium Falcon flies past). Of those things, only the buxom blonde appears in the film. Don’t be fooled by the trashy goodness that this movie promises. This movie gives bad movies a bad name. (…)

The “aliens” are simply actors in silver outfits, with the females wearing crazy shoes. The “spaceship” is just a disco light ball being lowered through the trees. (…)

The bulk of the movie takes place at night (hence the title) and for the most part, it’s nearly impossible to tell what’s going on. (…)

Most films of this ilk typically fall into the “so bad they’re good” realm where one can perform a Mystery Science Theater 3000-like commentary to the movie. Evils of the Night is so pointless, boring, and difficult to see that its ponderous nature will scare off even the hardest fan of trash cinema.

Sigh…

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superfastreader
December 2nd, 2006 at 12:56 am

for one exhilarating moment I read the title as “Elvis of the Night”–

Annie

Joey
October 17th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

LOL! I thought it said Elvis of the Night, too. I was gonna go look for it.

Owen
October 17th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

I can’t help but notice that the “space ship” is a painting of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars that has been mirrored down the middle.

Just… so awesome.

myra
October 19th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

John Carradine has certainly made some winners.

Lamar
October 22nd, 2007 at 1:33 pm

Wasn’t Amber Lynn a porn star of the 80’s???

mike
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:03 pm

Julie Newmar and Amber Lynn? Eeep. When was this wonder created?

Verushka
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm

you gotta love john carradine…. a aman who has been in 336 movies/tv shows is bound to make some mistakes… but then again…. what were you thinking man..