• PDI Press

    PDI Press

    BETTY WHITE VS THE STUPID WORLD: The Movie

    PDI Press
    January 17, 2022 2

    Betty White Vs the Stupid World (Chapter Seven)

    PDI Press
    January 16, 2022 1

    Betty White Vs the Stupid World (Chapter Six)

    PDI Press
    January 15, 2022 3

    Featured

    BETTY WHITE VS THE STUPID WORLD: The Movie

    John E. Meredith
    PDI Press
    January 17, 2022 2
    • PDI Press Catalog
    • PDI Press Writers
      • Fiction
  • Columns A-D
    • A Fistful of Dollar Comics
    • ABCs of Horror
    • All Binge… No Purge
    • Anything Joes
    • Beautiful Creatures
    • Big Eyes Smart Mouth
    • Big Sleeps and Long Goodbyes
    • Cahiers du Horror
    • Dispatches From the Field
    • Drive-In Saturday
    • Dungeons & D-Listers
  • Columns F-P
    • The Final Girl
    • First Looks… Second Thoughts
    • The Flesh is Weak
    • Innocence and Experience
    • Lost in Translation
    • Marvel at the Movies
    • Muppets 101
    • Page to Screen
    • Popcorn Cinema
    • The Psycho Drive-In Podcast
    • Psycho Essentials: The ’80s!
  • Columns S-Z
    • Schlock & Awe
    • Shakespeare on Film
    • Shot for Shot
    • Sick Flix
    • Unnatural Selections
    • Versus
    • Video Word Made Flesh
    • We Got Lists
    • Women in Horror
    • The Xeno File
    • Zombies 101
  • Reviews

    Reviews

    Superman (2025)

    Movies
    July 10, 2025 95

    Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

    Movies
    June 26, 2025 9

    Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)

    Movies
    June 8, 2025 14

    Featured

    Superman (2025)

    Nate Zoebl
    Movies
    July 10, 2025 95
    • Books
    • Comics
    • DVD/Blu-ray
    • Movies
    • TV
    • Series
  • Interviews

    Interviews

    Interview with Indie Horror Master, Chris Bickel

    Interviews
    July 13, 2018 397

    David Black: Carnies, Carnage, and the Creative Chaos of Darkness Visible

    Interviews
    March 7, 2017 223

    Jaiden Kaine joins the Marvel Universe as new Luke Cage baddie, Zip

    Interviews
    September 29, 2016 9

    SDCC 2016 Interviews: The Cast and Creators of Batman: The Killing Joke

    Interviews
    July 28, 2016 61

    SDCC 2016 Interviews: The Cast and Creators of Syfy’s Van Helsing

    Interviews
    July 27, 2016 4

    Wondercon Interview: The Cast of Damien

    Interviews
    April 16, 2016 3

    Featured

    Interview with Indie Horror Master, Chris Bickel

    The Final Girl
    Interviews
    July 13, 2018 397
  • News

    News

    Regular Show: The Complete Series DVD is here!

    News
    February 9, 2025 20

    “PATER NOSTER AND THE MISSION OF LIGHT” UNLEASHES TERRIFYING UNDERGROUND HORROR – A PSYCHEDELIC CULT MOVIE EXPERIENCE COMING SOON!

    News
    November 15, 2023 74

    Breaking Down The Upcoming DC Studios Slate

    Shot for Shot
    February 1, 2023

    Featured

    Regular Show: The Complete Series DVD is here!

    Paul Brian McCoy
    News
    February 9, 2025 20
    • Trailers
  • Psychos
  • Shop
Breaking
  • Superman (2025)
  • Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)
  • Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)
  • From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025)
  • RSS
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Who We Be
  • Contact
    Home
    Columns
    Lost in Translation

    Lost in Translation 111: Battle Beyond the Stars

    Scott Delahunt
    Lost in TranslationMoviesReviews
    September 19, 2014 7

    There are movies that become the go-to source for adaptations.  Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is one such film.  In Seven Samurai, a village gets overrun by an army of bandits, intent on abusing the farmers and taking their crops for their own purposes.  The farmers send three men to find ronin, masterless samurai to help defend the village.  The men find seven: the experienced Kambei, his young disciple Katsushiro, his friend Shichiroji, the strategic Gorobei, good-willed Heihachi, the taciturn master swordsman Kyuzo, and the poser Kikuchiyo.  Kikuchiyo follows, despite attempts to drive him away.  As the samurai train the farmers and prepare fortifications, Katsushiro meets Shino, the daughter of one of the men sent to find the ronin, and begins a relationship with her.

    Shortly before the bandits are due to return, two of their scouts are found and killed and a third captured.  After questioning, the location of the bandits’ camp is revealed.  A pre-emptive strike on the camp sees it burned down, but at the cost of Heihachi’s life.  The bandits attack the village and run into the new fortifications and farmers trained to fight back.  After a battle inside the village, the bandit chief is defeated, though several of the samurai died in the fighting, and the famers are able to plant a new crop.

    7S

    Seven Samurai was one of the first movies to show the recruiting and gathering of the heroes into a team, a trope that’s commonplace today, appearing in The Guns of Navarone, Marvel’s The Avengers, and the pilot of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.  Seven Samurai became Japan’s highest grossing movie after its release.  Naturally, it was ripe for being brought across the Pacific Ocean to be remade in Hollywood.  John Sturges took the story and placed it in the Old West with the 1960 film, The Magnificent Seven.  The samurai became gunslingers who get hired by a farming village in Mexico to protect it from marauding bandits.

    The plot of The Magnificent Seven parallels Seven Samurai.  The gunslingers, veteran Chris, hotheaded Chico, Chris’s friend Harry, drifter Vin, hard luck Bernardo, cowboy Britt, and outlaw Lee, train the farmers in using guns and defending themselves.  Chico falls for Petra, one of the villagers, while Bernardo gets to know three children.  The bandits attack and take heavy losses, forcing them to retreat.  However, Chico learns that the bandits will return; they have no food and need the village’s supply.  The gunslingers move out to surprise the bandits, but are surprised themselves to find the bandit camp empty.  Calvera, the bandit leader, returned to the village and, with the gunslingers gone, the villagers put him in charge out of fear.  The gunslingers are chased off.  After a debate, the group, with the exception of Harry, decide to return to the village to fight Calvera and his bandits.  When the gunfight erupts, the villagers join the gunslingers.  Harry returns in time to prevent Chris from being shot, but is shot fatally himself.  Calvera is shot, the bandits are defeated, and the surviving gunmen go on with their lives.

    M7

    The Magnificent Seven performed well in Europe but not well in the US.  The European success allowed for three sequels and several similar films, including the Italian sword-and-sandals film The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (I sette magnific gladiatori) in 1983 and the 1980 space opera, Battle Beyond the Stars.

    By 1980, science fiction on the silver screen had transformed.  Gone were the B-movies with cheap effects like Them.  Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both released in 1977, raised audience expectations of special effects, as did 1968’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1978’s Battlestar Galactica, 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture and 1980’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.  A green-screened ant made to look the size of an office tower would not do.  At the time, CGI wasn’t even a pipe dream; TRON wouldn’t be out until 1982 and The Last Starfighter wasn’t released until 1984.  All the effects had to be practical, which could get expensive.  Roger Corman, producer of Battle Beyond the Stars, never started a movie that he knew wouldn’t make money.

    BBS-03

    The king of exploitative B-movies, Corman has a reputation of being cheap.  While George Lucas was able to make Star Wars with a budget of $11 million, Corman’s was just $2 million, or twice that of Sharknado.  With that princely sum, the crew of Battle Beyond the Stars had to make all the sets, costumes, starship interiors, and starship exteriors, and make sure all that met expectations.  The art director, Jim Cameron, had a task in front of him.  That very same Jim Cameron would go on to create movies such as The Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar.

    The plot of Battle Beyond the Stars should be familiar by now.  Akira, a pacifist planet, is visited by Sador, played by John Saxon.  A warlord with an army of mutants called the Malmori, Sador threatens the world into submission with the threat of his flagship’s main gun, the Stellar Converter.  The Stellar Converter does exactly what it says on the tin; it converts planets into stars.  Sador gives Akira a few days to decide its fate, then leaves, leaving behind a two-man starfighter to watch the world.  Realizing that there’s little the inhabitants of Akira can do, the council sends young Shad off to recruit mercenaries and purchase guns to teach the Akirans how to fight.  Shad heads off in a former corsair ship, the property of the last warrior of Akira, and the ship’s computer, Nell.  Shad’s education is too much to overcome when the Malmori ship fires on him; he cannot shoot back.  However, the ship also has speed and can outrun the Malmori fighter.

    BBS-04

    Young Shad’s first stop is at Dr. Hephaestus’ station, where he hopes he can purchase weapons.  The station appears deserted when he arrives, though.  Shad lands his ship and enters.  He is brought to Nanelia, Hepaestus’ daughter and only other living being on the station.  She takes Shad to Hepaestus, where the good doctor explains that Shad will be remaining to become Nanelia’s companion and lover.  Shad turns down the offer and breaks out of the station.  Nanelia, taken with the young man, assists in the breakout and follows a short while later.  The two split up, Shad to look for mercenaries and Nanelia to wait in the Lambda Zone for him.

    While trying to figure out where to go next, Shad is alerted to a long-haul starship being attacked by jackers who are trying to hijack the cargo.  The pilot of the ship, Space Cowboy, sends off a distress call.  Shad moves in, finding a loophole in his code of conduct, but still cannot bring himself to shoot someone in the back.  Despite being on manual, Nell destroys one of the jackers, getting the attention of the other three.  With the jackers now facing him, Shad shoots them all down, getting the thanks of Cowboy as he escorts the transport to the next port of call.  Sador, however, got there first and uses the Stellar Converter on the world, destroying it.  The cargo of weapons, fully paid for, needs to go somewhere, and Akira is much closer than Earth.  After a bit of persuasion, Cowboy agrees to help teach the Akirans how to use the guns.

    BBS-05

    Shad heads back out, still looking for mercenaries.  He runs into a white, glowing UFO, and is brought on board.  The crew of the ship is Nestor, a being and race that has multiple facets but one mind.  Nestor is bored and, on hearing of the plight of Akira, agrees to help for no payment at all.  The experience would be payment enough.  Shad then finds Gelt, an assassin who is so well known in the galaxy that there is no place for him left to live.  Gelt has immense wealth, more than anything Akira could offer, but Gelt only has two desires; a meal and a home.  After leaving Gelt, Shad is challenged by a small ship, one faster and more maneuverable than his own.  After a brief mock battle, the pilot, St-Exmin, a space valkyrie, tags along, hoping to find a battle worthy of her.  Meanwhile, in the Lambda Zone, Nanelia is taken prisoner by Cayman, a reptilian being who is intent on selling her to the highest bidder.  Nanelia explains why she was there and, hoping that Cayman would be more interested in being paid as a mercenary, mentions Sador.  Cayman agrees to join her, the only payment being Sador’s head.

    Seven ships return to Akira, where plans are drawn and fortifications created to defeat Sador and his mutants.  There would be only one chance to destroy Sador and his Stellar Converter; the ship has to drop its force field long enough to let the weapon fire.  In that moment, one of the mercenaries could open fire in that precise shot to destroy the weapon and possibly Sador’s flagship.  Sador returns, launching starfighters to deal with the ragtag fleet, but the recruited mercenaries are too much for the mutants to handle.  On the surface of Akira, Cowboy leads the defense, holding off Sador’s ground troops.

    After the first wave of fighting, Gelt has been mortally wounded, forced down after a collision with a Malmori fighter.  Shad orders his people to bury Gelt with a meal, fulfilling his end of the deal.  One of the Nestors allows himself to be captured.  Sador’s top interrogator, known for keeping a victim alive through the incredible agony, starts torturing the Nestor.  Having no pain resistance, Nestor quickly succumbs to the torture and dies, becoming Dako’s first premature death.  Sador orders Nestor’s arm grafted on to him, replacing his damaged one.  The remaining Nestors manipulate the arm, trying to slit Sador’s throat.  Dako manages to take away the knife and remove the arm.

    BBS-06

    In retaliation, Sador resumes the attack, this time to get in position to use the Stellar Converter.  The mercenaries meet him head on, but the force field on the flagship is too much.  Ship after ship is destroyed, but St-Exmin manages to fly her tiny ship into the Stellar Converter’s bay, damaging it before going out in a blaze of glory herself.  With the Stellar Converter out of action, Sador wants to personally deal with the last of the mercenary ships and its pilot.  The last ship, Nell, has Shad and Nanelia on it.  A nuclear blast wipes Nell’s memory, resetting it to when the last Akiran warrior was young.  When Nell gets caught in a magnetic net to be drawn within Sador’s flagship, Shad uses the net to help accelerate, landing within the vessel while setting Nell to self destruct.  Nell, still not all there, has Shad and Nanelia get into a lifepod for launch.  The countdown is awkward, but Nell hits zero.  The explosion starts a chain reaction through Sador’s ship, destroying it.  Akira is saved.

    As mentioned, Battle Beyond the Stars was a low budget movie.  Despite that, the effects, while showing their age, don’t look as old as they should be.  While Corman kept costs down by using interns and film school students, those very same people were able to come up with solutions and sets on the fly, staying up late and overnight as needed.  Corman had bought a lumber yard to use as a stage, but kept the old sign up.  There were people who came in to purchase lumber who were hired to build sets.  Meanwhile, the big-name stars, George Peppard and Robert Vaughn, were placed in memorable scenes but weren’t used throughout the movie, allowing Corman to only pay for the days they were on set.  Richard Thomas, being in the midst of wrapping up his role of John-Boy on The Waltons, was looking for a different type of movie from what he had done in the past.  He still had money coming in from The Waltons, so could take a cut in pay, allowing him to be in most scenes.  Editing pulled together the various shots, especially during the climactic battle, creating a movie that leaves viewers on the edge of their seat, helped by a soundtrack by James Horner.  Elements of the music would appear later in 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*.

    BBS-07

    Battle Beyond the Stars is not a simple remake of The Magnificent Seven or Seven Samurai.  Just as The Magnificent Seven brings the samurai drama into the Old West, Battle Beyond the Stars brings both the Western and the samurai drama into space.  Yet, the core, the threatened people needing outside help to fend off a villain, remains in each instance.  The gathering of the warriors, whether ronin, gunslinger, or mercenary pilot, remains intact.  While there are some minor changes, the warriors are recognizable no matter the version.  Battle Beyond the Stars‘ Shad, The Magnificent Seven‘s Chico, and Seven Samurai‘s Katsushiro are the same character, just transposed to a new setting.  Helping with this is Robert Vaughn’s characters in both The Magnificent Seven and Battle Beyond the Stars; Lee and Gelt are both wanted and too recognizable to appear in public.  St-Exmin and Kikuchyo fill the same role.  For a B-movie exploiting the popularity of Star Wars, Battle Beyond the Stars took efforts to be recognizable as Seven Samurai as a space opera and succeeded.

    Next week, Ocean’s Eleven.

    * While The Wrath of Khan‘s soundtrack is distinct from Battle Beyond the Stars, Horner’s style can be heard in both, particularly in the use of the call of the hunting horns.


     

    This article was originally published to Muse Hack.

    Thanks to our friends at Muse Hack for letting us share this content.

    Muse Hack is a partner in Crossroads Alpha along with Psycho Drive-In.

    APPIP ERROR: amazonproducts[
    AccessDeniedAwsUsers|The Access Key Id AKIAIIK4RQAHE2XK6RNA is not enabled for accessing this version of Product Advertising API. Please migrate your credentials as referred here https://webservices.amazon.com/paapi5/documentation/migrating-your-product-advertising-api-account-from-your-aws-account.html.
    ]
    (Visited 933 times, 1 visits today)

    Related

    Battle Beyond the StarsGeorge PeppardJames HornerLost in TranslationRichard ThomasRobert VaughnRoger CormanScott DelahuntSybil Danning

    FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
    Previous The Strain 1.09 “The Disappeared”
    Next The Strain 1.10 “Loved Ones”
    monsterid
    Scott Delahunt
    Lost in Translation
    By day, Scott Delahunt is an IT analyst, fixing problems and explaining operating systems for end users. By night, he takes his degree in Computer Science, his love of movies, his vast knowledge of tabletop gaming, his curiosity into how things work and becomes a geek!  Although he has nothing published professionally, Scott has written fanfiction, scripted an anime music video, play tested role-playing games, and applied his love of bad movies to Lost In Translation.  He has also helped put on an anime convention and organize bus trips to Anime North. In his spare time, he raises two cats to become Internet icons and maintains a personal blog, The Chaos Beast.

    Related Posts

    Lost in Translation 483: One More Trailer

    Scott Delahunt
    Lost in Translation
    July 11, 2025 4

    Lost in Translation 482: Examining Recent Trailers

    Scott Delahunt
    Lost in Translation
    June 27, 2025 6

    Daily Top Ten

    • juonHalloween Top Five Ghost Stories by Zack Davisson
    • hensoncubeMuppets 101: The Cube (1969) by Jessica Sowards
    • StalloneJudge Dredd (1995) Blu-ray Review by Jason Sacks
    • Red copyThe Blacklist 1.10 “Anslo Garrick Part Two” by Natalie Amato
    • weaver-headerABCs of Horror 2016 Day 31: W is for Sigourney Weaver by Laura Akers
    • fangoria-porno-04Fangoria presents Porno (2019) by Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
    • night-train-to-terror-05Night Train to Terror (1985) by John E. Meredith
    • VD-04The Vampire Diaries 6.03 “Welcome to Paradise” by Shawn Hill
    • wyrmwood-01Sick Flix: Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) by Corin Totin
    • john-wick-3-blu-rayJohn Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum arrives on Digital… by Psychodr
    400x400 GI Joe Funko Banner

    Weekly Top Ten

    • i-spit-on-your-grave-09The Final Girl: I Spit on Your Grave (2010) by The Final Girl
    • superman-headerSuperman (2025) by Nate Zoebl
    • star-wars-headerLost in Translation: The History of Adaptations, 1970-79 by Scott Delahunt
    • 80s-headerLost in Translation: The History of Adaptations, 1980-89 by Scott Delahunt
    • babylon-5-blu-ray-04Babylon 5 Complete Series Blu-ray Review by Paul Brian McCoy
    • goldfinger-headerLost in Translation: The Bond Project – Goldfinger by Scott Delahunt
    • belladonna-03Big Eyes Smart Mouth: Belladonna of Sadness by Serdar Yegulalp
    • 2001Lost in Translation: The History of Adaptations, 1960-69 by Scott Delahunt
    • FrankensteinLost in Translation: The History of Adaptations, 1930-39 by Scott Delahunt
    • mary-shelleys-frankenstein-headerEZMM 2024 Day 4: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) by Paul Brian McCoy

    psychodrivein

    We came here to chew bubblegum and write intelligent reviews and commentary on cult TV and movies! And we're all out of bubblegum!

    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Anything Joes: Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Anything Joes: S02E30 - Jaren Gets A Comic Grail

In this episode of ANYTHING JOES, Jaren scores a long-time comic grail and we’re celebrating! 
—
Watch the @AnythingJoesPod guys at the link in our profile!

#AnythingJoes #GIJoe #MarvelComics
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Anything Joes: Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Anything Joes: ZARTAN UNBOXED! | Hiya Toys 1:18 G.I. Joe Figure Review & Comparison 

In this video, Greg cracks open the Hiya Toys 1:18 scale ZARTAN figure and takes a detailed look at his design, articulation, and accessories.
—
Watch Greg at the link in our profile!

@AnythingJoesPod #AnythingJoes #Zartan #HiyaToys #GIJoe
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com The Psycho Dri Today at https://psychodrivein.com

The Psycho Drive-In Podcast 07: Superman (2025)

Join Paul and John on the Psycho Drive-In Podcast as they delve into the first official DC Universe live-action film release, Superman!
—
Listen to the boys at the link in our profile!

#PsychoDriveIn #PsychoDriveInPodcast #Podcast #Superman #JamesGunn #DavidCorenswet #RachelBrosnahan #NicholasHoult #DCU #DC
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Lost in Transl Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Lost in Translation 483: One More Trailer

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a period piece set in the 60s, around the time the comic was first published.
—
Read more of Scott’s article at the link in our profile!

#LostInTranslation #FantasticFour #FantasticFourFirstSteps #MarvelStudios #MCU
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Superman (2025 Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Superman (2025)

Superman is proof that the DC film universe might actually have the perfect person in charge of charting their cross-franchise courses.
—
Read more of Nate’s review at the link in our profile!

#Superman #JamesGunn #DavidCorenswet #RachelBrosnahan #NicholasHoult #DC #DCU
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Lost in Transl Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Lost in Translation 482: Examining Recent Trailers

Two new trailers dropped that are of interest to Lost in Translation: Spaceballs 2 and The Naked Gun!
—
Read more of Scott’s article at the link in our profile!

#LostInTranslation #Spaceballs2 #TheNakedGun #Trailers
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Final Destinat Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES is a return to form for a franchise that never should have been on the brink of death.
—
Read more of Nate’s review at the link in our profile!

#FinalDestination #FinalDestinationBloodlines #AdamBStein #ZachLipovsky #KaitlynSantaJuana #TonyTodd
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com Anything Joes: Today at https://psychodrivein.com

Anything Joes: S02E29 - File Card Focus: Big Boa
 
Greg and Jaren return to take a hard look at Cobra’s one-man trainer: Big Boa! 
—
Watch the @AnythingJoesPod gang at the link in our profile!

#AnythingJoes #GIJoe #Cobra #BigBoa #FileCardFocus
    Today at https://psychodrivein.com The Psycho Dri Today at https://psychodrivein.com

The Psycho Drive-In Podcast: 28 Years Later

Paul and John are back with a new PSYCHO DRIVE-IN PODCAST with a brand-new review of 28 YEARS LATER plus a look back at the franchise, its themes, its innovations, and its impact on the genre!
—
Listen to the guys at the link in our profile!

#ThePsychoDriveInPodcast #28YearsLater #28WeeksLater #28DaysLater #DannyBoyle #AlexGarland #AlfieWilliams
 #AaronTaylorJohnson #JodieComer #RalphFiennes
    Follow on Instagram

    Look Who's Talking

    Shawn EH
    Shawn EH - 5/4/2025
    Thunderbolts* (2025)
    Yep, very well done; avoiding the big flashy battle that these heroes (can any of you fly?)...
    Ideonova
    Ideonova - 12/26/2024
    Page to Screen: F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep
    Not living up to the source material? What source material? The book is a predictable, at times...
    Fred L. Taulbee Jr.
    Fred L. Taulbee Jr. - 8/17/2024
    Cahiers du Horror 03: Frank Henenlotter and The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
    I need to see that again. Maybe make it a double feature with All of Me. Steve Martin is someone you...
    RSSTwitterFacebookinstagramtumblr

    Archives

    Large_rectangle_336X280
    • PDI Press
      • PDI Press Catalog
      • PDI Press Writers
        • Fiction
    • Columns A-D
      • A Fistful of Dollar Comics
      • ABCs of Horror
      • All Binge… No Purge
      • Anything Joes
      • Beautiful Creatures
      • Big Eyes Smart Mouth
      • Big Sleeps and Long Goodbyes
      • Cahiers du Horror
      • Dispatches From the Field
      • Drive-In Saturday
      • Dungeons & D-Listers
    • Columns F-P
      • The Final Girl
      • First Looks… Second Thoughts
      • The Flesh is Weak
      • Innocence and Experience
      • Lost in Translation
      • Marvel at the Movies
      • Muppets 101
      • Page to Screen
      • Popcorn Cinema
      • The Psycho Drive-In Podcast
      • Psycho Essentials: The ’80s!
    • Columns S-Z
      • Schlock & Awe
      • Shakespeare on Film
      • Shot for Shot
      • Sick Flix
      • Unnatural Selections
      • Versus
      • Video Word Made Flesh
      • We Got Lists
      • Women in Horror
      • The Xeno File
      • Zombies 101
    • Reviews
      • Books
      • Comics
      • DVD/Blu-ray
      • Movies
      • TV
      • Series
    • Interviews
    • News
      • Trailers
    • Psychos
    • Shop
    • PDI Press
      • PDI Press Catalog
      • PDI Press Writers
        • Fiction
    • Columns A-D
      • A Fistful of Dollar Comics
      • ABCs of Horror
      • All Binge… No Purge
      • Anything Joes
      • Beautiful Creatures
      • Big Eyes Smart Mouth
      • Big Sleeps and Long Goodbyes
      • Cahiers du Horror
      • Dispatches From the Field
      • Drive-In Saturday
      • Dungeons & D-Listers
    • Columns F-P
      • The Final Girl
      • First Looks… Second Thoughts
      • The Flesh is Weak
      • Innocence and Experience
      • Lost in Translation
      • Marvel at the Movies
      • Muppets 101
      • Page to Screen
      • Popcorn Cinema
      • The Psycho Drive-In Podcast
      • Psycho Essentials: The ’80s!
    • Columns S-Z
      • Schlock & Awe
      • Shakespeare on Film
      • Shot for Shot
      • Sick Flix
      • Unnatural Selections
      • Versus
      • Video Word Made Flesh
      • We Got Lists
      • Women in Horror
      • The Xeno File
      • Zombies 101
    • Reviews
      • Books
      • Comics
      • DVD/Blu-ray
      • Movies
      • TV
      • Series
    • Interviews
    • News
      • Trailers
    • Psychos
    • Shop
    Type to search or hit ESC to close
    See all results
    Username
    Password
    Remember Me
    Lost password?
    Create an account
    Username
    Email
    Cancel
    Enter username or email
    Cancel