Showing posts with label exotic lands and customs (u). Show all posts
Showing posts with label exotic lands and customs (u). Show all posts
Saturday, June 28, 2025

QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS (1947)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny*  MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological*   The small-time studio Lipper...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

JUNGLE RAIDERS (1945)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *cosmological, sociological*                  ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND (1981)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological*                               ...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE (1935)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *marvelous* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* There's just one element ...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE (1956=57)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* TUBI is now showing sixteen of ...
Friday, September 8, 2023

LOST TREASURE OF THE INCAS (1964)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* I was strongly tempted to alter...
Monday, September 4, 2023

CREATURES THE WORLD FORGOT (1971)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *drama* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *metaphysical, sociological* CREATURES THE WORLD F...
Monday, August 7, 2023

FIRE MONSTERS AGAINST THE SON OF HERCULES (1962)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* A quick classification matter: ...
Sunday, July 30, 2023

TARZAN THE APE MAN (1981)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *psychological* When I finished watching John ...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023

HERCULES AGAINST THE SONS OF THE SUN (1964)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* Some of Italy's "Macis...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

DEVIL GODDESS (1955)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological* DEVIL GODDESS is the last of th...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (1952)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological* This Italian production, proba...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

REVOLT OF THE PRAETORIANS (1964)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological* When I decided to watch this m...
Monday, April 4, 2022

PYGMY ISLAND (1950)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological* If MST3K had ever riffed on an...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

ZAN, KING OF THE JUNGLE (1969)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *poor* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological* I don't want to suggest th...
Friday, September 17, 2021

JUNGLE DRUMS OF AFRICA (1953)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *sociological* I first saw this 12-part seria...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

THE SON OF TARZAN (1920)

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  PHENOMENALITY: *uncanny* MYTHICITY: *fair* FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure* CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTIONS: *psychological* Serials in the sound era were...