Author Archives: Stephen Futterer

Are we poems? If poems are we, I’m jammed between the blackboard And the deep blue sea.

“You thought you had seen it all! THE SWARM (1978) had killer bees. THEM! (1954) gave us giant post-atomic, man-eating ants. THE DEADLY MANTIS (1957) emerged from Arctic ice to sow destruction on Earth. FROGS (1972) showed mother nature fighting back against chemical pollution. And now WORMS! (2022) reveals the imminent attack of deadly nematodesContinue reading ““WORMS!””

John Heard, one of the stars of C.H.U.D. (1984), actually graduated my high school and was an old friend of one of my uncles from their schoolboy days. I’ve seen a handful of his films besides this one, including A Trip to Bountiful (1985), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), and BIG (1988). I enjoyed hisContinue reading ““C.H.U.D. Mask””