November 2014 – Page 8 – Really Awful Movies

10 Scary Classical Music Pieces

In one of the more infamous experiments from the annals of psychology, two Johns Hopkins University researchers in 1920, conditioned a nine-month old infant dubbed “Albert B” to fear toys he’d previously enjoyed, by associating them with scary sounds — a hammer striking a suspended steel bar. This was stark, if highly unethical, empirical evidence ofContinue reading “10 Scary Classical Music Pieces”

Strike Commando

Ameri-can-SKIIIIIIII!!! That’s Russian for “American” – ish. And the soldiers, are Vietnamese – ish. (There’s a sprinkling of obviously Filipino extras.) But hey, it’s an Italian production with a Russian super-villain shot in the Philippines (truly our favorite country for B-movies). So we can’t exactly demand Vietnam War historical exactitude. A Strike Commando team led by b-movieContinue reading “Strike Commando”