Even if Bill Rebane’s The Capture of Bigfoot (1979) were stellar in all other respects — top-notch cast, sparkling cinematography, a superlative script — I would still hold against him the fact that he made Bigfoot’s pelt white. That’s all hypothetical, though.
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Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the publisher of Cold Fusion Media.
#1 by Ed on May 19th, 2010
Good stuff, Nathan.
To think, if only Bill Rebane had a better sense of humor he could have explained the white fur thing away by adding a bit of dialogue concerning “Albino Bigfoots”.
On a more general note, I’d like to compliment you on the VHS covers that you line your reviews with. As a fan of cheesy movies and packaging designs/advertising materials from said movies I really dig that addition.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on May 20th, 2010
Thank you. I’m a compulsive image-hoarder; right now I’ve got 38,000 unsorted movie images sitting in a directory.
#3 by Blake on May 20th, 2010
2 Bill Rebane movies at the site? That can’t be good for your health.
#4 by Nathan Shumate on May 20th, 2010
Albert Pyun and Todd Sheets are great inoculants.
#5 by El Santo on May 20th, 2010
Do you realize that between your two reviews, my two reviews (Invasion from Inner Earth and The Giant Spider Invasion), and Ken’s review (Monster a Go-Go, begun by Rebane and completed by Herschell Gordon Lewis), we’ve got fully 50% of the Bill Rebane catalog covered? Kind of makes me want to get cracking on those other two Rebane movies I’m sitting on, just to bring us that much closer to completing the set.
#6 by Braineater on May 20th, 2010
I’ve been thinking of doing Rana, just because it features the least-justified use of Swan Lake since the Universal films of the 30′s. I’m tempted to push Demons of Ludlow and Alpha Incident up my way-too-long list, just to help get them covered… but the trouble is, I feel like I’d want to double-bill them with Devonsville Terror and Pyun’s Invasion respectively, and life just feels too damned short at the moment.
#7 by Blake on May 20th, 2010
The B-Masters: Making Sacrifices for the sake of B-movie review completeness.
#8 by Nathan Shumate on May 20th, 2010
Dubs not.