I’ve been getting emails requesting that I review this movie, but I already did in 2010. For the folks requesting it, here it is again.
ASSIGNMENT: TERROR (1969) – If they gave a Nobel Prize for bad movie premises this baby would easily wind up wearing one of those big medallions around its neck! Spain’s King of Horror (and John Belushi look-alike) , Paul “Jacinto Molina” Naschy is in this film playing his recurring character, tormented lycanthrope Waldemar Daninsky.
The premise of this movie is that aliens plan to conquer the world by frightening humanity into submission by scaring us with monsters. Call me crazy, but I think Continue reading
The collective nervous breakdown by the American corporate media continues, so here are some more headlines reflecting this “new” style: 
NJCAA Division Two – 1. CUYAHOGA COLLEGE CHALLENGERS ### 2. SOUTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE SPARTANS ### 3. RICHARD BLAND COLLEGE STATESMEN ### 4. NIAGARA COUNTY COLLEGE PURPLE WOLVES ### 5. LOUISBURG COLLEGE HURRICANES ### 
6. MOTLOW COLLEGE BUCKS ### 7. PARKLAND COLLEGE COBRAS ### 8. ANCILLA COLLEGE CHARGERS ### 9. METROPOLITAN COLLEGE AT PENN VALLEY SCOUTS ### 10. KIRKWOOD COLLEGE EAGLES (Defending National Champions) ### 
America’s corporate media continues to flaunt its frantic abandonment of professionalism. Yesterday amid their usual flood of DemoKKKrat fan fiction they tried claiming that President Donald Trump got rid of a White House bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The irrational hysteria felt by haters of Donald Trump has surpassed Y2K levels at this point and it is HILARIOUS!
Balladeer’s Blog examines another Pulp Hero who doesn’t get as much love as he deserves. Science Fiction pioneer Jean de la Hire from France created the Nyctalope (“Nightwalker”) in 1908 but since many of de la Hire’s works were not translated into English for decades this fascinating cyborg Pulp Hero and proto-superhero languished in obscurity. 
This French figure survived a violent incident with the help of scientists who “had the technology” to give him yellow bionic eyes which could see in the dark and for long distances. In addition his saviors replaced his damaged heart with a cybernetic one, endowing him with superhuman stamina since that artificial organ slowed the buildup of fatigue toxins in his system. 
THE MAN WHO COULD LIVE UNDERWATER (1908) In the story which introduced the Nyctalope he was a supporting character to one of Jean de la Hire’s other fictional figures, in this case Charles Severac. That man invented and captained the Torpedo, a super-scientific submarine that would make Captain Nemo AND Mighty Jack green with envy. 
THE MYSTERY OF THE FIFTEEN (1911) aka THE NYCTALOPE ON MARS – Oxus the Mad returned as a villain in this first solo adventure of the Nyctalope. Oxus (renamed Arkhus in some later translations) was a member of a group called The Fifteen – a secret organization of megalomaniacal madmen. 
KIKOMIHCI – The god who created human beings and animal life after the supreme deity Ibofanaga was finished creating the Earth, the heavens and the underground world. Kikomihci animated people and other animals with their “ghosts” which could leave their bodies at night in dreams and wander around, returning to their host body by morning to avoid causing illness. 
