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Paul Bartel was an openly gay filmmaker who also appeared on screen in over 90 movies and television shows. He directed his first feature film, Private Parts in 1972, which was produced by Gene Corman. Gene’s brother, Roger, subsequently hired him as second unit director on Big Bad Mama (1974) and director on Death Race
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Over four years ago, I launched this 1970s TV-Movie series for the TV Terror Guide with a film called Ritual of Evil (1970.) Today, I end the series with the film to which Ritual was a sequel: Fear No Evil (1969.) We’ve climbed up the decade (and beyond), then back down, adding some movies that
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Join Jeff and Richard as they travel only a few months into the past to watch two movies released 50 years apart, one of them that’s 92-years old! First up is Poltergeist (1982) and then it’s Freaks (1932.) If you think that’s an odd double feature, consider that the third movie on the triple bill
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Good anthologies save the best of their short stories for last. Of course, opinions differ, but for me, Night Gallery (1969) has the order wrong. That’s not to say the overall package is bad in any way. It’s just that Rod Serling gives us the scariest, most effective segment at the beginning. I’m going to
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Eloy de la Iglesia was a gay filmmaker best known for portraying “urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency.” Many of his films dealt with homosexual themes. He became addicted to drugs and stopped making films for 15 years, but returned sober in 2003, making one more film before dying of kidney
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While Daughter of the Mind aired on television in 1969, there’s no doubt it should be included in discussions about TV-movies of the 70s. First, we’re nitpicking if we exclude anything due to a few months’ difference in release dates. More importantly, it follows a template that many more will use into the next decade…
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David E. Durston wrote and directed episodes of Playhouse 90 in the mid-1950s through 1960, before branching into movies. After four films, though, he shifted to hardcore gay pornography with movies like Boy ‘Napped (1971) and Manhole (1978.) He died in 2010 of complications from pneumonia. With as lurid a title as I Drink Your
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The great Edward G. Robinson was 77 years old when he made The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970), playing a man who was just turning 70. Age plays a big part in the movie, adding a layer of emotion to what’s already a gripping thriller. So compelling is Robinson’s performance that it’s one of
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Surprise! We’re hitting the road early with the first of four summer trips to the drive-in. It’s the weekend of June 15, 1973, and Battle for the Planet of the Apes has just opened, giving the Hillcrest Drive-In in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the opportunity to host an unofficial “Go Ape” marathon. We both started our
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Although I can’t remember where I’ve seen it before, the plot of The Face of Fear (1971), while a good one, is not original. Since the source material, the novel, “Sally,” by E.V. Cunningham (aka Howard Fast) was written in 1967, maybe this is just another in a long line of films based on the
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