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If there was ever an example of perfect casting, it must be Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane. Tall, awkward, goofy, the actor is the living embodiment of the character. Unfortunately, while he looks the part in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1980), he doesn’t quite act it. Even more unfortunate, he fares better than the…
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Dr. Ivanna Rakowsky (Erna Schurer) is an assertive woman who, in Scream of the Demon Lover (1970), regularly exercises her agency. Unfortunately, it’s at the expense of her ability to make rational decisions. Not only does she completely misinterpret what’s happening around her and misdiagnose her employer, Baron Janos Dalmar (Carlos Quiney), but she also…
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When one of your favorite movies ever, one of the few you’ve rated a perfect 10 out of 10, gets not only a sequel, but a TV-movie sequel, your hopes for it can’t be very high. Therefore, because my low expectations were marginally exceeded, I’m probably being generous with Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980.)…
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You must pay attention when you’re reading subtitles in a foreign film. When an inexplicably curious guest at Sir Reginald Thorne’s castle in The Seventh Grave (1965) stumbles upon a dead body, another guest asks, “Did you see something in his buttonhole,” I did a double take. I know, my mind is in the gutter,…
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The Henderson Monster (1980) is the “talkiest” TV-movie, if not movie-movie, I think I’ve ever seen. About a third of the way into it, I had to ask myself if it was based on a play (it’s not.) In and of itself, this isn’t a problem. However, if you’re going to spend an hour and…
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Technically, the title’s not bait-and-switch; however, if you’re expecting a typical mummy movie, The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (1980) is not it. That’s not to say it’s an atypical mummy movie. It’s just not really a mummy movie at all. Instead, it’s all about the politics of discovering the tomb of King Tutankhamen and…
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The Monster of the Opera (1964), aka The Vampire of the Opera, has been on my watch list for quite some time, but I’m not sure how I first became aware of it. It’s inclusion in Severin’s Danza Macabre box set provided most of my excitement for purchasing it, especially since I already owned Lady…
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Two years before V hit the big time as an NBC miniseries, the network tested the waters with a similar concept: The Aliens Are Coming (1980.) I was originally going to write that I was surprised V got made considering the tepid result of The Aliens Are Coming. However, now I’m more inclined to believe…
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As I sat through Pandemonium (1982), it dawned on me that if you took the funniest bits from all the horror comedies of the early 1980s and stitched them together, you might have a pretty good movie. (Or you could just watch Student Bodies.) With this one, though, there’s only one scene I’d bother harvesting.…
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With She’s Dressed to Kill (1979), we’ve technically reached the end of this series about “1970s TV Movies.” However, as we’ve discussed, there isn’t an impenetrable line between decades that cleanly separates their content. However, this is the last film in the book that has been my bible since the series began almost three years…
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