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When Mary Hyatt (Paula Prentiss) is bitten by the vampire, Waldemar (Jeffrey Tambor), she explains her condition by saying maybe she’s pregnant. Van Helsing (Severn Darden) responds by saying: Remember Rosemary? She had a baby? Unless you count its title, this is the closest Saturday the 14th (1981) comes to spoofing a specific horror movie.…
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Warning: this review contains spoilers. The highlight of Salem’s Lot part one (the vampire boys floating outside and rap-tap tapping on windows) overshadows a scene in part two that I had forgotten was just as terrifying. Mike Ryerson (Geoffrey Lewis) is throwing dirt on the grave of Danny Glick when the wind swirls around him…
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Warning: this review contains spoilers. In Salem’s Lot (1979) Mark Petrie (Lance Kerwin) reminds me of myself as a monster kid. His room is full of all sorts of cool posters, models, and masks. After showing his friends, Danny and Ralphie Glick (Brad Savage and Ronnie Scribner) his ghoul mask (and explaining the horrific nature…
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Reflecting upon the past, it feels like Student Bodies (1981) was made during the early part of the Slasher Age when we had yet to see the majority of films that were coming. However, what we had seen by then were the true, iconic classics, which makes this spoof of only a handful of them…
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If memory has ever failed me about a movie, it sure has with April Fool’s Day (1986), one of the best horror movies, if not movie-movies I’ve ever seen! It offers likeable characters, believable situations, unbearable suspense, and so many twists and turns that I suffered whiplash. I’ve never had so much fun. April Fool’s!…
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With last week’s movie, The Death of Ocean View Park, and now Disaster on the Coastliner, it seems like the television networks were trying to cram as many disaster movies as they could into the decade before it ended. That’s funny because the subgenre had about run its course earlier in 1979 with The Concorde……
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Before watching The Mad Room (1969), I knew it was based on a play called, Ladies in Retirement; however, I didn’t realize until later that it is also a remake of the film, Ladies in Retirement (1941.) Director Bernard Girard was supposedly unhappy with alterations of this film during post-production, and I may be able…
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Which came first: an 80-year-old amusement park scheduled to be purposely demolished or a Hollywood studio making a TV movie about an amusement park that’s (spoiler alert) accidentally going to be destroyed? Let’s just call it kismet. Playboy Productions supposedly purchased the Ocean View Amusement Park in Norfolk, Virginia, just so they could make The…
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In 1981, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll created the classic television series, Hill Street Blues. Throughout the 1980s, Bochco was an Emmy-winning golden child, creating Doogie Howser, M.D. and L.A. Law. Would fate have treated him differently if the 1979 pilot, Vampire, had been sold instead of ending without a resolution to the story? In…
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In the book, “Hollywood’s Pre-Code Horrors 1931-1934,” Raymond Valinoti Jr. reports that during the production of Island of Lost Souls (1932), Production Code representative Jason Joy told Paramount: I assume that some thought has been given to the possibility of injecting the idea of crossing animals with humans. If this is the case it is…
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