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It’s been a while since we’ve had a 70s TV movie with so many familiar faces, although they’re mostly underutilized. Leading the cast is Charlie’s newest angel, Shelley Hack, as aspiring television reporter, Jan. She’s supported by her boss, Frank Gorshin, and her colleague, Barbara Rush. She interviews victims Dinah Shore and Morgan Brittany. She…
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Maybe it’s because I just watched a ratty old print of The Mad Monster (1942) on YouTube and a crisp new transfer of The Mad Ghoul (1943) on Blu-ray, but I enjoyed the latter… a lot. One of the “lesser” films among the Universal Horror Collections, I liked it better than some of the sequels…
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With the old bait and switch, CBS emphasized the salacious aspects in its advertising for The Darker Side of Terror (1979). Yes, what we see in TV Guide happens, but as only one interesting plot point in a film that offers an even more compelling science fiction story overall. Much about it is familiar, but…
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When a man (Robert Benchley, I Married a Witch) has a “rough night” combination of a chat with a fortune teller and then a bad dream, his friend at the club (David Hoffman, The Beast with Five Fingers) attempts to snap him out of his jitters with three stories of the supernatural. Synopses of Flesh…
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If you search for Express to Terror (1979) on the internet, you’re likely to find Horror Express (1972) first. Take my advice: watch the far superior Horror Express instead. Not only is the title misleading, but further investigation shows that it’s the pilot for the infamous television series debacle, Supertrain. I almost eliminated it from…
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All good things must come to an end. Be careful what you wish for. I jinxed it. Insert the expression of your choice. The point is, after singing praises of mid-1980s horror films that I originally disliked, then rewatched and enjoyed, here comes The Return of the Living Dead (1985.) For me, this was the…
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Back in June, I called The Savage Bees (1976) “the best killer bee movie I’ve seen.” Back in the day, others must have liked it, too, because two years later it got a sequel, Terror Out of the Sky. This one is not as good as the original; however, it’s still entertaining on an even…
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In 1976, Warner Bros. hired a mostly unknown director named John Carpenter to write a screenplay for a feature film based on the terrifying true-life experience of a woman in Chicago. During the eight months following completion, Warner Bros. decided they wanted it to be a TV movie and asked Carpenter to direct it. It…
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Another week, another rewatch of a 1986 movie I originally hated, but now kind of enjoy. This may be blasphemous since the movie is Invaders from Mars, about which Joe Dante once said, shaking his head with a look of disgust, “very few remakes are as misguided.” Sure, it comes nowhere near to capturing the…
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The following are excepts from my feature about A Fire in the Sky (1978) in the We Belong Dead publication, Spotlight on Science Fiction. It’s structured like the typical disaster movie in which you could basically substitute one catastrophe for another, but it executes it so well throughout its three stages: preparation for the disaster,…
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