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If you sucked all the humor out of The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), you might be left with The Head (1959.) However, you’d then have to bloat it with almost 20 additional minutes. This leaves a deadly serious film that’s too long and not much fun. I’d take “Jan in the Pan” any day
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Against all expectations throughout most of this 70’s TV movie, it ended up casting quite a spell on me. What first seemed like a Carrie rip-off soon turned to family drama, which turned to supernatural horror, which ended in a surprise I didn’t anticipate coming. Yes, The Spell (1977) is unique in several ways. First,
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All these years and I’d never seen Hell Night (1981.) I’m not going to say it was a revelation when I finally watched it; however, I will say I enjoyed it much more than I ever anticipated. It’s a typical Slasher, which is to say it’s imperfect, but there are enough interesting things about it
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During The Last Dinosaur (1977), especially since it features more than one prehistoric monster, I kept thinking it was Masten Thrust Jr. (Richard Boone) who was the titular character. He’s a big game hunter and “richest man in the world,” according to Newsworld Magazine, who has run out of challenges. While drilling for oil under
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Welcome to 1977. As we’ve evolved from the beginning of the decade, our TV terrors have become a little more bloated and a little less terrifying. Therefore, it’s nice to start a new year with a return to classic form: Night Terror (aka Night Drive), a tight, exciting thriller that is simple, efficient, and scary.
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Andy Milligan was openly gay, but made a contradictory decision in 1968: he married a woman, Candy Hammond, who was in the film he was shooting at the time, Seeds of Sin (1968.) According to fangoria.com, Milligan “usually picked up his dates in dive leather bars and the seediest stretches of the Deuce” (42nd Street
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With Independence Day approaching, it’s coincidental that this week’s 1970’s TV movie is Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976.) It depicts a 39-vehicle pile-up on the freeway on July 4. The film is bookended with some decent crash footage; however, as Sergeant Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) of the California Highway Patrol narrates at the beginning, the
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Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) I was now reaching the age where the idea of sex began to go beyond the theoretical into the actual, and I must confess that I began to make a few explorations in this direction with some of my male school chums. Of course, I went to parties and school dances with
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Granted, the bar is low, but The Savage Bees is the best killer bee movie I’ve seen. It’s far better than one we’ve discussed earlier, the ridiculous Killer Bees (1974.) But it’s also better than two theatrical films, The Deadly Bees (1966) and The Swarm (1978.) It’s the tropes of 1970s disaster movies avoided in
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There seem to be conflicting stories about how open F.W. Murnau was about his sexuality. During promotion for the 2000 film, Shadow of the Vampire, Susan King wrote In the January 4, 2001, issue of the Los Angeles Times, “Murnau was a closet homosexual, but his ‘secret’ came out with his death in a car
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