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By late 1976, about the time Mayday at 40,000 Feet! first aired, we’d surely seen all the tropes from airplane disaster films, not just in theaters, but also in television movies. You’d think this one would have attempted to add something new. It doesn’t unless you consider slowing the whole thing down and not even
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Funny story about watching Nightmare in Badham County (1976) the other night on YouTube… When Cathy Phillips (Deborah Raffin) and Diane Emery (Lynne Moody) are arrested on false charges in a small southern town and taken to jail, Sheriff Danen (Chuck Connors) tells the latter to do what he says or he’s going to hurt
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There’s no love to be found for Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (1976), the TV-movie sequel to the classic film, Rosemary’s Baby, even though those who have seen it and read Ira Levin’s sequel novel, Son of Rosemary, claim the film is better than the book. I can understand not liking it, but I’m
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Gamera: Super Monster (1980) is the Robot Monster (1953) of kaiju films. Both films feature a child’s dreams and, if you look at the movies as products of juvenile dream logic instead of straightforward storytelling, they’re a lot of fun. What if Gamera: Super Monster is entirely a dream with the boy reliving the giant
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In many ways, Death at Love House (1976) reminds me of a previous 70’s TV movie that we’ve discussed here: The Dead Don’t Die (1975.) Unfortunately, one of the ways is that I didn’t like it very much. In their own ways, both deal with the golden age of Hollywood and feature glorified cameo appearances
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For some reason, I’ve been anticipating a decline in quality of the Gamera films, but it doesn’t arrive with Gamera vs. Zigra (1971.) I may like it slightly less than its predecessor; however, that’s a personal preference. In general, it maintains the level that I’ve come to expect, and I have yet to be disappointed.
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For a film about Charles Manson that avoids most of the gory visual details, Helter Skelter (1976) maintains for three-plus hours a style and pace that keeps its murder investigation and courtroom drama compelling, engaging, and terrifying. It originally aired as two parts on television. Viewers must have liked part one, because its ratings were
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When I watched Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) 11 months ago and paused my exploration of the Arrow Video box set, Gamera: The Complete Collection, I would have thought we were at the peak of the series. I remember rating it highly and commenting that the crazier the movies got, the more entertaining they were. Imagine
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Similar in purpose and style, One of My Wives is Missing (1976) evokes another 70s TV movie that we recently discussed: Conspiracy of Terror. I could almost copy and paste content from that review into this one. It was a pilot for an intended series. It features an eccentric lead character. It relies on genuine,
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Eye of the Devil (1966) fits into that odd and wonderful era of 1960s British genre films that gave us Village of the Damned, Day of the Triffids, and Night of the Eagle (aka Burn, Witch, Burn.) For me, this means they’re made with a perspective or sensibility that’s just slightly unfamiliar when compared to
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