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Growing up, I must have had a thing for axes. The “Frozen Fear” segment of Asylum (1972) is something I’ll never forget watching at the theater for the first time, and The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975) was a much talked about television movie on the playground at school. The latter is the “true” story
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By the time Death Stalk (1975) got around to any details that interested me, I was already washed down the white-water rapids without it. Normally, a movie starts out strong, then poops out. Here, though, the beginning is so grating that any subsequent redeeming qualities are too little, too late. Overall, it’s not bad. However,
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With each name in the credits, my anticipation grew… Written by Robert Bloch, directed by Curtis Harrington, starring Ray Milland… I was about to watch another terrific TV movie like The Cat Creature (1973), an homage to classic horror of days gone by. Sadly, that didn’t happen, and it’s not just because it wasn’t what
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Although I can find no evidence of this, I remember a horrible VHS cover box for Mill of the Stone Woman (1960.) It was light brown with a fuzzy photo of a woman on the front. I can’t tell you how many times I picked up that box to read about it and never had
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Yesterday, I ended my review of Grizzly (1976) by writing that for two years it was the highest-grossing independent movie ever. The film’s distributor, Edward L. Montaro, took the money and ran. Literally. He never paid any of the SAG actors residuals and fled the country. He also kept the profits without paying the director,
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Within the last thirty years just off the east coast of the United States, more than a thousand men, women and children have vanished from the face of the earth. No one knows how. Or why. This is one explanation… Now comes the time for another 1970s occult subject: the Bermuda Triangle. We’ve seen TV
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It hasn’t been a very good week for my memory. Not only did I forget about the career of singer Jack Jones (click here to read my review of The Comeback), but I also didn’t realize that Reflections of Murder (1974) is a remake of Les Diabolique (1955.) That’s even after acknowledging the opening credit,
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What do I know? My persistent thought about The Comeback (1978) was that, for a supposedly popular pop singer, the character of Nick Cooper, as played by Jack Jones, didn’t seem like a very dynamic musical performer. I learned only afterwards that Jones’s primary career was as a Grammy Award-winning singer. Then again, I’m the
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Hoping to enjoy Grizzly (1976) more than I ever have, which hasn’t been much, I recently loaded the Blu-ray into the machine and leaned back in my recliner to watch it. For a little more than half the film, I had two thoughts. First, it was better than I remembered. Second, it’s not as much
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All the Kind Strangers (1974) starts incredibly strong and, sustained by a terrific performance from Stacy Keach, feels at times more like a theatrical film than it does a television movie. However, by the time John Savage is taking a contemplative stroll in the woods with a painful song by Robby Benson playing in the
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