Category: Movie Discussions
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Eye of the Cat (1969)
David Lowell Rich should be a familiar name to those who join us on Fridays for TV Terror Guide. Beginning his career in the 1950s, he was a prolific director of television shows who made several 1970s TV thrillers. He made the occasional theatrical film and it’s interesting that Eye of the Cat (1969) plays…
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Siege (1983)
The synopsis had me worried… “A gay bar is hit by a group of sociopaths…” For a 1983 exploitation thriller, I feared the community would not fare well. Luckily, while the sociopaths are homophobic and shout some terrible things at the patrons, they could just as well have targeted their anger at another type of…
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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Thanks to Rod Barnett and his podcast, The Bloody Pit, I finally took a plunge into the gory guts of Flesh for Frankenstein (1973.) Both it and its companion film, Blood for Dracula (1974), have always hidden deep in my watch list, mostly due to fear of what I might find. If I found them.…
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Blood for Dracula (1974)
You don’t know me at all if you thought I wouldn’t turn right around and watch Blood for Dracula (1974) after Flesh for Frankenstein. While the two are similar, and I like them for the same reasons, this one feels more like a revelation because I didn’t first listen to Rod and Mark talk about…
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The Thing (1982)
When Richard and I recently appeared on Nightmare Junkhead to debate the worthiness of either Creepshow or The Thing to advance to the next round of “Into the Mouth of March Madness,” I asked how much credit we should give to the writer of the latter, Bill Lancaster. Sure, we all praise John Carpenter for…
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Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
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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Grizzly II (2020)
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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The Comeback (1978)
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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Grizzly (1976)
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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Horror Castle (1963)
With its plot happening within the span of a couple days, much of Horror Castle, aka The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963), plays like one of those movies that’s supposed to unfold in real time. Counterintuitively, when you think that should make a film more suspenseful, it really just drags it out. If not for its…
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