Category: TV Terror Guide
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Disaster December!
Welcome to “Disaster December!” Starting later today, and throughout the month, all our movie discussions will pertain to 1970s disaster films, both theatrical releases and TV movies. Follow along on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube for fun facts and history, and be sure to listen to this month’s episode of The Classic Horrors Club Podcast…
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The Tenth Level (1976)
Professor Stephen Turner tells his class that he’s been interested in the phenomenon of obedience to authority. He asks what makes ordinary men and women follow orders to harm, maim, and kill other human beings. In The Tenth Level (1976), he then proceeds to perform experiments to learn more about it. At the end of…
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The Force of Evil (1977)
Chances are unlikely you’d remember an NBC television series called, Tales of the Unexpected. Produced by Quinn Martin, it was a weekly anthology of horror and science fiction stories. However, premiering on February 2, 1997, and airing against ABC’s hit shows, Charlie’s Angels and Baretta, it lasted only eight episodes before being cancelled. The episodes…
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Cover Girls (1977)
Instead of three lovely ladies like Charlie’s Angels (1976-81), Cover Girls (1977) has only two. It seems to have sacrificed one actor in exchange for a higher travel budget. The adventures of models Linda Allen (Cornelia Sharpe) and Monique Lawrence (Jayne Kennedy) happen around the world. It’s been a long time, but if I recall,…
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Nowhere to Run (1978)
As we resume with Nowhere to Run (1978) after putting this series about 1970s TV movies on pause, it’s a good time to remind you that not all these movies will be horror films. Most will be thrillers, but some will slip in like this one, that aren’t really either, regardless of how exciting they…
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The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t (1979)
October 28, 1979 For a children’s TV special from 1979, The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t is terribly dated; however, it’s not terribly bad. I’m not referring to the disco scene at the end during which Count Dracula (Judd Hirsch) tears off his cape to reveal he’s dressed in a white suit like John Travolta in…
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Vampire (1979)
October 7, 1979 This discussion is updated from one first published on March 17, 2023 In 1981, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll created the classic television series, Hill Street Blues. Throughout the 1980s, Bochco was an Emmy-winning golden child, creating Doogie Howser, M.D. and L.A. Law. Would fate have treated him differently if the 1979…
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Murder at the World Series (1977)
Recently, I finished watching a limited-run series on Max called, Full Circle. In it, a kidnapping plot results in the abduction of the wrong person. How coincidental, then, when my favorite plot point in the 1977 TV-movie, Murder at the World Series, happened when a disgruntled young man named Cisco (Bruce Boxleitner) abducted the wrong…
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Ski Lift to Death (1978)
Changing the name to Snowblind on subsequent releases of this 1970s TV Movie was probably a good idea. On its initial airdate, it was called Ski Lift to Death. That was a more enticing name; however, it misrepresents the effort as a disaster film and describes only one nearly irrelevant part of the story. Other…
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Maneaters Are Loose! (1978)
Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) is an example of the limitations faced when adapting a novel into a movie. I haven’t read Manhunter by Ted Willis; however, I imagine it has parts in which escaped tigers actually pose a physical threat, not just roll around on the ground with each other in scenes that look like…
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