Bing Crosby as a serial killer? Sold! In his last television acting appearance, he (and his toupee) plays the titular Dr. Leonard Cook, a small town doctor that has spent his career weeding the town of its ne’er do wells and riff raff. It’s practically the happiest place on Earth. If only he weren’t so…

Crowhaven Farm (1970) cleverly combines several occult elements into its story: reincarnation, witchcraft, and a big spooky house in the country. Its themes of marriage, jealousy, and desire to have children tie events from present to those of the past. The combination makes for an effective chiller, probably my favorite of the TV horror movies…

Finally, here’s the first truly supernatural movie in this series about 1970s TV horror movies. It’s probably the first one that, if you saw it when it was originally aired, you remember. While last week’s Night Slaves established a template, The House That Would Not Die alters it slightly to accommodate characteristics that would become…

NIght Slaves (1970) permanently establishes the template for many other 1970s television sci-fi/horror movies to follow: something strange is happening, only one person knows the truth, and no one will believe him/her. We got a little of that with The Brotherhood of the Bell, but there was nothing supernatural about its conspiracy. Plus, Night Slaves…

We’ve been working through our 70’s TV movies chronologically. However, we’ll occasionally backtrack to see if any we missed the first time have become available. Such is the case with today’s film. Since I’m not a Sherlock Holmes aficionado, I can’t vouch for the faithfulness of this adaptation (one of many) of The Hound of…

In the “unsold pilots” sub-subgenre of 1970’s television horror movies, comes the second of two starring Louis Jourdan as Dr. David Sorrell, a psychologist that became involved in supernatural investigations. The series would have been called Bedeviled, and the first movie was Fear No Evil, broadcast on NBC on March 3, 1969. Nearly a year…

Written by William F. Nolan, Richard Matheson Directed by Dan Curtis Starring Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm, Gregory Harrison Released March 4, 1975 RT 72 min. Home Video Shout! Factory (Blu-ray) Classic Horrors rating = 9 (out of 10) Consensus is that the third story of, Trilogy of Terror, Amelia, is the…

Anthony Perkins is in reverse-Psycho mode in How Awful About Allan, a 1970 TV-movie perfectly representing the surfeit of small screen psychological thrillers of the era. He’s the victim in this one, still perhaps a little cuckoo, but really the victim of malicious intent rather than the perpetrator. I have a great fondness for all…