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Hellraiser
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John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness....satanic slime!
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THE BABY (1973). Grieving Social worker takes on a case of "Baby", a Grown man still in diapers, bottle crib etc and begins to butt heads with his frankly scary Mother (Ruth Roman is great) and two unusual sisters. This is really more of a Social drama than the Horror movie it's being advertised as, but a LOT of extremely off the wall moments help out and THE BABY is certainly worth a watch -remember seeing it for my 13th Bday and just last week on YOUTUBE. ***
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When A Stranger Calls (1979)
This one is actually pretty scary especially in the beginning portion... the music, the suspense gives you a dreadful horrific feeling,, which than after begins with some goofy 70's style social scenarios which kinda put you at ease, but honestly I don't think it was necessary or atleast not have it drag out like that funny bar scene, maybe they didn't wanna put the audience through too much dread? Much better than the remake, which I also enjoyed, but not as good (they were obviously trying to appeal to a generation not as used to crazy horror movies like the audience of the 70's and 80's.) |
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The Funhouse
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The Woman in Black (1989)
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Deep Red The genius of Dario Argento. The sets, the music,...::cool::
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VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY (1973). Spanish film has familiar plot-Stranded travelers in a town with secrets- has some creepy scenes and what has to be unintentional humor. Worth a look, but my copy was very dark with inappropriate music which didn't help. **1/2
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DAUGHTER OF DEATH (AKA JULIE DARLING)-1983. You could call this a teen version of THE BAD SEED, except the title character in here has a deep love for her father, almost too extreme. This leads to her watching a Delivery man kill her Mother and hoping Dad will be all hers. Little does she know Pops has a Mistress He brings home and later marries. How can this be resolved?
Doesn't make it all the way, but better than I thought it would be with Isabelle Mejiias genuinely creepy as the obsessed teen. Tony Franciosa is OK as the Dad and although she bares skin, for once, Sybil Danning isn't playing a Window dressing part, and is pretty good as the new Stepmother who suspects all is not well. *** |
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Same also one of my favorites, those werewolves were mean! love the cabin attack scene, where she cuts the werewolves arm only to find out the truth...(i believe that was what happened, i need to rewatch this one!)
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October 30th.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) https://64.media.tumblr.com/06ea3e08...3cb6f69a1.gifv |
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TIME BANDITS (1981) A neglected boy joins a group of Dwarves who have a map to various placements in time and lots of adventures. Good film has a couple too many segments, but entertaining with a great cast including David Warner, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, Sean Connery (RIP::sad::), Katherine Helmond (playing her usual ditzy persona that She did on SOAP and WHO'S THE BOSS; despite this, always found Her Hot) and Kenny Baker (R2D2 himself). ***1/2 |
To end Halloween night...
Halloween II (1981) https://24.media.tumblr.com/43f29d69...sq0xo1_500.gif The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974 https://pa1.narvii.com/5992/a8325832...ad61768_hq.gif Halloween, 1978 https://64.media.tumblr.com/573cf950...ac0c92d49.gifv |
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Hack o Lantern. Truly awful. I will hopefully never have the urge to watch it again. I started watching Friday Night and its took me till tonight to finally finish it.
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CRYPT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1973) AKA HANNAH, QUEEN OF THE VAMPIRES-
This scared my Brother and I big time about 45 years ago, but sadly it hasn't aged well. Spanish film shot in Turkey was in color, but for whatever reason, Mill Creek had this version in Black and White. While it does add some atmosphere, the night scenes were almost impossible to follow. Andrew Prine visits an island to bury his father killed under mysterious circumstances and ends up breaking the seal of a tomb containing a long dead vampire and the long ponderous way the menace is stopped. Some shades of THE WICKER MAN in here and actor Mark Damon (HOUSE OF USHER, THE VAMPIRE'S WEDDING-He later became a Producer) is OK and interesting to find out that Director Ray Danton was also an actor who was married to Julie Adams (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, BEND OF THE RIVER and the Elvis Presley film TICKLE ME) at the time. Also in the same vein as TWM , Andrew's character is abrasive and incredibly condescending to the locals; along with the 70's style clothes, the slightly poofy hair and the mustache, my wife had to remark that He looked just like John Holmes::shocked::! ** |
Been hitting up Made for TV 1970's horror movies..
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BxhLOevvX...f+the+week.jpg Burnt Offerings, 1976. 8/10 Director: Dan Curtis https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...f?format=1500w When Michael Calls, 1972. 7/10 Director: Philip Leacock https://64.media.tumblr.com/8a90c26c...9d81e9a023.jpg |
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Re watched cronenbergs Rabid (1977)
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Well, I love cronenberg films so of course i enjoyed it, its full of body horror, creepy protruding spear like objects coming out of the body to poke and infect others, so they all become rabid together, very much like corona nowadays, people are infected by this disease, its pretty good, cronenberg did a good job of making more of these kinds of horror movies, that are kind of a under developed sub genre honestly, this one reminds me of existenz alittle with the body attachment shit, or the brood with the birth bag lol, yeah, in this case its that weird fleshy lookin (honestly it looks like an animal dick) thing, pretty creepy ::EEK!::
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HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS (1983). Standard Old Dark House story gets slight update with a writer betting his publisher He can crank out a book in 24 hours. His progress is stymied by a Family reunion that is occurring for ominous reasons. While Desi Arnaz Jr is somewhat annoying as the smug Keypounder, He's not too bad . The real reason to catch this is seeing John Carradine, Peter Cushing, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee all in one film and it's wonderful seeing them in the latter part of their careers, with Chris, in particular, standing out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SPOILER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Depending on Your Point of View, the finale can be unsatisfying. still, just to see the Legends in one film makes it worth a view. *** |
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Forbidden World (1982)
In a making-of documentary, director Allan Holzman reveals he began shooting without a script with these directions from Roger Corman, "You have four days to write, produce and direct a seven- to eight-minute opening of a space movie… I'll give you an astronaut and a robot, and if you need any inspiration, I've always wanted to do a version of Lawrence of Arabia in outer space." lolz! This is an ALIEN rip-off with 80s typical B-movie sleaziness! But it could be a lot more entertaining with less hysterical editing & those unnecessary high-angle shots. Moreover, that Xenomorph inspired creature deserved little more budget & screen time, IMO. They even made a remake of it in 9 years later, DEAD SPACE...featuring Bryan Cranston! >>: C |
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
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THE BETSY (1978). Trashy film based on the trashy Harold Robbins best selling novel. The vast majority of Robbins's work involves Big Business, Double Dealing, Big Dollars and LOTS of Hobble Do GaGa by Hypermasculine Protagonists. These Alpha Males's skills in the Bedroom, normally told from the Woman's point of view, are Life Changing events for Her, and She is able to finally understand the ways of the World and where She belongs in it.
This one deals with the Auto Business where an aging Patriarch (supposedly based on Henry Ford) joins forces with an unlucky unto racer to build a new car with much opposition from Patriarch's Grandson. Laurence Olivier plays the Patriarch and is incredibly hammy-He referred to this and others as a "Paycheck Picture"-and He steals many scenes.Also watching a Younger version of him testing the Box springs of his Wife's bed with a Chambermaid (French, naturally) while his wife is greeting guests at their sons wedding downstairs is pretty funny (The book's version of this part is quite raunchy). Tommy Lee Jones plays the Auto driver and gets to make time with lovely Leslie-Anne Down (COUNTESS DRACULA, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY) and lovely Kathleen Beller (THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER) . Rest of the good cast includes Katherine Ross (THE STEPFORD WIVES), Bernard Herrmann (THE LOST BOYS), Robert Duvall (so many great films), Jane Alexander (TESTAMENT), Whitney Blake (TV's HAZEL and Mom to Meredith Baxter Birney) and Joseph Wiseman (DR NO himself). Cheesy junk to be sure, but a good time waster and worth it to see good thespians doing the best they can with what they have to work with and I could see a lot of this as a DYNASTY episode. **1/2 |
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, 1975. 7/10
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Superstition (1982) 5/10
For an 80’s horror movie I guess it was alright. The best part was the cover though. |
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