The Howling.

A+ choice! My favorite background movie. I have it on DVD, VHS, and downloaded on my computer, and one of them gets played every time I hear certain 80s songs or see a porn shop. ::big grin::

April Fool's Day (1986)
5/10

Most of the actors give a mildly fun-spirited, and sometimes heartfelt, performance in this run-of-the-mill 80's slasher film... Not enough to make you care much or understand them, but just enough to keep your attention most of the time. The suspense and kills are fairly subpar, though that's partially by design, as this is actually a parody. There's a pay off at the end... like the film, a 5/10-star payoff time waster.

LONG WEEKEND 1978

A wife grudgingly agrees to go on a camping trip with her husband to help their crippled marriage. Their disregard for their natural surroundings starts to haunt them as the weekend progresses. Eerie and claustrophobic and imo, well-done.

NIGHTHAWKS (1981). A group of friends and I were going to see ALLIGATOR at the theater in 1981 and this had moved in its place. Pretty good actioner and Rutgar Hauer is scary as the amoral terrorist. Watched it again last night and it sort of hits a little too close to home these days with attacks in London and NYC.
Lots of genre turns by many of the actors here...Sylvester Stallone (DEATH RACE 2000), Billy Dee Williams (EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RETURN OF THE JEDI), Lindsay Wagner (THE BIONIC WOMAN), Nigel Davenport (PHASE FOUR, NO BLADE OF GRASS, DRACULA-Jack Palance version), Joe Spinnel (MANIAC), Rutgar Hauer (THE HITCHER, BLADE RUNNER, LADYHAWKE), Catherine Mary Stewart (NIGHT OF THE COMET, THE LAST STARFIGHTER-believe this is her first film and she is beautiful) and Jamie Gillis (NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES and many porno films from the mid 70's-turn of the century where he seemed to always play the most degenerate of types). ***1/2

THE TOUCH OF SATAN 1971

A young man travels down a random country road and meets a mysterious young woman. It was probably "cool" at some point in time. Not bad.

Amityville II: The Possession. 1982.

EATING RAOUL (1982). Very good and very funny Cult film with Mary Woronov (excellent) and director Paul Bartel as a married couple chasing the American dream. ****

I had forgotten all about that movie. That was a dark funny movie.

Eating Raoul always makes me think of At the Movies Siskel & Ebert. Eating Raoul was considered pretty artsy-fartsy. I never saw it though. Ebert thought it was too low key.