Just got done watching The Prowler. The characters are okay and the gore effects are superb thanks to Tom Savini, but this film suffers from some major pacing issues and seems to drag at the worst possible times. I don't regret watching it because there were some pretty good highlights, but I'll probably never watch it again.

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pretty cool shot on video slasher. Great release by Massacre Video! Grabbed the last available copy from Diabolik DVD. good luck finding a decently priced copy now!
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Necromancy (1972)
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Pretty incoherent mess about a young couple moving to a town of devil worshipers. Not even tons of nudity and Orson Welles can save this one. Directed by MR B.I.G of Food of the Gods fame.

in your review you said " There's no shortage of blood and bloobs"....was that a typo...if not, what is a bloob?

a big blubbery boob

Cry of the Banshee (1970)

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In the tradition of Witchfinder General and Blood on Satan's Claw, Gordon Hessler directs Vinnie Price in this lack lustre affair. Not even plenty of boobs or an awful 'Banshee' outfit can save this one. Still it gave me some enjoyment..Terry Gilliam did the wonderfully strange title sequence.

I remember liking this when it came out. Haven't seen it since. Wonder what I'd think!

A bloob is a bloody boob!
Just kidding, good eye, gonna fix that now.

The Burning. I love this movie. 4/5

halloween & dario argento demons.

I watched The Stone Tape, a made for BBC movie from the early 70s by Nigel Kneale. It is similar to but not quite as ambitious as Quatermass and the Pit. It was an interesting haunting movie, and reminded me a little bit of Legend of Hell House and The Haunting in the way it uses science to explore the supernatural. Of the haunted house movies I have seen, The Stone Tape is certainly among the better. It just barely touches a Lovecraftian cosmological terror similar to Prince of Darkness although its far more restrained. The script, dialogue, and characterization were top notch, but the production was fairly low budget, think early Dr. Who level type production level. This is one of the few horror movies I think could benefit from a remake and perhaps could explore the idea of 'the others' a bit more.

^Great Film. I love Nigel Kneale.

Saw this last year on the big screen at gthe HP Lovecraft Film Festival. It was a very interesting film.

Don't agree about a remake though.

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Watched Suspiria on Youtube. Still an amazing piece of cinema. I was also struck by what seemed to me a lot of similarities with Eyes Without a Face, and I've never heard anyone comment on this.

Susperia on youtube?! That movie really needs the big screen experience! Get yourself a home theater and a blu ray player! Or rent a cinema. Susperia deserves better!

The Ghost Galleon (1974)

Low budget American/Italian co-production that has very little to offer. The photography is murky, script and dialogue poor, acting pedestrian.

There is a little bit of flesh chewing by some very un-Romero-like zombies, some implied rape (which happens and then is promptly forgotten) and some implied lesbianism.

Rediculous dia;ogue that provides a few laughs, but I wouldn't even recommend this to lovers of bad horror movies.

this is part of The Blind Dead series.....have you seen any of the others?

I'm afraid I haven't.

Profondo Rosso.

Death Hunt

good, gritty little movie with a solid cast
great scenery that i'd appreciate a lot more in the summer - i'm cold enough as it is.

Fun watching Lee Marvin and Andrew Stevens playing Canadian Mounties :D

I enjoyed Death Hunt. Miss ol' Charlie! I really need to watch The Indian Runner again.

there really has been no one before or since to compare to that guy.

I watched Telefon not too long ago as well …
there was a time that he was THE action star

Beyond the Door.

Really quite an interesting possesion film from 1974. Some truly creepy stuff going on. It's not perfect, and does get a bit silly a few times, but still very good.

The Doomsday Machine.

A turkey of a low budget sci fi film that was originally filmed in 1967, shelved, and then finished off in 72 without any of the original cast. Interesting for some of the cast like Bobby Van and Ruta Lee, and Casey Kasem as mission control. There's a brief glimpse of a young Mike Farrell, later to play BJ Hunnicut on MASH.

Really sloppy production. The rocket ship changes shape radically, without comment, due to all the shots being footage from other films...

I have a bit of a soft spot for this one.... The acting is a bit hit and miss and its all a bit cheesy, but there are some nicely done scenes in there too.

I found both of the kids to be really creepy, even the supposedly normal sister. And the possesion effects were frightening as well.

Just watched the trailer and am mad now because I don't know where I'll ever be able to find it!

Part of this amazing channel on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...FiMGQJ0K_RGoBe

The Pyx. 1973

Classic crime drama/thriller starring Karen Black and Christopher Plummer. Excellent script, acting, direction, a fine film all around. Black even wrote and performed several songs for the film. A standout role for her.

wow...great channel...just subscribed

I've been watching a lot of their offerings. Great variety, good films and bad, from the silent era up to the 80s.

For my taste it's better than Fearnet!

The Brain Machine 1977


Bizarre mish-mosh of a plot involving a government funded experiment in some kind of mind control. Nothing really makes sense, and it would all just seem like far fetched gobbledy gook if we didn't know about MK-ULTRA. After that, nothing seems too outrageous.

Cheap production, wooden acting, lackluster direction, still kept me watching till the end due to my interest in conspiracy theories and whacko shadow government stuff. Notable for an early role by Gerald McRaney- that's right, the Simon & Simon guy.

Couldn't sleep so I knocked another one off my Netflix queue. '5 Dolls For an August Moon', a hokey Mario Bava movie made in 1970. A handful of wealthy and ruthless couples end up stranded on an island with a very swank villa. There is a formula everyone wants from a professor there which would lead to great wealth, so naturally people start dying. It is basically a whodunit. A lazy effort from Bava would would do the same thing much better just a couple yeas later in Bay of Blood. Apparently he was assigned to direct this movie with only a week's notice and only gave a perfunctory effort. Not really worth watching unless you want to see a very heavily dated 70's movie. At least it is not long. Edwige Fenech is stunning in this movie though, she nearly makes it worth it, and Bava knows where to aim his camera when she is on scene. She is so smokin' hot in this movie that I can award her a perfect 10 with no reservations.

Tourist Trap 1979.

This is a freally freaked out film and I quite enjoyed it. A prime example of Backwoods Horror. Chuck Connors, TVs The Rifleman acts his heart out as an insane psychopath, even adding a touch of Southern accent to his role.

Tanya Roberts from Charlie's Angels and That 70s Show is gorgeous as one of the citified interlopers into our backwoods setting.

The story is over the top, but it's all done with a deft touch, and the result is a fun movie. Even caught Ve Neil's name in the SFX credits, so I guess she HAS been in the industry a long time.

Recommended.

Bloody Wednesday 1988

Confusing and ultimately lackluster low budget thriller about a man with mental problems who ends up massacring a bunch of people in a cafe. Flat acting, tepid direction, poor script. Not much to recommend it.

Magnum Force


this second Dirty Harry movie aged pretty well.

I just watched all 4 with my kid .. Magnum Force has killer music

Lalo Schifrin did some great stuff.

Love this film. One of the flicks that turned me onto horror in a big way.

also...[ I could never stump you on these ] Who's bare breast?

Suzanne summers ..

try a hard one .. that's like asking me who's face the Halloween mask was :)

The opening scene with all the traps going off in the house is just brilliant.