Last Seen 70s/80s Movie

[Ferox13]

Love HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP - have you seen the tepid remake?

[hammerfan]

Originally Posted by Ferox13

Love HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP - have you seen the tepid remake?

They did a remake?!

[SerialKiller]

My Bloody Valentine-1981.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by hammerfan

They did a remake?!

Freakazoids From the Deep

[anglewitch]

The Rift

[RollinFan]

Endgame (1983) - not really my thing, part Running Man, part Kung Fu, part Logan's Run.

[Bloof]

BEYOND THE DOOR 1974


A couple find that they are inexplicably expecting a third child. They are a happy family with quirky kids, a boy and a girl. At a birthday party, the husband happens upon his wife in the bathroom vomiting what appears to be dark blood. That right there would have rung my warning bell but they soldiered on. A bit of a gitchy mash up of Rosemary's baby and the exorcist.
I'd watch it again with you.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by Bloof

I'd watch it again with you.

| Roger Ebert
January 1, 1975 |
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Where's Jessica?" asks her worried husband, when she disappears during a birthday party for the children. He finds her in the bathroom, regurgitating pints, maybe gallons, of blood. "Honey, are you all right?" he asks, in the understatement, or underquestion, of the year. She allows that she feels a little weak. They agree she ought to get more rest. The whole movie is this way: maddeningly inappropriate in the face of its horrors.


And yet "Beyond the Door" is one of the topgrossing movies in the country right now.

Why? Maybe because at some dumb, fundamental level, it really does live it up to, or down to, its promise. It's not well acted, its "Possessound" sounds routed through the ventilation system and the print looks like it was left out too long in monic possession.

And it's got one hell of an ad campaign. The TV spots and the trailer on the viewer in front of the theater show all sorts of delightful horrors, a menacing voice dares you to see it and, inside the theater, there's a party atmosphere. Parts of the movie play almost as comedy. I'm usually disturbed when people laugh at violenceÑthe audience reaction to "Death Race 2000" was especially unsettlingÑbut in a movie like "Beyond the Door," the laughs seem almost appropriate.

That's during the earlier parts of the movie, when mysterious hands reach out to touch shoulders in darkened rooms, and it turns out it's just the husband patting his wife. In the later stages, though, when Jessica (Juliet MillsÑyes, Juliet Mills) begins to turn green and talk like the Big Bopper, the movie's just conventionally disgusting. We get green vomit, brown vomit, blood, levitations and other manifestations of the devil.

He is, by the way, in Jessica's womb. She has this short order pregnancy that proceeds so rapidly she's three months pregnant within a week (if that's the way to put it). The mysterious stranger seems to have the answer, and after saving her husband from being run over by a truck, he offers several enigmatic epigrams such as, "Some people attract . . . misfortune." It's all trash, but it's scary trash. I wouldn't call it entertainment, but it's a diversion, all right. Yuk.

[Bloof]

Originally Posted by Sculpt

| Roger Ebert
January 1, 1975 |
Print Page

Where's Jessica?" asks her worried husband, when she disappears during a birthday party for the children. He finds her in the bathroom, regurgitating pints, maybe gallons, of blood. "Honey, are you all right?" he asks, in the understatement, or underquestion, of the year. She allows that she feels a little weak. They agree she ought to get more rest. The whole movie is this way: maddeningly inappropriate in the face of its horrors.


And yet "Beyond the Door" is one of the topgrossing movies in the country right now.

Why? Maybe because at some dumb, fundamental level, it really does live it up to, or down to, its promise. It's not well acted, its "Possessound" sounds routed through the ventilation system and the print looks like it was left out too long in monic possession.

And it's got one hell of an ad campaign. The TV spots and the trailer on the viewer in front of the theater show all sorts of delightful horrors, a menacing voice dares you to see it and, inside the theater, there's a party atmosphere. Parts of the movie play almost as comedy. I'm usually disturbed when people laugh at violenceÑthe audience reaction to "Death Race 2000" was especially unsettlingÑbut in a movie like "Beyond the Door," the laughs seem almost appropriate.

That's during the earlier parts of the movie, when mysterious hands reach out to touch shoulders in darkened rooms, and it turns out it's just the husband patting his wife. In the later stages, though, when Jessica (Juliet MillsÑyes, Juliet Mills) begins to turn green and talk like the Big Bopper, the movie's just conventionally disgusting. We get green vomit, brown vomit, blood, levitations and other manifestations of the devil.

He is, by the way, in Jessica's womb. She has this short order pregnancy that proceeds so rapidly she's three months pregnant within a week (if that's the way to put it). The mysterious stranger seems to have the answer, and after saving her husband from being run over by a truck, he offers several enigmatic epigrams such as, "Some people attract . . . misfortune." It's all trash, but it's scary trash. I wouldn't call it entertainment, but it's a diversion, all right. Yuk.

Have you ever seen It?

[Bloof]

DARK PLACES 1973


Christopher Lee and Joan Collins

A brother and sister conspire against a man who has just inherited a haunted house possibly containing a large sum of money.