SIDNEY LUMET DIRECTS AL PACINO IN THE TRUE CRIME 'SERPICO'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRi57n7x6s56eOLtmwAnoIZ2TZqSgc0xwli-bOIJ_1HIbIeeisbUnYH4fyaX0CCOFhx-M4JdiQmAvDIPMHjNvE3RkvjqEZRVbc9Oo78KJ2fAp_WM-8wL6ODZ04zNVPsrT72j9JQd-juNkgtzOSwlPK6g0_zPqOf_LpJSKAXZma1mx3tU3xr_5IhvUkg/s1649/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-07%20at%203.15.38%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="1649" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbRi57n7x6s56eOLtmwAnoIZ2TZqSgc0xwli-bOIJ_1HIbIeeisbUnYH4fyaX0CCOFhx-M4JdiQmAvDIPMHjNvE3RkvjqEZRVbc9Oo78KJ2fAp_WM-8wL6ODZ04zNVPsrT72j9JQd-juNkgtzOSwlPK6g0_zPqOf_LpJSKAXZma1mx3tU3xr_5IhvUkg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-07%20at%203.15.38%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SERPICO Starring: Al Pacino Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between the two GODFATHER films that made Al Pacino not only a star but a living legend... and right at the beginning of his career... he headlined SERPICO, where, like Michael Corleone, he starts out youthfully idealistic and winds up...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well in this case he goes from idealistic to purposefully annoying... refusing any shortcut that cops can acquire in New York City, starting with the kind of sandwich he gets for free...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, al pacino, biopic, cop, cornelia sharpe, judd hirsch, mary-louise weller, nathan george, seventies, sidney lumet, thriller, tony roberts

SIDNEY LUMET DIRECTS AL PACINO IN THE TRUE CRIME 'SERPICO'

Title: SERPICO Starring: Al Pacino Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 Between the two GODFATHER films that made Al Pacino not only a star but a livin...

CLINT EASTWOOD AND JESSICA WALTER IN 'PLAY MISTY FOR ME'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaukNqX-e2crzJ-4o__Fpi8b_nsljgJHxOAyOrr4pi-7a9Sk9xpYX-iWFp_RErNaZfy3xBWMHX8tpQmvRiH1UkgCmxNTcQ49zqKerK0tqve8UveRwKBFO9eaeHAn6uia_YIW-aCaLGZRpKhUDFcyIAXetvjuc35GXF97r1R3ZCXuS_1R2QwWY2eGMBw/s2076/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="958" data-original-width="2076" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYaukNqX-e2crzJ-4o__Fpi8b_nsljgJHxOAyOrr4pi-7a9Sk9xpYX-iWFp_RErNaZfy3xBWMHX8tpQmvRiH1UkgCmxNTcQ49zqKerK0tqve8UveRwKBFO9eaeHAn6uia_YIW-aCaLGZRpKhUDFcyIAXetvjuc35GXF97r1R3ZCXuS_1R2QwWY2eGMBw/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Clint Eastwood in PLAY MISTY FOR ME Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Clint Eastwood, in moving from actor to director and combining both... directing himself... isn't quite the scowling tough guy he became famous for — although he has his share of grimacing expressions from a one-night-stand turned obsessed lover Jessica Walter, at one point describing how his nostrils flare when he gets really riled...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>She's enough of a manipulating woman turned lethal nightmare to make anyone reach their breaking point, and, in basically the same role (including a pivotal suicide attempt) that would earn Glenn Close her FATAL ATTRACTION Oscar, poor Jessica doesn't get nearly enough time to spread her devil wings throughout...</p><p><span></span></p>

clint eastwood, don siegel, donna mills, exploitation, jazz-score, jessica walter, john larch, romance, seventies, thriller

CLINT EASTWOOD AND JESSICA WALTER IN 'PLAY MISTY FOR ME'

Clint Eastwood in PLAY MISTY FOR ME Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 Clint Eastwood, in moving from actor to director and combining both... directi...

CANVASING THE UNIQUE CAPER OF 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6GkisxXEHkX9avasJnODPr7TRSNMl3end-uZs6IKG7kalnMWJMcVojIUTvsmN_OkRU3sawuaf3bB439Xl3VI0Sl6-_CXNBvjrTDjxMtw4jPDBZLVL7B2_iqAUlGn2Lb--uqWZtyqIVMiIv9w9rYravZfYpv4GWf-ddu6TLCptpraYfuem1v4s43ERA/s1122/36.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ6GkisxXEHkX9avasJnODPr7TRSNMl3end-uZs6IKG7kalnMWJMcVojIUTvsmN_OkRU3sawuaf3bB439Xl3VI0Sl6-_CXNBvjrTDjxMtw4jPDBZLVL7B2_iqAUlGn2Lb--uqWZtyqIVMiIv9w9rYravZfYpv4GWf-ddu6TLCptpraYfuem1v4s43ERA/s16000/36.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Director: Michael Cimino Stars: Clint Eastwood Year: 1974 Score: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a quote in the 1974 cult action flick THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT about an experienced ex-bank robber played by Clint Eastwood teamed with a young freewheeling Jeff Bridges... <br> <br> Ironically "Stick with me, kid, you're gonna live forever" is young Jeff's line as Lightfoot to Clint's Thunderbolt since the<i> </i>enigmatic, offbeat youngster  speaks in almost all hackneyed adages...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, bill mckinney, catherine bach, chase, clint eastwood, geoffrey lewis, george kennedy, heist, jack dodson, jeff bridges, june fairchild, michael cimino

CANVASING THE UNIQUE CAPER OF 'THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT'

Title: THUNDERBOLT & LIGHTFOOT Director: Michael Cimino Stars: Clint Eastwood Year: 1974 Score: **** There's a quote in the 1974 cu...

JOHN CARPENTER'S TV-MOVIE THRILLER 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtYArQtu0CdX6KLfoy9lVli41o2XQn7fgQR3ljCCgMpx6puYsikvEHv3z6uDuk0qHPpLb6ZxxH19lEaCMxNN5ZRZc6dkJEt12z4YTrBFa7S45trY3LePH99A5N5TYvFy2U73lCPRizKNgU8vfnRt62-8BJx0oebfjCcL5BR4V4mzP6SKdIs2BdIMM8Q/s1875/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-01%20at%2012.42.57%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="1875" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtYArQtu0CdX6KLfoy9lVli41o2XQn7fgQR3ljCCgMpx6puYsikvEHv3z6uDuk0qHPpLb6ZxxH19lEaCMxNN5ZRZc6dkJEt12z4YTrBFa7S45trY3LePH99A5N5TYvFy2U73lCPRizKNgU8vfnRt62-8BJx0oebfjCcL5BR4V4mzP6SKdIs2BdIMM8Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-01%20at%2012.42.57%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After John Carpenter hit surprise bombshell with the horror/slasher HALLOWEEN, a made-for-TV movie being the next step is a bit strange, but for the small screen it's not bad... </p><p></p><p></p><p>The tense, rather slowburn plot centers on a director played by Lauren Hutton who is, as the title implies, being watched by someone in the building across from her own... </p><span></span>

adrienne barbeau, david birney, horror, john carpenter, lauren becall, mystery, suspense, thriller, tv movie

JOHN CARPENTER'S TV-MOVIE THRILLER 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978 Rating: *** After John Carpenter hit surprise bombshell with the horror/slasher HALL...

ALICE KRIGE & BRIAN KRAUSE IN STEPHEN KING'S 'SLEEPWALKERS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9tUyVgi8UvvAt4H6zIkvQsad-eEkU9skjNqIzaORtcdnQ1pcCmcrdg-Azne0Lp16REUZ3LO1qVTesRItD8M1cYRSdUeTD4S6YYXjdoc913V1zHrA4JhMdpYixrpYKAVClzfwA2OMCXElLiUtbvhoX-UpwMCuLizR9NO3vFIzyfGBD54rhqQWvapsvVg/s1334/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-21%20at%201.57.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9tUyVgi8UvvAt4H6zIkvQsad-eEkU9skjNqIzaORtcdnQ1pcCmcrdg-Azne0Lp16REUZ3LO1qVTesRItD8M1cYRSdUeTD4S6YYXjdoc913V1zHrA4JhMdpYixrpYKAVClzfwA2OMCXElLiUtbvhoX-UpwMCuLizR9NO3vFIzyfGBD54rhqQWvapsvVg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-21%20at%201.57.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SLEEPWALKERS Year: 1992 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Stephen King found himself a worthy future director in Mick Garris for the TV mini-series THE STAND two years after SLEEPWALKERS, an intentional b-movie that introduces a new kid in school, fawned-over despite his shyness and, somewhat like Sissy Spacek in CARRIE, which was King's first adaptation, Brian Krause's Charles Brady reads a story aloud in class that the English teacher reviews rudely... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Resembling a magazine model surfer, Krause does a good enough job playing-down who would obviously be an otherwise instantly popular kid... Although, blond and bright on the outside with a dark, secret interior, he does quickly land an equally perfect-looking girl, and Mädchen Amick's Tanya quickly becomes our vulnerable bottom-lip-biting ingenue dating her dream boy; the latter who, behind very closed doors, has an extremely close relationship with his sexy middle-aged (or maybe eternally-aged) mother, Mary...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, alice krige, body count, brian krause, horror, mädchen amick, mark hamill, mick garris, nineties, stephen king, thriller, vampire

ALICE KRIGE & BRIAN KRAUSE IN STEPHEN KING'S 'SLEEPWALKERS'

Title: SLEEPWALKERS Year: 1992 Rating: *** Stephen King found himself a worthy future director in Mick Garris for the TV mini-series THE S...

STEPHEN KING'S OTHER HORROR ANTHOLOGY FILM 'CAT'S EYE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoa8fFZFye28tg94Hf0YgPQ3nFwaIlvEpPS2cK1MaqmfVwfD6ByoJ7gZrvftEqTVxK3t6i0qjcx2IyB1uGSTDh_ysPQA2rOZjOIDvVqJWZLMe3hJiJkJMa-_TN1OHHBN79hMQrX_3TIKK2P8uq5iG2WGwGPamDUDTKhTEd0hs5SM_RItMWiigO9d_iA/s780/ce3.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="780" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpoa8fFZFye28tg94Hf0YgPQ3nFwaIlvEpPS2cK1MaqmfVwfD6ByoJ7gZrvftEqTVxK3t6i0qjcx2IyB1uGSTDh_ysPQA2rOZjOIDvVqJWZLMe3hJiJkJMa-_TN1OHHBN79hMQrX_3TIKK2P8uq5iG2WGwGPamDUDTKhTEd0hs5SM_RItMWiigO9d_iA/s16000/ce3.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Hays stuck again in a very high place for CAT'S EYES Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Iconic horror author Stephen King, backing his second anthology horror after the successful CREEPSHOW by his good friend George A. Romero and CAT'S EYE by his CUJO director Lewis Teague, doesn’t just write spooky ghost stories strictly befitting the horror genre, he conveys edgy, unimaginable nightmares...<br> <br> And in the first and best of three tales, being involved in the mafia — with or without having knowledge of it — can be pretty frightening, intimidating, and possibly lethal: for the entire family...</p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

candy clark, drew barrymore, horror, horror anthology, james woods, kenneth mcmillan, lewis teague, robert hays, stephen king, suspense

STEPHEN KING'S OTHER HORROR ANTHOLOGY FILM 'CAT'S EYE'

Robert Hays stuck again in a very high place for CAT'S EYES Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 Iconic horror author Stephen King, backing his sec...

BITING INTO STEPHEN KING'S WEREWOLF HORROR 'SILVER BULLET'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrUEW86RXWfmGdYkcLjHI7EocBPODf49dj5zY1J2yb8eashYSnSfjixVETmJZOakazPHGiL_OIuEWqQVVhtrEFk1e42me0nuez9snlHv_cXVZAgHEVwTBkE2DxuiKjEig2V96gg-xUSaUwIr15qTfcbJiH1PX8ok4h3ciuPgi1TtCJ1A_qVDm9SWaag/s1640/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-30%20at%203.49.54%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrUEW86RXWfmGdYkcLjHI7EocBPODf49dj5zY1J2yb8eashYSnSfjixVETmJZOakazPHGiL_OIuEWqQVVhtrEFk1e42me0nuez9snlHv_cXVZAgHEVwTBkE2DxuiKjEig2V96gg-xUSaUwIr15qTfcbJiH1PX8ok4h3ciuPgi1TtCJ1A_qVDm9SWaag/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-30%20at%203.49.54%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SILVER BULLET Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's... despite the fact it <i>is very much</i> his movie adapted from King's novel; the author especially loathed the casting of Jack Nicholson, being a too-obvious choice for a man going crazy since <i>being </i>crazy's his forte; but perhaps it was also the dialogue...<br> <br> Without characters spouting such lines as "Are you gonna make lemonade in your pants?" THE SHINING stands out from (most of the) other King adaptations during the 1980's; yet King's cinematic tastes were more along the lines of MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE and SILVER BULLET, where other awful and downright embarrassing comments are uttered by equally banal characters...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

corey haim, eighties, everette mcgill, gary busey, horror, lawrence tierney, megan follows, stephen king, terry o'quinn, werewolf

BITING INTO STEPHEN KING'S WEREWOLF HORROR 'SILVER BULLET'

Title: SILVER BULLET Year: 1985 Rating: **** Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick'...

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 'THE RUNNING MAN' RICHARD DAWSON

<p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZk9K5vPNmZtNfkhXjlMknxqnL4eGDUQJyCGcEFKYLXXbr31kWEsn0epHBDDfS4j6Yhp-hj3LFos124YK5u-yndbHpAyWw62oBd_5H08va132z2NAFB9rGkbulBSnyqXpUZHZPuFX6qlc8_FskjJ4WDnoCJwVKuq1H4t_eENcT7xSK4UwY6gf9Nm0Jg/s2052/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-30%20at%202.03.24%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="2052" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZk9K5vPNmZtNfkhXjlMknxqnL4eGDUQJyCGcEFKYLXXbr31kWEsn0epHBDDfS4j6Yhp-hj3LFos124YK5u-yndbHpAyWw62oBd_5H08va132z2NAFB9rGkbulBSnyqXpUZHZPuFX6qlc8_FskjJ4WDnoCJwVKuq1H4t_eENcT7xSK4UwY6gf9Nm0Jg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-30%20at%202.03.24%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Richard Dawson & Arnold Schwarzenegger in THE RUNNING MAN 1987 Score: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There was a stretch between the first two TERMINATOR films when Arnold Schwarzenegger could do no wrong... and even his wrongs were right as this bizarre story. from a novella by Stephen King, is set in the future where a lethal game show, hosted by Richard Dawson’s Damon Killian, amazes crowds in a murky future where there’s only rich or poor...<br> <br> Schwarzenegger’s good cop Ben Richards, having been framed for multiple murders he didn’t commit, breaks out of prison, seeks clues to prove his innocence, and not long after meeting his eventual love interest Maria Conchita Alonso, he's sson captured and – along with two men he escaped with (including Yaphet Kotto) – is forced to take part in the RUNNING MAN: a game show pitting contestants in death matches with random adversaries, called “Stalkers,” within various underground mazes... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, arnold schwarzenegger, eighties, jim brown, maria conchita alonso body count, paul michael glaser, richard dawson, science-fiction, stephen king, yaphet kotto

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 'THE RUNNING MAN' RICHARD DAWSON

Richard Dawson & Arnold Schwarzenegger in THE RUNNING MAN 1987 Score: **** There was a stretch between the first two TERMINATOR films w...

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS STEPHEN KING'S KILLER CAR 'CHRISTINE'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zjy_b7JGgV9U1EnxgoEKDZks2pMsL06wWsyGX45CbYPhYmyrLkCBgY0h0gn9C9lbF5u54fxX0VwB8JYtp6IOSoxf5cOA6gNFQCjnn1xVLsZBYt69U_AMSeL6yl3vtw-WOwOMy8jA3UhehNUojJHS5Vg_cgcn_SDZO_Klc7DQXugY3AJRJRqnzCAPJg/s1753/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-26%20at%2010.17.03%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1397" data-original-width="1753" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zjy_b7JGgV9U1EnxgoEKDZks2pMsL06wWsyGX45CbYPhYmyrLkCBgY0h0gn9C9lbF5u54fxX0VwB8JYtp6IOSoxf5cOA6gNFQCjnn1xVLsZBYt69U_AMSeL6yl3vtw-WOwOMy8jA3UhehNUojJHS5Vg_cgcn_SDZO_Klc7DQXugY3AJRJRqnzCAPJg/w400-h319/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-26%20at%2010.17.03%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: Christine YEAR: 1983 Rates: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>John Carpenter's most sparse and subtle horror film, and based on Stephen King's multi-perspective novel, CHRISTINE is to high school what THE SHINING is to hotel management as Keith Gordon plays an initially geeky character suitably named Arnie, who, best friends since childhood with popular yet humble jock John Stockwell as Dennis, the tables turn when the dork lands the prettiest girl on campus, new student Leigh played by meek ingenue Alexandria Paul..<br> <br> Well Kelly Preston's actually the hottest but that's an opinion, and as head cheerleader, football hero Stockwell has her in the bag yet still tries for/strikes out with Leigh before a cool Carpenter glide-cam sports scene where Dennis, running for a long bomb pass, sees Arnie kissing the tall beauty, leaning on an old, recently purchased Chevy he seemed possessed by from the moment he laid eyes on this titular 1950's vehicle, and all to Dennis's distrust and chagrin. <br>

alexandra paul, body count, bully, christine belford, harry dean stanton, horror, john carpenter, john stockwell, keith gordon, kelly preston, killer car, stephen king, teen

JOHN CARPENTER DIRECTS STEPHEN KING'S KILLER CAR 'CHRISTINE'

Title: Christine YEAR: 1983 Rates: **** John Carpenter's most sparse and subtle horror film, and based on Stephen King's multi-pers...

MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON: CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UXpNupCxpos-BScnCRn3dA4tU3enfk5HdtrAZqRLqWXS70t19fqTL3X-ge21THEZwurVr5iJAWqqEN5C0Hc9b0umzoFwTUnbukHhFXp2dPdkJszvLcps-wt0uMDItupAkguv8cBXHVbVtAgj4FaUgBbZ1EkX4u-hW0YzTc-FGD7LO2kdQpPZDtWA3g/s987/Screen%20Shot%202020-05-05%20at%202.19.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="987" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7UXpNupCxpos-BScnCRn3dA4tU3enfk5HdtrAZqRLqWXS70t19fqTL3X-ge21THEZwurVr5iJAWqqEN5C0Hc9b0umzoFwTUnbukHhFXp2dPdkJszvLcps-wt0uMDItupAkguv8cBXHVbVtAgj4FaUgBbZ1EkX4u-hW0YzTc-FGD7LO2kdQpPZDtWA3g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202020-05-05%20at%202.19.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Thanks to the famous image of a grimacing madman's head through a slashed door, it seems THE SHINING would be nothing more than a fiendish axe-wielding Jack Nicholson running amok. The sinister “Here’s Johnny!” line is as overrated as the TAXI DRIVER “You talkin’ to me?” scene — yet there’s more going on here than a crazy antagonist.<br> <br> It's unfortunate that young horror fans anticipating scare-a-minute thrills are often misled into a deliberately slow-paced cerebral-surreal journey that takes time to encompass the film’s true villain — The Overlook Hotel... <br>

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MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON: CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'

Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980 Thanks to the famous image o...

TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bK2QdZk6eNrc2LFoc7C-OqUnNSr3nq3-3vIfWZohzDvD8sEJLy-o30FJgXFKh6uSfpMDaB0lEZUp4qLBkX930PTCd-y7GyGISg2O75vonqZyp9jbk262S-9iSc0z2cUN7XbVHoTxh267BeMkB1mcE-iBsEul-dPrAIDedrfy2pFhkHXrdkf4oG6sPQ/s1600/22.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5bK2QdZk6eNrc2LFoc7C-OqUnNSr3nq3-3vIfWZohzDvD8sEJLy-o30FJgXFKh6uSfpMDaB0lEZUp4qLBkX930PTCd-y7GyGISg2O75vonqZyp9jbk262S-9iSc0z2cUN7XbVHoTxh267BeMkB1mcE-iBsEul-dPrAIDedrfy2pFhkHXrdkf4oG6sPQ/s16000/22.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for and forever linked to the legendary low-budget slasher TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, his coolest, tightest and most accessible work is fulfilling and utterly frightful, unlike some other television movies/miniseries during the 1970's in which Stephen King's SALEM'S LOT rode the crest of... <br> <br>Involving an eclectic ensemble from several cinematic generations behind leading man David Soul as a second-rate author returned to the titular New England hometown, doing investigative research on the locally-infamous, spooky-looking haunted manor on a hill described to former English teacher/mentor Lew Ayres: "Can a house be evil in its stone foundations? In its wooden beams? In the glass of its windows?"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

body count, david soul, fred willard, geoffrey lewis, horror, james mason, julie cobb, kenneth mcmillan, lance kerwin, lew ayres, miniseries, seventies, stephen king, tobe hooper, tv movie, vampire

TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'

David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2 Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for...

SYLVESTER STALLONE AND RUTGER HAUER IN 'NIGHTHAWKS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHu7vcowNe03e8KYFypDtBikztLYDTqje3uvvMrLKfQvVrhFvMgNjd_nyPlfvg4Tl_kNKy761_vlQ4GOHvBNq_TDldajX6-BAHVvfqQDmQy9yRJW0i_JBNFLBmYxAH4cjzxxsy0IS20ydxkDDuOjfyjP7I-93pcUUPHqXrq0sX3Uhl5fe-v3icr3Adw/s1001/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-14%20at%202.35.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="1001" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHu7vcowNe03e8KYFypDtBikztLYDTqje3uvvMrLKfQvVrhFvMgNjd_nyPlfvg4Tl_kNKy761_vlQ4GOHvBNq_TDldajX6-BAHVvfqQDmQy9yRJW0i_JBNFLBmYxAH4cjzxxsy0IS20ydxkDDuOjfyjP7I-93pcUUPHqXrq0sX3Uhl5fe-v3icr3Adw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-14%20at%202.35.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><u>TITLE: NIGHT HAWKS YEAR: 1981 RATING: ***1/2</u></b><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In any crime flick, the villain moves into the hero's territory, like, say, in the case of THE FRENCH CONNECTION, which NIGHTHAWKS was originally intended to be the third entry of... and Rutger Hauer as a European terrorist does wind up in New York, with a new face and bright blue eyes (he was supposedly surgically-altered to look like what he already looks like): But the way things turn out, it feels like buddy cop partners Sylvester Stallone (sporting an Al Pacino SERPICO beard) and Billy Dee Williams are actually guest-stars in Rutger Hauer's movie... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Especially since the film was ultimately cut to 95-minutes, and by the time narc "decoys" Stallone and Williams are called in for anti-terrorist duty, we know more about Hauer's ruthlessness (from flirting with a sweet Catherine Mary Stewart in a London clothes shop before blowing up the place, to killing off the surgeon and a night-clubbing stewardess) than what makes our hard-edge cops really tick... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, catherine mary stewart, cop, eighties, exploitation, hillarie thompson, joe spinell, keith emerson, lindsay wagner, nigel davenport, rolling stones, rutger hauer, sylvester stallone, thriller

SYLVESTER STALLONE AND RUTGER HAUER IN 'NIGHTHAWKS'

TITLE: NIGHT HAWKS YEAR: 1981 RATING: ***1/2 In any crime flick, the villain moves into the hero's territory, like, say, in the case of ...

SYLVESTER STALLONE STARRING AND DIRECTING 'ROCKY II'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDg5lT47hz6wL-XE4yMwIIEHli21um2dB0-SajPYhEHVEF6hDCtnXtZ-vou9ne9SDeqaxZrjZchOaBuP_GWXfHUggZHinDwDZOtOBZWIA1jgsCd_lUQ947ALsiq5hznPL2Fxvn4dRbNKUtKO8jRt1pb3mKboUhPTSfeQN4Oy7_0syy27wutpW86BUMAQ/s1611/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-22%20at%203.14.00%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="1611" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDg5lT47hz6wL-XE4yMwIIEHli21um2dB0-SajPYhEHVEF6hDCtnXtZ-vou9ne9SDeqaxZrjZchOaBuP_GWXfHUggZHinDwDZOtOBZWIA1jgsCd_lUQ947ALsiq5hznPL2Fxvn4dRbNKUtKO8jRt1pb3mKboUhPTSfeQN4Oy7_0syy27wutpW86BUMAQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-22%20at%203.14.00%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: ROCKY II year: 1979 Starring/Director: Sylvester Stallone RATING: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It seems like the last person who gets credit for the original ROCKY is director John G. Advilson... yet he <i>did </i>win the Academy Award; and Sylvester Stallone's brilliant script, providing an ensemble of characters of almost equal importance surrounding the central Southpaw, and his beyond-natural performance, were both nominated but didn't win... yet it's still one of the best scripts ever, and perhaps the story <i>and</i> star made us forget there was a director at all...<br> <br> Which brings us to ROCKY II, where Stallone still had his wider, more natural, more realistic facial "baby fat" and unpolished muscles compared to the chiseled, veiny, hunger-scowling look of the third film (and thereafter) as Stallone himself director, doing a sort of mellower hang-out imitation of Avildson, at least in a visual sense....<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

boxing, burgess meredith, burt young, carl weathers, franchise, joe spinell, sequel, sport, sylvester stallone, talia shire, tony burton

SYLVESTER STALLONE STARRING AND DIRECTING 'ROCKY II'

Title: ROCKY II year: 1979 Starring/Director: Sylvester Stallone RATING: ***1/2 It seems like the last person who gets credit for the origin...

DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'

<p><i><u><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqZNCg6KOBg7dBfP24GZv3p4bPAslHuMgsVdzi5hplScn_BOsXDKjck3oLynapO5z5vi0Xr6aVraAEUi-fMdu-K3Aj8Bl1aPujdQAJctcgb356GVhd154AN9ZqqLev0zpIzS-j8pdRFVDJ-J2zjIyaCekovx0TRQ3n7DzZsuVyMRC2vTaHPyANmXUdA/s1567/Jaws3-D_B2_Japan-7-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOqZNCg6KOBg7dBfP24GZv3p4bPAslHuMgsVdzi5hplScn_BOsXDKjck3oLynapO5z5vi0Xr6aVraAEUi-fMdu-K3Aj8Bl1aPujdQAJctcgb356GVhd154AN9ZqqLev0zpIzS-j8pdRFVDJ-J2zjIyaCekovx0TRQ3n7DzZsuVyMRC2vTaHPyANmXUdA/s16000/Jaws3-D_B2_Japan-7-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and who’d have thought the third JAWS would abandon Amity Beach to take place at an oceanic theme park, relying on 3D to make stuff ranging from dolphins, killer whales, spears and sea monster decorations come at you on the big... or at this point, small screen... </u></i><br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><i> </i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i> Directed by Joe Alves, the former production assistant who brought the shark to life in the first two outings (and can be very fitfully deemed The Wizard of Jaws), this isn’t as bad as 1980's cinematic history may lead you to believe... </i></div> <i></i>

3D, bess armstrong, creature, dennis quaid, disaster, eighties, franchise, joe alves, lea thompson, louis gossett jr., sequel, shark, simon maccorkindale

DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'

Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: *** Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and w...

ROY SCHEIDER FOR MORE A MORE THRILLER THAN CHILLER 'JAWS 2'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhoxbjoVGSHw8vmTWHbbDN5McHtGIf2NQwYBA2YFHG-zKEQvTDtCG-rWq-j_2C0evLMdOXJ52JVpouKZH6E3wHEM1v4dhS23dQyNeYmjMjq4k3lGrZdusUksjTXylP_ew5k-W2ERNUqjYK9XZyXCletq7HYoRlRVsVRpXDjy5Yd2wpt_0BcAgmtvGoA/s1042/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-01%20at%204.34.36%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhoxbjoVGSHw8vmTWHbbDN5McHtGIf2NQwYBA2YFHG-zKEQvTDtCG-rWq-j_2C0evLMdOXJ52JVpouKZH6E3wHEM1v4dhS23dQyNeYmjMjq4k3lGrZdusUksjTXylP_ew5k-W2ERNUqjYK9XZyXCletq7HYoRlRVsVRpXDjy5Yd2wpt_0BcAgmtvGoA/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-01%20at%204.34.36%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS 2 Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Grading on the dorsal curve of the Steven Spielberg classic, this sequel feels like a would-be pilot episode of a JAWS television series: Thus it's somewhat lacking, and to be fair, shouldn't be compared to its once-in-a-lifetime predecessor. But taken on its own value, JAWS 2 a decent monster movie with some beautiful shots and interesting characters, who sometimes matter enough to fret over...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Most of the possible body-count-victims are a group of sail-boating teenagers, merely teased at in the beginning and then becoming what Brody has to save at the end. These beach-loving teens include a few future cult actors such as ANGEL starlet Donna Wilkes, possessed CHRISTINE wimp Keith Gordon and an extremely sexy Ann Dusenberry along with two the sons of Chief Brody played by the returning lead Roy Scheider... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, ann dusenberry, body count, donna wilkes, franchise, horror, jaws, lorraine gary, monster, murray hamilton, roy scheider, sequel, seventies, shark, suspense, thriller

ROY SCHEIDER FOR MORE A MORE THRILLER THAN CHILLER 'JAWS 2'

Title: JAWS 2 Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2 Grading on the dorsal curve of the Steven Spielberg classic, this sequel feels like a would-be pilo...

FRANCO NERO IN ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER'

<div style="text-align: right;"> </div><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6v_7LAOpw9fmYbmEQRwkkW7QHFNDsoNIqFUGKj01IOpsNjYl8gFD0rFW9pDvb0VBURT_anmCLpPkofNs_7MeunfqgN88dFrVEafiIHeWzZCdZVIX0bium_BAShgUAGjZWENBgDfkaoPNgisKbagpRzEukiX7Vgg6WfzuNUG7dmE7VJWar-jKvXIrhag/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%209.01.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6v_7LAOpw9fmYbmEQRwkkW7QHFNDsoNIqFUGKj01IOpsNjYl8gFD0rFW9pDvb0VBURT_anmCLpPkofNs_7MeunfqgN88dFrVEafiIHeWzZCdZVIX0bium_BAShgUAGjZWENBgDfkaoPNgisKbagpRzEukiX7Vgg6WfzuNUG7dmE7VJWar-jKvXIrhag/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%209.01.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHARK HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2017/02/sharksT.html">SHARKS' TREASURE</a> from 1975, the same year as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/06/triad-jaws.html">JAWS</a>... The latter literally mentioned in Enzo G. Castellari's THE SHARK HUNTER and that he'd ingloriously rip off in THE LAST SHARK two years later... But this is really a pulpy and hard-driven, treasure-hunting picture: Within a cavern of "resting sharks" is the tail of a plane that fell deeper than the fuselage, holding a hundred-million dollars...<br> <br> So while the caper's described by our "gringo" in Mexico, Franco Nero as Mike, with a surfer blond wig resembling vanilla seaweed glued onto an omnipresent headband or scuba mask, most of the film has an array of stealthily, espionage-genre assassins trying to jump in on the action (working for a crooked millionaire), which results in tons of just that... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, crime, enzo g. castellari, exploitation, franco nero, italian import, seventies, shark, treasure

FRANCO NERO IN ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER'

Title: THE SHARK HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: *** Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE from 1975, the same year...

VICTOR MATURE DIVES INTO JERRY HOPPER'S 'THE SHARKFIGHTERS'

<div style="text-align: left;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ov5-XwuwJb2vzwZP3785vJCb-T-EaaewaW2bggSTz6nBiSR3EJcIwscVrBMlutZLgGn-h6o2Vh5CKDh5NiODDewjG_eeZ3kLqgz8oYhbUIe-WiCrGdHlcOArwNByFY_aLbLYVhKWGC4VGsEEo7n7kqAJFhO8OldP1y9uHbFydPdQSdquJ0Fo4JzG9g/s1766/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%208.32.56%20PM%202.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1766" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ov5-XwuwJb2vzwZP3785vJCb-T-EaaewaW2bggSTz6nBiSR3EJcIwscVrBMlutZLgGn-h6o2Vh5CKDh5NiODDewjG_eeZ3kLqgz8oYhbUIe-WiCrGdHlcOArwNByFY_aLbLYVhKWGC4VGsEEo7n7kqAJFhO8OldP1y9uHbFydPdQSdquJ0Fo4JzG9g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-09%20at%208.32.56%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE SHARKFIGHTERS Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table>THE SHARKFIGHTERS is but an ingredient of what would make a bonafide World War II movie's main course: In order for soldiers to survive in the ocean — either far out or close to an invading beach — without being eaten by those infamously ravaging dorsal-finned predators, it's the job of a scientific military unit, stationed in pre-Castro Cuba, to develop a liquid-repellent to keep sharks away, and for long enough to matter...<br></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">That's the plot overall, and there's a lot of testing in-between, making up a few suspenseful scenes when not wasting superfluous time inland, in Havana, where the main character, war hero Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves, played by Victor Mature, enjoys live mamba music with his gorgeous wife (Karen Steele), whose character is all but deleted by the token expository shark expert who, like any film's stock "better half" sans the romance,  must weather his new moody boss on the boat or back at a compound, located at a fishing village looking straight out of Hemingway... <br></div><span></span>

action, claude akins, fifties, jerry hopper, karen steele, philip coolidge, rafael campos, shark, suspense, victor mature, war

VICTOR MATURE DIVES INTO JERRY HOPPER'S 'THE SHARKFIGHTERS'

Title: THE SHARKFIGHTERS Year: 1955 Rating: **** THE SHARKFIGHTERS is but an ingredient of what would make a bonafide World War II movie&#...

BITING INTO THE DESERVED BLASPHEMY OF 'JAWS THE REVENGE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfCkE-f0Hv1VwHmPXASoGMIkb5LrfMVHNfE0cUZt7iUdjiuvKnQzNqJZE7vCD8ZkzLAeX9Op1KGFtBXqbn0MmQOoISQsaksA8uTXTOBtyPgyjTplxEmpPPNVP75iL6xPflbomUv6vq_CjI9UbuMEmbuQiOwAXYRMFuFFH8L5bGaALtlp16a7V74fm5g/s1038/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-02%20at%203.48.42%20PM-1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="1038" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfCkE-f0Hv1VwHmPXASoGMIkb5LrfMVHNfE0cUZt7iUdjiuvKnQzNqJZE7vCD8ZkzLAeX9Op1KGFtBXqbn0MmQOoISQsaksA8uTXTOBtyPgyjTplxEmpPPNVP75iL6xPflbomUv6vq_CjI9UbuMEmbuQiOwAXYRMFuFFH8L5bGaALtlp16a7V74fm5g/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-05-02%20at%203.48.42%20PM-1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAWS THE REVENGE Year: 1987 Rating: *</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If you don't count CADDYSHACK II, the fourth JAWS... tag-titled JAWS: THE REVENGE... takes the cake, or in this case, the chum, winning all awards for the worst sequel ever, ever, ever made...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: right;"> </div><p>While <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2013/10/jaws-3-sucks-greatly.html">Part 3</a>, released at the time as 3D, is an awkward novelty, at least it's got campy cult value. Here, after Roy Scheider's Martin Brody has (already) died of an expository heart-attack, we center on his grown-up sons at a luxurious Oceanic Theme Park (that included Dennis Quaid). And now it's mom, the faithful and earthy Ellen's, turn at the lead, played again by Lorraine Gary, who takes a vacation with her oldest son, Mike, a Marine Biologist (like Quaid in the third), tanning in the beautiful Bahamas...<br> </p>

jaws, lance guest, lorraine gary, mario van peebles, michael caine, sequel, shark, suspense, thriller

BITING INTO THE DESERVED BLASPHEMY OF 'JAWS THE REVENGE'

Title: JAWS THE REVENGE Year: 1987 Rating: * If you don't count CADDYSHACK II, the fourth JAWS... tag-titled JAWS: THE REVENGE... takes...

MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hb1wsaCJTdw/XtDk66yRNcI/AAAAAAABUeU/aMXCtxzO2VELInZ17EB7T6ebsmxsAY6DgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1336" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hb1wsaCJTdw/XtDk66yRNcI/AAAAAAABUeU/aMXCtxzO2VELInZ17EB7T6ebsmxsAY6DgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pulpy poster featuring a lovely painted lovely actress Joanne Dru for SEPTEMBER STORM Year: 1960 Rating: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> Directed by underrated WAR OF THE WORLDS filmmaker Byron Haskin, for a 3D movie with a giant shark on the poster, it's amazing how much time's wasted at a Spanish (i.e. Spain-set) nightclub, which includes an extremely drawn-out Flamenco dance. All viewed by the four main characters that consist of two important pairs...<br> <br> The first begins the picture: An extremely perfect-looking young Spanish guy who pretends to own the yacht of a vacationing millionaire (his boss), and a pretty yet slightly aged American model who he's making up the lie for: They go diving when the other two check out the vessel...<br>

3D, adventure, byron haskin, import, joanne dru, mark stevens, neo noir, robert strauss, shark, sixties, treasure

MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'

Pulpy poster featuring a lovely painted lovely actress Joanne Dru for SEPTEMBER STORM Year: 1960 Rating: *** Directed by underrated WAR ...

CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhUOModo77K03T5g0MzRKG1gFUXbF8nO2DFTzvAwjgI0_CHs9ZLwv2reskrfeTv1tFJJjHqXKJXlptD-i6YfB491jr8aCwM9m659TzEH53Jlp9Nt7_6wFMgwja25AAI8LLRt4UcM3gck3wQUqWyMLA_QAj3sBCcXRTTWtvuNuyeVNCMd9JQCRzOCjOQ/s1376/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-09%20at%2010.49.54%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhUOModo77K03T5g0MzRKG1gFUXbF8nO2DFTzvAwjgI0_CHs9ZLwv2reskrfeTv1tFJJjHqXKJXlptD-i6YfB491jr8aCwM9m659TzEH53Jlp9Nt7_6wFMgwja25AAI8LLRt4UcM3gck3wQUqWyMLA_QAj3sBCcXRTTWtvuNuyeVNCMd9JQCRzOCjOQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-09%20at%2010.49.54%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the Ernest Hemingway tradition of the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style, centers on machismo verses elements of the sea...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The title killer fish seems to be intentionally guarding a treasure of golden coins at a location that takes over half the film led by Wilde's semi-famous fortune hunter boatsman, Jim Carnahan, along with the map's bearer, a young man played by TERROR HOUSE actor John Neilson...</p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, cliff osmond, cornel wilde, david canary, david gilliam, exploitation, homosexual, hostage, john neilson, nature, neo noir, seventies, shark, thriller, treasure, yaphet kotto

CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO

Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: **** Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the Ernest Hemingway tradition ...

DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuI19B2xWasR-0vsNcUZbF_NPtUdews4S--j6w6D1CedRywkDkjH0up3kaWgF63YkLgJpW2hC0nFgJCwvxxpzdEAdKSCEpVINr325uwyeENsv0E4W0IBsMYVlk0N2GCWZODAZIIuSi7as9UieEIg3LeglFYnFKzrQosXinKrYZXIEUj-_-Z4mpywbipQ/s1624/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-05%20at%205.18.15%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="862" data-original-width="1624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuI19B2xWasR-0vsNcUZbF_NPtUdews4S--j6w6D1CedRywkDkjH0up3kaWgF63YkLgJpW2hC0nFgJCwvxxpzdEAdKSCEpVINr325uwyeENsv0E4W0IBsMYVlk0N2GCWZODAZIIuSi7as9UieEIg3LeglFYnFKzrQosXinKrYZXIEUj-_-Z4mpywbipQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-05%20at%205.18.15%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: *****<br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main characters... As Martin Brody, the relatively new Chief of Police in the beachside town of Amity, <u>ROY SCHEIDER</u> solely headlines the first act of JAWS... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which can be titled <u>ACT 1) WARNING</u>, as he investigates the death of a young female swimmer by what is, despite the eventual coverup, a bonafide SHARK ATTACK. Thus Brody both leads the show <i>and</i> blends into the canvas of the eccentric town, lost in mazy politics concerning keeping the beaches open despite the immanent danger...</p><span></span>

classic, cult, jaws, lorraine gary, murray hamilton, richard dreyfuss, robert shaw, roy scheider, seventies, shark, steven spielberg

DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'

Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: ***** Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main ch...

SUSAN GEORGE IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK' W/ JENNIFER ASHLEY

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYM6cKKj9n4G2wwCoU3A5vswQcX--Jiz0kgiP3-KIQ6bYfY08yKahBLnAYwnWzE9a_MuWIi5-HkvnRYSE-65WBxCH72Hw89oFK0fRM288P-yIEoYAyiSCmcwb-gnDh4zjud5Qg691LGzjWuJnmQkbB_XeYQmCGolTnqYB8pYFnbCa-44DAjQ5cSAt4SA=s1443" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="1443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYM6cKKj9n4G2wwCoU3A5vswQcX--Jiz0kgiP3-KIQ6bYfY08yKahBLnAYwnWzE9a_MuWIi5-HkvnRYSE-65WBxCH72Hw89oFK0fRM288P-yIEoYAyiSCmcwb-gnDh4zjud5Qg691LGzjWuJnmQkbB_XeYQmCGolTnqYB8pYFnbCa-44DAjQ5cSAt4SA=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing ménage à trois of SUMMER LOVERS were a 1970's JAWS-clone then you'd have the extremely bizarre Mexican exploitation TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK where, in familiar form, one character complains that the beaches should have been closed...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But by that time it's almost over, before which two Mexican playboys... one a vulnerable blond millionaire with a yacht and the other a shallow dark-haired womanizing shark hunter... have two consecutive affairs with two different sexy British babes played by Fiona Lewis and Susan George respectively; and the first vanishes, mysteriously to the boys, but the audience had seen her eaten by not only a shark (Chrissie Watkins anyone?) but THE shark...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, exploitation, fiona george, jaws-clone, mexico, priscilla barnes, romance, seventies, shark, susan george

SUSAN GEORGE IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK' W/ JENNIFER ASHLEY

Title: TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2 If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing ménage à trois of SUMMER LOVERS were a 1970...

WILLIAN GREFÉ TURNS 'STANLEY' INTO 'MAKO: JAWS OF DEATH'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5X04ATd4fd5Cm6HamRQ3a12DCJCJQt0sX34zGYC8rK2CI31Na9xMvbX61IWJC0hlGN7o5PH6Zb1lgU_yRxV0hSUCNlWlM1HZKl2F9sNuMOikRK6Gcaa8T1zRo7R8ke9pppgKnbuGc8AFwoPMEOuby9B5_BBe4YjEht-xNuDUSruwKyU7pLyw7VZ8OvA/s1366/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-29%20at%202.47.17%20PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="1366" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5X04ATd4fd5Cm6HamRQ3a12DCJCJQt0sX34zGYC8rK2CI31Na9xMvbX61IWJC0hlGN7o5PH6Zb1lgU_yRxV0hSUCNlWlM1HZKl2F9sNuMOikRK6Gcaa8T1zRo7R8ke9pppgKnbuGc8AFwoPMEOuby9B5_BBe4YjEht-xNuDUSruwKyU7pLyw7VZ8OvA/w400-h286/Screen%20Shot%202022-04-29%20at%202.47.17%20PM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1976</u></td></tr></tbody></table>Someone already pointed out that MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH is a hybrid of JAWS and a cult classic about a young man with a twisted connection to rats, WILLARD. But this film's director William Grefé's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/07/snakes.html">STANLEY</a>, about a slightly older fella hooked on snakes, already borrowed from the WILLARD template, making JAWS OF DEATH a clone of a clone of a clone...<br> <br> As Richard Jaekel, no stranger to creepy roles despite or even accentuated by his blond-haired, man-next-door look, goes back and forth from the seaside town to the sea itself, where the opening credits of a diver swimming smoothly beside a killer shark proves the introductory scrawl, about how the underwater crew <i>risked their lives in making this motion picture</i>, wasn't just for show: the first two minutes alone defines exploitation cinema at its finest, and riskiest...<br>

body count, cult, exploitation, jaws-clone, jennifer bishop, john davis chandler, revenge, richard jaekal, seventies, shark, thriller, william grefé

WILLIAN GREFÉ TURNS 'STANLEY' INTO 'MAKO: JAWS OF DEATH'

Year: 1976 Someone already pointed out that MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH is a hybrid of JAWS and a cult classic about a young man with a twisted...

WILLIAM SMITH DRIVES 'SCORCHY' STARRING CONNIE STEVENS

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRa8OzRkRGG_96O837khbWgN1sz3dWA_NtYxZw8jQpzBeuKEH7pGY64my3ihfNs4dYkQOyDnwl8GOc22bxI1tUNFVqQSnTQY3OWYagjmrc3nOfTnpe78shua4o79fZqxTS47hZc8GH3uFMF6Ew3akhmRdCM_t1swR8pf48-usGdaEyVkPuDkj9ai63w/s1531/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-29%20at%208.30.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixRa8OzRkRGG_96O837khbWgN1sz3dWA_NtYxZw8jQpzBeuKEH7pGY64my3ihfNs4dYkQOyDnwl8GOc22bxI1tUNFVqQSnTQY3OWYagjmrc3nOfTnpe78shua4o79fZqxTS47hZc8GH3uFMF6Ew3akhmRdCM_t1swR8pf48-usGdaEyVkPuDkj9ai63w/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-29%20at%208.30.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Smith in SCORCHY Year: 1976 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The cult exploitation SCORCHY is actually a b-movie revamp of THE FRENCH CONNECTION about undercover cops hiding in plain sight while both outwardly and secretly trailing a rich, handsome, sophisticated gangster planning a massive heroin deal from overseas, backed by a deadly henchman... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The latter played by ever-menacing William Smith, part of a central chase scene against our female Gene Hackman in Connie Stevens, initially watching from a taxi as he escapes by tram-car above until he nabs a dirt-bike, providing Connie's SCORCHY a reason to steal a dune buggy with keys conveniently inside... and what a chase it is, going from city streets to upper and lower construction site outskirts... even more entertaining than its Oscar-winning muse...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, caesar danova, connie stevens, cop, crime, drugs, exploitation, john davis chandler, seventies, smuggling, william smith

WILLIAM SMITH DRIVES 'SCORCHY' STARRING CONNIE STEVENS

William Smith in SCORCHY Year: 1976 Rating: **** The cult exploitation SCORCHY is actually a b-movie revamp of THE FRENCH CONNECTION about u...

OLIVIA HUSSEY IN BOB CLARK'S CULT SLASHER 'BLACK CHRISTMAS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPa0lifL_UgIrZByL3A8x5whRCrO6QaJMgMBUiluwlTI2ZgGW119wchu2plL7BGlFs7A6E1VUunAslBtN4o-9EMzmzPpmGzuMAH3fib7eX3wSl01l_oLvPExECIGPBGEAEwmveoiA6-B8p-f_7hzlIlAI-7B1qscmmCvLuS_5lH9eXeVOFirjRgiUrHA/s1417/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="1417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPa0lifL_UgIrZByL3A8x5whRCrO6QaJMgMBUiluwlTI2ZgGW119wchu2plL7BGlFs7A6E1VUunAslBtN4o-9EMzmzPpmGzuMAH3fib7eX3wSl01l_oLvPExECIGPBGEAEwmveoiA6-B8p-f_7hzlIlAI-7B1qscmmCvLuS_5lH9eXeVOFirjRgiUrHA/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS Year: 1974 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the case of Bob Clark's 1974 cult-horror BLACK CHRISTMAS, Christmas comes before HALLOWEEN since John Carpenter's 1978 slasher took some inspiration from not only a killer stalking a group of pretty young ladies (college instead of high school), but the camera sporadically becomes his shaky, formidable perspective... </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But not for long enough as most of the would-be victims remain alive for too long: except poor Lynne Griffin's curiously foreboding shy girl, seeming perfect for the sole survivor — described by a loose, foul-mouthed Margot Kidder (more befitting a sex comedy than horror) as a <i>professional virgin</i> — but lovely-lithe Olivia Hussey's our <i>final girl</i>... </p><p><span></span></p>

andrea martin, art hindle, bob clark, body count, exploitation, holiday, horror, john saxon, keir dullea, lynne griffin, margot kidder, olivia hussey, seventies, slasher, thriller

OLIVIA HUSSEY IN BOB CLARK'S CULT SLASHER 'BLACK CHRISTMAS'

Olivia Hussey in BLACK CHRISTMAS Year: 1974 Rating: **1/2 In the case of Bob Clark's 1974 cult-horror BLACK CHRISTMAS, Christmas comes b...

BRIAN KERWIN AND STEPHEN FURST ARE 'GETTING WASTED'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBAlO2irHrjA8B_JVNFn2_Vx_NpLjFd9FmFMPIbILJVQViOSVlbTLKosYBI0a4yjnG5USUPqML-uBErSipDTsIMFGsrYlTrC4pozaQh3kTRDw2o8Jwhp-j3-LmkwjgoVCYwCbBgBsOMVD2xg_pUrDiqKSBpS-M2sHXuTj59mfVsNMytE4we43OAHvSg/s1717/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-26%20at%2010.13.06%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1010" data-original-width="1717" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBAlO2irHrjA8B_JVNFn2_Vx_NpLjFd9FmFMPIbILJVQViOSVlbTLKosYBI0a4yjnG5USUPqML-uBErSipDTsIMFGsrYlTrC4pozaQh3kTRDw2o8Jwhp-j3-LmkwjgoVCYwCbBgBsOMVD2xg_pUrDiqKSBpS-M2sHXuTj59mfVsNMytE4we43OAHvSg/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-12-26%20at%2010.13.06%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: GETTING WASTED aka SOFT EXPLOSTION Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Plenty of wild-party-flicks came out in the wake of ANIMAL HOUSE, and GETTING WASTED — trading college for a military academy — co-stars Stephen Furst, literally the biggest geek in HOUSE and one of many pot-smokers here that are... well... GETTING WASTED (or more like pretty buzzed)...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>And when new guy Brian Kerwin shows up in the bunkhouse... after being driven to the academy while Buffalo Springfield's counter-culture anthem <i>For What It's Worth</i> plays... he gets along with the local cadets instantly, especially cool guy Cooper Huckabee and second-string sidekick Ken Michelman...</p><p><span></span></p>

brian kerwin, comedy, cooper huckabee, counter-culture, eighties, ken michelman, military academy, stephen furst

BRIAN KERWIN AND STEPHEN FURST ARE 'GETTING WASTED'

Title: GETTING WASTED aka SOFT EXPLOSTION Year: 1980 Rating: *** Plenty of wild-party-flicks came out in the wake of ANIMAL HOUSE, and GETTI...