cult film freak: December 2018

Written by James M. Tate / 12/29/2018 / No comments / action , classic , crime , drama , paul muni , prison , thirties , thriller

REVIEW OF 'I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG' W/ PAUL MUNI

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lobby Card of the Paul Muni Chain Gang Classic YEAR: 1932</u></td></tr>
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A visual masterpiece with Film Noir elements despite being a decade shy of that particular "genre" and/or style of edgy crime thrillers led by a flawed yet sympathetic hero (turned anti-hero)...<br>
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In this case it's James Allen played by Paul Muni, who, as an edgy everyman, is discontented after surviving a war and winds up caught between two opposing dames: one good, one bad...<br>
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And the most Noir-esque is the Wrong Man element — falsely accused of a theft that put him into the titular CHAIN GANG to begin with (later hilariously parodied in Woody Allen's TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN: from a guard whipping what the audience can only see is a prisoner's shadow, right down to a muscular black prisoner helping loosen the shackles so our man can go free)...<br>

action, classic, crime, drama, paul muni, prison, thirties, thriller

REVIEW OF 'I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG' W/ PAUL MUNI

Lobby Card of the Paul Muni Chain Gang Classic YEAR: 1932 A visual masterpiece with Film Noir elements despite being a decade shy of t...

MATT DILLON'S KILLER ROLE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT'

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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT isn't quite sure when it's good since the good parts don't last long enough, or connect to the movie as a whole, intruded upon by annoying off-screen conversational narration (i.e. colorless commentary) between Matt Dillon and a mysterious, vocally-grating Bruno Ganz... <br>
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As a Serial Killer Movie, the most interesting scenes are the deaths, and there are five "situations" in total, warned up front by title cards. But overboard director Lars von Trier throws in so many video clips (Nazis, etc) that in trying to connect with the "ultra violence" on screen, the story and character become secondhand as opposed to second-nature for Matt Dillon's Jack, made up like someone who'd be teased about dressing like "a serial killer" including awkward glasses and uncomfortably looking "nice clothes." In fact, his first victim in Matt's BEAUTIFUL GIRLS co-star Uma Thurman bags on his threads while literally begging to be murdered.  <br>

2018, bruno ganz, crime, lars von trier, matt dillon, new, serial killer, thriller, uma thurman

MATT DILLON'S KILLER ROLE IN 'THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT'

Year of Capture and Release: 2018 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT isn't quite sure when it's good since the good parts don't last ...

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

2018, bradley cooper, clint eastwood, crime, drama, drugs, laurence fishburne, michael peña, new

CLINT EASTWOOD STARRING IN 'THE MULE' W/ BRADLEY COOPER

Year of Release and Capture: 2018 Actor/director Clint Eastwood, using very little action and suspense for a supposed crime thriller, is...

ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER' W/ FRANCO NERO

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>This poster looks more Orca than Jaws YEAR: 1979</u></td></tr>
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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>...<br>
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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...<br>
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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>
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So while the caper's described by our "gringo" in Mexico, Franco Nero as Mike, with a long surfer blond wig resembling vanilla seaweed glued on within a tight, 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... <br>

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

ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER' W/ FRANCO NERO

This poster looks more Orca than Jaws YEAR: 1979 Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE from 1975, the same...

DC PRESENTS 'AQUAMAN' W/ JASON MOMOA & AMBER HEARD

action, adventure, amber heard, comic book, dc comics, dolph lundgren, fantasy, jason moma, new, superhero, willem defoe

DC PRESENTS 'AQUAMAN' W/ JASON MOMOA & AMBER HEARD

Yes, that's Dolph Lundgren, who plays Heard's father YEAR: 2018 Judged upon the comic books and, for this pop culture fanatic, t...

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Woody's orb in MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY Year: 1982</u></td></tr>
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Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (from Shakespeare to Bergman) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY was a case of The Emperor's New Clothes: For critics who adored Allen's work, ranging from the joke-a-second "older, funny ones" like BANANAS to more autobiographical, intellectually anti pseudo-intellectual comedies like MANHATTAN, it seemed Allen could do practically no wrong...<br>
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Until this quirky and fun, jovial countryside-romping celebration of nature and sunlight that, after (a recommended) multiple viewings, alters from The Emperor being naked to his clothes clashing with the otherwise signature wardrobe. And there <i>are</i> similar traits of the adventurous slapstick of SLEEPER, where he flies using a futuristic contraption and here, set during the 1900's, Woody's stock broker/inventor Andrew hits the skies again on a bicycle helicopter (after failing with a pair of Icarus wings) that, within the first five minutes, puts the viewer off-balance with a combination of science-fiction and the extremely Earthy, down-home setting...<br>

adaptation, comedy, eighties, ensemble, gordon willis, jose ferrer, julie hagerty, kate mcgregor-stewart, mary steenburgen, mia farrow, nature, supernatural, time period, tony roberts, woody allen

REVIVING WOODY ALLEN'S 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY'

Woody's orb in MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S SEX COMEDY Year: 1982 Upon release, Woody Allen's multi homage (from Shakespeare to Bergman...

PENNY MARSHALL W/ SPINAL TAP ON 'LAVERNE & SHIRLEY'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Penny Marshall with a Richard Nixon voting Christopher Guest on Laverne & Shirley</u></td></tr>
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We all know MICHAEL MCKEAN from SPINAL TAP started as Lenny on LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY. But on the third season the other Tappers turned up: HARRY SHEARER as a newscaster and CHRISTOPHER GUEST
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Later, Laverne and 
Shirley meet the boys at a bus stop and find out they're womanizers 
(like JFK!). And at the end of the episode, the main cast sings a tune 
with McKean on acoustic guitar. And not "Big Bottom." <br>

christopher guest, david l. lander, michael mckean, penny marshall, seventies, TV

PENNY MARSHALL W/ SPINAL TAP ON 'LAVERNE & SHIRLEY'

Penny Marshall with a Richard Nixon voting Christopher Guest on Laverne & Shirley We all know MICHAEL MCKEAN from SPINAL TAP started...

JOHN BROMFIELD SELLS 'HOT CARS' FOR BEL-AIR PRODUCTIONS

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A hybrid of lounge lizard and game show jazz plays during the opening where a quiet Los Angeles main street's lined with outlet stores across from a used car lot, and John Bromfield's Nick Dunn is so honest, he ironically passed the acid test for crooks: That is, the main (though polite and unassuming) heavy, rolling stolen vehicles through his own larger lot, sees that Nick is the man to trust...<br />
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Not trusted to be dishonest but to remain faithful and, like any Film Noir outing, it takes something desperate and personal for a good man to cross the line...<br />
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In this case, his child needing surgery causes Nick do what Joi Lansing and her incredible body couldn't initially persuade. And by the time our husband/dad's up to his neck in HOT CARS, delivered to the illegal, seemingly untouchable operation where Nick is stuck as middleman, he's the sole target of a determined police investigator, with no way out... Or is there? And does freedom have a price? And who's gonna pay? <br />
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The best scenes occur <i>before</i> he gets hounded and <i>right after</i> he's on board the seemingly perfect, well-paying gig as the fitfully cool, underrated movie and TV actor John Bromfield, with all the ingredients of a casual b-actor, nails the put-upon working man persona, with class to boot: A nice fit for caustic, melodramatic lines like: "That's the problem with dopes like us," to his incredibly-trusting wife, without sounding corny, or cliché: "Too much month at the end of our money."<br />
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In cult movie retrospect, Bromfield played the flirtatious scuba diver (targeting pretty Lori Nelson who prefers humble John Agar) in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. Though he wasn't able to "reign in heaven" as a leading man in mainstream features, he's a sublime b-leading man and does a particularly fine job here, looking handsome and boxy-muscular under well-suited work clothes... <br />
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Set in the cut-and-dry mid-1950's, the vacant, bare-boned, industrial locations, shot in fitfully sparse B&W, lends to the overall purgatory aesthetic as our sexy, full-breasted, manipulative "femme fatale" in Joi Lansing lights up every room. Meanwhile, her boss, Ralph Clayton as Mr. Markel... with Mark Dana's tall, square-jawed and very lethal Smiley Ward at his beckon call... make for a solid if subtle, professionally villainous trio... <br />
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Within Bel-Air Productions' Film Noir template, using more plot-points and character motivations than cinematography and lighting, instead of being an otherwise kindhearted anti-hero, Nick's a solid clean slate, working for the wrong side while that extremely pestering cop (Dabbs Greer) is the main "antagonist" albeit in protagonist's clothes: most of the second act suspense occurs between these two proverbial "good guys," one masked with an effective, royal flush poker face...<br />
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And after a slight twist, there's an intense HOUSE OF BAMBOO style action climax with Nick and an armed Smiley battling-it-out on a fast-moving, rickety rollercoaster (in Ocean Park Pier, Santa Monica). Meanwhile, an 11th hour stampede of cops move in on "poor little me" Joi Lansing and her gentleman boss, who can't flirt <i>or</i> pay their way out of how these kind of movies all wind down and end up: Learning that harsh, inevitable lesson that crime doesn't pay... at least, not for very long.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Classy head villain Ralph Clanton with employee Nick Dunn (John Bromfield) HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi's the bad girl and Carol Shannon is the good girl aka John Bromfield's perfect wife</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Gunsmoke and Little House actor Dabbs Greer plays cop to John Bromfield HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>B-Movie actor John Bromfield winds up with C-movie actor Mark Dana as Smiley Ward</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pay to play Joi Lansing lays in bed and dreams of fur coats in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bel-Air Productions includes producer Howard W. Koch</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marilee Earle's big scene was cut but here she is for a second in HOT CARS</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marilee Earle in HOT CARS in an establishing shot that was never completed </u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>And here's a shot of Marilee Earle in her co-starring role in THE FEARMAKERS w/ Dana Andrews</u></td></tr>
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bel air productions, crime, dabbs greer, drama, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard w. koch, jazz score, john bromfield, joi lansing, mark dana, suspense

JOHN BROMFIELD SELLS 'HOT CARS' FOR BEL-AIR PRODUCTIONS

Joi Lansing & Carol Shannon YEAR: 1956 A hybrid of lounge lizard and game show jazz plays during the opening where a quiet Los Angel...

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HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Harrison Ford lays low in THE FUGITIVE Year: 1993</u></td></tr>
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The coolest scene of this popular and successful, multi Oscar nominated and in one case, Oscar winning big screen adaptation of the classic David Janssen TV-series is when supporting actor champ Tommy Lee Jones is by himself, looking straight ahead but at nothing, really — then cutting to where Harrison Ford's title character is seeking refuge.<br>
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Tommy Lee Jones, practically a veteran actor who hadn't reached mainstream success, is downright fantastic: he deserved the A-list promotion but should <i>not </i>have won the award far more deserving of Ralph Fiennes, who turned in a more difficult and less natural performance as a loathsome Nazi's Nazi in SCHINDLER'S LIST, and his <i>was actually a</i> <i>Supporting Role</i>, and not one of two equal co-leads: Which is what Ford and Jones are... In fact, the latter has even more scenes, overall input, and, obviously, dialogue...<br>

action, adventure, crime, drama, harrison ford, joe pantoliano, nineties, remake, tommy lee jones

HARRISON FORD & TOMMY LEE JONES STAR IN 'THE FUGITIVE'

Harrison Ford lays low in THE FUGITIVE Year: 1993 The coolest scene of this popular and successful, multi Oscar nominated and in one cas...

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' W/ DANA ANDREWS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Curse of the Demon YEAR of RELEASE: 1957</u></td></tr>
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Director Jacques Tourneur,
 in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andrews followed by THE FEARMAKERS and a decade after CANYON PASSAGE — wanted the CURSE OF THE DEMON demon — resembling a grizzly bear mated with an irate buffalo — to be revealed later on instead of the first ten minutes...<br>
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During an investigation by Dana Andrews as John 
Holden, a scientist who debunks a powerful occult/cult leader and is simply begging to learn his lesson the hard way, it's obviously far less of a mystery since we know exactly what kind of monster he'll wind up dealing with, as opposed to the audience being
 in-the-dark along with the main character... Kind of an implied and ambiguous gumshoe Film Noir approach within a supernatural horror picture...<br>

british, cult, dana andrews, fifties, horror, jacques tourneur, niall macginnis, occult, peggy cummins, supernatural, thriller

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'CURSE OF THE DEMON' W/ DANA ANDREWS

Curse of the Demon YEAR of RELEASE: 1957 Director Jacques Tourneur, in the first of two 1950's collaborations with actor Dana Andre...

GETTING IN CHARACTER WITH HARRY NORTHUP: AN INTERVIEW

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Cult Film Freak Interview with actor Harry Northup</u></td></tr>
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Harry Northup can play just about anything. Characters that are gentle, naïve, funny, sad, determined, or mean as hell... through the course of five decades he’s been there, done that – wonderfully...<br>
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Few actors are as genuine, believable, and versatile on screen...<br>
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Among a long list of motion pictures and television shows he’s appeared in numerous projects with top-notch directors such as Martin Scorsese (including “Taxi Driver”, "Mean Streets," "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," "Boxcar Bertha"), Jonathan Kaplan (“Over the Edge”), Paul Schrader ("Blue Collar") and Jonathan Demme (“The Silence of the Lambs”, "Crazy Mama"): And along with show business, Harry's the author of nine published books of poetry.<br>

eighties, harry northup, interview, jonathan demme, jonathan kaplan, martin scorsese, nineties, peter boyle, robert deniro, roger corman, seventies, sixties

GETTING IN CHARACTER WITH HARRY NORTHUP: AN INTERVIEW

Cult Film Freak Interview with actor Harry Northup Harry Northup can play just about anything. Characters that are gentle, naïve, funny,...

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950</u></td></tr>
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The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preacher, played by Joel McCrea as Josiah Grey, pulls out his six-shooters in a noisy saloon before reading the Bible in that same, suddenly quiet one...<br>
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This during a through-narration by an off-screen adult version of child actor Dean Stockwell, who plays the orphan son, John. And about fifteen minutes in, the town's old, dying doctor asks Josiah if he remembers what he and the audience could never forget... That should have been repeated a few times — his <i>thing</i>, as it were, in acquiring a captive audience at gun point...<br>
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Although as blunt as Reverend Josiah is, there's a passive, non-violent streak despite having fought through the Civil War... side-by-side with rowdy atheist Alan Hale, whose giant eldest son is future GUNSMOKE star James Arness)... which gives McCrea half a dozen stories to tell within pockets of rural lakeside scenery that director Jacques Tourneur serves throughout a creative camera that enters and exits locations, along with the townspeople who, themselves, are the sole plot, or intentional lack of. Anyone looking for shades of the action-packed WICHITA, the actor and director's third, final and greatest Western collaboration, will be disappointed (STRANGER ON HORSEBACK lies in-between). This small town's viewed with an optimistic revere of lost youth, but not without deep shades of Tourneur's signature dark and Gothic undertones...<br>

amanda blake, dean stockwell., fifties, jacques tourneur, james arness, joel mccrea, melodrama, religious, western

JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'STARS IN MY CROWN' STARS JOEL MCCREA

Poster image from Stars in my Crown YEAR: 1950 The most memorable scene adorns the poster artwork: A just-arrived in a small town preach...

BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Julien Beck stalks Heather O'Rourke's family in P2 Year: 1986</u></td></tr>
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Shockingly worse than the more maligned, infamous POLTERGEIST III, but a lot more entertaining than EXORCIST II, this first sequel 
of the haunted house classic suffers the same futile, completely unnecessary attempt at explaining the origins of the initial ghostly infestation... <br>
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Vapid
 Indian spells with extremely bad special 
effects, killer tequila worms, the son's braces becoming monsters, and contrived dialogue from characters so wonderfully natural the 
first time around, and in a house that's not even their own: Craig T. Nelson is particularly
hammy while JoBeth Williams means little to nothing. Along with a barrage of flashbacks from Steven Spielberg's classic, POLTERGEIST, we're reminded of what should've been untouched,
 and unburdened...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Trying hard for a Spielberg Close Encounters look</u></td></tr>
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As the real burden's on Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne: the pivotal victim before now holds silly magical powers to the OTHER SIDE run by nefarious Julien Beck as "Reverend Kane", a creepy old man providing the only real chills...<br>
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Before and after him, it's all flash 
and zero substance. Although our tall, wise Indian, Will Sampson from ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (who literally inhales a celestial slipstream), is noted by the family patriarch as having (probably) escaped from an insane asylum. Well old Will should've stayed put — this crap is embarrassing. Even ORCA's a step up.<br>

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BLASPHEMOUSLY BAD MAGIC OF 'POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE'

Julien Beck stalks Heather O'Rourke's family in P2 Year: 1986 Shockingly worse than the more maligned, infamous POLTERGEIST III,...

SEEKING THE DIRECTOR OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Theatrical POLTERGEIST Haunting circa 1982</u></td></tr>
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One of the most iconic images in horror film history occurs when the little blond-haired Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne places her hands on the family TV's flashing static/snowy screen after the Star Spangled Banner, and, like in real life back then, televisions would all cease programming for the night: Which is about as unfathomable to Millennials as Prohibition was to Baby Boomers and especially Generation-X...<br>
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The latter who grew up with POLTERGEIST... And for the curious, cinema-obsessed few, trying to figure out the difference between the already renown, omnipresent style of producing creator Steven Spielberg to hired director Tobe Hooper, is like imagining the childlike-eerie Jerry Goldsmith score in the hands of Spielberg's usual composer John Williams...<br>

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SEEKING THE DIRECTOR OF THE ORIGINAL CLASSIC 'POLTERGEIST'

Year of Theatrical POLTERGEIST Haunting circa 1982 One of the most iconic images in horror film history occurs when the little blond-hai...

REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne in POLTERGEIST III Year: 1988</u></td></tr>
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There are actually some good things about the maligned POLTERGEIST III including a capable director; a cool, ominous soundtrack; and a decent rudimentary story-line that makes the build-up... Carol Anne now living in a glass-structured Chicago high-rise with her aunt and uncle... work for<i> and</i> against itself since, as the movie progresses into manic delirium, it's more a letdown than a wasted experience from start to finish...<br>
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By the 45-minute "Kong mark" (the same time it took the giant ape to reveal himself), a lot has happened, and it's somewhat interesting. Aunt and Uncle (horror-vets Nancy Allen and Tom Skeritt), who also <i>work</i> for the building they reside in, are at a downstairs party full of spooky-looking art pieces. Their cute teenage daughter (Lara Flynn Boyle) sneaked herself and her friends into the building's off-grounds swimming pool for a beer party while, in the apartment, the late Heather O'Rourke's Carol Anne is just starting to get <i>really scared </i>of the impending ghosts... which is where the problem begins...<br>

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REEVALUATING THE ETERNAL DAMNATION OF 'POLTERGEIST III'

Heather O'Rourke as Carol Anne in POLTERGEIST III Year: 1988 There are actually some good things about the maligned POLTERGEIST III ...

KEVIN BACON & JAMIE GERTZ TEN-SPEED IN 'QUICKSILVER'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>A very cute and underrated 80's starlet Jamie Gertz in Quicksilver</u></td></tr>
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<u>cast: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Fishburne, Paul Rodriguez </u><br>
<u>year: 1986 rating: ***1/2</u><br>
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What could have been Kevin Bacon's COCKTAIL (or renamed <i>The Wolf of Ten-Speed</i>) is actually pretty decent...<br>
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Bacon
 as a New York City Wall Street broker who loses everything in one shot,
 and ends up a 10-speed messenger: swerving in and out of traffic with 
ease. Side characters include Jami Gertz and Paul Rodriquez, not just 
props but with their own important stories within. But who really shines
 is Rudy (THE DRIVER) Ramos as a villainous drug dealer using the riders
 as runners, including Lawrence (then Larry) Fishburne and Gertz 
herself, who winds up the damsel Bacon must eventually save: all the 
while trying for an 11th hour comeback in his old profession.<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz QUICKSILVER with Kevin Bacon</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>QUICKSILVER Jamie Gertz</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>"My parents and Frank are THIS close" Jamie Gertz, Quicksilver</u></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Gertz and Kevin Bacon in QUICKSILVER from 1986</u></td></tr>
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KEVIN BACON & JAMIE GERTZ TEN-SPEED IN 'QUICKSILVER'

A very cute and underrated 80's starlet Jamie Gertz in Quicksilver cast: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Rudy Ramos, Lawrence Fishburne, ...

LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA OF STEPHEN KING'S 'SILVER BULLET'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year of Release: 1985</u></td></tr>
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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 based on if very loosely adapted from King's novel...<br>
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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>
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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... 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...<br>

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LAWRENCE TIERNEY CINEMA OF STEPHEN KING'S 'SILVER BULLET'

Year of Release: 1985 Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's... despite the fa...

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