TIM BURTON DIRECTING MICHAEL KEATON AS 'BEETLEJUICE'

<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/AVvXsEhGhg_PPdn9Uyk0DzgKlsWSG_xh-JoE00jtRKD4jn2h58xnnDmLST62IwzuxDyGA8rY1OPl5OPrYDjGJrPGLmGJIqu1qY0bFRT7HOgBqIRzgjphxb0rhfRna_HiKNxONDLbVCUqZmsDVHGkRokvV4_qt0w7NAmDDh_01cDExsPgAeBcPBQ50UgD5EQ83pHP/s2104/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.19.38%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhg_PPdn9Uyk0DzgKlsWSG_xh-JoE00jtRKD4jn2h58xnnDmLST62IwzuxDyGA8rY1OPl5OPrYDjGJrPGLmGJIqu1qY0bFRT7HOgBqIRzgjphxb0rhfRna_HiKNxONDLbVCUqZmsDVHGkRokvV4_qt0w7NAmDDh_01cDExsPgAeBcPBQ50UgD5EQ83pHP/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.19.38%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: BEETLEJUICE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE, the King King Mark... that point when the titular creature finally shows up, in both cases exactly after forty-five minutes... provides an equal anticipation for the leading characters and the audience... <br><br>The audience is waiting for comic actor Michael Keaton to steal the movie, and the young married couple... who died and have become ghosts... needs him to save their perfect dream house... <br><span></span></p>

alec baldwin, annie mcenroe, catherine o'hara, cindy daly, comedy, dick cavett, eighties, geena davis, horror, jeffrey jones, michael keaton, simmy bow, sylvia sidney, tim burton, winona ryder

TIM BURTON DIRECTING MICHAEL KEATON AS 'BEETLEJUICE'

Title: BEETLEJUICE Year: 1988 Rating: ****1/2 In Tim Burton's BEETLEJUICE, the King King Mark... that point when the titular creature fi...

TIM BURTON DIRECTS PAUL REUBENS IN 'PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE'

<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/AVvXsEiD2HgqgjBzxCbR_DUtxABBSIAEXx8Byb3Ewse2Y7HRznNBI2Ki8H4m4m1ZLFQmagfoa1za_wfBFRr2IAWypt047sfFu8GtNfBvXPTtJlYieuPnl-Kojhyphenhyphen8Dzivw5dMDg1S1D7CO7-AdT6nOdHm_0DcMWxoiS8rIkhIqXoahHZA13cH_muYAg_x9oVzT_DJ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.06.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD2HgqgjBzxCbR_DUtxABBSIAEXx8Byb3Ewse2Y7HRznNBI2Ki8H4m4m1ZLFQmagfoa1za_wfBFRr2IAWypt047sfFu8GtNfBvXPTtJlYieuPnl-Kojhyphenhyphen8Dzivw5dMDg1S1D7CO7-AdT6nOdHm_0DcMWxoiS8rIkhIqXoahHZA13cH_muYAg_x9oVzT_DJ/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-27%20at%201.06.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Director: Tim Burton Year: 1985 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Tim Burton's first feature-length movie is a perfect comedy since every part of PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE is like its very own vignette with a beginning, middle and end...<br><br>Beginning with a French bicycle-race dream sequence, introducing not only comedian/actor Paul Reuben's overly-optimistic, spastic man-child, but having him wake up in a prop-laden house that's more like a dream than a dream...</p><p><span></span></p>

comedy, diane salinger, eighties, elizabeth daily, judd omen, paul reubens, road movie, tim burton

TIM BURTON DIRECTS PAUL REUBENS IN 'PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE'

Title: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Director: Tim Burton Year: 1985 Rating: ***** Tim Burton's first feature-length movie is a perfect co...

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

<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/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1712/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1712" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5vyhyIkZe03K3Bfp14mfj6c3BClQSrI8yU-2FL6t1N4sFfndwzWoZvzhrm_ol7S6yQI1NeuS4KRB51RXJcNCj9wZwxib2rJsxvZzJLZlO85rjOCynDovpDBL1tdrqhyphenhyphenS4VaO1ZUI0apgKRFgUZhWETIQTu-YRfRJNT93o3Rqz7-jP3Vwt_v6XLhvm8MO2/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-24%20at%204.47.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz's arthouse horror MESSIAH OF EVIL has hauntingly gorgeous scream-queen Marianna Hill's narrated story-line about the search for her artist father at a beach community, pieced together in long sequences of gothic dialogue, neatly combined with three of the most eerily suspenseful moments of low-budget exploitation cinema... <br><br>Wherein monotone Michael Greer seems to be the title character, a tall stranger holed-up at her missing father's pad (his journals providing exposition) with two lovely girls, Anitra Ford and Joy Bang, each making their own separate horror-trope mistake of leaving an otherwise safe location to venture out alone... in this case into the small beach town, inland from a wave-lapping, moon-lit beach...</p><p><span></span></p>

anitra ford, body count, charles dierkop, cult, gloria katz, horror, joy bang, marianna hill, michael greer, phillan bishop, seventies, walter hill, williard huyck, zombie

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING WILLARD HUYCK'S 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'

Joy Bang in MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: **** Married filmmakers (and AMERICAN GRAFFITI co-writers) Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz'...

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

<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/AVvXsEhE1gXumX_ld-FfZYU0UQoN-8Une7N5n9vRiTfhehmBTqNZ_Z6cYd2V1m-pH7TjQaCtlvbqKxwa7VPWmidGtr3Twny40VcAbYvkcwRdRVNyYlJdeWSQZFgRax5vBxR5WK5jIJI-7uOe8X4trGDukN5AGFNZjj5zVntB6TMH7u1O5dvp0SP3B1NcFBC0siqA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="859" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE1gXumX_ld-FfZYU0UQoN-8Une7N5n9vRiTfhehmBTqNZ_Z6cYd2V1m-pH7TjQaCtlvbqKxwa7VPWmidGtr3Twny40VcAbYvkcwRdRVNyYlJdeWSQZFgRax5vBxR5WK5jIJI-7uOe8X4trGDukN5AGFNZjj5zVntB6TMH7u1O5dvp0SP3B1NcFBC0siqA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three horror scores is the most befitting, sounding perfectly synced with the story-at-hand instead of what are his signature arcade-in-purgatory sound effects (preceded only by Les Baxter's more jarring than sinister FROGS music): that seem otherwise sporadically layered throughout...<br><br>Beginning with an actual organ in-place of the strange Moog noises, the ongoing thematic melody is a hybrid of children's lullaby and funeral dirge... the latter befitting a troubled, lonely but insanely gorgeous girl named Susan: shown at three different ages, the daughter of a manor-dwelling mortician...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, creature, ernesto macias, horror, phillan bishop, revenge, seventies, thriller

PHILLAN BISHOP FINISHES SCORING WITH 'KISS OF THE TARANTULA'

Suzanna Ling in KISS OF THE TARANTULA Year: 1975 Rating: ***1/2 Ironic that murky synthesizer composer Phillan Bishop's last of three ho...

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

<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/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1306/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="1306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZPyFchHHYIbEf2jaRDZA0HBm0wX5AyjeibbE7mcb43VzEhL5neHZDKBvQj3AAZoTA0nYp9Gpb7fOm5XT6O4U-klkTwQ607lKU8UavIaOj_DJK-wD4_zoEwRxD8LPOByJlkW3Lqtaf1PDsmlKUXtvdPcV_NeJy_DFYAc57vdRkrLZZ987KDqTz4_lXMjC/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%205.24.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Deborah Walley channeling </u><u>Cynthia Gabrielle</u><u> in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE that ignited the slather genre, a super low-budget drive-in feature aptly titled THE SEVERED ARM came and went... and had actual legitimate actors including GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN starlet Deborah Whalley, STAR TREK 2nd-pilot lieutenant Paul Carr and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2021/03/HellisACity.html">John Crawford</a>, an American bit player who had previously headlined in British b-crimers... <br><br>Then there's the most familiar in comic Marvin Kaplan and semi-familiar character-actor Vince Martorano, who, along with <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/08/AirPATROL.html">Maury Dexter walk-on Ray Dannis</a> and this production's co-producer David G. Cannon, the most ridiculous aspect sets up the entire ultra-violent revenge-driven plot-line...</p><p><span></span></p>

deborah walley, exploitation, john crawford, marvin kaplan, paul carr, phillan bishop, ray dannis, seventies, slasher, vince martorano

PHILLAN BISHOP SCORING 1973 PROTO-SLASHER 'THE SEVERED ARM'

Deborah Walley channeling  Cynthia Gabrielle in THE SEVERED ARM Year: 1973 Rating: **** A year before the groundbreaking TEXAS CHAINSAW MAS...

SAM NEILL, NICOLE KIDMAN & BILLY ZANE STORMING 'DEAD CALM'

<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/AVvXsEhpeYQ1ek-nfdTPnHyoap3IQSiyfg97kdqcWwUwoeYgwh285qDMIb3anFzJYYPOCUnKbedKqe_piOYxj6FOEVy7LUjtgz0dEsxROYte6lexhXe7NeVcwTPLA3ZJ7zDuy9slB3ELwKqRyjaM8lO7oaPHmILcPU_KZgT5D-pcniE_wzliexzw3sKzJA6VWVdD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2011.46.49%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpeYQ1ek-nfdTPnHyoap3IQSiyfg97kdqcWwUwoeYgwh285qDMIb3anFzJYYPOCUnKbedKqe_piOYxj6FOEVy7LUjtgz0dEsxROYte6lexhXe7NeVcwTPLA3ZJ7zDuy9slB3ELwKqRyjaM8lO7oaPHmILcPU_KZgT5D-pcniE_wzliexzw3sKzJA6VWVdD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2011.46.49%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Neill in DEAD CALM Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Something about the deep ocean makes Billy Zane quite a villain: as DEAD CALM was a decade before being more antagonistic than the iceberg in TITANIC... but he has a lot more menacing fun here in what's basically an oceanic home-invasion thriller following a rather rushed, melodramatic (and somewhat disconnected) set-up where Navy lifer Sam Neill returns home, only to find his wife in the hospital after a car accident killed their child, and his reactions are surprisingly aloof... </p><p>Even when Billy Zane eventually rows over to the couple's literal dream-boat... but Sam has his very own separated Jack London-esque survival tale (directed by producer George Miller instead of Philip Noyce) on the slowly sinking, corpse-filled ghost ship that Zane had abandoned... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billy zane, eighties, george miller, horror, nicole kidman, philip noyce, sam neill, thriller

SAM NEILL, NICOLE KIDMAN & BILLY ZANE STORMING 'DEAD CALM'

Sam Neill in DEAD CALM Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 Something about the deep ocean makes Billy Zane quite a villain: as DEAD CALM was a decade ...

PAUL JONES WITH PINK FLOYD GATHERING FOR 'THE COMMITTEE'

<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/AVvXsEgG3jjZYfg332nCaLpKofjfiho91CT4dfv06Br0oPJRDCyE7ABLgWNR7U-AuCIciW-XAVGN70VVEfBGFxjCOosyWZ8nEaGWTB1Unj_Nu3IVA9ZIg7gRkDV8gzk-k6IKwJe_Tj0AsZe1nWw0x10XlDPjxQz3VD2pg20k_E0p_05h87kiDur9GVLgHP8UkCh-/s1718/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2010.22.06%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1718" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG3jjZYfg332nCaLpKofjfiho91CT4dfv06Br0oPJRDCyE7ABLgWNR7U-AuCIciW-XAVGN70VVEfBGFxjCOosyWZ8nEaGWTB1Unj_Nu3IVA9ZIg7gRkDV8gzk-k6IKwJe_Tj0AsZe1nWw0x10XlDPjxQz3VD2pg20k_E0p_05h87kiDur9GVLgHP8UkCh-/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-18%20at%2010.22.06%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Paul Jones and Robert Langdon Lloyd in THE COMMITTEE</u><u> Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Best known for being the first Pink Floyd soundtrack, director Peter Sykes's surreal British New Wave THE COMMITTEE feels like a ten-minute concept stretched to an hour... but never drags and has some terrific locations ranging from working-class city to gothic-manor rural...<br><br>As Floyd's music, other than sporadic mood-piece fillers (with moments foreshadowing <i>'Careful With That Axe Eugene</i>), consists of one nifty jam at different speeds... the first is faster-paced, inside a run-of-the-mill/mundane corporate filing room (artistic for the sake of being filmed), where former Manfred Mann singer turned actor Paul Jones works...</p><p><span></span></p>

arthouse, british neo noir, jimmy gardner, paul jones, pauline munro, peter sykes, pink floyd, robert langdon lloyd, sixties, tom kempinski

PAUL JONES WITH PINK FLOYD GATHERING FOR 'THE COMMITTEE'

Paul Jones and Robert Langdon Lloyd in THE COMMITTEE Year: 1968 Rating: *** Best known for being the first Pink Floyd soundtrack, director ...

GREGORY PECK FATHERS DEMONIC HARVEY STEPHENS IN 'THE OMEN'

<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/AVvXsEhsD5-liIPZmdp4k9n7vu6xhmeKg_lC6qBpKFic4zbE_Axk-jph5mISxAeGONXSakd8U4QeyhAcpLfizhvHRuG0-oy5sWDrcli1ibEGAXgtJmuZn3gbIKjXfiVsTNGQw7yLcm8zX4PjoXnTaWZxcC1jJmJHYquS4qK-qEtupJNsLZq0e9-Nk8TAOY4yLY7M/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-16%20at%2012.16.27%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsD5-liIPZmdp4k9n7vu6xhmeKg_lC6qBpKFic4zbE_Axk-jph5mISxAeGONXSakd8U4QeyhAcpLfizhvHRuG0-oy5sWDrcli1ibEGAXgtJmuZn3gbIKjXfiVsTNGQw7yLcm8zX4PjoXnTaWZxcC1jJmJHYquS4qK-qEtupJNsLZq0e9-Nk8TAOY4yLY7M/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-16%20at%2012.16.27%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE OMEN Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>What's a b-movie in a-list clothing, with fantastic widescreen photography and a cinematic hybrid of THE EXORCIST Cursed American Gothic and Adventurous Iraq sequences, the main problem of Richard Donner's THE OMEN is that legendary actor Gregory Peck is far too important to the story, leaving that demonic son-of-Satan more of a sporadic guest star than the lead of his very own feature...<br><br>While Linda Blair was interrupted by long stretches of dialogue between Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller, their input served (and was combined with) her own particular situation... meanwhile, devilish-looking Harvey Stephens (hardly paying dues like Linda) is absent for too long a time, particularly as the second act morphs into the third...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

billie whitelaw, david warner, franchise, gregory peck, holly palance, horror, lee remick, leo mckern, martin benson, patrick troughton, richard donner, seventies, thriller

GREGORY PECK FATHERS DEMONIC HARVEY STEPHENS IN 'THE OMEN'

Title: THE OMEN Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2 What's a b-movie in a-list clothing, with fantastic widescreen photography and a cinematic hybr...

JONATHAN SCOTT-TAYLOR DEVILS DESTINY FOR 'DAMIEN: OMEN 2'

<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/AVvXsEiwJTIfqT54G_nqT4KOjhM4gp-190HNLVkZFXjExDvUQfo9_3HO62tPuaXwOKoVB0NkFBXxvzFTSAGbdjRVwNSDnJAqp3Z-93xy4UJklDfMLqvK13YZJisUKMKGW7_cKVMQJq0gUgQPSA3krd9tmYa2luC9vXNV0L1OxsEzmN7eBNwTOKwxiPtyEwAuGx7Y/s2018/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-14%20at%2012.38.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="2018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJTIfqT54G_nqT4KOjhM4gp-190HNLVkZFXjExDvUQfo9_3HO62tPuaXwOKoVB0NkFBXxvzFTSAGbdjRVwNSDnJAqp3Z-93xy4UJklDfMLqvK13YZJisUKMKGW7_cKVMQJq0gUgQPSA3krd9tmYa2luC9vXNV0L1OxsEzmN7eBNwTOKwxiPtyEwAuGx7Y/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-14%20at%2012.38.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 Rates: ****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/omen.html">THE OMEN</a> (inspired by Linda Blair from THE EXORCIST) grew up into a young military school teenager for DAMIEN: OMEN 2, the demonic horror genre progresses into a slow-burn body-count thriller, more violently meticulous than suspensefully-spooky, and ultimately pretty satisfying...<br><br>And it's all the work of two directors, initially shot by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a> British auteur Mike Hodges before being replaced (with some scenes reshot) by <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/04/escAPE.html">ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'</a> Don Taylor... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

allan arbus, body count, don taylor, elizabeth sheperd, franchise, horror, lance henriksen, lee grant, lew ayres, mike hodges, robert foxworth, sylvia sidney, thriller, william holden

JONATHAN SCOTT-TAYLOR DEVILS DESTINY FOR 'DAMIEN: OMEN 2'

Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 Rates: **** Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from THE OMEN (inspired by Linda Blair ...

SAM NEILL REPOSSESSES DAMIEN THORN IN 'THE FINAL CONFLICT'

<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/AVvXsEgxNp-76CyGBLuViRcxOz89z4ZVuTJ2YHNCqKIc4wKK_Pq_F745cKpXEP80qZDE7LayhztA_Dxhq-Y36FS1UNGN-YRoNGvCTU0DiN-i0cIZKT8Fhcy0thODeWUmLLSp6tWdXtT5LVu0V5YAERLGKtxP-oo1EnNZCipBKy6-NR46gxBPw8OlSFYDtXO9MVCw/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%204.20.56%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="947" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxNp-76CyGBLuViRcxOz89z4ZVuTJ2YHNCqKIc4wKK_Pq_F745cKpXEP80qZDE7LayhztA_Dxhq-Y36FS1UNGN-YRoNGvCTU0DiN-i0cIZKT8Fhcy0thODeWUmLLSp6tWdXtT5LVu0V5YAERLGKtxP-oo1EnNZCipBKy6-NR46gxBPw8OlSFYDtXO9MVCw/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%204.20.56%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Neill in THE FINAL CONFLICT Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately more of a science-fiction thriller than what began <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/omen.html">THE OMEN</a> franchise with an EXORCIST-style chiller, THE FINAL CONFLICT is connected tighter with the arguably superior <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/Omen2.html">OMEN 2</a>, providing murky, ominously-shot, widescreen body-count deaths beyond the rudimentary feature's formidable lurking horror...<br><br>Particularly effective here because of the superior casting of Sam Neill as an older, more experienced, wealthier and deeply possessed Damian Thorn, who... with a haircut hybrid of Adolf Hitler and a Satanic mannequin... runs his titular industry while having meetings with the literal President of the United States... </p><span></span>

body count, don gordon, eighties, franchise, horror, leueen willoughby, lisa harrow, robert arden, sam neill, thriller

SAM NEILL REPOSSESSES DAMIEN THORN IN 'THE FINAL CONFLICT'

Sam Neill in THE FINAL CONFLICT Year: 1981 Rating: ***1/2 Ultimately more of a science-fiction thriller than what began THE OMEN franchise ...

SAM NEILL RETURNING AS ALAN GRANT FOR 'JURASSIC PARK III'

<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/AVvXsEjsCOcfRY_3HJ65n64Yc629qbSxVkakCu8JMqyjYA6XXKDyxDANGHfMVSEEt0WJcc8Wtw_ZkJ5vL_SjfrKtgaor6YWtnDphns6bRDIluB3ZixHkh5sR635PVwXriOi3qaj0dMjXVWnMAgNMN8TY6NYVQVMlUAq1NyhnY0qAXlhwn-64es8CKbBsWZQsHsLB/s1562/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%201.33.46%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="1562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCOcfRY_3HJ65n64Yc629qbSxVkakCu8JMqyjYA6XXKDyxDANGHfMVSEEt0WJcc8Wtw_ZkJ5vL_SjfrKtgaor6YWtnDphns6bRDIluB3ZixHkh5sR635PVwXriOi3qaj0dMjXVWnMAgNMN8TY6NYVQVMlUAq1NyhnY0qAXlhwn-64es8CKbBsWZQsHsLB/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-13%20at%201.33.46%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sam Neill in JURASSIC PARK III Year: 2001 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Everyone remembers that Jeff Goldblum was the scene-stealing comic relief (who could also be pretty serious) in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster comeback JURASSIC PARK... <br><br>But he didn't fare so well in the complicated sequel, because when involving Michael Crichton's dinosaurs being brought back to dangerous life, you need the befitting fedora-wearing dinosaur expert...</p><p><span></span></p>

2001, adventure, body count, bruce a. young, dinosaur, franchise, john diehl, michael jeter, sam neill, trevor morgan, william h. macy, zeroes

SAM NEILL RETURNING AS ALAN GRANT FOR 'JURASSIC PARK III'

Sam Neill in JURASSIC PARK III Year: 2001 Rating: ***1/2 Everyone remembers that Jeff Goldblum was the scene-stealing comic relief (who coul...

ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

<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/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYDER serial, and then half-Cherokee killer reigniting his adult career in IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake displays his usual charismatic gusto, here as a roguish member of the Paiute tribe and the titular character in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE, hunted by a posse led by generational Indian-hunter Robert Redford in the early 1900's... <br><br>Had WILLIE pitted only Blake vs Redford, cutting from hunter vs hunted, it might have been the kind of Western road movie like Robert's own posse-hunting game-changer BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID... that also had a lot of characters but only centered on what and who's really important...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry sullivan, indians, john vernon, katharine ross, robert blake, robert redford, sixties, western

ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: ** Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYD...

ROBERT BLAKE COPPING THE COP CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

<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/AVvXsEjuk-bDsvzcI9-VPI05Sgzp4niDUp44OIjkOM3LK0NP6_9IsvlzSvUjTJFl3t986lkVzxOFS2pp29E2yQ5cphVqanwWgZH_H1lwFGWatDSpDB4Pr3r5AUZkDBPpKGO1dWonGoKKThnlt-nQcEiJw_UZF1WalMIrWiWEfrUxhGaC-CQgtaV6zvA6YKC_99Dd/s1806/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-07%20at%209.52.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1806" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuk-bDsvzcI9-VPI05Sgzp4niDUp44OIjkOM3LK0NP6_9IsvlzSvUjTJFl3t986lkVzxOFS2pp29E2yQ5cphVqanwWgZH_H1lwFGWatDSpDB4Pr3r5AUZkDBPpKGO1dWonGoKKThnlt-nQcEiJw_UZF1WalMIrWiWEfrUxhGaC-CQgtaV6zvA6YKC_99Dd/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-07%20at%209.52.51%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving gorgeous, travelogue motorcycle rides past canyon horizons while the latter remains in one location — that seems eternal...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As first-time director and cowboy movie lover James William Guercio... manager of the band Chicago... gets the best from Arizona's Monument Valley, where John Ford shot many John Wayne epics... </p><p><span></span></p>

action, billy green bush, cop, counter-culture, cult, mitchell ryan, modern western, nick nolte, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE COPPING THE COP CLASSIC 'ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE'

title: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE year: 1973 rating: ****1/2 In 1973, cops got their very own EASY RIDER in ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE, both involving...

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

<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/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1556/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1556" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7lgxk0T-1tTzi2tHTxWCNhvGgovy6-orNwAq4L5oB2hr8M9NWtJ6MkZUsX_dRqB_EMcPtMm5-VjIQFifs0G7-SEROyV-BEZmbwqj_CALmH9no5ZSc0oIoM4GmdDFwe_QaUc_VitrSp5RnpNN-7jVauAJlxtLeUNNP1UtdmHfIff0Ln4XEr-6y4j-bxuB0/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-06%20at%204.35.40%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young motorheads rolling in a souped-up hot rod, and the exposition-through-flashback IN COLD BLOOD: as CORKY also stars Robert Blake, here as a spitfire Southerner yearning to become a stock car driving champion, before eventually getting lethal... <br><br>Which occurs in the last ten minutes, feeling more like the beginning of the final act instead of the entire movie's violent conclusion in what's an otherwise creatively-shot, open road exploitation where an intense and free-wheeling, strangely optimistic yet equally brooding Blake is surrounded by some topnotch actors...</p><p><span></span></p>

ben johnson, charlotte rampling, christopher connelly, exploitation, john gruber, laurence luckinbill, pamela payton-wright, patrick o'neal, race car, road movie, robert blake, seventies

ROBERT BLAKE CRASHING 'CORKY' WITH CHARLOTTE RAMPLING

Robert Blake in CORKY Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 An early 1970's hybrid of small-town-dragster TWO LANE BLACKTOP, centering on two young ...

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

<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/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRPgFap32KeVfLLgEk8cQQ2B541pzYCUy8Sp8IlxmrDGi_XzHRgNWLnnEVacv-B88m2yw3r2SkEFSPFUbza4mfza_AqA12jpR8TZo4vra5iDDrASgL81OW881jBuJ3TnmxP-y9cApr2J6BIQjGGQIEzUf_i_z9qIbYvYp_b9TZyE65bwqSJvJwihQMytG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-09%20at%2010.53.51%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song crooned in a bluesy/somber voice... and then opening with muscular white veteran actor Aldo Ray... <br><br>Who's just off work as prison guard, soon attacked in a parked car while a giant black man beats him to a bloody pulp with that titular riot glove... a steely device that can even punch through metal...  <br></p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, blaxploitation, bounty hunter, candace bowen, howard honig, jack carter, joan blondell, joanna cassidy, john saxon, michael pataki, neo noir, rosey grier, ross hagen, seventies

NOIRISH JOHN SAXON FINGERS ROSEY GRIER WEARING 'THE GLOVE'

Title: THE GLOVE Year: 1979 Rating: **** Ross Hagen's THE GLOVE seems like a latter blaxploitation that got away, opening with a song cr...