MICHAEL CAINE IN 'SOLO FOR SPARROW' STARRING GLYN HOUSTON

<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/AVvXsEgQTcdn7KBJm8B8aefg4f21wNk5Oktc4CwQnBLstW1fFoNqL8LmSF1eM0cK3pGrKF1NnnlIhvljq_l7-bRm10Br9M73sHL5vAk-hlPN7WuCx9M5WSynoqVt6X2Dj6Eq4QXI4v6S2m9NFs1c70h8zebyGYciwtdloflimReXPApsLT4quWBEPTJTO6GuZlXW/s1244/image_3f3465eb.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTcdn7KBJm8B8aefg4f21wNk5Oktc4CwQnBLstW1fFoNqL8LmSF1eM0cK3pGrKF1NnnlIhvljq_l7-bRm10Br9M73sHL5vAk-hlPN7WuCx9M5WSynoqVt6X2Dj6Eq4QXI4v6S2m9NFs1c70h8zebyGYciwtdloflimReXPApsLT4quWBEPTJTO6GuZlXW/s1600/image_3f3465eb.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Michael Caine in SOLO FOR SPARROW Year: 1962 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Most of the early/mid 1960's crime b-movies from England that wound up on the television anthology EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES feels like their own stories with a beginning, middle and end while SOLO FOR SPARROW feels like a pilot for a rather unique kind of police detective...<br><br>Played by sturdily stocky British character-actor Glynn Houson, whose manliness allowed a few glimpses into semi leading man status, bringing a cute bartender chick on a stakeout for the rich owner of a jewelry store, robbed by a gang that includes Michael Boles, who could play both robbers and cops with equal offbeat intensity, and young no-name Michael Caine... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

anthony newlands, british neo noir, edgar wallace, glyn houston, jerry stovin, michael caine, michael coles, murray melvin, nadja regin, neil mccarthy, sixties, wanda ventham, yvonne buckingham

MICHAEL CAINE IN 'SOLO FOR SPARROW' STARRING GLYN HOUSTON

Michael Caine in SOLO FOR SPARROW Year: 1962 Rating: *** Most of the early/mid 1960's crime b-movies from England that wound up on the t...

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

<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/AVvXsEhkZi7CvDXoiY5oLNlbgW6NwQ4ChXi8vR66NiWg3KaVejSeyX1serUne6A1Kcxcd8K3IT8yZF2PYekvpZIH897inp-p-i08Xuxr9T1KPePStTsE5J3cf5mHA39mcdtKH0EANtQnp_eie1ywx5ISSB_Xj43ra5WsSWsA-YGTzW1DIRgq8fDmX07EEcltxJQm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZi7CvDXoiY5oLNlbgW6NwQ4ChXi8vR66NiWg3KaVejSeyX1serUne6A1Kcxcd8K3IT8yZF2PYekvpZIH897inp-p-i08Xuxr9T1KPePStTsE5J3cf5mHA39mcdtKH0EANtQnp_eie1ywx5ISSB_Xj43ra5WsSWsA-YGTzW1DIRgq8fDmX07EEcltxJQm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-10-02%20at%2012.09.56%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the most beautiful British actresses of all time, and, with full lips and reddish-dark hair, she also has the cool, laid-back aura like she knows everything...<br><br>Fitfully cast as a gorgeous jewelry-wearing model/actress in the Edgar Wallace episode CLUE OF THE NEW PIN, mostly taking place within an underground room in a rich man's manor, where his seemingly affable nephew Paul Daneman appears to be the most innocent, vulnerable... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

edgar wallace, james villiers, katherine woodville, mystery, paul daneman, sixties, thriller

KATHERINE WOODVILLE CLASSING UP 'CLUE OF THE NEW PIN'

Katherine Woodville in CLUE OF THE NEW PIN Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Katherine Woodville (here billed as Catherine Woodville) is one the mos...

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'THE VIOLENT ENEMY' STARRING TOM BELL

<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/AVvXsEjrdENIYVoXq1YO0WPAYErEKUg_QVpbig7nklYeXaSjbFNoep9iENzZdDn3HKFILDUAR2jQTYx0PwsM6HVAJvKoEi7I7-lob5ruYJ90VAGCexTRaXUPzREQ1xwGuHiPETm-gU61NMaoXLtg0LYWXSqKMGwIiGKjLd2eAWwwV4m-sRKRs4tQS71RRvJD4yTA/s2020/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="2020" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdENIYVoXq1YO0WPAYErEKUg_QVpbig7nklYeXaSjbFNoep9iENzZdDn3HKFILDUAR2jQTYx0PwsM6HVAJvKoEi7I7-lob5ruYJ90VAGCexTRaXUPzREQ1xwGuHiPETm-gU61NMaoXLtg0LYWXSqKMGwIiGKjLd2eAWwwV4m-sRKRs4tQS71RRvJD4yTA/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Susan Hampshire in THE VIOLENT ENEMY Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Before infamously heckling Prince Philip while seated next to very nervous future knighted actors, sharp-faced dark-horse Tom Bell would often play unpredictably argumentative henchmen of the crime boss... a kind of villain's villain... so in one of his few starring roles, he seems more befitting one of several edgy side-characters...<br><br>Who are actually Irish performers... the plot involving the IRA breaking Bell's former iconic patriot Sean Rogan from a British prison: returned to Ireland where most of the expository-plotline takes place within a tight-knit tavern... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british neo noir, don sharp, ed begley, ireland, sixties, susan hampshire, thriller, tom bell

SUSAN HAMPSHIRE IN 'THE VIOLENT ENEMY' STARRING TOM BELL

Susan Hampshire in THE VIOLENT ENEMY Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 Before infamously heckling Prince Philip while seated next to very nervous fut...

ZENA WALKER WITH KENNETH COPE IN 'CHANGE PARTNERS'

<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/AVvXsEj0zkaMxFUxsLzkKsfbU9QBSNpsBG4nIMUDF7Y9W8z-_O8UbWS77FAb_BQ7bGIaPJy12ZnUSJdQDtoQ9Y6rq8BcR93rH5lw2qMKl6sMW_cWNm74WBTaFsOtqcaLBybhhQq-Grhh3I3SFRBEAzj44TmfcAteP9tmqxOdC0r18Q1LtHrd_bGzgzl3d0M9REJY/s1600/1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0zkaMxFUxsLzkKsfbU9QBSNpsBG4nIMUDF7Y9W8z-_O8UbWS77FAb_BQ7bGIaPJy12ZnUSJdQDtoQ9Y6rq8BcR93rH5lw2qMKl6sMW_cWNm74WBTaFsOtqcaLBybhhQq-Grhh3I3SFRBEAzj44TmfcAteP9tmqxOdC0r18Q1LtHrd_bGzgzl3d0M9REJY/s1600/1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Zena Walker in CHANGE PARTNERS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Zena Walker is one of the most underrated British actresses from the 1960's, specializing in natural-looking good girls in kitchen sink crime films, like <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/09/wlucas.html">THE MARKED ONES</a>, but in CHANGE PARTNERS she's anything but... <br><br>And in this hour-long programmer that became part of THE EDGAR WALLACE MYSTERIES, Zena plays the coolest and coldest, most calculating femme fatales around...</p><p><span></span></p>

anthony dawson, basil henson, british neo noir, edgar wallace, kenneth cope, pamela ann davy, sixties, zena walker

ZENA WALKER WITH KENNETH COPE IN 'CHANGE PARTNERS'

Zena Walker in CHANGE PARTNERS Year: 1965 Rating: ***1/2 Zena Walker is one of the most underrated British actresses from the 1960's, sp...

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

<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/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1560/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing his smooth voice for the usual roles as announcers or broadcasters, has a charmingly affable manner in which, for 1950's British Noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/05/stockcar.html">STOCK CAR</a> and THE NARROWING CIRCLE, he seems to be a replacement for what aspires to be a more standard-leading-man type of picture...<br><br>But he's still fairly intriguing: here as a true crime journalist falling into the usual wrong-man trope of not only being falsely accused for one murder... of a fellow writer who took both his job and his fiance... but he's always around when random dead bodies keep turning up...</p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir, charles saunders, ferdy mayne, fifties, hazel court, hugh latimer, michael standing, paul carpenter, wrong man

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing...

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

<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/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1452/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Canadian actor turned British movie <i>stock American</i> <i>character</i> Paul Carpenter had one of the smoothest voices in the history of cinema, so much that he'd either play random announcers or sometimes co-leads, like in director Wolf Rilla's STOCK CAR...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By looks he didn't really stand out, yet with a cool enough demeanor suiting the vocal delivery, it's easier to believe that two polar opposite dames (bad blonde and virginal brunette) would be instantly smitten...  <br></p><span></span>

british film noir, fifties, harry fowler, patrick jordan, paul carpenter, race car, robert rietty, rona anderson, sabrina, susan shaw, wolf rilla

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: **** Canadian actor turned British movie stock American character Paul Carpenter had one of the smooth...

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKNER IN 'THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT'

<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/AVvXsEgd6OcxPtmXEf88yb860DxA9O3nF7-k-cMJ4uwcGCwAnr7MbQ36rdilvbovfYFxrPSeI1S9RRB1UCqQjjTo6PmxxS9CDcghsjQ9Eji5OaXg4JcF4EGoYPjdK6_grEreAcAckJSmJLJe7ovmkqUdm1d4DB1Pf2Fb0tvJ1g56VFivtt6qs-ltfTef7CQrikMi/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.05.30%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd6OcxPtmXEf88yb860DxA9O3nF7-k-cMJ4uwcGCwAnr7MbQ36rdilvbovfYFxrPSeI1S9RRB1UCqQjjTo6PmxxS9CDcghsjQ9Eji5OaXg4JcF4EGoYPjdK6_grEreAcAckJSmJLJe7ovmkqUdm1d4DB1Pf2Fb0tvJ1g56VFivtt6qs-ltfTef7CQrikMi/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.05.30%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The year before Vernon Sewell would direct blond-haired British duo Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner as bank robbers in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/09/strongroom.html">STRONGROOM</a>, they played another pair of crooks yet far more lowly and desperate: knocking out a bookie chained to a bag of cash... and for a tight 57-minutes, they get tied to both... <br><br>Mostly taking place on the road, driving around in the unconscious man's car while trying to figure out how to dump the poor fella, after having separated his chained arm from the loot much too quickly... <br><span></span></p>

anthony bate, british neo noir, carol white, derren nesbitt, keith faulkner, thriller, vernon sewell

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKNER IN 'THE MAN IN THE BACK SEAT'

Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 The year before Vernon Sewell would direct blond-haired British duo Derren Nesbitt and Keith Faulkner as bank robb...

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKER IN 'STRONGROOM' WITH ANN LYNN

<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/AVvXsEjQphBCM_PapbWWykd9ZjlnhBXjvvKKW8nqp5Ojr9wTyj-tNmVlltL6hN9BbBnp-U6Mlix6nPqLhXXvfA8T5f_e_wvw3GzDzbGSf_n6hBuPu9krQXFK1BgPwqAFjfwQYnF_yJLBeqq0yKbkZZIleZj3L-BpMrGUuQuqOOuU00RzOgc3FiJ4oIUO5kuglg5z/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.18.34%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQphBCM_PapbWWykd9ZjlnhBXjvvKKW8nqp5Ojr9wTyj-tNmVlltL6hN9BbBnp-U6Mlix6nPqLhXXvfA8T5f_e_wvw3GzDzbGSf_n6hBuPu9krQXFK1BgPwqAFjfwQYnF_yJLBeqq0yKbkZZIleZj3L-BpMrGUuQuqOOuU00RzOgc3FiJ4oIUO5kuglg5z/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-26%20at%209.18.34%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won't find Stateside: to be extra cautious to <i>not harm anyone</i> during a heist or your jail sentence lengthens, making British bad guys not only more sympathetic but far more cautious, which includes bank robbers Keith Faulkner and Derren Nesbitt who, after locking the first guy's coworkers in the titular bank vault, is talked into by the more empathetic crook to return to the crime scene to provide some oxygen...<br></p><p></p><p>A twist ignited by the third robber's death... the older brother to the edgy Keith Faulkner, he held the key to the STRONGROOM that the oblivious cops won't let go of, so, what takes up most of the runtime is the bickering boys seeking a way back while, inside, spectacle-wearing bank manager Colin Gordon and subtle beauty Ann Lynn are running out of air, providing more race-against-time suspense than what should be occurring simultaneously outside, including investigating cops...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann lynn, british neo noir, british new wave, colin gordon, crime, derren nesbitt, guido coen, heist, keith faulkner, race against time, suspense

DERREN NESBITT & KEITH FAULKER IN 'STRONGROOM' WITH ANN LYNN

Poster for STRONGROOM Year: 1962 Rates: ***1/2 STRONGROOM is an important early-1960's British crime films as it underlines what you won...

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

<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/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3yeY6zXy_NBcKCZEFlKvCHISEh_NBLohowL3mV-meEA0waRoq4KrHU58VeIxDCnqnlrM7vhJ9yuNk6Py8bj-ASspDuC_fSagkI0AgJh4TRQjouRX64SrFraIJqSCkJn-EBHKKFoEReXkLLdsBxT90v6UMiQvzMutfPq8RuvJp2BGC_7pLKcUSYiebPKDg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-17%20at%2010.12.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney</u><u> </u><u>in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television director with the eye of a cinematic filmmaker, and his only feature, CRUCIBLE OF HORROR (originally THE CORPSE), is a creatively-shot thriller in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock... <br><br>Helping to develop a wave of rural-set psychological horrors of the 1960's/1970's, from England's SHUTTERED ROOM to America's LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH to Hammer's DEMONS OF THE MIND... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

british, cannon, horror, michael gough, seventies, sharon gurney, simon gough, thriller, yvonne mitchell

SHARON GURNEY WITH YVONNE MITCHELL IN 'CRUCIBLE OF HORROR'

Sharon Gurney in CRUCIBLE OF HORROR/THE CORPSE Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 It's been said that Viktors Ritelis was a British television d...

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

<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/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6_h7VJh9NBg1174f7YjoMRM8_2VI9uyl7yO5K5bSdSc0D0GXKjjlKeLL75L8C1yrE0uUesLnwXhMj_E1z1krWQENgYFN1BGnk5kBhjTPMWbLnA5KMhSxEgLreh2Vimb5xuc8xoPKlosU1bozdIqQV4uwF9w7FGdHo9EmlHPGkwTwb0JhfankiWio-GRmA/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-15%20at%2010.51.10%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a point in future <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2010/11/dead-buried.html">DEAD & BURIED</a>, V<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/03/vsquad.html">ICE SQUAD</a> and <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/12/reevaluating-eternal-damnation-of.html">POLTERGEIST III</a> director Gary Sherman's 1972 proto-slasher DEATH LINE where blunt detectives Donald Pleasence and Norman Rossington are discussing the hippie couple they're separately questioning: and only David Ladd (playboy son of iconic Alan Ladd) is shown... <br><br>Merely part of the problem in what's an otherwise groundbreaking horror involving a cannibal, before even TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, taking place in a dark and spooky-looking location, including an extremely long maneuvering crane shot of the lead killer in his underground fortress...</p><p><span></span></p>

british, christopher lee, david ladd, donald pleasence, horror, norman rossington, seventies, sharon gurney, slasher

SHARON GURNEY IN GARY SHERMAN'S CULT SLASHER 'DEATH LINE'

Sharon Gurney in DEATH LINE Year: 1972 Rating: ** There's a point in future DEAD & BURIED , V ICE SQUAD and POLTERGEIST III direct...

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

<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/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3fVfFgB1lP_vkhA9gRpn-UpglfUwFoJEG3wPUd-Yh9JA-OBReObEK-6Ws4PDXi4mD0xXYmQ2i7HfFHyIGKp-aLB60VOlnBHIhGc7K6A6t5TQOn7KuqYnIU6QkN4KpOvI-PaD2Kc_1rkzs8M1IL5kO5qY3mSFFhLEi1QjU-xN2xHv3oWEqOG3YsaE0sOl8=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, with wide dead-eyes and a cold/calculating reserve, and not without exceeding passion... yet neither have all that much to do with their titular monster Hammer features, both directed by Hammer regular Terence Fisher... <br></p><p></p><p>In Reed's CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, he shows up after forty-five minutes, with little to do with the most surrealistically nightmarish aspects leading up while in Lom's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, besides being fitfully hidden behind strategically-cut corners of the central opera house, he basically gives his own personal Igor all the rafter-crashing violence... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

hammer films, heather sears, herbert lom, horror, monster, music, sixties, terence fisher, thorley walters

HEATHER SEARS CROONS HAMMER'S 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA'

Heather Sears in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Both Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom have played similar types of villains, ...

HEATHER SEARS WITH ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'THE BLACK TORMENT'

<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/AVvXsEga4habL-HxQmztWm4Nbc4V-LIFKw3Q0CMZnWnbyfdiWu736xJnMHeYG-lP391rgDCGWoCzVHHjw3BhUjSXj48L3SZ_ZnEaeSpTkOVfQvAcJrG5lEYJuq9MCjAKvT_MAwZ6-tMswG9uG1ckFGxLfZj1p3qQ3xG9MtuegIvbCZNT_ubk_tpBAAeu5c7_O3nV/s1600/image1788936022.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga4habL-HxQmztWm4Nbc4V-LIFKw3Q0CMZnWnbyfdiWu736xJnMHeYG-lP391rgDCGWoCzVHHjw3BhUjSXj48L3SZ_ZnEaeSpTkOVfQvAcJrG5lEYJuq9MCjAKvT_MAwZ6-tMswG9uG1ckFGxLfZj1p3qQ3xG9MtuegIvbCZNT_ubk_tpBAAeu5c7_O3nV/s1600/image1788936022.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Heather Sears and John Turner in THE BLACK TORMENT Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since THE ROOM WITH A VIEW, when social-climbing rascal Laurence Harvey stares at Heather Sears, he mentions out loud how incredibly perfect a young woman she is... <br><br>Which became her niche: the upturned nosed, round-faced, always-smiling cutie that turns the heads of both men and monsters in Hammer's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and once again epitomizes girl-next-door allure as the new wife of a returning English lord in THE BLACK TORMENT...</p><p><span></span></p>

ann lynn, annette whiteley, edina ronay, francis de wolff, gothic, heather sears, horror, john turner, joseph tomelty, peter arne, sixties

HEATHER SEARS WITH ANNETTE WHITELEY IN 'THE BLACK TORMENT'

Heather Sears and John Turner in THE BLACK TORMENT Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Since THE ROOM WITH A VIEW, when social-climbing rascal Laurenc...

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

<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/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvkXIJmOu6Ar1krsooooS46LJsy8mrJ1btppf9LhwopkEnAJWlslcKgHQ4jTWdKq3R-olhKY2KF0Y4LqlRQ1IrSojONKVqVBzl_tKYDQaFo8wDYQMOnDgYnRv0JBABZXDh8llID7NNfBcbnBhxR_UHw6Q7dyQP69IRjb2WhCR6yMHmVmOiczFpmmmyJAK9=s1600"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into Universal stardom for THE BREAKFAST CLUB, by 1989, Judd Nelson was back in the little leagues...</p><p>Getting first-billed in exploitation drive-in maestro William Lustig's RELENTLESS, a kind of revamp of WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS involving Nelson as a man-child serial killer, motivated by the media's goading perception of his ultra-violent actions based on lonely loser motivations... <br></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

angel tompkins, body count, cop, eddie bunker, eighties, frank pesce, judd nelson, leo rossi, meg foster, neo noir, robert loggia, william lustig

JUDD NELSON IS 'RELENTLESS' WITH LEO ROSSI & ROBERT LOGGIA

Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 In the mid-1980's, starting out with famously low-budget Cannon Films in MAKING THE GRADE before breaking into...

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

<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/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9axfbyFw3ghrUUEM1I-atl_DiE_yzy95PdK6GDNo4iR1Spq6uSdVb7djvuBbpFNn9jM2PaU746meD37uDjQ_ouKfqWqFxnATbJrAOWm0UYJD5qJYvw0ZYQX_cQbKOgK283dxAT-bdFgO7nwCNgjWo_6EhO380cF4aS8oahqPSxftkWa-hzSvB6OBoFeD0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2015/05/judd-nelson-MTG.html">MAKING THE GRADE,</a> Judd Nelson played the biggest post-collegiate geek ever for Kevin Costner's indie breakthrough F<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/07/fandango.html">ANDANGO</a>... before ironically poking fun at high school geek Anthony Michael Hall in John Hughes's THE BREAKFAST CLUB...<br><br>As Nelson's criminal character John Bender isn't anything like the typical BLACKBOARD JUNGLE teen rebel... his <i>cause</i> is basically being a demonic Phil Donahue within an 8-hour Saturday detention, also goading pretty popular Molly Ringwald, handsome jock Emilio Estevez, and neurotic pre-goth Ally Sheedy into eventually seeking their true feelings about topics ranging from homelife parentals to high school popularity...</p><p><span></span></p>

ally sheedy, brat pack, comedy, eighties, emilio estevez, john hughes, judd nelson, molly ringwald, paul gleason

JUDD NELSON RULES THE BRAT PACK CLASSIC 'THE BREAKFAST CLUB'

Year: 1985 Rating: ****1/2 In 1985, a year after swaggering onto the big screen in the nearly forgotten con-man caper MAKING THE GRADE, Jud...

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><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/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1644/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5nN79QoycBGnUFvwjkqwRPDRl-bZ6N_C7Y5v8_iQUadkTzgmI9xpz_OSrAjSVKl0GS6u9S-6XNBccL-X9juDjzxX69CrGXjz-w5ZIQFiZjVOpcnxOuY9BIrd8m2k7E6u5yBgtgghEiOTKa9s8RdZp9-ehZyN42EnxX4AtbCgMM9DgsKBCeQ1BEnuMA7PB/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-31%20at%2012.06.42%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the big city yet still have each other to depend on<span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thus in 1985, when the so-called “Brat Pack” was in full form, ST. ELMO’S FIRE was the navel-gazing follow-up to THE BREAKFAST CLUB just as CLUB has graduated past SIXTEEN CANDLES (only this has nothing to do with John Hughes, amazingly enough)...</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span></span></p></div>

ally sheedy, andie macdowell, andrew mccarthy, brat pack, eighties, emilio estevez, joel schumaker, judd nelson, mare winningham, melodrama, romance

JUDD NELSON IN THE BRAT PACK MELODRAMA 'ST. ELMO'S FIRE'

Year: 1985 Rating; ***1/2 A group of college graduates, a few months after leaving the cozy nest of dorm life, wind up on their own in the...

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

<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/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic2WcRpkqfKLrPmomPi3eb9DJ57D-kJkhyoqUjyQFYRRQHYevkDiBRpB5q6Qjev8h8B5m8HtrjqxaeF7Qlpa7Gn7-cUqeGhEEUzj9EQ4vVbTLp5tJRsE3-IY63Iku2ak7UGd7PTbK8D2ccGzVirB4ML7iw8-foI7qQ09p6lJ1ndRyCPTePknseUMpCYhPx/s1600/unnamed.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>A year before <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/bclub.html">THE BREAKFAST CLUB</a> made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting style into a focused study of teenage angst and rebellion, he played a similar character – only his MAKING THE GRADE hero Eddie Keaton break-dances instead of jamming an air guitar Cream riff; in other words, his rebellion is catered strictly for humor. Wild on the streets, he owes a bookie, Dice Man, played by Andrew Clay, and winds up taking the place of a spoiled rich kid: attending a prep school whilst hiding from mobsters. <br> <br> That’s the plot in a nutshell, and GRADE, within this framework, packs a lot of hit and miss humor as well as likable or fitfully unlikable side-characters, throwing everything into the pot: from pratfalls to one-liners to stereotypes to action scenes, and beyond... No surprise Nelson plays the part with gusto – though sometimes too much. Yet where Eddie’s urban-hip con artist stuck in the fledgling Preparatory academy tries stealing every scene on board, he’s given an ultimately thankless lead to people like Dana Olsen as, technically, the most important person herein...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

andrew dice clay, cannon, comedy, dana olsen, eighties, gordon jump, jonna lee, judd nelson, ronald lacey, teen, walter olkewicz

JUDD NELSON, DANA OLSEN AND JONNA LEE IN 'MAKING THE GRADE'

Title: MAKING THE GRADE Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 A year before THE BREAKFAST CLUB made Judd Nelson a star, turning his energetic acting s...

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

<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/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s2282/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1358" data-original-width="2282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkxmKpqZkFu4L7hw9_qCG0892H62n83aRtdcSLwgznrh6LoTCWndFUZ2eXWviJalJodmgpbRW2fU6QvGr4VsQmg7DlQk8vcBWrRIe0K8h66aa15-eWVZ1_T8TODBkJ3b425gYJ37PIEXuytEEL5BgTzjmXgSDDEg0AuXYvbE8KJv8htOYqLAL99jfnY4kT/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-30%20at%2011.45.27%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1985 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none other than Steven Spielberg, who'd later hire him to enhance the story about a group of early-1970's Vietnam War-era college students, one a coward forced to prove his worth by parachuting in a rural Texas stopover where the instructor's a burnout hippie, played by scene-stealing Marvin J. McIntyre...</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>Who's the only actor returning for the feature-length version FANDANGO starring newcomer Kevin Costner (in the kind of zesty youthfulness liken to SILVERADO) as the best looking and most confident instigating leader while Judd Nelson... the same year he'd portray an extremely cool high-school student in THE BREAKFAST CLUB... proves his versatility here as the complete opposite...<br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, elizabeth daily, judd nelson, kevin costner, kevin reynolds, marvin j. mcintyre, road movie, sam robards, steven spielberg, suzy amis

JUDD NELSON BEING DRIVEN BY KEVIN COSTNER IN 'FANDANGO'

Year: 1985 Rating: **** Director Kevin Reynolds didn't know who was in the room when his student film PROOF screened... and it was none ...

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

<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/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1162/image1788044637.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdDbAPERKVEZzhNEVzh-2CtuEF1TYM-YWsbudtjdLIH4pFXH2Wfz8vC2AlWkkrQULSHcOzsOZMGjknUJ6spVjSXqGTPXRDwL3Dx3IUCJ_Q4q-qwnYiTeKb4UyH0_YabbOcfrTUyk0lbUK1BAGNTzq47g_z8JBzFOr8dT3oiv8a4LyySr3xEcx86kbYlM_7/s1600/image1788044637.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a decent action/thriller about the son of a beloved slain mayor returning to a Florida town, Blue City, now run (from inside a roadhouse bar) by seedy Scott Wilson...<br> <br> Seeking clues, Nelson gets back in touch with his old drinking buddy David Caruso, who is sober, paranoid, and running a fishing boat. And what makes this Brat a Pack in our love interest: Caruso's pretty sister, Ally Sheedy, who becomes smitten with Judd... a former crush resurfaced. She works at the local jail he was thrown into after a brawling bar fight...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

action, ally sheedy, anita morris, brat pack, david caruso, eighties, judd nelson, neo noir, scott wilson, walter hill

JUDD NELSON & ALLY SHEEDY IN THE BRAT PACK NOIR 'BLUE CITY'

Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 This dark horse Brat Pack outing was up for a few Razzie Awards, but for what exactly? BLUE CITY is actually a d...

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

<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/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8n0P2o8D4Xchyphenhypheni3mexDbo1kLLZ7k7QCvtbuUDk1StsfCpZ9Fsi8RrVt4ISo5qJ_vfVbAd90NDDjjh3CdRzCLVqSmVADB68u_Y68jUfRJvhPK3TNZynwIrfI4ZTlWrF8o2DkmNVPnTkA-8H0cX91_sTQpLvwrdnlkfV_oNih0Z9wD_XV123m1UdtxucN0/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre to the glorious 1970's, when ROOTS and RICH MAN POOR MAN cast mostly actors and actresses from nearly every former famous television series that still haunted the syndicated airwaves...<br><br>It was usually the character-actors, while IT has the leading players as familiar faces: like a broodingly dramatic John Ritter, who was the hilariously clumsy Jack Tripper on THREE'S COMPANY... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

annette o'toole, harry anderson, horror, john ritter, jonathan brandis, laura harris, miniseries, olivia hussey, richard masur, richard thomas, seth green, stephen king, tim curry, tommy lee wallace

TIM CURRY CLOWNING THE TV-MINISERIES OF STEPHEN KING'S 'IT'

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Year: 1990 Rating: **** The 1990 Stephen King adapted miniseries IT actually returned the multi-episodic genre t...

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

<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/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1400/image1787817043.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC4PC0Tw3o56IRa-31BqYHd-1pAlHcK6pMbgLIDTQQJioF3yluG3PQvgPi2LpZUCYOBGhjkbqnUiaYww1rEeiig8ONiF1owZ1WHPNj5VjLI3dB9VpZL6QfWxHg8ttm1z6-UNWQwPSekSS-k9VAgbIQt0nygJqwWH6dsSocK8NZL7Bl5fD_8fp_YSGIVhT/s1600/image1787817043.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a working girl's take on Paul McCartney's alarm-clock section of John Lennon's Beatles opus <i>A Day In The Life</i>), it could have easily seemed like novelty casting, having the blonde bombshell — equally known for her large bosom as her music — in the role as the sexy personal secretary of the most evil of evil movie bosses...<br><br>But she's an absolute natural/scene-stealer alongside professionally-trained actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin... and the literally hands-on employer Dabney Coleman, who for decades, without that sinister mustache, blended into the background of episodic television and b-movies... <br></p><span></span>

dabney coleman, dolly parton, eighties, henry jones, jane fonda, lawrence pressman, lily tomlin, renn woods, roxanna bonilla-giannini, sterling hayden

DOLLY PARTON, JANE FONDA AND LILY TOMLIN WORKING '9 TO 5'

Title: 9 TO 5 Year: 1980 Rating: *** Even though country crooning queen Dolly Parton sang the incredibly popular title song 9 TO 5 (a workin...

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

<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/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1842/111%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORJdxJ8JOXVvCvrd-7kYYyVh9HEfCS0TrOMUsfqaN4iVt-Go_2B-_YXUxM2-bKv_a9LXvETnr8UT_SV7SpfoqxerrHS1cQgcbUtxQJGgvfqjAtbbGaYFRtjDvCqmFVTraQYa_0FoigAIunE8k2alJhamH0s1RV4LUwIErJEoKalCf6-afy34mxddYXgCf/s1600/111%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/12/mechanics.html">THE MECHANIC</a>, veteran hit-man Charles Bronson is targeted by his own young assassin student Jan-Michael Vincent... <br><br>And a year later, in Winner's espionage-thriller SCORPIO, this same exact ironical setup is already happening (has already happened), right when the movie begins...</p>

action, alain delon, espionage, gayle hunnicutt, james b. sikking, jerry fielding, joanne linville, john colicos, mary maude, michael winner, neo noir, paul scofield, seventies, thriller, william smithers

ALAIN DELON & BURT LANCASTER IN MICHAEL WINNER'S 'SCORPIO'

Title: SCORPIO Year: 1973 Rating: **1/2 During the final act of Michael Winner's 1972 crime-thriller THE MECHANIC , veteran hit-man Char...

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

<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/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1264/image1787470466.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="1264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH9U7AuM0AF-xXh0cFIYvskSH0yU9bJDQbXG_5MIS9M0cMo4ok51mF17m4atk-8ENPsDiRJK4_KLQSBIDTzQ03jow2GmIfWWCRVbc0E445-imwSxnGzsz4UlaSVfleD6dKc_L1UtA_vKfkZxWJXJd7Vav31orRdfeviryIMBXmF2SoirFzK2DkafVWQdmY/s1600/image1787470466.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to say that <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2016/06/DRIVER.html">Walter Hill's THE DRIVER</a>, which is basically a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ, is superior... but Walter's Hill's THE DRIVER is superior to Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAÏ... and vastly so...<br><br>Although looking terrifically cool around sparse settings and harboring an overall slow-burn cadence, Alain Delon's hit-man Jef Costello makes Ryan O'Neal's deliberately sluggish getaway driver seem like the rambling, semi-crooked, stubbornly determined token cop Bruce Dern, who almost single-handedly makes the Hill movie better than it would've been otherwise... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, catherine jourdan, cathy rosier, cop, french, hit man, jean-pierre melville, nathalie delon, neo noir, sixties

ALAIN DELON IN THE HIT-MAN NEO-NOIR THRILLER 'LE SAMOURAÏ'

Title: LE SAMOURAÏ American Title: THE GODSON Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 It would be almost blasphemous in the crime genre neo-noir circles to...

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

<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/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1360/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaCF2rMPbW1FELmCkP690lEfYh-MCHqHv4bs8mpMBOkMrgZao_cBflN3kmh-aY1bDn4lajf3p-346GsbndMipxsQcWCZeOUBtp5tdgOPl_ydg5pnn6PY74fyj6odD01YnHoqOCK5WhrDeW_x39Bv2tHf0Kxi1njtION2V1ZVyq3TkSHQ40z9Az2dV3g6x/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars three famous foreign actors, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura and Jean Gabin, but each character takes up their own part of the three acts...<br><br>Starting out with one of the coolest jailbreaks... actually from a prison bus carrying Delon's career-criminal, given tools to cut a box-shape on the bus's floor, neatly timed against the guard and providing a genuinely nail-biting sequence... soon followed by another breakout: from a hotel window the morning after a hooker hookup... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, danielle volle, french, heist, irina demick, italian, jean gabin, lino ventura, neo noir, sixties, sydney chaplin

ALAIN DELON, JEAN GABIN AND LINO VENTURA 'THE SICILIAN CLAN'

Alain Delon and Jean Gabin in THE SICILIAN CLAN Year: 1969 Rating: *** The French/Italian mafia thriller THE SICILIAN CLAN not only stars th...

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

<table align="center" 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/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/s2112/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="2112" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_-31b4KOwIYtc8boMIiREqcabWNd08wmN_oPfFBWlAMUUPWf4j040-MnR7szF6socpk4hariW4s_td_l1QqFd5BNvicPBfCSf-tklf5WSYkhmR6pzwh-PmLhi6j-LhyphenhyphenVN5sLcfKQSaQV0RF0Q-hAsElRYBfIER5LahlyQXIk890E5DaE-6KWVetSqGY_/w400-h265/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-22%20at%201.58.46%20PM.png" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddies who'd spent years in the Foreign Legion without knowing each other, but they get off the same boat with a load of expository dialogue that you best keep a scorecard to follow the shoddy pulp-inspired plot as, basically and ultimately, this odd couple... one a French medic, the other a crooked American... attempt to crack a big safe in a large, well-armed, multi-guarded building... And why the title's nonsensical is that Bronson's pimp character says things for no apparent reason, especially "Yeah!" whenever something happens that makes him feel like saying... "Yeah!" </p><p></p><p>But Alain Delon is the tough silent type, and this film's obvious lead, actually having hand-picked Bronson from admiring his zesty performance as <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2018/08/early-chuck.html">MACHINE GUN KELLY</a> eight-years earlier... What's ironic is Delon keeps Bronson from reaching equally ferocious heights by either a punch in the nose or a macho wrestling match, especially in a painfully overlong sequence where, during that epic second-act heist, both get locked inside a strongroom, close to death, followed by Bronson being beaten/interrogated and Delon beating-up the film's nice girl Brigitte Fossey while having initially fallen sap to sneaky double-crossing femme fatalle Olga Georges-Picot... Perhaps if FAREWELL, FRIEND was a dark comedy, and didn't take itself so seriously, it'd have a more even-keeled groove... And get this... Bronson <i>wouldn't </i>be the straight man!</p><span></span>

alain delon, brigitte fossey, buddy, charles bronson, crime, exploitation, french, heist, mob, olga georges-picot, seventies

ALAIN DELON WITH CHARLES BRONSON IN 'FAREWELL, FRIEND'

FAREWELL, FRIEND Year: 1968 Rating: *** The title FAREWELL, FRIEND makes no sense yet are actual words spoken by one of two anti-buddy buddi...

LARA WENDEL AND MALISA LONGO HAUNTING 'THE RED MONKS'

<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/AVvXsEj6fpfwc2Gufp5LRfymdVDQdEAAMJA15rqHuAgyk0lG0bihx9uavn3kAKv6dIDKaRm1NHUKg0JVWilcpJHhDqXZx9GD6IaGsXs-vWSC-t1XkvnbQAEuh0TrcME3jajM_oF_JzyTuC9oKJjYfiXpFyjkGFKqUQyvTkzYcL6_CsBU7HKcBV-yncsZViDydAYD/s1902/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-20%20at%2012.09.07%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6fpfwc2Gufp5LRfymdVDQdEAAMJA15rqHuAgyk0lG0bihx9uavn3kAKv6dIDKaRm1NHUKg0JVWilcpJHhDqXZx9GD6IaGsXs-vWSC-t1XkvnbQAEuh0TrcME3jajM_oF_JzyTuC9oKJjYfiXpFyjkGFKqUQyvTkzYcL6_CsBU7HKcBV-yncsZViDydAYD/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-20%20at%2012.09.07%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in THE RED MONKS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Since low-budget horror movies began, there's always been certain locations where it's obvious the entire script was based around — find the place first and write the script later... </p><p></p><p>Which has never been as impressive as the otherwise mostly unimpressive Gothic horror THE RED MONKS, where two generations of dark-haired men inherit a castle where the interior is an almost endless maze of Medieval corridors... </p><p><span></span></p>

body count, eighties, gothic, horror, italian, lara wendel, malisa longo

LARA WENDEL AND MALISA LONGO HAUNTING 'THE RED MONKS'

Lara Wendel in THE RED MONKS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Since low-budget horror movies began, there's always been certain locations where it...

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

<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/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1300/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLcQedOC6zYeBT2JkBfQ_T05GWodceFv1PEkEZF9VE4Ls935aJshqQDLinY-omkr7WmHNYImuyVHYENul_SmQhSMUTYKSOufilY_64TfKnJyZ5JtPyFMDks64G5qpCnGXUY8OerEYlPyq8tnK22eOhMktoYKbi7IS7FBP_UP-txb3lTO6tHHjSGnu0XyB/s1600/unnamed.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST clone RING OF DARKNESS has techno-wizard Stelvio Cipriani making Mike Oldfield's <i>Tubular Bells</i> (or John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN theme) sounding like music blasting from a discotheque nightclub... <br><br>Leading to Satan-worshiping mom Anne Heywood already in the frustrated process of dealing with her very evil child... as if RING OF DARKNESS (aka SATAN'S WIFE) were more of its own sequel than a classic horror film money-grab homage... perfectly suited for controversial child starlet Lara Wendel in that she actually resembles Linda Blair...</p><p><span></span></p>

anne heywood, horror, irene papas, italian, john phillip law, lara wendel, marisa mell, seventies, stelvio cipriani, valentina cortese

LARA WENDEL GETTING DEMON POSSESSED IN 'RING OF DARKNESS'

Lara Wendel in RING OF DARKNESS Year: 1979 Rating: *** The bizarre sacrificial-naked-girls-dancing intro to the Italian low-budget EXORCIST ...

LARA WENDEL & STEFANIA SANDRELLI 'DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE'

<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/AVvXsEh-s90weqzsIH2OYkIqZnkdW-PsQItWaLIfnEDVbY9RL5Htlgmz0QgreDN1q_mA96lPy04-PV24GiWgJ8ZWy4T8t0WQNNZ9Q90mR8cuUFBHnr4K_9RoTguSlLI7lYUhRyInf_FHAjDLw7N_INPWNuY1inMRweHEdLAX7g3Ym4t58v9nUiHsDChuRJufntXJ/s1328/unnamed.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-s90weqzsIH2OYkIqZnkdW-PsQItWaLIfnEDVbY9RL5Htlgmz0QgreDN1q_mA96lPy04-PV24GiWgJ8ZWy4T8t0WQNNZ9Q90mR8cuUFBHnr4K_9RoTguSlLI7lYUhRyInf_FHAjDLw7N_INPWNuY1inMRweHEdLAX7g3Ym4t58v9nUiHsDChuRJufntXJ/s1600/unnamed.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in DESIDERIA aka DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Three years after playing a knife-wielding child-wraith in the giallo horror THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK, and when German-born/Italian-cinema scream-queen Lisa Wendel was a pretty preteen, she appeared in two extremely controversial exploitation films... <br><br>The first, PLAYING WITH LOVE, was almost instantly banned worldwide, and LITTLE GIRL IN BLUE VELVET was another take on Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA (including Wendel getting her toenails painted by a middle-aged man)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, italian, klaus löwitsch, lara wendel, neo noir, orso maria guerrini, stefania sandrelli, vittorio mezzogiorno

LARA WENDEL & STEFANIA SANDRELLI 'DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE'

Lara Wendel in DESIDERIA aka DESIDERIA: LA VITA INTERIORE Year: 1980 Rating: ***1/2 Three years after playing a knife-wielding child-wraith ...

LARA WENDEL WINGING THROUGH 'ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS'

<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/AVvXsEjlVxC-xOzkvG1ApzImRQWz41CexzSBUPGmRcKoX-SL5_NVvbdZVqmM-sCyB3fZwN9QAg7BClQefYew7Jt3VyyD0mNpnEFjWksqE3WyGkmwqNB6oXScBFmC35etY2NfrKNhkZTLWzu-2I_jA36s2k_8qE6WCJLdPzAHDhTvg8Bp7c_hW6cxdhdD6PIo6VO7/s1600/image1786949103.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlVxC-xOzkvG1ApzImRQWz41CexzSBUPGmRcKoX-SL5_NVvbdZVqmM-sCyB3fZwN9QAg7BClQefYew7Jt3VyyD0mNpnEFjWksqE3WyGkmwqNB6oXScBFmC35etY2NfrKNhkZTLWzu-2I_jA36s2k_8qE6WCJLdPzAHDhTvg8Bp7c_hW6cxdhdD6PIo6VO7/s1600/image1786949103.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Jeff Goldbum's JURASSIC PARK scene-stealer Ian Malcolm would have noted, had he watched ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS for over thirty-minutes, "You DO plan to have zombies in your zombie movie?" <br><br>But right at the <i>King Kong Mark</i> of exactly 45-minutes, a sinewy menace finally appears within one of two central-interior manors, where the usual group of young victims are unwisely camped out... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eighties, exploitation, haunted house, horror, italian, joe d'amato, lara wendel, robert vaughn, slasher, zombie

LARA WENDEL WINGING THROUGH 'ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS'

Lara Wendel in ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS Year: 1988 Rating: *** Jeff Goldbum's JURASSIC PARK scene-stealer Ian Malcolm would have noted, h...

LARA WENDEL SPOOKED THROUGH UMBERTO LENZI'S 'GHOSTHOUSE'

<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/AVvXsEjZSQb9Xy4hX8SSdiChtaXYTeodOfJiej4EXg8suK8kcaYGTtXuXNFtoIPJwvYkSkQ6lXoFNSmc2e-XHjirUvxQOgNISgV7p_zqoGlYdcHdyeTZmuLTShsbZjHlW96db58tY2gXEJ5ls87K8TwY528BnsLJ3P4JjkRU80T1nxjtwGvbKq6Qpo8y8vC7LP6o/s1400/image1786921192.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSQb9Xy4hX8SSdiChtaXYTeodOfJiej4EXg8suK8kcaYGTtXuXNFtoIPJwvYkSkQ6lXoFNSmc2e-XHjirUvxQOgNISgV7p_zqoGlYdcHdyeTZmuLTShsbZjHlW96db58tY2gXEJ5ls87K8TwY528BnsLJ3P4JjkRU80T1nxjtwGvbKq6Qpo8y8vC7LP6o/s1600/image1786921192.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in GHOSTHOUSE AKA LA CASA 3 Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At nine-years-old, German scream-queen Lara Wendel played the young ghostly version of <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/mimsy%20farmer">Mimsy Farmer</a> in giallo Italian director Francesco Barilli's <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/perfume.html">THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK</a>, wielding a knife and creepy to the hilt... <br><br>Over a decade later, as a cute teenager, she's one of several slain ingenues in Dario Argento's body count classic <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/08/10ebrae.html">TENEBRAE</a>... eventually leading to a starring role in Umberto Lenzi's GHOSTHOUSE, ironically running into another creepy little demonic child with a deadly weapon of her own...  <br></p><span></span>

body count, eighties, haunted house, horror, italian, lara wendel, slasher, thriller

LARA WENDEL SPOOKED THROUGH UMBERTO LENZI'S 'GHOSTHOUSE'

Lara Wendel in GHOSTHOUSE AKA LA CASA 3 Year: 1988 Rating: ***1/2 At nine-years-old, German scream-queen Lara Wendel played the young ghostl...

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

<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/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s2134/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1184" data-original-width="2134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2YcxPzyoqgphPPOo46MgISDpisxlhV-2Jy42uWGR5P7GxbCejwtWgdDUkoVzWy4tOBnF2jK0jUPmVtVrTSc7W_9VUepN62voPdKc5CvOvahVvkCmu7IU0YwqTq5IM3zFm7I5cNwOzP_De66U_XZmj3abFtfzn-PeNMbTnd1H8V9x3ZtGmmVadnOEqKiPm/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%205.56.03%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970's to the less intense genre vehicles of the latter 1980's like PHENOMENA, Italian auteur Dario Argento made his best and by far most conventional slasher in TENEBRAE... <br><br>Using the familiar plot of a horror writer who, in this case, has a desperately faithful fan killing vulnerable women, leaving behind pages of the titular (his latest) novel... </p><p><span></span></p>

anthony franciosa, daria nicolodi, dario argento, horror, italian, john saxon, john steiner, lara wendel, mirella d'angelo, mystery, neo noir, seventies, slasher, veronica lario

LARA WENDEL GETTING STALKED IN DARIO ARGENO'S 'TENEBRAE'

Lara Wendel in TENEBRAE Year: 1982 Rating: **** Between his most famous, groundbreaking horror flick SUSPERIA from the exploitation 1970...

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

<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/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1696/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FxDUyM3zHgGSLlFWkl3-IabMZdOLRWSewBrLrdkVKtUsdJJHLoZPBrGUBq1Y2lPS7O8NHassOD3CK7kXaX5DquJ7n-yZLIMHsCuijlgyKKARAZzGS5AHXmVhwCbBqyARVZ-EYvoeqsTpWYTdDyq7gbrw8MzYPUW0kaqO-j-uYZ20qgq2BJr7rIYQSvSg/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-15%20at%207.44.22%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot-proceeding John Cassavetes's OPENING NIGHT... an indie-drama version of an Italian Giallo where Gena Rowlands hallucinates a beautiful young girl... Italian auteur Francesco Barilli's THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK has long-haired blonde American ingenue turned European short-cropped blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer seeing her dead mother, guided around by her younger self in scream-queen Lara Wendel...<br><br>Which all ends up inspiring another future horror flick, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME... not to be spoiled since Farmer's "Industrial Scientist" character Silvia Hacherman spends most of the time like a deer-in-headlights, perfect for an actress possessing a unique kind of powerfully magnetic vulnerability: able to speak volumes without saying very much, and she's rarely been more beautiful  — and she's always really beautiful...  </p><p><span></span></p>

exploitation, francesco barilli, giallo, horror, italian, lara wendel, maurizio bonuglia, mimsy farmer, nike arrighi, seventies, thriller

LARA WENDEL IS MIMSY FARMER 'PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK'

LARA WENDEL in THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK Year: 1974 Rating: **** Ultimately paying third-act homage to ROSEMARY'S BABY while plot...

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

<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/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0d3IyHvxMxeUN-C40IVxjlUUAnhBAqOxlnftnlxGTf_T3Oxj4yuVlchLYhpCFq8eCtrzGTFgFkGlBYf41EMYcRhzHwK-veMi35Rm8vqmS2Ksku6h_dCb8pmsrzoW8tRmG9XgNz5jkqiRMf9Tfl7yh1xugXhCTBMhJ-ON9ySk0OrYRVxa-p5K_YUPas74/s1600/image1786080059.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Unlucky <i>First Gir</i>l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which Mimsy's character... a pathology doctor working in a hospital's morgue... answers that she's "half American"...<br><br>Which sums up the blonde starlet's career, starting out as guests on mainstream stateside television (from MY THREE SONS to THE FBI) to co-starring in low-budget counter-culture speeding-car flicks (<a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2024/12/wild-racers.html">THE WILD RACERS</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS TO HELL</a> to <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>)... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

angela goodwin, barry primus, gaby wagner, giallo, horror, italian, mimsy farmer, neo noir, ray lovelock, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER WITH BARRY PRIMUS INVESTIGATING 'AUTOPSY'

Mimsy Farmer in AUTOPSY Year: 1975 Rating: *** Unlucky First Gir l (to die)( Gaby Wagner asks Mimsy Farmer if she's American, to which M...

MIMSY FARMER AND LEE VAN CLEEF IN 'CODE NAME: WILD GEESE'

<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/AVvXsEiXj_BTIyvouzHqyDe6MQ1WuXM7GiKL5_7ibj13zoCUMrftSde0ZrrjKhJHPAz64ux2XO72fATIRY93lUtnCr2M5IQwwCAblN1emyjpzlEL_I5U1diCYsQLkxIdhQQDHA47kI29jtiMQ32lg1pzOu5kPst2OsINaZnCBHF1Bn8NDt7vD-EqI2-jTD3JPQlw/s1375/image1786607560.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="784" data-original-width="1375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXj_BTIyvouzHqyDe6MQ1WuXM7GiKL5_7ibj13zoCUMrftSde0ZrrjKhJHPAz64ux2XO72fATIRY93lUtnCr2M5IQwwCAblN1emyjpzlEL_I5U1diCYsQLkxIdhQQDHA47kI29jtiMQ32lg1pzOu5kPst2OsINaZnCBHF1Bn8NDt7vD-EqI2-jTD3JPQlw/s1600/image1786607560.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in Code Name: Wild Geese (Geheimcode Wildgänse) Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>There's a pivotal sequence in Antonio Margheriti's CODE NAME: WILD GEESE where a group of mercenaries... including British tough guy Lewis Collins, German tough guy Manfred Lehmann and Spaghetti Western legend Lee Van Cleef... are inside of a helicopter, and pilot Van Cleef says it will take a few minutes for the copter to lift...<br><br>Occurring after having already taken over an outpost, and, while waiting to take off, there's no impending enemy gunfire... making WILD GEESE the kind of Italian war-flick with tons of flying bullets but very little urgency or suspense... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

action, antonio margheriti, eighties, ernest borgnine, klaus kinski, lee van cleef, lewis collins, mimsy farmer, war

MIMSY FARMER AND LEE VAN CLEEF IN 'CODE NAME: WILD GEESE'

Mimsy Farmer in Code Name: Wild Geese (Geheimcode Wildgänse) Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2 There's a pivotal sequence in Antonio Margheriti...

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

<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/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s2164/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1480" data-original-width="2164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPOMl_uTuRbK9LUhuRXUAoY7Axx9HVDw0SUqjsrbLy8rXY0x3wiDb2ytos4pNkdOQoIFtAnnNWiPeYFchzMHn_gPK6S_fDlIGrEr7j_GzOsFNysqajkswnt4Z4apFal64HUBLBhTK3zKfuh5QwxzVfsjR3lA_2hbCVb9xTE8wk2SeuJPq0kVwb2TSjUyXu/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-11%20at%201.04.45%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is obviously inspired by Victor Hugo's LES MISÉRABLES, but for a 1970's crime fan it will be most reminiscent of the late-seventies STRAIGHT TIME starring Dustin Hoffman... <br><br>Based on a 1973 novel NO BEAST SO FIERCE (same year as this feature) by Edward Bunker, particularly the second-act plot-line involving a badgering police inspector, who had originally arrested bank robber Alain Delon for the ten years that social worker Jean Gabin gets him out early from in the film's semi-optimistic prelude...</p><p><span></span></p>

alain delon, crime, french, gérard depardieu, ilaria ccchini, jean gabin, josé giovanni, malka ribowska, michel bouquet, mimsy farmer, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MIMSY FARMER, JEAN GABIN & ALAIN DELON 'TWO MEN IN TOWN'

Mimsy Farmer and Michel Bouquet in TWO MEN IN TOWN Year: 1973 Rating: ***1/2 French New Wave director José Giovanni's TWO MEN IN TOWN is...

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

<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/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1390/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcMQZhiIuybr52zVWczuCfFvqSwviaeRvaWYGl4MQc4IN5XNfO9ZBCnhGzJgGmbM2S_Se26zCbm22Iuljo9mw3ZRYI87eSho1b4FB6jPhb4O8YDRXv-anHztcp3iIiTCl0fas_F03eE6CnGMj6vn99EIOglH5r_0wnpoHoWRb8qcABFY8254RBgOtcKlR/s1600/image_cf96a5c0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror-genre with CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, he directed the mainstream CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79, a slight-of-hand effort deliberately mirroring THE CONCORD: AIRPORT '79, the last AIRPORT outing before the blockbuster spoof AIRPLANE killed the franchise by spoofing it... <br><br>Both are basically crime-thrillers combining the usual airline disaster melodrama... but Deodato's Italian import spends the entire first two acts hardly involving the record-breaking passenger-jet-plane: other than an opening scene where it crashes into the ocean...</p><p><span></span></p>

airplane, disaster, edmund purdom, espionage, james francsiscus, joseph cotten, maria d'incoronato, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, seventies, thriller, van johnson, venantino venantini

MIMSY FARMER IN RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79'

Mimsy Farmer in CONCORDE AFFAIRE '79 Year: 1979 Rating: ***1/2 A year before Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage h...

MIMSY FARMER MOTHERING RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'BODY COUNT'

<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/AVvXsEiucXnLwLx14FIS3ZFQKmBjLnTdF_XybzV9CH8N8YG1zrM2HRW0cNAKGCOBxMb2I-ZHw7l1P-Yvids4XTiaBa40Ohv9AJSkNhTeKAqqXSfHVPa4t57_jDngRt0wl6zOJxGDpN3fAWQd_elqjDSvSr2mSGROq7t3qApjXBEKulh0kz6ngdIDmYvyhuJtfqJg/s1600/image1786329455.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="951" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucXnLwLx14FIS3ZFQKmBjLnTdF_XybzV9CH8N8YG1zrM2HRW0cNAKGCOBxMb2I-ZHw7l1P-Yvids4XTiaBa40Ohv9AJSkNhTeKAqqXSfHVPa4t57_jDngRt0wl6zOJxGDpN3fAWQd_elqjDSvSr2mSGROq7t3qApjXBEKulh0kz6ngdIDmYvyhuJtfqJg/s1600/image1786329455.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in BODY COUNT Year: 1988 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>With CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, groundbreaking Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-footage horror sub-genre that THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT reinvented decades later, so it's no real sin that he ripped off American slasher franchise FRIDAY THE 13TH: which already had about six films by 1988...<br><br>Both involving teenagers who get picked off in the woods by a masked menace... the supposed spirit of an Indian Shaman from long ago... making this a genuine BODY COUNT horror, built right into the title...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, body count, charles narpier, david hess, eighties, horror, john steiner, luisa maneri, mimsy farmer, ruggero deodato, slasher

MIMSY FARMER MOTHERING RUGGERO DEODATO'S 'BODY COUNT'

Mimsy Farmer in BODY COUNT Year: 1988 Rating: *** With CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, groundbreaking Italian auteur Ruggero Deodato invented the found-...

MIMSY FARMER IN 'DEVIL'S ANGELS' STARRING JOHN CASSAVETES

<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/AVvXsEghrHWOud5PICWAdhUD24uSeF2286DputYrX7saQddpuqzDlKn_UWK7vlHKftvJxR3bHmOOTq8RpSaOo13DYqNMmwcS6tSrfP61qzPpDFB3FOKFKgFtkYTVI854a4hwGR-nNqn9ZR1a88pLvWFvQqDkypKi-Yj4mpNINvsmNYabX1_-1Tu27z18i3L7-Z__/s1600/image1786250348.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrHWOud5PICWAdhUD24uSeF2286DputYrX7saQddpuqzDlKn_UWK7vlHKftvJxR3bHmOOTq8RpSaOo13DYqNMmwcS6tSrfP61qzPpDFB3FOKFKgFtkYTVI854a4hwGR-nNqn9ZR1a88pLvWFvQqDkypKi-Yj4mpNINvsmNYabX1_-1Tu27z18i3L7-Z__/s1600/image1786250348.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in DEVIL'S ANGELS Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the same year, the peak of the hippie counter-culture, 1967, American blonde starlet Mimsy Farmer plays a vulnerable young ladies attacked/sexually-assaulted by a group of drugged-up men in both <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/07/stripmimsy.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a> and DEVIL'S ANGELS... <br><br>Only here, based on the Hell's Angels court-case documented in Hunter Thompson's novel, the titular DEVIL'S ANGELS only brutally attack the poor girl, not actually raping her (or having enough time to since she gets away)... and this movie wants that gross distinction to be completely clear...</p><p><span></span></p>

beverly adams, biker, counter-culture, exploitation, john cassavetes, leo gordon, mimsy farmer, roger corman, sixties

MIMSY FARMER IN 'DEVIL'S ANGELS' STARRING JOHN CASSAVETES

Mimsy Farmer in DEVIL'S ANGELS Year: 1967 Rating: **1/2 In the same year, the peak of the hippie counter-culture, 1967, American blonde ...

MIMSY FARMER AND RITA HAYWORTH TAKING 'THE ROAD TO SALINA'

<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/AVvXsEjFTps3WDI1dHVKE_2EAfE1M15MV86RCjP6A6T-gPniyqXxZqT1NPa9hUj2_bFMxhpuzd2yQ4OL6DZHOGuK_ECUIS2wF9daGBh0uY_q6xz_QZUOFMxL7BzsDVPbyNbNt8xugRpMRy1Wc4mnDiNvbZRSfnY_pETmgNuNrrQVD_c4kh2I6VYJyWCAH8YGBzCa/s1455/image1786179090.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTps3WDI1dHVKE_2EAfE1M15MV86RCjP6A6T-gPniyqXxZqT1NPa9hUj2_bFMxhpuzd2yQ4OL6DZHOGuK_ECUIS2wF9daGBh0uY_q6xz_QZUOFMxL7BzsDVPbyNbNt8xugRpMRy1Wc4mnDiNvbZRSfnY_pETmgNuNrrQVD_c4kh2I6VYJyWCAH8YGBzCa/s1600/image1786179090.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in THE ROAD TO SALINA Year: 1970 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the end of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOLUME 2, a cascading prog-rock instrumental backs a beautiful American blonde, driving through rural Mexico, for the conclusion of her revenge-epic mission... <br><br>As both the song and situation were lifted from French auteur Georges Lautner's Spanish-shot/set 1970 giallo/noir THE ROAD TO SALINA when a gorgeous car-driving American blonde is instead <i>just arriving</i>... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

ed begley, georges lautner, mimsy farmer, neo noir, rita hayworth, robert walker jr., sophie hardy, spanish, thriller

MIMSY FARMER AND RITA HAYWORTH TAKING 'THE ROAD TO SALINA'

Mimsy Farmer in THE ROAD TO SALINA Year: 1970 Rating: ****1/2 At the end of Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL VOLUME 2, a cascading prog-roc...

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

<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/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiSlhcIJkzvGhpYdVHbfDfLxicVqUBsdtZYuy_b4dodxg0YVGKk4fraoed2DW5fTVT1IwaaZKH5Hj1OuIr_xLAt3ZEerGGS_rvmgoc4h4bfv48-e1q4_IfOqzD-yYmYYtrV8cCb9bFzzDBIq-0Ushn9MW7yxd3N00h_pij3pkfpqB-UVOwwu9M-1VTWrAn/s1600/image1786217518.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France and starring in European horror flicks after merely co-starring in counter-culture melodramas (like HOT RODS TO HELL) stateside... <br><br>That is, in several of the Euro-thrillers, she would have an accent, speaking a kind of broken English, like it's not her original language, sometimes even choosing each word... very... carefully...</p><p><span></span></p>

body count, dario argento, exploitation, francine racette, giallo, horror, jean-pierre marielle, michael brandon, mimsy farmer, mystery, seventies

MIMSY FARMER KILLS DARIO ARGENTO'S 'FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET'

Mimsy Farmer in FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET Year: 1971 Rating: ***1/2 American actress Mimsy Farmer really went native after moving to France ...

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

<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/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s2070/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="2070" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFPQ9sDdu9ecjbTyDHAAWVpKz5DslBhZhyphenhyphenCm6WWgIMdGDq79PCcoKNUZv4tA4CA1ox4phHKkN7GYnZBMsmCS2WLaZBz5jY2o4-o6PomdQQBR-U_f2fNYo6RuTdaaAtau1e3fA4CbZDB1hcCAFoQY8bwPrZldJZOhWwkld3PD09qMFrQ1Yqh9jPlClKHKWG/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-01%20at%2012.21.30%20AM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/hotRods.html">HOT RODS IN HELL</a> more effectively than the good girl in the following years' counter-culture melodrama <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2019/04/hot-rods-to-sunset-strip.html">RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP</a>, returning with young HELL co-stars Laurie Mock and Gene Kirkwood...<br><br>But instead of the open road, SUNSET is mostly at a nightclub in the titular Los Angeles STRIP where there's not much going save a few protests that includes fist fights liken to Western genre saloon brawls (while local bands The Chocolate Watchband, The Standells and The Enemys provide sporadic tunes)...</p><p><span></span></p>

aldo ray, counter culture, gene kirkwood, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, pat renella, sixties

MIMSY FARMER, ALDO RAY & LAURIE MOCK IN 'RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP'

Mimsy Farmer in RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 Artistic blonde beauty Mimsy Farmer played the bad girl in HOT RODS IN HELL ...

MIMSY FARMER BACKED BY PINK FLOYD IN THE DRUG-FUELED 'MORE'

<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/AVvXsEjgFs-UYhVXJSo2TkMqXUzXRZ6r53YLZfvmr0HttCDUuaeIhy10IEZ6WMmw_AxE6f2svi0VkwWAVBpLebqm6pIrMz728rFz85TrR_9LEo5nDQxWH1EfpzZ7k4YlzSBO1yNnqRTxGh2L0FHiKyBhp9D6TGaEMbxX29Wl9OhyxBTFwsxQBfuB_g8hxF63xtRb/s1310/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgFs-UYhVXJSo2TkMqXUzXRZ6r53YLZfvmr0HttCDUuaeIhy10IEZ6WMmw_AxE6f2svi0VkwWAVBpLebqm6pIrMz728rFz85TrR_9LEo5nDQxWH1EfpzZ7k4YlzSBO1yNnqRTxGh2L0FHiKyBhp9D6TGaEMbxX29Wl9OhyxBTFwsxQBfuB_g8hxF63xtRb/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimsy Farmer in MORE Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>By the time hitchhiking German college grad Klaus Grünberg crashes a Paris free-for-all and meets breezy American blonde Mimsy Farmer, and the only (and best) Pink Floyd song that's unfortunately <i>not</i> on the soundtrack album MORE is blaring throughout the noisy partying background, he's already sealed his fate... and yet she's not much prettier than the other couch-kicking, pot-smoking hippie-chick harlots...<br><br>But the Jean Seberg-haired Farmer (who started out in American drive-in flicks before becoming a European counter-culture star) always had a unique way of becoming more and more beautiful with an enigmatically intriguing, quietly brooding, mesmerizing persona: making director Barbet Schroeder's MORE more of an exotically European art-house celebration of that particularly alluring female than what's really the central male character's descent into petty crime and heavy drug addiction...</p><p><span></span></p>

barbet schroeder, counter-culture, heinz engelmann, klaus grünberg, michel chanderli, mimsy farmer, pink floyd, sixties

MIMSY FARMER BACKED BY PINK FLOYD IN THE DRUG-FUELED 'MORE'

Mimsy Farmer in MORE Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 By the time hitchhiking German college grad Klaus Grünberg crashes a Paris free-for-all and m...

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

<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/AVvXsEiYo0RjSrJW_f8dAsmObDRI0lS1tdv0UeVXwyAOnTE4bZbNcyHsm3-FiZlhPs5kZk9aO8cp_ewRr4scvYGfRgtbOMzBSgDmwGK_DS18tF9YwQGLuHttMMSNftrxtgoOqIr-WNkQHvos-Gz3O-WxwSjYEcr9_8hRAlI0Z0oy7Wu9TgQl9UE3AWOJMWYrFHZb/s1338/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-10%20at%201.29.33%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYo0RjSrJW_f8dAsmObDRI0lS1tdv0UeVXwyAOnTE4bZbNcyHsm3-FiZlhPs5kZk9aO8cp_ewRr4scvYGfRgtbOMzBSgDmwGK_DS18tF9YwQGLuHttMMSNftrxtgoOqIr-WNkQHvos-Gz3O-WxwSjYEcr9_8hRAlI0Z0oy7Wu9TgQl9UE3AWOJMWYrFHZb/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-08-10%20at%201.29.33%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>"The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes," says a jaded and nerve-wracked wreck of a middle-aged former salesman Dana Andrews to wife Jeanne Crain. "Jingle bells (on the radio), the whole thing!" </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>Yet HOT RODS TO HELL only <i>begins</i> as a Christmas movie after East Coast traveling-salesman Dana Andrews suffers a major car accident on December 24th, and, after months of traction, winds up with a motel in Arizona... But only IF he and his family can survive the red convertible (titular) menace with only 80 miles left to their new destination...</p><span></span>

action, cult, dana andrews, drive-in, gene kirkwood, george ives, jeanne crain, laurie mock, mimsy farmer, race, road movie, sixties

MIMSY FARMER RIDING DANA ANDREWS IN 'HOT RODS TO HELL'

Mimy Farmer, Gene Kirkwood and Paul Bertoya in Hot Rods to Hell Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 "The horns blowing, the lights, the brakes,...

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/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.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/AVvXsEhjVsF5fPVImAQsXz_WBlxR7xR1MRgvsPGLlIVlFhUN7MJwcS1ky8XdBP6ow-cj67r9FMOc6-p6tRfLp-kkiMHcXtfcjinWJsIZu96NnC6p9IYmQ5DyMvuAljxKloPrmB6hidnkglA0sqr7SQvRB65sU492vdkqqJlPcJp58x9x9pcYlC7YP2jZhwdTL9n3/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-22%20at%209.24.12%20PM%202.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 randomly 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, rural, seventies, spiders, 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...