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Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2026 / No comments / andrew stevens , body count , cheryl smith , damon douglas , dennis kort , high school , horror , kimberly beck , lani o'grady , ray underwood , rex steven sikes , robert carradine , seventies , steve bond

ROBERT CARRADINE & KIMBERLY BECK 'MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH'

<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/AVvXsEhSh0MaA2a81W-4Xo25voiFqSRhdnqztSF17vMxSKlPi3szM2zTYh6UOhoCTzWWgXN4ZDAy7-HICYD_6HYe0EyexYVOnz9JHz1pmXpTJRCbakjxNnYEHqb7uJEn9rYCfr3vic6Id9-wN0Fv-54AErfKnhx6m81UoAheA0SHu8G26VYAXTJlMn-TvJts_1pA/s2320/1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="2320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSh0MaA2a81W-4Xo25voiFqSRhdnqztSF17vMxSKlPi3szM2zTYh6UOhoCTzWWgXN4ZDAy7-HICYD_6HYe0EyexYVOnz9JHz1pmXpTJRCbakjxNnYEHqb7uJEn9rYCfr3vic6Id9-wN0Fv-54AErfKnhx6m81UoAheA0SHu8G26VYAXTJlMn-TvJts_1pA/s16000/1.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Carradine in MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In one of the strangest high school bully pictures ever made, MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH begins like an <i>Afterschool Special</i> (including a cheesy opening song)... until future picked-on REVENGE OF THE NERDS star Robert Carradine gets slammed around by popular jocks for having a swastika on his locker... adding to the overall bizarre nature in what's both completely ambiguous and horribly melodramatic... <br><br>Where new-kid-on-campus Derrel Maury's reunited with childhood friend Andrew Stevens... the latter a passive middleman for the trio of square-jawed/blond-haired bullies, who actually terrorize all weaker students with angry venom more befitting A CLOCKWORK ORANGE before than MY BODYGUARD after... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

andrew stevens, body count, cheryl smith, damon douglas, dennis kort, high school, horror, kimberly beck, lani o'grady, ray underwood, rex steven sikes, robert carradine, seventies, steve bond

ROBERT CARRADINE & KIMBERLY BECK 'MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH'

Robert Carradine in MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 In one of the strangest high school bully pictures ever made, MASSACR...

CHARLES BRONSON CANNON ERA CONTINUES WITH '10 TO MIDNIGHT'

<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZA3lpMjJS1oT8DmxECnrRY_bumTrVNTuzGOSfCwt83eAYxsYt3u5HbSzWIvkoyM8u1EnimWFn_be6rkirWfEWyOdKVVXMHiGc-QoOMt226nhqThO5GQZE8DZ9VoqPUm3fgrSBcSNIDPc/s1246/Screen+Shot+2021-07-17+at+2.50.43+AM.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1246" data-original-width="1048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ZA3lpMjJS1oT8DmxECnrRY_bumTrVNTuzGOSfCwt83eAYxsYt3u5HbSzWIvkoyM8u1EnimWFn_be6rkirWfEWyOdKVVXMHiGc-QoOMt226nhqThO5GQZE8DZ9VoqPUm3fgrSBcSNIDPc/w336-h400/Screen+Shot+2021-07-17+at+2.50.43+AM.png" width="336"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: 10 to Midnight Year: 1983 Rates: ***1/2</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Charles Bronson's Cannon Films were a total nightmare for those politically-correct critics who graded on their own flat curves, and 10 TO MIDNIGHT is surely no different... In fact it's probably the most hated of all... <br></p><p></p><p>That being a pure exploitation-driven nightmarish body count horror (during the Slasher genre craze) masquerading as a cop thriller about a young, mostly naked serial killer who, a hybrid of Ted Bundy and Richard Speck, kills sexy young girls and eventually sexy young nurses... </p><p>Making Bronson's Detective Leo Kessler, fitfully morphed from a cop to some kind of DEATH WISH style lawman-vigilante, not only do his usual trope-laden questioning of the liberal court system ("giving more rights to the criminals than their victims") but taking matters into his own hands in order to, you guessed it, "save the taxpayers money."  </p><p>And as they say/so the cliche saying/excuse goes... that cops can't be everywhere at once... </p><p>But that's not true for the second half of 10 TO MIDNIGHT, infamously bearing a title that supposedly has nothing to do with the plot: Then again, while there's never an actual clock beginning at 11:50 pm and striking at 12 sharp, Bronson winds up in a short-spanned race-against-time urgency (midnight representing time running out) since his daughter, played by super-cute near-future BEVERLY HILLS COP starlet Lisa Eilbacher, is one of several nurses... including the late gorgeous Kelly Preston... who Brad Davis's younger brother Gene Nelson eventually sets his creepy lusts on...<br>
</p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83ylv_PRqni0VuwUGILKLzC5f7D1M2e23KdZZh_Hwk3ulX-zKYDv1CdE_--aJcQtzfUGk-GlJaFG2dHUFkGalUY9ZTRV3rESLFeEN6JzAfiUv7AprQQjo-qWx8lrN6O_-hakOddiYPrXjHTbxEBtEm4rCUNGJzEnbbs1ZWTnJngfHfixXxoukoFRZ7Q/s400/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-17%20at%202.53.26%20AM.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="400" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83ylv_PRqni0VuwUGILKLzC5f7D1M2e23KdZZh_Hwk3ulX-zKYDv1CdE_--aJcQtzfUGk-GlJaFG2dHUFkGalUY9ZTRV3rESLFeEN6JzAfiUv7AprQQjo-qWx8lrN6O_-hakOddiYPrXjHTbxEBtEm4rCUNGJzEnbbs1ZWTnJngfHfixXxoukoFRZ7Q/w400-h231/Screen%20Shot%202021-07-17%20at%202.53.26%20AM.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The late Kelly Preston in 10 to Midnight</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The best scenes occur before the cops... with by-the-book rookie played by Bronson's DEATH HUNT co-star Andrew Stevens... moving in...<br></p><p></p><p>And in that it's purely Gene Davis's trashy ride as he goes from one doomed beauty to the next in an ultra-violent, anything-goes fashion (one scene taking place in the woods like a slasher flick) far more suited to the lower-budgeted 1970's exploitation drive-in circuit. </p><p></p><p>And given Cannon Films miraculous achievement of making their own low budget features look as crisp and glossy as almost any mainstream programmer, the stalking and slaying of nude, doomed, screaming starlets feels that much more crass, crude, dated and inappropriate. <i>Or</i> you can call it <i>daring</i>. Either way, 10 TO MIDNIGHT, with a tables-turned last act involving Bronson stalking the stalker in a DEATH WISH fashion, has always been a cult favorite among the hit-or-miss lot of Bronson/Cannon features despite Roger Ebert giving it zero stars i.e. an amputated thumb's down.</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/AVvXsEgGKCvcH5Th-7ISxo4w0JkkKkd2smrbONYbWIrqpKJgROrR1s9V9olQMxIgRY_HQ8NGdhbO6G0IEzxpKwRPeD4qh4WgOVnTP0SPOLUckSsPJ9yEXmEWfQNwAf52EhcGAnGSkQyY8bOIB9mpFaiUx1KJFWx-MWBBv62fORLGk7Gl1GQqEcLwjczQW-IHFw/s1600/33.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGKCvcH5Th-7ISxo4w0JkkKkd2smrbONYbWIrqpKJgROrR1s9V9olQMxIgRY_HQ8NGdhbO6G0IEzxpKwRPeD4qh4WgOVnTP0SPOLUckSsPJ9yEXmEWfQNwAf52EhcGAnGSkQyY8bOIB9mpFaiUx1KJFWx-MWBBv62fORLGk7Gl1GQqEcLwjczQW-IHFw/s16000/33.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Kelly Preston in 10 to MIDNIGHT</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span></span>

andrew stevens, body count, cannon, charles bronson, cop, crime, eighties, exploitation, gene davis, horror, kelly preston, Lisa Eilbacher, serial killer, thriller, twilight time

CHARLES BRONSON CANNON ERA CONTINUES WITH '10 TO MIDNIGHT'

Title: 10 to Midnight Year: 1983 Rates: ***1/2 Charles Bronson's Cannon Films were a total nightmare for those politically-correct criti...

DAY OF THE ANIMALS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>year: </b>1977 <b>cast:</b> Christopher George, Leslie Neilson, Andrew Stevens<b> rating:</b> **</td></tr>
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A limp  <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">eco</span>-horror about wilderness animals going berserk because of the  man-caused depletion of the ozone layer. The critter madness occurs  during a hiking trip: consisting of an ensemble cast led by Christopher  George.<br />
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There's no mystery involved as to why the beasts, mostly birds  (Hitchcock, anyone?) and then wolves and German <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Shepards</span> have become  deadly since the movie begins with a scrawl teaching us: "According to  scientists, what you're about to see is possible."<br />
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Unlike FROGS,  PIRANHA, and KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS, the characters/victims are  paper-thin and uninteresting, except Leslie Nielsen as an temperamental  bully who suddenly becomes a raping caveman.<br />
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The body count dwindles  quickly during the last half hour; ironically, this is when the film  improves upon the terribly boring lead-up consisting of what looks like  stock footage of wildlife seeming friendly enough save for a  <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">foreboding</span> soundtrack. </div>

action, andrew stevens, christopher george, eco-horror, leslie nielson, seventies

DAY OF THE ANIMALS

year: 1977 cast: Christopher George, Leslie Neilson, Andrew Stevens rating: ** A limp eco -horror about wilderness animals going ber...

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