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Written by James M. Tate / 3/04/2022 / No comments / airplane , body count , dee wallace , eighties , ensemble , frank m. benard , hijack , kim johnston ulrich , kristina wayborn , mitchell ryan , morgan paull , thriller , tv movie , warner archives

TELEVISION AIRPLANE-HIJACKING THRILLER OF 'HOSTAGE FLIGHT'

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TELEVISION AIRPLANE-HIJACKING THRILLER OF 'HOSTAGE FLIGHT'

Frank M. Benard and Kristina Wayborn in HOSTAGE FLIGHT Year: 1985 Rating: **** The 1985 TV-Movie HOSTAGE FLIGHT is one of the better hijacki...

WES CRAVEN'S ORIGINAL EXPLOITATION 'THE HILLS HAVE EYES'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Not one horror film geek hasn't had a crush on Suze Lanier in THE HILLS HAVE EYES Year: 1977</u></td></tr>
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THE HILLS HAVE EYES is generally regarded as a classic horror 
film. Because of the blood, guts, and killer cannibals, but especially 
since Wes Craven, who’d later scare us on ELM STREET and make the next 
generation SCREAM with delight, wrote and directed: Thus the plot has 
the usual horror elements: a trailer-traveling family gets derailed in 
the middle of nowhere and, like the title implies, they’re not alone.<br>
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The setting is fitfully spooky: the surrounding valley of sharp canyon 
cliffs where just about anything is possible, especially after the 
antagonists show themselves in the bright daylight — yet perhaps too bright 
for a movie meant to keep us on edge in a genre where darker is better. 
The Neanderthal hillbillies are liken to a group of mutant hippies had 
they wandered into the Town of Bedrock after hearing The Beatles White 
Album. Or something. <br>

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WES CRAVEN'S ORIGINAL EXPLOITATION 'THE HILLS HAVE EYES'

Not one horror film geek hasn't had a crush on Suze Lanier in THE HILLS HAVE EYES Year: 1977 THE HILLS HAVE EYES is generally regard...

HORROR NOIR RETROSPECTIVE OF JOE DANTE'S 'THE HOWLING'

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“I kind of cross this line where... I see it whether it's really 
there or not,” actress Dee Wallace wrote in a Cult Film Freak interview.
 “Kind of like the monster in the closet when we're little… You just 
know it's there, so it is.”<br>
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And that’s how Joe Dante’s 
THE HOWLING begins, without seeing too much of anything – more of a 
creepy Film Noir look than outright horror flick as Dee Wallace’s Karen 
White, an intrepid anchorwoman at a local news station, has planned to 
meet a mysterious man named Eddie Quist somewhere within the shadowy 
downtown city streets... And what Karen witnesses, kept from the 
audience, really sticks with her... Thus
 the investigation trades off to snoopy reporter Terry Fisher, played by
 versatile character-actress Belinda Balaski, who, as a doomed camp 
counselor in Dante’s PIRANHA a few years earlier, resulted in a 
memorable death scene...<br>

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HORROR NOIR RETROSPECTIVE OF JOE DANTE'S 'THE HOWLING'

Belinda Balaski snooping around THE HOWLING Year: 1981 “I kind of cross this line where... I see it whether it's really there or no...

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belinda balaski, christopher stone, dee wallace, dennis dugan, dick miller, eighties, elisabeth brooks, horror, joe dante, john carradine, kevin mccarthy, neo noir

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Written by James M. Tate / 6/19/2013 / 2 Comments / dee wallace , drew barrymore , eighties , henry thomas , peter coyote , science-fiction , steven spielberg

STEVEN SPIELBERG'S E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL THEATRICALLY REVISITED

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“Children are great – if their moms don't get too involved!” actress Dee Wallace wrote in a Cult Film Freak interview. “They trust, connect, and are always in the moment. I love working with kids… And dogs!”<br />
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Dee's single mom, Mary, has three terrific kids and one friendly dog (unlike her CUJO antagonist a year later) in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, and having the chance to watch this once again, on the big screen, it still holds up: The more deservingly heartfelt moments are subtler in re-watching... And while the searing, melodramatic ending drags on way too long... E.T. dying slowly after government agents infiltrate the house of Henry Thomas’s young Elliott... some of the less contrived tear jerking and/or endearingly memorable moments are when E.T. responds quietly to little sister Gertie's initial fear...<br />
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Or the freeing of doomed frogs inside class after E.T. gets plastered on Coors beer and Elliott, experiencing the same feelings while the drunken alien watches a John Wayne flick in the family room, smooches the hottest girl in school (future BAYWATCH, CHASERS and UNDER SIEGE hottie Erika Eleniak, who autographed the vintage LP above). <br />
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We all know the main story: a flying saucer lands in a forest bordering the suburbs and, after the ship takes off, one alien is left behind. He’s soon discovered and eventually befriended by a young lonely kid who, even surrounded by his older brother's smart allecky cohorts… playing poker like world-weary grownups… Elliot has no one to call a real friend.<br />
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Some of the best moments occur in the build-up: boy and alien initially connect thanks to Reese’s Pieces (when product placement didn’t seem as obnoxious)…And then as Elliott lets his older brother, played by scene-stealing/Yoda-impersonating Robert MacNaughton, and an adorable Drew Barrymore into the big secret mom can’t know...<br />
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It's during this in-house ruse that director Steven Spielberg, fresh from the rip-roaring success of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and having established himself a space alien guru for his CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, never misses a suspenseful beat. But with so much fun going on, it's too bad E.T. and Elliott get ill so 
quickly... Right after a terrific Halloween sequence both set out with a
 Texas Instruments Speak & Spell, an attempt to "Phone Home," and the decline begins...<br />
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The movie can get corny but the yanked heartstrings don't hinder the film's steady pace. Henry Thomas was one of the great child actors, expressing every emotion possible while not coming across as an overly trained Hollywood brat.<br />
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And as mentioned earlier, the only drawback is the end, as Elliott and E.T. lay dying for what seems like an eternity... but that’s more than made up for during the iconic escape sequence resulting in the kids riding, and then flying, their bikes away from gun-wielding FBI agents.<br />
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“This is reality, Greg,” Elliott tells his brother’s more dimwitted pals after the suggestion that E.T. simply beam himself aboard the ship. And that’s what makes this magical film so timeless: It still seems very real and is more than just another heartwarming science-fiction fantasy.<br />
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“I knew it was special,” Dee Wallace wrote… And when asked if she had a feeling (during filming) of the success E.T. would garner, becoming the number one box office champ of all time until Spielberg's JURASSIC PARK made that record extinct, she finished with: “No! The public makes a hit. You do your best and hope.”<br />
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STEVEN SPIELBERG'S E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL THEATRICALLY REVISITED

year: 1982 rating: **** “Children are great – if their moms don't get too involved!” actress Dee Wallace wrote in a Cult Film Freak ...

Written by James M. Tate / 4/30/2013 / No comments / 2013 , bruce davison , dee wallace , exploitation , horror , ken foree , rob zombie

THE LORDS OF SALEM

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Writer/Director Rob Zombie, whose 1990’s death metal sounded like the Devil himself had his very own rock band, serves up yet another cinematic gore fest: Whether you liked or loathed Rob's HALLOWEEN remake, HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES or THE DEVIL’S REJECTS, these were motion pictures – actually more exploitation than horror – that at least took themselves seriously and most important, had a fanatical audience to consider.<br />
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THE LORDS OF SALEM feels more like an art-house music video paying dreary homage to classics like THE SHINING, as most of the story takes place in a hotel with each day of the week separating every other scene; THE EXORCIST, wherein a vulnerable female gets possessed and is aided by an older man with possible answers; and whatever devil worship cult flick you can think of, but for thematic purposes only.<br />
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Rob’s wife Sheri Moon plays Heidi Hawthorne, of three Salem Rock N’ Roll DJs, but Heidi's the <i>only</i> name on the old wooden box where a record from a band called THE LORDS OF SALEM is kept. When the main track is played… either in her room or on the air… bad things happen, mostly centering on three witchy old sisters (including the hotel landlord), who stand around as if posing for a Gothic photo shoot. Meanwhile Bruce Davison, as a Salem novelist/historian, attempts an intervention that fails miserably. Leaving poor Heidi (resembling a demonic voodoo doll Hamburgler) with a spaced-out expression and surreal dreams more interesting than her real life nightmare. Meanwhile, sporadic flashbacks occur of the original Salem witches writhing naked around a fire pit, and none of these grotesque gals are a wee bit scary, just really gross and, befitting everything else, ultimately pointless.

2013, bruce davison, dee wallace, exploitation, horror, ken foree, rob zombie