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Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2023 / No comments / action , bill condon , diana scarwid , eighties , fiona lewis , louise fletcher , michael laughlin , nancy allen , paul lemat , science-fiction

MICHAEL LAUGHLIN'S 'STRANGE INVADERS' STARRING PAUL LE MAT

<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/AVvXsEjxv7gb1H4lh4Ws8z5TKWl7-T0mgfnsFhq67jWaRQ0aXh2ebP3ExMnqRJ-mKaSPn8E_HHaZADfCsmp5tFvydX_XLab151gt0e3mt8v53j1zupGBTFcdj5Y44jeSr4WEdcz4_cD9u2-goNfBwuAi1kJcZ1YL772kAo9ptbvW69pNAHds5BAdsoN3P911z4mU/s1884/365680579_1779003759195459_4872153497581153184_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="986" data-original-width="1884" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxv7gb1H4lh4Ws8z5TKWl7-T0mgfnsFhq67jWaRQ0aXh2ebP3ExMnqRJ-mKaSPn8E_HHaZADfCsmp5tFvydX_XLab151gt0e3mt8v53j1zupGBTFcdj5Y44jeSr4WEdcz4_cD9u2-goNfBwuAi1kJcZ1YL772kAo9ptbvW69pNAHds5BAdsoN3P911z4mU/s16000/365680579_1779003759195459_4872153497581153184_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: STRANGE INVADERS Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>It's said director Michael Laughlin and co-writer Bill Condon were headed for a titular STRANGE Trilogy after STRANGE BEHAVIOR and STRANGE INVADERS, which was financially scrapped — yet for vehicles both celebrating and intentionally duplicating nostalgic science-fiction/horror, a STRANGE Double-Feature is actually more proper... So following BEHAVIOR... a mesmerizing, slowburn horror also inspired by then-recent teenage slasher flicks... STRANGE INVADERS is a full-blown 1950's sci-fi homage, right down to throwback Technicolor-style soft focus and beginning with aliens encroaching a rural Eisenhower-era town, where an opening scrawl reads how America had only Elvis's pelvis and Communism to fear...

action, bill condon, diana scarwid, eighties, fiona lewis, louise fletcher, michael laughlin, nancy allen, paul lemat, science-fiction

MICHAEL LAUGHLIN'S 'STRANGE INVADERS' STARRING PAUL LE MAT

Title: STRANGE INVADERS Year: 1983 Rating: ***1/2 It's said director Michael Laughlin and co-writer Bill Condon were headed for a titula...

DECONSTRUCTING 'STRANGE BEHAVIOR' INVOLVING 'DEAD KIDS'

<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/AVvXsEhO0NBkvni_KK7oDd7Us2tnrOcxR3YzFhxhIwxk3R_SsfGlWD3FiQlEVvfEa9vVhyphenhyphenBs91OA63M7gmukYkdvNK_qAN6AE5K6Ekcr4lP8NChfTTD6zG2_VjNIcpQt7YSwfZLmR_IEAbj-AYP0PY9m8jkg01WkJn517D2LTpCGPwKtBjSgyOR0XGjccNV1Cc1Q/s2374/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-31%20at%205.30.58%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1234" data-original-width="2374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO0NBkvni_KK7oDd7Us2tnrOcxR3YzFhxhIwxk3R_SsfGlWD3FiQlEVvfEa9vVhyphenhyphenBs91OA63M7gmukYkdvNK_qAN6AE5K6Ekcr4lP8NChfTTD6zG2_VjNIcpQt7YSwfZLmR_IEAbj-AYP0PY9m8jkg01WkJn517D2LTpCGPwKtBjSgyOR0XGjccNV1Cc1Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-31%20at%205.30.58%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: STRANGE BEHAVIOR aka STRANGE KIDS Year: 1981 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>In director Michael Laughlin and co-writer/producing partner Bill Condon's second in their Strange-Double-Feature, titled STRANGE INVADERS, Dey Young and Dan Shor appear in a quick prologue as young yet old-fashion 1950's-era lovers, smooching in a car... And two years earlier in STRANGE BEHAVIOR they're again behind the wheel, but here as the lead characters in modern times... the sheriff's son and his progressive girlfriend... as she timidly smokes after he'd (covertly) altered into a living-zombie-type, knocking her out before returning to the film's ominous epicenter — that caused his potentially lethal mental and physical transition...

bill condon, dan shor, dey young, eighties, elizabeth cheshire, fiona lewis, horror, louise fletcher, marc mcclure, michael laughlin, michael murphy, science-fiction, scott brady, tangerine dream

DECONSTRUCTING 'STRANGE BEHAVIOR' INVOLVING 'DEAD KIDS'

Title: STRANGE BEHAVIOR aka STRANGE KIDS Year: 1981 Rating: **** In director Michael Laughlin and co-writer/producing partner Bill Condon...

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

<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/AVvXsEjRsIWkuznV8q00gUF9h2ZC5HdX13RUGaKj8XiaTlAjIZHrKobN6C2L5gc9hA38uBxXzhzoMggaqflJrAPhg4Vkqkf2GQ7m0QtcEk0qMTnfBclMkTDlqH4eRAkXtSjNLFvt8fcYPA4ltIoFld8ZfOeP_LUg5LlUIc_JeFWhEOOaUa4jqL20zwdDZSB287nE/s2452/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-16%20at%202.31.50%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="2452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRsIWkuznV8q00gUF9h2ZC5HdX13RUGaKj8XiaTlAjIZHrKobN6C2L5gc9hA38uBxXzhzoMggaqflJrAPhg4Vkqkf2GQ7m0QtcEk0qMTnfBclMkTDlqH4eRAkXtSjNLFvt8fcYPA4ltIoFld8ZfOeP_LUg5LlUIc_JeFWhEOOaUa4jqL20zwdDZSB287nE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-16%20at%202.31.50%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role for Tom Courtenay before returning to and remaining with the Royal Stage until his comeback in THE DRESSER. Despite earning an Oscar nomination, those very long thirteen-years had changed the scrawny, scowling, hungry rebellious youth into a mellow middle-aged man who could still act — but visually it was like replacing James Dean with Jimmy Dean... 
 
OTLEY was also a reunion of two young cronies from Courtenay's star-making LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER with James Bolam as one of several antique dealers along Fleet Street, England, where Courtenay's Gerald Otley hardly makes a living, starting out being kicked out of one flat and desperately seeking another...

action, alan badel, british new wave, fiona lewis, freddie jones, james bolam, james maxwell, james villiers, lenoard rossiter, leonard rossiter, romy schneider, spoof, spy, tom courtenay, wrong man

TOM COURTENAY PURSUED THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AS 'OTLEY'

Tom Courtenay in OTLEY Year: 1969 Rating: **** At the crest of the 1960's counter-culture, OTLEY was the final starring cinematic role f...

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1)OTLEY 2)ROBBERY 3)HELL IS A CITY 4)THE FEARMAKERS 5)CANYON PASSAGE 6)HOT CARS 7)VIOLENT SATURDAY 8)THE BREAK 9)THE CROWDED SKY 10)THE ROARING TWENTIES 11) ANATOMY OF A MURDER 12)CALCULATED RISK 13)SWEENEY TWO 14)RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA 15)HARDCORE 16)JUNGLE STREET 17)WHITE HEAT 18)FALLEN ANGEL 19)A PRIZE OF ARMS 20)THE BIG HEAT 21)SHARKS' TREASURE 22)THE MARKED ONES 23)THE DRIVER 24)THE SYSTEM 25)AIR PATROL 26)THE STONE KILLER 27)JOURNEY INTO FEAR 28)WILLIAM CONRAD'S BRAINSTORM 29)FRENZY 30)THE MAN FROM LARAMIE FAVORITE ACTORS 1)DANA ANDREWS 2)JAMES CAGNEY 3)STANLEY BAKER 4)MARLON BRANDO 5)JACK NICHOLSON 6)CHARLES BRONSON 7)BURT REYNOLDS 8)WILLIAM LUCAS 9)TOM COURTENAY 10)GENE HACKMAN DIRECTORS 1)JACQUES TOURNEUR 2)RICHARD FLEISCHER 3)VAL GUEST 4)STANLEY KUBRICK 5)OTTO PREMINGER 6)ORSON WELLES 7)JOHN GUILLERMAN 8)JOHN LANDIS 9)SAM PECKINPAH 10)MICHAEL WINNER