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Written by James M. Tate / 7/15/2026 / No comments / allan arbus , body count , don taylor , elizabeth sheperd , franchise , horror , lance henriksen , lee grant , lew ayres , mike hodges , robert foxworth , sylvia sidney , thriller , william holden

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

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

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

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

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

MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'

<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/AVvXsEjSD36OBqqh1u6xPWb1OI7eAeIcZGaUU2xbjYq7vxOIhWHwAHEIl1JP0I9wWAORKPOZFPTa5jZurj2sSIvxQzu7SDbg6-JemYmqxV1AwtX4JNvIHV0ZY_9wdQDLMvfa7bqKoqRCaBtdpQY0eAGcFk5IQnD0uXIoEQqYqdQgtYDEosiyuo3k8YpPLtSB9fu1/s1824/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%2012.42.26%20AM-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1824" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSD36OBqqh1u6xPWb1OI7eAeIcZGaUU2xbjYq7vxOIhWHwAHEIl1JP0I9wWAORKPOZFPTa5jZurj2sSIvxQzu7SDbg6-JemYmqxV1AwtX4JNvIHV0ZY_9wdQDLMvfa7bqKoqRCaBtdpQY0eAGcFk5IQnD0uXIoEQqYqdQgtYDEosiyuo3k8YpPLtSB9fu1/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-02-02%20at%2012.42.26%20AM-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: *****</td></tr></tbody></table>The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael Caine as Jack Carter returns to the squalor of hometown Newcastle to find out how his brother died, which was supposedly a drunk driving accident that Jack thinks was murder...Easy so far, sure, but how he figures out the truth is more complicated than memorizing Shakespeare in Klingon... And in the opening scene he's reading Raymond Chandler, a nod to the kind of Film Noir that GET CARTER embraces by the myriad of last names spouted in a dizzying barrage that needs close paying attention to...

alun armstrong, british neo noir, british new wave, exploitation, george sewell, godfrey quigley, ian hendry, john bindon, michael caine, mike hodges, petra markham, seventies, thriller, tony beckley

MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'

Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: ***** The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael ...

MICHAEL CAINE & MIKE HODGES FOLLOW 'GET CARTER' WITH 'PULP'

<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/AVvXsEie4UxP1V-aP27RqHpg19-8ePOJk0dWIYROkzCP5rF6sYXu3vImYg4x-jGBg8u-Bh-CVpZjcEaHogGVJu_Uq37inR81ODBLCQ2znPdvLH7qUaS3xKIAH5mBbtnrsHu2R79xG9jPKePlpnLk-KyQXHmwtLvyEZtYpKyH07a2U5vOqC0pKdmAKCLuqa3h2vcC/s1954/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%207.16.01%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="950" data-original-width="1954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie4UxP1V-aP27RqHpg19-8ePOJk0dWIYROkzCP5rF6sYXu3vImYg4x-jGBg8u-Bh-CVpZjcEaHogGVJu_Uq37inR81ODBLCQ2znPdvLH7qUaS3xKIAH5mBbtnrsHu2R79xG9jPKePlpnLk-KyQXHmwtLvyEZtYpKyH07a2U5vOqC0pKdmAKCLuqa3h2vcC/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-14%20at%207.16.01%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: ****</td></tr></tbody></table>Director Mike Hodges and his <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/12/getCarter.html">GET CARTER</a> anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfect antidote in PULP, a dark comedy in which a deliberately bad "gangster fiction" novelist becomes part of his own style of flimsy storytelling while narrating along in the usual Gumshoe fashion... Then landing a plot/purpose after a random and eclectic forty-minutes of anticipation for a has-been actor that Caine's slippery scribbler will ghostwrite an autobiography for...

al lettieri, amerigo tot, british neo noir, british new wave, cult, dark comedy, lionel stander, lizabeth scott, michael caine, mickey rooney, mike hodges, neo noir, seventies, thriller

MICHAEL CAINE & MIKE HODGES FOLLOW 'GET CARTER' WITH 'PULP'

Michael Caine gets fiction in PULP Year: 1972 Rates: ** * * Director Mike Hodges and his GET CARTER anti-hero Michael Caine found the perfe...

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