JOHN CARPENTER'S TV-MOVIE THRILLER 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

<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/AVvXsEhQtYArQtu0CdX6KLfoy9lVli41o2XQn7fgQR3ljCCgMpx6puYsikvEHv3z6uDuk0qHPpLb6ZxxH19lEaCMxNN5ZRZc6dkJEt12z4YTrBFa7S45trY3LePH99A5N5TYvFy2U73lCPRizKNgU8vfnRt62-8BJx0oebfjCcL5BR4V4mzP6SKdIs2BdIMM8Q/s1875/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-01%20at%2012.42.57%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="1875" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQtYArQtu0CdX6KLfoy9lVli41o2XQn7fgQR3ljCCgMpx6puYsikvEHv3z6uDuk0qHPpLb6ZxxH19lEaCMxNN5ZRZc6dkJEt12z4YTrBFa7S45trY3LePH99A5N5TYvFy2U73lCPRizKNgU8vfnRt62-8BJx0oebfjCcL5BR4V4mzP6SKdIs2BdIMM8Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-02-01%20at%2012.42.57%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After John Carpenter hit surprise bombshell with the horror/slasher HALLOWEEN, a made-for-TV movie being the next step is a bit strange, but for the small screen it's not bad... </p><p></p><p></p><p>The tense, rather slowburn plot centers on a director played by Lauren Hutton who is, as the title implies, being watched by someone in the building across from her own... </p><span></span>

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JOHN CARPENTER'S TV-MOVIE THRILLER 'SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!'

Title Sequence for Someone's Watching Me YEAR: 1978 Rating: *** After John Carpenter hit surprise bombshell with the horror/slasher HALL...

BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

<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/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s919/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="919" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq1WmjGKS1Cs1V0_Pswj9GoW7M-2pD9_ocAFhgn6H578BWQN3enIHoiLgBAMGCzIMlGMu0DAVnuO7MtmnHwSmrD3Emxjr3eVsSwpAy1P9UqhwmRHsmrcC50nQbQwzOVdyZU6Cd6WuAolGQyhM79zzDlNNkIqfgann2jHGvmZaZK_u9dM_AzpsvplKCOQ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had the car chase comedy down — actually more of a romantic adventure with humor derived from the situation effecting the characters... wherein THE CANNONBALL RUN is more of an intentional slapdash smashup where laughs happen at every turn (somewhat like the game-changing blockbuster AIRPLANE sans the genre-parody aspect)... </p><p>Fully-loaded with an all-star cast ranging from Roger Moore pretending to be a guy pretending to be Moore as James Bond... to a Kung Fu fighting/biker-brawling Jackie Chan, an Arab Sheikh, two hot-rod hotties and...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS DRIVING HAL NEEDHAM'S 'THE CANNONBALL RUN'

Burt Reynolds in THE CANNONBALL RUN Year: 1981 Rating: ****1/2 After SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT, director Hal Needham and actor Burt Reynolds had...

JOHN CARPENTER'S UNDERRATED GHOST STORY OF 'THE FOG'

<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfXz07UIJefJREII7VP4_Vfc3pWKPjHLC768VmpzyAmTyB8JJiIQGPFwiT9zjoC-mMo9QV57Om7yM8Sve4xGHMV2IbfCLKEKOlniTrTUfv5FoCvrcIpzXVR3zViBuGTXnaIgPIBTiddPr/s540/44877151_592334171195763_9043340000082526208_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="463" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggfXz07UIJefJREII7VP4_Vfc3pWKPjHLC768VmpzyAmTyB8JJiIQGPFwiT9zjoC-mMo9QV57Om7yM8Sve4xGHMV2IbfCLKEKOlniTrTUfv5FoCvrcIpzXVR3zViBuGTXnaIgPIBTiddPr/w343-h400/44877151_592334171195763_9043340000082526208_n.jpeg" width="343"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The Fog autographed DVD Year: 1980</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Depending how you look at it, John Carpenter's THE FOG is a zombie flick since the titular weather-pattern wraiths move in a slow, nightmarish pace. And within that mobile-moving, misty shroud are what you'd get from a good old fashion ghost story, which this is John Carpenter's homage version of...</p><p>Literally starting with old timer John Houseman spinning a campfire legend to kids while setting the plot in motion about their small seaport town, founded on a deception that a ship of lepers was accidentally destroyed by nature — with enough gold to get the town's proverbial ball rolling...</p><p>And now in the 100-year Centennial Celebration, the wraiths, brandishing giant hooks, blades and resembling demonic fisherman with obscured hoods and lighted eyes, are after exactly six people — their own unlucky number now unlucky for the surprisingly low body-count in what's also Carpenter's mellow "drinking movie" of sorts...</p><p></p><p>Starring Adrienne Barbeau, the director's then-wife, as a sultry-voiced deejay of mellow jazz, and otherwise providing a sort of strategic Roman Chorus for the fog's momentum, alerting both the characters where it's headed and the audience where the characters should go because of it... while Carpenter's HALLOWEEN ingenue Jamie Lee Curtis falls (way too quickly and unrealistically) head-over-heels for an older-man, and one of the director's regulars, tough guy actor Tom Atkins; both he and Curtis investigate his best friend's disappearance on a fishing boat leading to a cool "ghost ship" scenario... the duo provides an added bonus to alleviate Barbeau from having to work too hard...</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/AVvXsEihgqdCqAiHadwv3Z6B9Z8c3pGGj-vVfz7-OcWfeQaTr8YyOGnFUvvWoVTkmKhi6uYWbWn0oP4mxTstXhRuwiIOjEBPFpodukGlrzGMvcUVnca_MBh76BFPouCKv1ZFTAnAxThX-pj308np/s934/44544442_590180974744416_988086316258295808_n.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="934" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihgqdCqAiHadwv3Z6B9Z8c3pGGj-vVfz7-OcWfeQaTr8YyOGnFUvvWoVTkmKhi6uYWbWn0oP4mxTstXhRuwiIOjEBPFpodukGlrzGMvcUVnca_MBh76BFPouCKv1ZFTAnAxThX-pj308np/w400-h301/44544442_590180974744416_988086316258295808_n.jpeg" width="400"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Jamie Lee Curtis in THE FOG Rating: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Different than HALLOWEEN and similar to THE THING and PRINCE OF DARKNESS, this is more of an ensemble, and, just as he would later on, Carpenter juggles his characters nicely... <br></p><p>And unlike most main female characters of this genre, the voluptuous brunette Barbeau is definitely no cliché uptight novice: well into her thirties, she has a curious young son who, while they are separated, gives Atkins and Curtis someone to protect along with an actual urgency and purpose leading to a narrowed-down third act. But it's the town's basement-dwelling priest, played with sublime ambiguity by Hal Holbrook, who steals the show while telling half of it...</p><p>Meanwhile, added to the mix is Jamie Lee's mom, legendary PSYCHO starlet Janet Leigh who, alongside another HALLOWEEN ingenue and Carpenter regular Nancy Loomis, provide a second duo to follow towards a particular location — where everyone winds up except the lighthouse-trapped Barbeau... And the split-second surprise-ending is one of the greatest ever in this solid, vastly underrated, personal favorite Carpenter vehicle that, compared to his more celebrated films surrounding, seemed to roll under the pop culture horror movie radar: A cult film's cult film, if you will.  </p><p><span></span></p>

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JOHN CARPENTER'S UNDERRATED GHOST STORY OF 'THE FOG'

The Fog autographed DVD Year: 1980 Depending how you look at it, John Carpenter's THE FOG is a zombie flick since the titular weather-pa...

JOHN CARPENTER'S THE FOG

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JOHN CARPENTER'S THE FOG

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TWO EVIL EYES

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgdKKNoK2dsqMOSof5WF0kVmoLn0NvglvMfEf1xyQCgCl9Qb-WEeYxuwT2t47lBQOM-F5X_GqkaVZvl7k6Ip_qmAGS49ZZ1rgahU0JvGRoVgpfcBr1owicD1Lf61EZsTu6G8CfiVPglg/s1600/215715_179422508773235_177689438946542_418350_6917216_n-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600349629094705922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgdKKNoK2dsqMOSof5WF0kVmoLn0NvglvMfEf1xyQCgCl9Qb-WEeYxuwT2t47lBQOM-F5X_GqkaVZvl7k6Ip_qmAGS49ZZ1rgahU0JvGRoVgpfcBr1owicD1Lf61EZsTu6G8CfiVPglg/s200/215715_179422508773235_177689438946542_418350_6917216_n-1.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 178px; height: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> TWO EVIL EYES<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">year: </span>1990<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">cast: </span>Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kirkland<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> ***<br /><br />Two Edgar Allan Poe tales directed by two masters of macabre: George Romero and Dario Argento. Romero's outing, "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar," begins as a Film Noir tribute with a crooked wife of a dying rich man. Her young lover hypnotises her husband to sign over his inheritance. When he dies, he's not really gone since he never woke from the trance. Romero's in his realm with a zombie antagonist, but unlike NIGHT OF THE LIVING and DAWN OF THE DEAD, it isn't scary and the characters aren't interesting. But Dario Argento fares better with "The Black Cat," pitting forensic photographer Harvey Keitel against an eccentric wife and a black cat, whom he kills and... it, like the husband, won't die. Neither tales do the Poe sources complete justice, missing the master's mark of claustrophobic suspense, but the Argento story is at least enjoyable: aided by an important, and extremely sexy, cameo by Sally Kirkland.

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TWO EVIL EYES

title: TWO EVIL EYES year: 1990 cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kirkland rating: *** Two Edgar Allan Poe tales directed by tw...