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Written by James M. Tate / 8/27/2025 / No comments / allan arkush , clint howard , comedy , concert , dey young , dick miller , exploitation , high school , joe dante , mary woronov , pj soles , roger corman , seventies , vincent van patten

ROGER CORMAN/THE RAMONES PRESENT 'ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL'

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allan arkush, clint howard, comedy, concert, dey young, dick miller, exploitation, high school, joe dante, mary woronov, pj soles, roger corman, seventies, vincent van patten

ROGER CORMAN/THE RAMONES PRESENT 'ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL'

Marla Rosenfield with PJ Soles and Chris Somma in Rock N Roll High School Year: 1979 Rates: **** Hard Rock Bands like Cheap Trick and Van Ha...

CANDICE RIALSON & MARY WORONOV IN 'HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD'

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alan arkush, allan arkush, candice rialson, dick miller, exploitation, jeffrey kramer, joe dante, john kramer, mary woronov, paul bartel, rita george, roger corman, seventies, tara strohmeier

CANDICE RIALSON & MARY WORONOV IN 'HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD'

Title: HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 Directors Joe Dante and Allan Arkush, who made PIRANHA (Dante) and ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCH...

ORIGINAL KILLER CULT CLASSIC OF JOE DANTE'S 'PIRANHA'

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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">said the director's regular troupe member, Belinda Balaski, who we'll continue with later as now, from the origin is, at that time, a future arthouse/indie director, John Sayles, starting out a scriptwriter with terrific pulpy creature-features. Two for Joe Dante: PIRANHA, which you're reading about now, and years later THE HOWLING, very loosely based on a sparse, uncomplicated novel, and the screenplay's far more creative and edgy. And for director Lewis Teague, Sayles wrote ALLIGATOR, one of those "title says it all" flicks but with some depth and, best yet, an actor like Robert Forster who can legitimize anything...
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And anyone familiar with COMPULSION knows that Bradford Dillman, who had won the Cannes Festival Best Actor award back in 1959, was no slouch either... </span><br>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">As a bearded alcoholic divorced-dad living in a rural cabin, he makes an otherwise limited character interesting and humorous. Which, of course, has a lot to do with the script... </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">But Dillman's chemistry with 70's scream queen Heather Menzies, who shrieked brilliantly at the end of SSSSSSS a few years earlier, makes a really good movie great: And there's no mystery as to homage since </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Joe Dante says, right up front on the DVD commentary, that PIRANHA is an intentional JAWS clone. But it's no carbon copy of the Steven Spielberg shark classic, taking place on a rural river instead of the ocean... the latter where the deadly Gov't-Created-for-Vietnam fanged-fish are ultimately headed. Plus there's a car chase/race against time: popular back then. But it's no shock that in PIRANHA, the real action takes place in the water...</span><br>

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ORIGINAL KILLER CULT CLASSIC OF JOE DANTE'S 'PIRANHA'

YEAR: 1978 "Joe Dante trusted me enough to listen and allow the freedom to write scenes in every show I ever did with him" JAWS...

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

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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...

JOE DANTE DIRECTS TOM HANKS & CARRIE FISHER IN THE 'BURBS

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Carrie Fisher and Wendy Schaal YEAR: 1989</u></td></tr>
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Director Joe Dante, no stranger to the world of strange characters in bizarre situations, throws it all into the cinematic pot… including the kitchen sink… serving up THE ‘BURBS starring Tom Hanks during the tail-end of his comedy-only career. As family man Ray Peterson, there’s a REAR WINDOW vibe as our passive, debilitated hero faces a suburban col de sac while one house in particular becomes the prime target for morbid curiosity.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>The BurbSCORE: ***</u></td></tr>
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Much of the film has Hanks and chubby instigating neighbor buddy Art, played by GROUNDHOG DAY actor Rick Ducommun, along with Bruce Dern’s Vietnam vet Lt. Mark Rumsfield, his trophy wife Bonnie (Wendy Schaal, pictured above), Carrie Fisher as Ray’s assertive wife Carol, who injects her usual pizazz into what would be a filler role with another actress in an extremely limited/thankless role...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Wendy Schaal stealing the scenery YEAR: 1929</u></td></tr>
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And last but not least is cool kid Corey Feldman as Ricky trying to figure out what exactly is going on with these mysterious new neighbors, residents of the shabby manor looking a cross between the Bate’s Hotel and Frankenestein’s mansion.
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The best scenes are in the buildup, getting to know the eclectic cast, after which Dante inserts so many “nostalgic” camera tricks, the tail begins wagging the dog. Which is sad since THE ‘BURBS was much better when we didn’t know what (or rather, who) lurked inside the house, making it difficult to tell exactly which specific genre is being parodied – as if the movie were making more fun of itself than any campy predecessor. And in one genuinely frightening image, when Ray witnesses cloaked figures frantically digging holes in the backyard during a lightning storm, there’s potential for the film to stretch beyond all the deliberate homage.

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JOE DANTE DIRECTS TOM HANKS & CARRIE FISHER IN THE 'BURBS

Carrie Fisher and Wendy Schaal YEAR: 1989 Director Joe Dante, no stranger to the world of strange characters in bizarre situations, thro...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/19/2013 / No comments / belinda balaski , christopher stone , dee wallace , dennis dugan , dick miller , eighties , elisabeth brooks , horror , joe dante , john carradine , kevin mccarthy , neo noir

HORROR NOIR THE HOWLING REVIEW HAS RELOCATED

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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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THE HOWLING HORROR NOIR REVIEW IS NOT MISSING LIKE EDDIE'S BODY'S, IT'S MOVED AND CLICK THIS ENTIRE SENTENCE TO FIND IT ...

Written by James M. Tate / 9/17/2013 / No comments / dan aykroyd , eighties , joe dante , john landis , john lithgow , remake , rod serling , scatman crothers , science-fiction , steven spielberg , vic morrow

OUT OF THE HAT REVIEW OF 'TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE'

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The tragic deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children aside, this theatrical version of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking television series has a few other problems...<br />
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The first story, directed by John Landis, centers on Morrow as a racist loudmouth spouting epitaphs in a bar – overheard by a group of tough black dudes who, if they only beat him up when he walked out the door, would have deleted any need for the character’s descent into various historical settings where racism reigned: From walking a ledge as a Jew in Nazi Germany to sloshing through swamps as a Vietnamese native (the tragic helicopter sequence was filmed there), Morrow discovers sticks and stones have nothing on words.<br />
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The story itself is somewhat intriguing – you’ll wonder what’ll happen next – but the ultimate punishment of the main character, as unlikable as he might be, is too forced and would have been much different had there been no on-set tragedy: Vic Morrow's Bill Conner could have learned his lesson and saved the Vietnamese children.<br />
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The worst of the lot is Steven Spielberg’s KICK THE CAN. Making for an eerily nostalgic fable on the original series, Speilberg's take, with his flowing signature style overdosing to the point of seeming like a Spielbergland Theme Park, is a mushy melodrama centering on rest home old-timers who yearn for youth. The discontented coots turn into youngsters that seem part of a corny stage play. The child actors, instead of simply being children, are doing imitations of their older selves, so the entire episode feels like a parody. Veteran icon Scatman Crothers, as the mysterious traveler who wields the magic, tries his best but to no avail.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bart Simpson's voice actress stalked by killer cartoons</td></tr>
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Leading to the third entry as THE HOWLING director Joe Dante re-imagines one of the coolest episodes of the original series. Remember Billy Mumy as a sinister child holding his family, and the residents of a small town, at bay with evil powers to send chosen people into the Cornfield?<br />
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The boy this time around is, like director Dante himself, heavily into cartoons. His house has a TV in each room and his family makes sure everything goes his way. When the maniacal brat brings home a beautiful passerby (Kathleen Quinlin), she witnesses this strange behavior. Although it can get too bizarre for its own good, Dante builds suspense nicely, setting a taut vibe where anything can happen – including the actress who’d later voice Bart Simpson being hunted by demonic cartoons: inside a television set!<br />
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Leading to the last, and by far the best, episode: John Lithgow (reprising William Shatner) plays a man terrified to fly. Stuck on a plane during a raging lighting-packed thunderstorm, he sporadically witnesses a scheming creature on the wing.<br />
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MAD MAX director George Miller paints an intense canvas. From the claustrophobic fuselage to the storm-struck exterior where the monster wreaks havoc, each element adds nightmarish touches of one man’s descent into a personal hell. Lithgow turns-in the best performance, balancing manic desperation and edgy pathos, eventually facing off with the sinister ALIEN-looking Gremlin. And although Landis's first story fails in content... His prologue/epilogue involving hitchhiker Dan Aykroyd getting a ride from nice guy Albert Brooks – jovially discussing old TV shows like THE OUTER LIMITS and, yes, THE TWILIGHT ZONE – is both humorous and ultimately intense, leading to a terrific twist ending... Making you forget the first half was practically, and tragically, a complete throwaway.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The demonic alligator creature just ate Bart Simpson...</td></tr>
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dan aykroyd, eighties, joe dante, john landis, john lithgow, remake, rod serling, scatman crothers, science-fiction, steven spielberg, vic morrow

OUT OF THE HAT REVIEW OF 'TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE'

year: 1983 cast: Vic Morrow, John Lithgow rating: *** The tragic deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two children aside, this theatrical ...

Written by James M. Tate / 11/30/2012 / No comments / 2012 , alicia silverstone , amy heckerling , comedy , haley bennett , joe dante , malcolm mcdowell , satire

AMY HECKERLING'S VAMPS & JOE DANTE'S THE HOLE

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">title: VAMPS year: 2012 cast: Alicia Silverstone, Krysten Ritter, Malcolm McDowall rating: *1/2</td></tr>
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The saying “They don’t make ‘em like they used to” usually refers to really great movies – but it can also be said for those really bad ones that start out intentionally cheesy and keep piling it on… and on and on and on…Well here’s an attempt to revive “Cringe Cinema” to younger audiences…   <br />
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We begin with two pretty girls waking up in plush coffins. They’re vampires and talk like your average airhead teens. But it turns out one of them dates back to the 1800’s... <br />
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Alicia Silverstone’s Goody is just that. Passive and non-violent, she only bleeds filthy rodents, never humans, and had lived many years but fell in love only once during the 1960’s to a hippie radical who, now older, is in the form of (a noticeably aged) Richard Lewis.  <br />
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And then there’s Stacy, played by Krysten Ritter, the more naïve of the two as she falls in love with a fellow college student with the last name Van Helsing, whose father (Wallace Shawn) may finally have a reason to wield that wooden stake again.<br />
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Unlike Goody, who recalls historic events like they were only yesterday, Stacy had changed twenty years ago and her memories go back only to the 80’s and 90’s, the era when writer/director Amy Heckerling reigned: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH is one of the best high school sex comedies ever made, and CLUELESS shaped 90’s teen cinema. But VAMPS fails on almost every level, trying much too hard to be modern with references to social websites, iphones and ipads; while the constant jabs at the ever-maligned Right are much too forced (and distractingly slanted) even for Hollywood. <br />
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The Vamp girls live an idyllic existence, roaming from nightclubs to their apartment and are sporadically summoned by their leader, Cisserus, who revives their everlasting clock. Iconic actress Sigourney Weaver plays the bloodthirsty siren leaving a trail of corpses at her wake (including Pizza guy Taylor Negron from RIDGEMONT) and hams it up to an embarrassing level. On the lighter side, the usually formidable Malcolm McDowell tones down Vlad the Impaler, part of a group of reformed flesh-eaters who gather at a "Bloodsuckers Anonymous" meeting (harboring another FAST TIMES veteran Scott "Arnold" Thomson). McDowell is collecting a paycheck here, and alas, it’s probably not a big one.   <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brian Bakker (Mark Ratner from FAST TIMES) as a possible victim</td></tr>
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There’s a joke a minute, and few are funny. Attempting to spoof bad b-movies, VAMPS becomes one in itself. The glossy cinematography resembles a straight-to-video release while the special effects are the kind of Computer Generated fare you’d see on a cheesy You Tube video.  <br />
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But there are two sides to the coin. One aspect of really bad horror flicks is that once you start, you can’t stop watching. This will make you stay tuned in, to see if it can get any worse. It does and often comfortably so. <br />
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Alicia Silverstone, who looks great twenty years after CLUELESS, is sweetly likable as the Vamp with a bleeding heart of gold. She may have to sacrifice herself for her best friend, who, having found true love, might have a real (if shortened) future. If anything else, you’ll believe these “young ladies” really care for each other. It’s too bad they don’t have anything really funny to do, or say, in the ninety minute eternity herein.<br />
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Notable directors from the 70’s and 80’s who, for whatever reason, haven’t worked in a while, recently turned-in movies that haven’t lived up to their past successes… or failures: The John Landis outing BURKE AND HARE has average moments and a fun buildup but ultimately gets lost, never sure if it’s a comedic satire or a gory thriller with comedy thrown in. John Carpenter’s THE WARD plays out like a mediocre cable movie and Joe Dante, whose horror classics PIRANHA and THE HOWLING led to a successful collaboration with Steven Spielberg in GREMLINS and then a hit/miss string with EXPLORERS, INNERSPACE and THE 'BURBS, has a new – or relatively new – film titled THE HOLE.<br />
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Set in a middle class neighborhood, a family consisting of a single mother, teenage son and his little brother move into a two-storey house where, in the center of the dark basement is a nailed door covering a mysterious Hole which, once unlocked, leads into a shrouded oblivion.<br />
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The boys are Dane and Lucas, and unlike the kids who build the spaceship in EXPLORERS, they lack the creative spark to keep the intrigue going. Their sexy next door neighbor Julie, by her looks alone, moves the pace along: the trio films inside the Hole but, later on, can’t make out much more than foggy images on the TV set. <br />
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Soon they forget about this phenomenal enigma until weird stuff starts occurring around them. And here’s where the story picks up some, and Joe Dante’s talent as a suspenseful director comes in handy…<br />
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The palpable inner-fears of each kid lurks within darkened rooms, sneaking around shadowy corners backed by fitfully tense music... A dead girl stalking Julie is scarier than the clown puppet that hunts down Lucas (POLTERGIEST, anyone?)... But the puppet, more stop-motion than C.G.I., is reminiscent of the good old days when special effects looked more awkward and eerie than digitally streamlined. Although it’s an intriguing premise, the problem with THE HOLE is the acting – while Chris Massoglia looks the part of a leading young man, he’s way too lethargic in an intense predicament. His expressions hardly change from scene to scene, which makes the escalating weirdness seem secondhand for the audience to partake.<br />
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Haley Bennett fairs better as the damsel in distress (although there needed more distress), and young Nathan Gamble doesn’t seem scared enough, especially when being attacked by that demonic clown. Their mother (Teri Polo) comes and goes while cameos by Dante stock actors Bruce Dern (THE 'BURBS) and Dick Miller (GREMLINS) are a nice distraction but ultimately serve as filler to the proceedings.  <br />
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The ending, after Dane finally journeys into The Hole to face his own ultimate fear, is a bit too “out there,” resembling Joe Dante’s possessed kid segment of THE TWILGIHT ZONE MOVIE, sharing the bizarre nightmarish world where cartoons and Film Noir collide. This aesthetic at least carries the Dante signature. Too bad the story and acting falls considerably short. <br />
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