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Written by James M. Tate / 12/20/2022 / No comments / bert remsen , charles frank , charles siebert , creature , deborah winters , ensemble , howard hesseman , matthew labyorteaux , pat hingle , penelope windust , seventies , spiders , tom atkins

DEBORAH WINTERS IN 'TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO'

<p></p><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/AVvXsEi4Fdlvc8_E5eCOHFR2xz4q1km4xdCkEvjJ18XDlsaT78wJImqOAmj0RDbuEFqJVpJPvwSTkpWB9YnckeJSYFqI08Djh6Ol911P3hgGsn7KQzbMEXm6Qd7MiX9LkKxzptQASS-QDR44nUnEgU3ucxKlBqXnZFNs4yR6uqbyVHonx1YuYDZdrpvKzQR8fQ/s1041/81OSWD3f3PL._SL1500_.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1041" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Fdlvc8_E5eCOHFR2xz4q1km4xdCkEvjJ18XDlsaT78wJImqOAmj0RDbuEFqJVpJPvwSTkpWB9YnckeJSYFqI08Djh6Ol911P3hgGsn7KQzbMEXm6Qd7MiX9LkKxzptQASS-QDR44nUnEgU3ucxKlBqXnZFNs4yR6uqbyVHonx1YuYDZdrpvKzQR8fQ/s16000/81OSWD3f3PL._SL1500_.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The JAWS craze went beyond hungry fish as the TV-Movie TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO winds up with a town torn between business and people's safety, with cranky Bert Remsen in the Murray Hamilton mayoral position, running an orange mill where the furry-legged-critters wind up...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's after what seems like two separate short films, especially the intro where grungy maverick pilot/smugglers Howard Hessmann and Tom Atkins sneak coffee beans away from the local crooked government, and they wind up as <i>Janet Leigh from PSYCHO</i> characters in that they <i>only seem</i> permanent...</p><p><span></span></p>

bert remsen, charles frank, charles siebert, creature, deborah winters, ensemble, howard hesseman, matthew labyorteaux, pat hingle, penelope windust, seventies, spiders, tom atkins

DEBORAH WINTERS IN 'TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO'

Title: TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO Year: 1977 Rating: ***1/2 The JAWS craze went beyond hungry fish as the TV-Movie TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY ...

KRISTY SWASON IN WES CRAVEN'S SCIENCE-HORROR 'DEADLY FRIEND'

<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/a/AVvXsEjWxQKrn64lW1wEHi4k-3mH8bsnlFl6gEzcvP6y7KCVdF_6IJlihQ4udaczMgFZYKTW3IQ48IgcmJeb-MqbEY_c2cpyKm8WTyWxu-OkmfdEFFqKUTc4OZNUDucnITkMghj07hMhn-8Lb9F8b3JLN7RJEa3XVgMJto8HjzLd5QpibseHNIE0XmcNhiAO9Q=s2048" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWxQKrn64lW1wEHi4k-3mH8bsnlFl6gEzcvP6y7KCVdF_6IJlihQ4udaczMgFZYKTW3IQ48IgcmJeb-MqbEY_c2cpyKm8WTyWxu-OkmfdEFFqKUTc4OZNUDucnITkMghj07hMhn-8Lb9F8b3JLN7RJEa3XVgMJto8HjzLd5QpibseHNIE0XmcNhiAO9Q=s16000"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Blu Ray Cover Artwork for DEADLY FRIEND Year Released: 1986 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A year before giving her class the lowdown about FERRIS BEULLER'S DAY OFF and around five years until losing her adorable baby fat for the deliberately camp-filled BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Kristy Swanson starred in another Classic Monster-inspired b-movie directed by Wes Craven, a horror-genre director having so much silly fun here it seems he hadn't yet realized A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET had blown up on video...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thank God because DEADLY FRIEND, a modern take on the FRANKENSTEIN tale, packs one helluva wallop, particularly a basketball beheading so pivotal and scene-stealing it should be backed by celebratory fireworks... </p><p><span></span></p>

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KRISTY SWASON IN WES CRAVEN'S SCIENCE-HORROR 'DEADLY FRIEND'

Blu Ray Cover Artwork for DEADLY FRIEND Year Released: 1986 Rating: **** A year before giving her class the lowdown about FERRIS BEULLER...

KRISTY SWANSON IN WES CRAVEN'S 'DEADLY FRIEND'

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Long Gone are the days of this particular Photobucket frame... But here's a writeup of DEADLY FRIEND that came out in 1986</u></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">DEADLY FRIEND is like two movies in one, and both are completely entertaining. Directed by Wes Craven after NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET bombed in theaters and then became a sleeper hit on video...</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Craven's FRIEND involves a brainy teenager, Paul Conway, played by Matthew Labyorteaux, famous as the street urchin turned bad luck charm Albert Ingalls on LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.</span><br>

eighties, horror, kristy swanson, matthew labyorteaux, suspense, wes craven

KRISTY SWANSON IN WES CRAVEN'S 'DEADLY FRIEND'

Long Gone are the days of this particular Photobucket frame... But here's a writeup of DEADLY FRIEND that came out in 1986 DEADLY FR...

ERIC ROBERTS & STERLING HAYDEN IN 'KING OF THE GYPSIES'

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Writer/director Frank Pierson attempts a time period drama ala Francis Ford Coppola in the GODFATHER-inspired KING OF THE GYPSIES, centering on those infamously resilient scarf-waring vagabonds. The first act introduces the self titled leader of con-artist nomads played by Sterling Hayden, whose energetic performance makes up for the fact we get little backstory to how his character, Zharko Stepanowicz, rose to prominence in the first place.<br />
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We begin in the past: an abduction of a rival's daughter during a gypsy family party. Zharko wanted this girl for his spoiled son, Groffo, who will later grow up to be a slightly miscast Judd Hirsch, over-reaching the antagonist role with stage play gusto. He's married to a perfectly cast Susan Sarandon as Rose, the true working class hero of the Gypsy family...<br />
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Reading fortunes and using her young son to steal diamonds, Rose is the breadwinner of the mobile clan. Unfortunately, her only paychecks are the random beatings from her abusive, no-good husband.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matthew Labyorteaux as a young Dave driving Judd Hirsch's Groffo</td></tr>
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Throughout the narration by Eric Roberts playing Dave, the King’s grandson and Rose’s firstborn, are involving scenes with the young Dave (Matthew Labyorteaux) wreaking havoc around town, turning into dad's getaway driver and eventually becoming a thieving street urchin on his own. When he grows into Eric Roberts he’s completely separate from the Gypsy life: an estranged prodigal grandson until Zharko takes him back into the fold.<br />
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Eric Roberts, in his first theatrical role, is both intense and vulnerable as an aimless young man who is eventually, on his grandfather’s deathbed, given the “King” moniker, thus becoming a target from his jealous dad. Groffo eventually plans to sell his daughter/Dave’s sister (Brooke Shields) to another family, and for mother Rose, this is the last straw. She talks Dave into setting things right and the real excitement begins. <br />
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Never quite sure if it’s a time period melodrama or a violent exploitation style thriller, GYPSIES is always intriguing, especially as Dave, bearing the weight of his new title, has to fight his way out of a cursed life: surviving intense chases on foot or in speeding cars.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brooke Shields as Tita</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eric Roberts and Brooke Shields</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A brooding Eric Roberts</td></tr>
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