B&S About Movies is all about, well, movies. It's owned and operated by Sam Panico. He is the sole proprietor and chief writer. All others are guest contributors.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Beyond the Bermuda Triangle was on the CBS Late Movie on August 30, 1977 and May 9, 1978. Also known as Beyond This Place There Be Dragons, and wow, what a high-minded title for a TV movie — this movie is all about Fred MacMurray as a yacht-sailing daddy who falls for a gold digger who actually […]
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! Before leaving Asia at the end of World War II, six American G.I.s — Paul (Richard Long), Tom (Marshall Thompson), Nick (James […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ben was on the CBS Late Movie on February 21, 1975 and March 11, 1977. I knew the Michael Jackson song “Ben” a hell of a lot better than Ben the movie, but now, I’ve crossed over into the sewer, and I know both. If you remember Willard—and who could forget?—Willard Stiles got completely overwhelmed and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bees was on the CBS Late Movie on April 14, 1982. Alfredo Zacarías made Demonoid, and we should thank him for that. He also took advantage of the sheer terror that ensued when the Africanized honey bee was on its way to America. Initially used in Brazil to increase honey production, 26 swarms escaped quarantine in […]
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! Clive Barker directed and wrote this, based on his story “The Last Illusion” from the Books of Blood, which introduced Barker’s occult […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bat was on the CBS Late Movie on June 26, 1984. If you like your horror with a heavy dose of classic Hollywood royalty mixing it up with proto-giallo bloodshed, 1959’s The Bat is here for it. Based on Mary Roberts Rinehart’s legendary 1908 novel The Circular Staircase and its subsequent 1920 Broadway hit, this […]
The death of a hoarder shut-in brings the burden of executing her will to Jessica. How does the legend that Benedict Arnold once lived in the woman’s house and a possible treasure fit into the puzzle? Season 4, Episode 18: Benedict Arnold Slipped Here (March 13, 1988) What happens? History, heirlooms, and homicide collide in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Barracuda was on the CBS Late Movie on October 5, 1979 and April 2, 1980. Barracuda accomplishes a miracle. It goes from a movie that bored me senseless at the beginning to one that had me riveted at the end. That’s a pretty incredible feat. It’s also a time capsule of the post-Watergate emotions of 1978 while […]
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! I just saw This House Is Totally Haunted, a movie that is kind of, sort of a sequel to this. That movie […]
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