WATCH THE SERIES: Halloween
Watch the series is a new feature at B and S About Movies. In one post, we’ll watch the entire run of a franchise and share some facts and plenty of opinions. There’s no more appropriate series to start with than Halloween. SAM: One of the struggles I’ve had with this blog (and our podcast) […]
The Devil’s Rain! (1975)
The Devil’s Rain! is a movie that could only have been made in 1975. It united old Hollywood royalty, television stars, the visionary director of The Abominable Dr. Phibes and the Church of Satan in the Mexican desert. It is not a perfect movie. You can’t even say that it has plot holes, as that […]
Beyond the Door (1974)
There are rip-offs of The Exorcist. And then there are rip-offs where copyright infringement lawsuits lead to Warner Brothers getting a cash settlement and a portion of the film’s future revenue. Beyond the Door would be the latter. It’s $40 million worldwide gross meant that this film would a film draw the ire and call of that most Satanic of all […]
Alucarda (1977)
Alucarda is: A 1977 nunspolitation/vampire/Mexican horror/Exorcist inspired film about two girls who become possessed by Satan. The source of many My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult samples, specifically the song “And This Is What the Devil Does.” A movie filled with so much screaming, it upset my dog. All of the above and so […]
The Legacy (1978)
The rich. The powerful. The satanic. And a white cat. Yes, The Legacy really has it all. As Bill Van Ryn of Groovy Doom says, “It’s Suspiria and The Omen in a blender.” Maggie Walsh (Katherine Ross, The Stepford Wives and The Swarm) and Pete Danner (a really young Sam Elliott, Mask and The Big Lebowski) get a strange call for […]
Cathy’s Curse (1977)
How do Canadian little girls act when they’re possessed? Well, they stop being polite, for one thing. Let’s get right into the batshit insanity of Cathy’s Curse. Back in 1947, a man learns that his wife has left and taken their five-year-old son, George. His daughter, Laura, is a crying mess, but her father yells that, […]
Lemora (1975)
Alvin Lee catches his wife in bed with a lover, breaks in and shoots both of them dead. Later, injured and near death, he begs for his daughter to see him one more time before he dies. His daughter, 13-year-old Lila Lee (Cheryl Smith, Phantom of the Paradise, The Incredible Melting Man, Laserblast and short time member […]
B & S About Movies episode 74: Messiah of Evil
Bill and Mark joined us for Messiah of Evil, which is also the main subject of Bill’s new Drive-In Asylum (get your copy at http://etsy.me/2xXFtkF) We also discussed movies that Sam dreamed of watching in the 1970’s, like Dark Star and Laserblast, how Bill discovered Messiah of Evil, how much Becca hated A Ghost Story, […]
Enter the Devil (1974)
This movie is literally the center of the Venn Diagram that would be made of the movies that I love the most. Italian ripoff of a successful film — This movie is obviously trying to be The Exorcist. Satanism — This film has some of the goofiest and most awesome devil tricks of any of I’ve […]
Evilspeak (1981)
Post-Carrie, we’ve seen so many films where people turn to the Devil to help them fit in or fight back against bullies. But let’s face it — when you dress up Carrie White or Sissy Spacek or Chloë Grace Moretz, they end up being attractive. But Clint Howard? There’s really no dressing up Clint. Don’t get […]
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