2019 Psychotronic Scarecrow Challenge: Day 17: In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I Murders (1988)
Day 17 Evil in Broad Daylight: Scary stories aren’t just for the night time Tracy Keenan Wynn is the gold standard in screenwriting and teleplays. Look at that resume: The Glass House (1972; TV’s Alan Alda, Vic Morrow of Message from Space and Clu Gulager of Hunter’s Blood), the platinum standard of football—and prison movies—The […]
Slasher Top Tens: Kris Erickson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: When we asked people what their top ten slasher movies were, we got plenty of great responses. Kris is one of my oldest friends and if you ever have a question about Japanese pro wrestling, the band Wilco or Earth-2, he definitely knows the answer. If you want to follow him, he’s on […]
Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
I read a review of this movie that really talked down on it, describing it as a “sleazy TV movie-of-the-week punctuated with gory murder scenes.” That’s positive ink in my neck of the woods, so of course I hunted this down. It’s the first movie that Jennifer Jason Lee — the daughter of Vic Morrow […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 17: And Soon the Darkness (1970)
DAY 17. EVIL IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: Scary stories aren’t just for the night time. A movie that’s referred to as “a sun-drenched nightmare” on its poster, Robert Fuest’s And Soon the Darkness is nearly forgotten today, which is a real shame. Fuest is probably better remembered for The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again than he […]
Mortuary (1983)
Hikmet (or Howard) Avedis studied at the University of Southern California and won the George Cukor Award, which totally prepared him for a lifetime of working in exploitation fare. With titles like The Stepmother, The Teacher (consider it the grindhouse version of The Graduate), The Specialist (where Adam West fights against the water company), the Connie Stevens’ classic Scorchy and […]
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