RoboCop (1987)
RoboCop was written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, inspired by a poster for the Blade Runner. Neumeier asked a friend what the film was about and was told, “It’s about a cop hunting robots.” Neumeier was stranded at an airport with a high-ranking film exec and was able to sell him on the project, which […]
Meant to Be Broken (2018)
Harvey (Dave Coyne) has led a cautious and conscientious life — he knows more strange laws than Tom Waits — until he gets fired and finds out he has one month to live. Throwing caution to the wind, he meets Luke (Nick DePinto) at a bar and confesses he’s never broken any rules. Luke responds […]
Shock Waves (1977)
As I descended a horror-inspired digital rabbit hole, I was shocked to hear (a little late, obviously) that former child actor Luke Halpin, best known as Sandy Ricks on TV’s Flipper from 1964 to 1968, was suffering from Stage IV head and neck cancer (reported in 2015). Then, in June 2016, Halpin beat the cancer, […]
The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Paul Wendkos may have directed most of the Gidget movies, but he has quite the horror pedigree. There’s the TV movie Good Against Evil, Haunts of the Very Rich, the 1985 remake of The Bad Seed and the legendary 1975 TV movie The Legend of Lizzie Borden. Because this is a Quinn Martin Production and CBS aired it extensively […]
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