Fear of Rain (2021)
Filmed under the title I Saw a Man with Yellow Eyes — yes, there’s a bit of a giallo in this — Fear of Rain sat was released in theaters — the ones still open — last week and then went straight to video — yes, they still sell DVDs — and streaming. Written and directed by […]
THE EXCELLENT EIGHTIES: Christabel (1988)
Originally a four-part miniseries adaption of the memoirs of Christabel Bielenberg, a woman who was married to a German lawyer during World War II, the version of this film on the Mill Creek The Excellent Eighties box set is two hours and twenty-seven minutes long, versus the four hour and twenty-minute original running time. This is […]
The Excellent Eighties: Callie & Son (1981)
This is the great thing about Mill Creek box sets: we probably would have never reviewed this TV Movie obscurity for the site. Well . . . maybe we would have . . . you know us and those “Big Three” network TV flicks of the ’70s and ’80s. The cheapjack DVDs you pick up […]
THE EXCELLENT EIGHTIES: We Think the World of You (1988)
As London recovers from World War II, an aimless young man — who is bisexual and already married — named Johnny (Gary Oldman) is sent to prison. He gives his dog Evie to his parents, Tom and Millie, who are conniving at best and abusive at worst. The man who really falls in love with […]
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT ON THIS WEEK’S DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!
Join us this Saturday night on the Groovy Doom Facebook page at 8 PM East Coast Time for two deadly features, along with our guest Bradley Steele Harding! Up first is Evilspeak, one of Sam’s 666 favorite movies of all time. You can watch it on YouTube. Here’s a drink that you can drink during the movie. […]
THE EXCELLENT EIGHTIES: The Cold War Killers (1986)
Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price, this movie was originally part of a six episode ITV series, Chessgame, that was turned into three TV movies: The Alamut Ambush, The Deadly Recruits, and this movie, The Cold War Killers. Leave it to Mill Creek to drop you into a TV series turned into an edited […]
The Excellent Eighties: Slipstream (1989)
Editor’s Note: Beware of the duplicate titles snafu, for there are two Slipstream movies: The 1973 one by William Fruet of Funeral Home, Baker County, U.S.A., Killer Party, and Blue Monkey fame, which is a Canadian drama about a troubled disc jockey: that’s the Slipstream no one knows. Then there’s the one that everyone knows […]
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