The Girl Most Likely To… (1973)
My acting career pretty much begins with an appearance as Sergeant-Major Morris in The Monkey’s Paw and ends with my role as Dr. Green from this story. No, I was not in the movie. I was in a stage play version and the kiss that gave me a fatal heart attack was the first kiss I […]
Deadly Messages (1985)
Man, I’m on a Kathleen Beller made-for-TV kinda sorta giallo kick. I’m also a huge fan of Ouija-board-themed movies, even if I refuse to ever have a spirit board in my house. Combine the two and have Jack Bender (The Midnight Hour, Child’s Play 3, multiple episodes of Lost and Game of Thrones) and I’m all over it. […]
Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
You know, for all the disdain that I usually heap upon modern horror, I’m all about finding newer movies that connect with me. Case in point, this cute comedy that explains gentrification as vampirism and puts some young kids up against ancient evil. Writer and director Oz Rodriguez is probably best known for his digital […]
City Killer (1984)
Heather Locklear was a big deal. Like, the biggest. When I was a kid, I didn’t have a poster of her next to my bed, but my grandfather did. In fact, he framed it with a rustic wooden frame and mounted it dead center of the wall, as if he was challenging my grandmother, saying, […]
The Marla Hanson Story (1991)
Ripped from the headlines TV movies are my jam. In the world before the internet and the 24/7 news cycle, we had to wait for these movies to get the real story. This is the tale of Marla Hanson (Cheryl Pollak), a model who moves to the big evil town of New York City but […]
The Bride in Black (1990)
You know, I never watched soap operas, but Susan Lucci knew how to make a TV movie. Yeah, she may have been nominated for an Emmy every year for All My Children, but she made some awesome stuff like Invitation to Hell, Haunted by Her Past and Lady Mobster. Yet this tale of Lucci’s Italian shopgirl falling for David […]
Where Have All the People Gone? (1974)
I’ve gone on and on about how when it comes to TV movies, John Llewellyn Moxey is the director to watch. Working from a script by Lewis John Carlino (The Mechanic, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) and Sandor Stern (The Amityville Horror, Pin), Moxley puts together a compelling science fiction film here, with […]
Honeydew (2020)
From the minute Sam (Sawyer Spielberg) and Rylie (Malin Barr) get lost in the country and have their battery run down, their fate is sealed. I’m not giving you a spoiler warning. The fact is that you’re going to know exactly what you’re getting into with Honeydew, a film that retells the same backwoods cannibal […]
And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
Originally airing on February 24 and March 3, 1991, this is based on the book by Vincent Bugliosi and Bruce Henderson. It’s all about a double murder on Palmyra Atol in which Duane “Buck” Walker (Hart Bochner, Die Hard) was found guilty and his girlfriend Stephanie Stearns (Rachel Ward) — defended by Bugliosi and Leonard Weinglass […]
No Place to Hide (1981)
John Llewellyn Moxey will never let you down. The man knew how to make TV movies filled with menace and dread. Take a look at his record of success — The House That Would Not Die, The Last Child, A Taste of Evil, The Night Stalker, Home for the Holidays, Where Have All the People Gone?, Nightmare In Badham County, Killjoy, Desire […]
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