Mill Creek Drive-In Classics Week: Savage Weekend (1976)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Benjamin Merrell lives in Seattle, WA. You can check out his blog at cestnonunblog.com and follow him on Letterboxd. Several Manhattan yuppies escape the city for a nice, relaxing weekend in the hillbilly-infested Appalachian hills of…Upstate New York. Little do they know that their weekend of fun is about to turn deadly… […]
Chato’s Land (1972)
After shooting the racist sheriff in self-defense, Apache Chato (Charles Bronson) heads back home, far away from the affairs of the white men. However, former Confederate Captain Quincey Whitmore (Jack Palance) has put back on his uniform and brought together former soldiers demoralized by the end of the war — look at what year this […]
Out of the Blue (1980)
According to Roger Ebert, when Out of the Blue “premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, it caused a considerable sensation, and Linda Manz was mentioned as a front-runner for the best actress award. But back in North America, the film’s Canadian backers had difficulties in making a distribution deal, and the film slipped through the […]
That Cold Dead Look In Your Eyes (2021)
Theta-waves from internet boxes. That’s what’s causing all this madness. Leonard has already lost his girlfriend, despite them still living together and her attacking him with a knife. But as he spirals downward in his job — nobody has a single nice thing to say about his abilities as a chef — he starts to hallucinate. Is […]
MILL CREEK DRIVE-IN CLASSICS: Savage Weekend (1976)
While it wasn’t released until 1979, the movie that became Savage Weekend — also The Killer Behind the Mask — started as The Upstate Murders. That means that it predates most of the commonly accepted “first” slashers like Halloween and Friday the 13th. It was acquired by the Cannon Group — one of the few slashers they put out along […]
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