CANNON MONTH: Otello (1985)
If you haven’t realized it by now, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus wanted Cannon to mean more than action movies. That’s why they made a deal with opera star Plácido Domingo to make a movie of one of his operas. They wanted to make Verdi’s Il trovatore but he felt that Otello was the right one to film, […]
CANNON MONTH: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I am a beyond fan of this movie and therefore so happy to bring back the article I wrote on September 13, 2017 as part of a celebration of Tobe Hooper. The art used for this post comes from Studiohouse Designs. In my Fangoria reading youth, there were two constants: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the […]
CANNON MONTH: Detective School Dropouts (1986)
David Landsberg and Lorin Dreyfuss — the older brother of Richard — teamed for this movie and Dutch Treat and I have no idea who was clamouring for their duo to be in any films. They wrote and starred in this movie, which was directed by Filippo Ottoni, who wrote A Bay of Blood. Three mob families […]
CANNON MONTH: Lightning the White Stallion (1986)
I can’t find this movie anywhere, but I’m petty mindblown by the fact that this children’s movie was written by Harry Alan Towers, a man who not only was part of an alleged vice ring with Stephen Ward, Peter Lawford and the Soviet Union, but also the producer and writer of several Jess Franco movies […]
CANNON MONTH: Invaders from Mars (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally wrote about this movie on September 12, 2017 as part of a tribute to Tobe Hooper. It’s one of three movies that he made for Cannon and one of our favorite movies. Following the failure of Lifeforce (at least commercially, I’m on the side of it being an interesting affair), Tobe Hooper turned to […]
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