Circle of Fear episode 17 “Doorway to Death”
Directed by Daryl Duke and written by Richard Matheson and Jimmy Sangster, this episode is all about a family moving into a new apartment in San Francisco. When young Robert (Leif Garrett) starts to explore, he finds an empty apartment with a door into the woods inside. He also meets a man inside those woods who asks […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. Admission is still only $10 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included) for an additional $10 per person. You can buy tickets at the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29: Watch the series: Friday (1995, 2000, 2002)
Ice Cube and DJ Pooh felt that movies only showed the dark side of the urban experience. Cube had the vision of making a “hood classic” that would be rewatched over and over again and based much of the script — only the third he had written — on his life. They got New Line […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 29
We’re almost done! April 29: Movies with Friday in the Title — TGIF. So pick a Friday movie and share it with everyone. Here’s what you can watch today: Friday the 13th (1980): Oh, good Lord! …So young…So pretty. Oh, what monster could have done this? Friday the 13th Part II (1981): Take the look of […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer: Zombi 3 (1988)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. This Back to the 80s Weekend is going to be amazing! The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects. Saturday, April 30 has Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Dr. Butcher MD and Zombie 3. Admission is still […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer: Dr. Butcher, M.D. (1980)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. This Back to the 80s Weekend is going to be amazing! The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects. Saturday, April 30 has Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Dr. Butcher MD and Zombie 3. Admission is still […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Catchfire (1990)
This Alan Smithee-directed film really belongs to Dennis Hopper, who had a rough time for a variety of reasons. There were issues between Jodie Foster and Hopper from the first day of shooting, as Foster yelled “cut” which angered the directing side of Hopper. She may have been upset by the shower scene, which is […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Ghost Fever (1987)
Sherman Hemsley from The Jeffersons is Buford Washington. Luis Ávalos from The Electric Company is Benny Alvarez. And they’re Greendale County, GA — yes, a black man and a Latino in the South! — police officers sent to serve an eviction notice to a plantation when the ghosts of the former slavemaster that owned the house, Andrew […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Death of a Gunfighter was originally directed by Robert Totten, who directed the original The Quick and the Dead, as well as plenty of TV like Gunsmoke and Mystery In Dracula’s Castle. Despite a year of work, he couldn’t get along with star Richard Widmark and lost that battle, getting replaced by Don Siegel (Invasion of the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28
Who is Alan Smithee? Created in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, there is no Alan Smithee. Instead, it was the pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when they were dissatisfied with the final product. In order to use the name, it had to be voted […]
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