CANNON MONTH 2: Going Steady (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on November 7, 2021. Yes, don’t be fooled by that title, as this is otherwise known as Yotzim Kavua, Greasy Kid Stuff or, most obvious, Lemon Popsicle 2. Yes, the film that inspired The Last American Virgin doesn’t just have one sequel, but many, many chapters to tell. Even better, it played […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Savage Weekend (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie was first on the site on November 10, 2021. 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 […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Incoming Freshmen (1979)
Eric Lewald developed X-Men: The Animated Series, but before that he directed — with Glenn Morgan — and wrote this sex comedy that got distributed by Cannon that played drive-in double features with Gas Pump Girls. It’s about two roommates — small-town virgin Jane (Ashley Vaughn) and promiscuous Vivian (Leslie Blalock) — as they deal with their […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Gas Pump Girls (1979)
It took three people to write Gas Pump Girls: director Joel Bender, who also wrote The Returning and The Immortalizer as well as editing Warrior Queen; David A. Davies, who also wrote the 1990 TV movie Buried Alive and Isaac Blech, who also wrote the songs. June (Kirsten Baker, Friday the 13th Part 2) and her friends graduate high school and […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: Bad Girl Boogey (2022)
“One Halloween, blood was shed by the wearer of a parasitic mask cursed with black magic and bigotry. Sixteen years later, when Angel’s best friend is slaughtered by a killer with the same mask, they must overcome their personal struggles, fight their fear and find the masked killer before he — or it — slaughters […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: When the Screaming Starts (2021)
Aidan Mendle (Ed Hartland) wants to be the kind of killing machine that gets his own Netflix doc or podcasts following his horrible crime spree. His girlfriend Julia (Katherine Bennett-Fox) is holding back sex until that happens; she’s also auditioning a family of their own, a cult of like-minded killers. Nathan Graysmith (Jared Rogers) is […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: All Jacked Up and Full of Worms (2022)
Roscoe (Phillip Andre Botello) is in a weird place in life. He’s a janitor for a scuzzy love motel ad his girlfriend has brought another man home for strange rituals. But he does have a stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms, visions from a floating worm that is speaking directly to him and perhaps a new friendship with […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS: Old Man (2022)
Director Lucky McKee has made some horror movies that hit genre fans just right — May, All Cheerleaders Die — but haven’t exactly made him a household name. Which frankly sucks, because he keeps his good name with this astounding thriller, written by first-time scriptwriter Joel Veach. Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe) plays the Old Man, […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
This is where the Cannon of the 60s and 70s would meet the Cannon of the 80s. Distributed by the Dewey-Friedland Cannon, this film was directed and produced by the men who would take Cannon into our hearts: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. Based on the hijacking of a flight by terrorists and the mission […]
CANNON MONTH 2: American Nitro (1979)
I have no idea how this site has had a recap of drag race docs and a week of drag race movies and this doc never made it in. How many drag racing movies did the 70s have? How many did it need? Directed by Bill Kimberlin, an Industrial Light and Magic visual effects editor, […]
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