Adalynn (2023)
Man, this movie made me nervous — not a bad review, mind you — and I can’t even imagine how a mother would be watching it. Adalynn (Sydney Carvill) is a new mom coming to terms with the pain of postpartum depression and maybe something more terrifying. Sure, she lives in the perfect house in […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Leopard In the Snow (1978)
Based on the Mills and Boon/Harlequin Romance Leopard in the Snow by Anne Mather, this movie was directed by Gerry O’Hara (The Bitch, Fanny Hill) and written by Jill Hyem. Helen James (Susan Penhaligon, Patrick) wrecks her car in the small English town of Cumberland Falls and is rescued by a man hiding from the world, former race driver […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: The Dragon, The Young Master (1978)
Pai Wu Lang (Dragon Lee or Bruce Lei) — or the Silver Ninja — has come to town looking for the killer of his father but ends up learning that there are jewels hidden in this town. He also saves flower seller Xue Hua (Yuen Qiu, who studied at the Peking Opera School and master […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: The Ransom (1977)
Also known as The Town That Cried Terror, Night Hunter, Assault in Paradise and Maniac*, this was directed by Richard Compton (Angels Die Hard, Macon County Line, tons of episodic TV) and written by John C. Broderick (who wrote and directed The Warrior and the Sorceress; well, kind of…read my interview with William Stout) and Ronald Silkosky (The […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: A Little Night Music (1977)
An adaptation of the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, which was based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night, this seems like an odd film for New World to release. It was directed by Harold Prince, who spent most of his career directing for the stage. Despite negative reviews, Stephen Sondheim’s music and […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977)
The third sequel to Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, this film finds Ilsa — didn’t she die a few times along the way? — changing sides from the Third Reich to the USSR as she runs Siberian Gulag 14, where she mentally and physically decimates men. When Stalin dies, Ilsa burns the camp to […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Double Nickels (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can read another take on this movie here. Also released as Split-Second Smokey, this movie is about two cops — Ed (Edward Abrahms, the art director of the movie) and Smokey (Jack Vacek, who directed and wrote this; he also did the same for Deadly Addiction) — making extra money repossessing cars for George […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Deadly Harvest (1977)
In the midst of a worldwide famine — brought on by global cooling, not warming — farmer Grant Franklin (Clint Walker) and his family are some of the few to have food, thanks to hydroponics. Yeah, it was 1977. The drama starts when cattle thief Mort Logan (Nehemiah Persoff) steals the family’s last cow from […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: The Shadow of Chikara (1978)
Earl A. Smith was the writer of The Legend of Boggy Creek and The Town That Dreaded Sundown, but he only directed this one movie. It’s a Western horror, which is rare, and one that places Confederate soldier Wishbone Cutter (Joe Don Baker, who yes, was a 70s lead and near sex symbol) into a treasure hunt […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
Based on the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg, this was directed by Anthony Page (Absolution, Chernobyl: The Final Warning) and written by Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino (Where Have All the People Gone?, The Mechanic). It stars Kathleen Quinlan as Deborah Blake, a borderline schizophrenic who lives in a world […]
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