Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Satan Wants You (2023)
At the height of sheer Q-Anon craziness — I think probably when a shaman in red, white and blue facepaint led an army of people into government buildings, and people defecated on the walls, maybe — people were grasping for straws and pearls and wondering, “How could this happen?” I’m here to tell you that […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Dunwich Horror (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Dunwich Horror was on the CBS Late Movie on May 7, 1973; July 1 and August 28, 1975. Following the triumph of the Poe movies, Roger Corman and American International Pictures embarked on a series of films inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. The announcement of The Dunwich Horror in 1963, set to be filmed in […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Wild In the Streets (1968)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild In the Streets was on the CBS Late Movie on February 13, 1973 and March 1, 1974. Barry Shear (Across 110th Street) directed, and Robert Thom (Death Race 2000) wrote this youth-oriented movie. Yeah, it’s kind of heavy-handed, but it also has Shelley Winters trying to escape a barbed wire fence in a […]
Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 5: Specter In Tap Shoes (1972)
After her twin sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent (Sandra Dee) returns home, only to hear Marian – a dancer – tapping across the floor upstairs, footsteps rapping in the room where she left this world. “Specter In Tap Shoes” was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and written by Gene R. Kearney from a story by Jack […]
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Enter the Clones of Bruce (2023)
Bruce Lee died in 1973 after four major movies: The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, The Way of the Dragon and Enter the Dragon. Yes, he had been acting since his teens and also appeared on The Green Hornet and worked in Hollywood, but he became a cultural force through those movies. The world of film—more than that, pop culture, […]
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Joe Dallesandro is one of those nexus points for so many movies and parts of culture that I love. Born to a Navy man and a mother who was serving fifteen years in a federal pen for auto theft by the time he was five, Joe went from foster homes to knocking out his high […]
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