The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Dance Hall Racket (1953)
Roadshow Rarities (June 30 – July 6) In the old days of theatrical releases some of the more lavish movies would be promoted by holding limited screenings in large cities. These roadshow releases would generate hype before the nationwide release and allow producers to tweak the film to the audience’s reaction. This model also worked […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Orca (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Orca was on the CBS Late Movie on May 19, 1982. If you read comic books in the summer of 1977, there’s no way you didn’t know about Orca. Despite everything that nature — and SeaWorld — could teach us, it was time to meet a predator even more deadly to man than the great […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dracula: Prince of Darkness was on the CBS Late Movie on March 12, 1973 and July 12, 1974. Made six years after The Brides of Dracula — which has Baron Meinster (David Peel) as the antagonist instead of Dracula — and is the third of nine Hammer Dracula movies, this was shot at the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park was on the CBS Late Movie on December 27, 1985 and July 21, 1986. Known as Attack of the Phantoms in Europe and Kiss Phantoms in Italy, this movie has been an embarrassment to Kiss the band and their fans, the Kiss Army, for years. As […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Night Cries (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Night Cries was on the CBS Late Movie on January 8 and July 9, 1982. Jeannie (Susan Saint James) and Mitch Haskins (Michael Parks) have just had a baby. Or at least that’s what they thought, as when Jeannie wakes up, in a room with a woman who has just lost a child, […]
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