The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Child (1977)
We first encountered The Child at a Halloween party thrown at the palatial Mexican War Streets home of Mr. Groovy Doom himself, Bill Van Ryn. While some folks drank in the kitchen or enjoyed the mix of Goblin and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult blasting in the sitting room, I was entranced by a […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Zodiac Killer (1971)
Bleeding Skull’s Top 50 (July 7 – 13) The middle-brow champions of low-brow horror, Bleeding Skull has picked out some of their favorites from the SWV catalog. They neglected to put I Drink Your Blood or EEGAH! on the list, but I think I can forgive them since they included Ship of Monsters. Zodiac Killer […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Micki & Maude (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Micki & Maude was on the CBS Late Movie on February 17, 1989. Rob Salinger (Dudley Moore) is happily married to lawyer Micki (Ann Reinking, who is mostly known for her dancing career). He wants a child but she wants a career. While interviewing cellist Maude Guillory (Amy Irving), he falls in love […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Kansas City Bomber (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Kansas City Bomber was on the CBS Late Movie on September 11, 1975; December 6, 1976 and February 10, 1978. Barry Sandler wrote Making Love, the first mainstream American film to deal with homosexuality and Crimes of Passion. His film script — written as his Master’s Degree thesis at UCLA — was for this movie. […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Kirlian Witness (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Kirlian Witness was on the CBS Late Movie on August 13, 1986 and July 20, 1987. “For the first time on the screen a strange thriller that takes you into the psychic world of plants.” Yes, in 1979, people were talking to their plants, using biofeedback devices to hear from them and […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Tiger Joe (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Tiger Joe was on the CBS Late Movie on September 7 and November 30, 1988. Known as Fuga dall’arcipelago maledetto (Escape from the Cursed Archipelago) in Italy, this Antonio Margheriti-directed and Tito Capri-written film stars David Warbeck as Tiger Joe, a former US Army Special Forces Vietnam Veteran who works with “Midnight” Washington (Tony King, Atlantis Interceptors) […]
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