The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)
Golden Oldies Week (July 27 – August 3) Something Weird Video have released such a wide range of movies over the last 30 years that trying to categorize them can be tricky. They started out as a gray market mail order distributor (aka a bootlegger) not unlike the Cape Copy Center or Sinister Cinema and […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Blood Thirst (1971)
Golden Oldies Week (July 27 – August 3) Something Weird Video have released such a wide range of movies over the last 30 years that trying to categorize them can be tricky. They started out as a gray market mail order distributor (aka a bootlegger) not unlike the Cape Copy Center or Sinister Cinema and […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Packin’ It In (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Packin’ It In was on the CBS Late Movie on April 30 and December 3, 1986. The Webbers — Gary (Richard Benjamin), Dianne (Paula Prentiss), Melissa (Molly Ringwald) and Jay (David Hollander) — leave Los Angeles behind for Oregon after Gary loses his job. I mean, what are they leaving behind? Smog? Little Jay being addicted […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Fyre (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Fyre was on the CBS Late Movie on June 14, 1988. Directed by Richard Grand, who co-wrote it with Ted Zephro, Fyre decimates its protagonist, Fyre (Lynn Theel, Humanoids from the Deep, Without Warning), before the movie even gets rolling. She’s assaulted at a drive-in by three men while her boyfriend watches helplessly. When she tries to […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Murder at the World Series (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Murder at the World Series was on the CBS Late Movie on November 25, 1982 and April 5, 1985. Cisco (Bruce Boxleitner) once tried out for the Houston Astros and didn’t make the team. But now that they’re in the World Series — this wouldn’t really happen until 2005 and they wouldn’t win until 2017 — […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Hustler of Muscle Beach (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Hustler of Muscle Beach was on the CBS Late Movie on September 19 and October 10, 1986. Jonathan Kaplan started with movies like Night Call Nurses and The Student Teachers before eventually making The Accused. Along the way, he made a few TV movies like this one, written by Tim Maschler and David Smilow. Nick Demec (Richard Hatch) […]
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