CBS LATE MOVIE: Burned at the Stake (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Burned at the Stake was on the CBS Late Movie as The Coming on September 16, 1987 and March 3 and July 6, 1988. Also known as The Coming, this movie starts in the late 1600s in Salem, as Ann Putnam (Susan Swift) is caught experimenting with black magic. To protect herself, she turns over the names […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
July 28 – Aug 3 Screwball Comedy: Just imagine, the Great Depression is raging and you’re getting less than a fin a week at the rubber boiling factory, but it only costs two bits to go to the movies all day, so let’s watch some quick-talking dames match wits with some dopey joes! Mr. & […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Firepower (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Firepower was on the CBS Late Movie on March 9, 1983. Firepower started as a Dirty Harry film, written by Bill Kerby, but was later rewritten. At one point, it was going to have Terence Hill as the star. Then, producer Carlo Ponti came on and got his wife, Sophia Loren, hired for $1 […]
FANTASIA 2025: Anything That Moves (2025)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Cheerleaders (1972)
Stephanie Fondue, who stars in this as Jeannie, had an even more incredible real name. Enid Finnbogason. She was in Hollywood from Winnipeg, got hit up at lunch to try out for this movie and got it. She’d never been a cheerleader. She was twenty. Also: A nude model, so disrobing during the audition was […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Chained Heat (1983)
Sometimes I wonder how far a movie can go down the toilet. Good news — Chained Heat left me with little room to ponder. It’s written and directed by Paul Nicholas, who brought us another slice of insanity, Julie Darling. This is yet another descent into madness for poor Linda Blair, who has endured some of cinema’s […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Cat Murkil and the Silks (1976)
Also known as Cruisin’ High, this stars two actors from another 1976 teens in trouble movie, Derrel Maury and Steve Bond, who were in Massacre at Central High AKA Sexy Jeans. As for the titular Eddie “Cat” Murkil, actor David Kyle is now a missionary and religious speaker after being an actor and male prostitute. Eddie and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Catherine & Co. (1975)
Based on Catherine and Co. by Edouard de Segonzac, this is about Catherine (Jane Birkin) — are you shocked? — who becomes a sex worker and starts her own business. She also sells stock and repurchases her business. Directed by Michel Boisrond, this was written by Catherine Breillat, whose first novel at 17, l’Homme facile (A […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The Cartier Affair (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Cartier Affair was on the CBS Late Movie on May 5, 1988. Curt Taylor (David Hasselhoff) is released from California State Prison, and to settle a debt to Phillip Drexler (Telly Savalas), he pretends that he’s gay and becomes the secretary for soap opera star Cartier Rand (Joan Collins). The goal? Steal her jewelry. But then […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Man, Christopher Lee may rival Donald Pleasence for not being able to say no — I say this with full knowledge that the former turned down Halloween while the latter said yes to that series more than he should have — and here he played Sax Rohmer’s “yellow peril” character of Fu Manchu, who is […]
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