CBS LATE MOVIE: The Wind (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Wind was on the CBS Late Movie on December 21, 1988. Nico Mastorakis has a pretty good resume filled with VHS rental faves, including Island of Death, The Greek Tycoon (ironically, when he was a reporter, he went underground as a musician for the popular singer Yanni Poulopoulos and invaded Aristotle Onassis’ yacht, the Christina, where the […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E14: My Ghostwriter — The Vampire (1987)
If there’s one thing TV anthology shows taught us in the 1980s, it’s that being a hack writer is a fast track to supernatural doom. Enter Peter Prentice, played with an absolute masterclass in smarmy, large-ham sleaziness by Kenickie himself, Jeff Conaway. Peter is talentless, deeply selfish and entirely open about why he writes horror. […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Satranic Panic (2023)
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! Raw, unapologetically queer and fueled by the kind of DIY adrenaline that only a teenage auteur working with zero budget can conjure, […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 155: Even Better than the Real Thing
This time, we’re talking rip-offs. Robowar, Lady Terminator, Idu Saadhya (Bollywood Stagefright), Blue Island, Paradisio Blu and Blue Tornado. But it’s also about Harlan Ellison vs. James Cameron, Ricky Schroder going to Point Dume and watching a Satanic orgy ritual sacrifice on video, the heel turn of Willie Aames and Scott Baio, misquoting Lucio Fulci […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Blind Date (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Blind Date was on the CBS Late Movie on August 15, 1988. “The ultimate high tech thriller,” this Nico Mastorakis-directed movie — he also wrote it with his regular script partner, Fred Perry — gets one part of the Giallo genre right: its science is absolute bullshit. Jonathan Ratcliff (Joseph Bottoms) is an ad exec working […]
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