CBS LATE MOVIE: The $5.20 an Hour Dream (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The $5.20 an Hour Dream was on the CBS Late Movie on May 11 and August 22, 1983; May 17 and December 26, 1984 and March 28, 1985. This is a gritty, ripped-from-the-headlines socio-economic morality play disguised as primetime entertainment, taking a hard look at inflation, blue-collar survival, and the entrenched boys’ club […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Servants of Twilight (1991)
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! Released after the book became an international bestseller, Servants of Twilight brings Dean Koontz’s 1984 novel (originally written under the pseudonym Leigh […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Endless Love (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Endless Love was on the CBS Late Movie on September 10, 1987 and February 24 and June 8, 1988. Sometimes, the CBS Late Movie plays obscure movies, foreign films, made-for-TV movies and all manner of films that seemed like they snuck onto a major network. Then there was Endless Love, which felt like […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Family Sins (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Family Sins was on the CBS Late Movie on April 21, 1988. Directed by Jerrold Freedman (who used the Alan Smithee alias to direct The O.J. Simpson Story; he also directed the Bronson movie Borderline and Kansas City Bomber), written by George Rubino (Rage!, The Last Tenant) and originally broadcast on October 25, 1987, on CBS, […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962)
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! Man, Timothy Carey. He started off in Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole and became known for his roles in two Stanley […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: Phantom of the Opera (1983)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Phantom of the Opera was on the CBS Late Movie on October 18, 1985. Long before Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical cemented the story as a sweeping romantic melodrama, television producer Robert Halmi produced this unique adaptation. Translocating the classic Gaston Leroux narrative from turn-of-the-century Paris to Budapest, this 1983 television movie stands as one of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Swamp Girl (1971)
If you like your regional independent cinema soaked through with Spanish moss, country music royalty and wild plot swerves that hit you harder than a cottonmouth in a pirogue, then Donald A. Davis’s Swamp Girl is for you. Shot on location in Georgia with the official blessing of the Okefenokee Swamp Park, this oddity is […]
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