Harlequin (1980)
The great part of this site is that I’ve discovered so many movies that I’d never experience otherwise. Like this one, that I found searching through Ronin Flix. I had absolutely no idea what to expect and I was rewarded with a well made, yet incredibly strange film. Senator Nick Rast (David Hemmings, Blowup, Barbarella, Deep […]
Fade to Black (1980)
A movie about a socially awkward, totally obsessed film fan whose love of old films borders on the obsessive, with nights filled with movie after movie after movie? This one hits a little too close to home. Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher, Breaking Away) works in a Los Angeles film distributor warehouse by day and watches […]
AMERICAN GIALLO: Dressed to Kill (1980)
Let’s get this out of the way: Brian De Palma, much like Giallo, was heavily influenced by Hitchcock. In fact, when an interviewer asked Hitchcock if he saw the film as an homage, he replied, “You mean fromage.” That said — Hitchcock died three months before the film was released, so that story could be […]
AMERICAN GIALLO: Schizoid (1980)
Julie (Marianna Hill, Messiah of Evil, The Baby) writes the lonely hearts column for a newspaper, but she’s suddenly getting more than letters from the lovelorn. An anonymous person is sending her letters threatening to murder people. And at the very same time, members of her group therapy session are getting stabbed and killed, one by one. […]
CHRISTMAS CINEMA: Christmas Evil (1980)
I learned about this movie from John Waters and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that John Waters has never let me down. He said of the film, “I wish I had kids. I’d make them watch it every year and if they didn’t like it, they’d be punished.” Christmas Eve 1947: Harry Stadling […]
ATTACK OF THE CLONES: Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
There is no way I can be objective about this movie. It is everything that movies should be in one film. It’s a revision of The Magnificent Seven, which in itself is just a cover version of The Seven Samurai. It has John Saxon as a face painted baddy whose body is falling apart. George Peppard plays […]
The Nightmare Never Ends (1980)
Have you ever seen Night Train to Terror and wondered — what would one of that film’s portmanteau sequences be like if they were expanded to an entire movie? Good news! Well, maybe. Your wishes have come true. The final story of Night Train, “The Case of Claire Hansen”, was really a film called The Nightmare Never […]
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