The Howling.

A+ choice! My favorite background movie. I have it on DVD, VHS, and downloaded on my computer, and one of them gets played every time I hear certain 80s songs or see a porn shop. ::big grin::

April Fool's Day (1986)
5/10

Most of the actors give a mildly fun-spirited, and sometimes heartfelt, performance in this run-of-the-mill 80's slasher film... Not enough to make you care much or understand them, but just enough to keep your attention most of the time. The suspense and kills are fairly subpar, though that's partially by design, as this is actually a parody. There's a pay off at the end... like the film, a 5/10-star payoff time waster.

LONG WEEKEND 1978

A wife grudgingly agrees to go on a camping trip with her husband to help their crippled marriage. Their disregard for their natural surroundings starts to haunt them as the weekend progresses. Eerie and claustrophobic and imo, well-done.

NIGHTHAWKS (1981). A group of friends and I were going to see ALLIGATOR at the theater in 1981 and this had moved in its place. Pretty good actioner and Rutgar Hauer is scary as the amoral terrorist. Watched it again last night and it sort of hits a little too close to home these days with attacks in London and NYC.
Lots of genre turns by many of the actors here...Sylvester Stallone (DEATH RACE 2000), Billy Dee Williams (EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, RETURN OF THE JEDI), Lindsay Wagner (THE BIONIC WOMAN), Nigel Davenport (PHASE FOUR, NO BLADE OF GRASS, DRACULA-Jack Palance version), Joe Spinnel (MANIAC), Rutgar Hauer (THE HITCHER, BLADE RUNNER, LADYHAWKE), Catherine Mary Stewart (NIGHT OF THE COMET, THE LAST STARFIGHTER-believe this is her first film and she is beautiful) and Jamie Gillis (NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES and many porno films from the mid 70's-turn of the century where he seemed to always play the most degenerate of types). ***1/2

THE TOUCH OF SATAN 1971

A young man travels down a random country road and meets a mysterious young woman. It was probably "cool" at some point in time. Not bad.

Amityville II: The Possession. 1982.

EATING RAOUL (1982). Very good and very funny Cult film with Mary Woronov (excellent) and director Paul Bartel as a married couple chasing the American dream. ****

I had forgotten all about that movie. That was a dark funny movie.

Eating Raoul always makes me think of At the Movies Siskel & Ebert. Eating Raoul was considered pretty artsy-fartsy. I never saw it though. Ebert thought it was too low key.

DRACULA (1979). Film really looks good, but just falls flat in so many places, although Frank Langella is pretty good as The Count. It also seems that FRIGHT NIGHT used quite a few of the scenes in here. **

This film has a special place in my heart because I saw Frank Langella in the play on Broadway. I don't care how cheesy it is, I love it! LOL

Galaxy of Terror

What a schlocky good time.

CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE 1976

Two men , researching Big Foot, decide to check out some sightings in a backwoods swamp.
I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

Glad you are getting back into horror.

Cool! I was hoping to hear that you liked it.

Thank-you, M.


I wrote on your original post on Facebook. I have a soft spot for movies like this.

In Like Flint, 1967. 7,5/10

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The Last of Sheila, 1973. 8/10

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In Like Flint should be posted in the Vintage Horror section

It runs in the family, Sis. I watch way too many of these.

I seem to remember watching this on TV with my mum one evening in the early 80s. I remember thinking how much like a soap opera it was. It was like Dracula was being played by Rick Springfield. My intellect was telling me he was supposed be acting sexy... but in a gay flamboyant way that only women could understand. I remember not liking it.

BOGGY CREEK 2 THE LEGEND CONTINUES 1984

The search for bigfoot continues as a professor and 3 of his students go to Arkansas to check out some sightings. Outstanding performance by the guy in the gorilla suit. The rest was laughable but kept me happy.

WESTWORLD (1973). Really liked this back when I was 12, but find it hard going these days, although the idea is great. Find the acting flat (Richard Benjamen is damn annoying in here), but Yul Brynner >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SPOILIER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >> is quite effective as the TERMINATOR-esque gunslinger. **1/2

THE STUFF (1985). Amusing Larry Cohen flick that doesn't quite make it, but worth checking out once.. **1/2

BLEEDER AKA BLODAREN 1983



An all girl rock band gets stranded while on their way to their next gig. Searching through some abandoned homes for a phone, they start disappearing one by one. The score was astonishingly close to Halloween's. That was probably the only good thing.

Martin

Rest In Peace, Georgie boy.::love::

I'll second that::sad::::sad::...one of my favorite directors. Really nice when wife and I met him at HORRORFIND Spring 2008...really just an old Hippie, talking about "...the Fuzz, Man!"-indeed, ALL the Romero people we've encountered at Conventions were really cool, although Savini was kind of a dick the first time we met him.

KNIGHTRIDERS (1981). After the big Box office of DAWN OF THE DEAD, George made this unusual Rennaisance Faire film that includes a family camp and Motorcycle jousting. He intended this to be more of his personal views and heard he was quite crushed when it flopped, although CREPSHOW brought back large returns and this found more of an audience via cable/rentals.
While I quite like this, it's really too long and quite pretentious in spots, but the stunt work is great and neat seeing many familiar names in the cast/crew. ****

I've heard from more than one person that Savini is an asshole.

I've seen Savini at several cons and I've seen him be both wonderful AND shitty depending on the con and the particular fans. Once he wouldn't even look up to sign autographs, but then a month later at a smaller event he was very engaged with the crowd.
Good and bad days I guess. I did have a great conversation with him about Maniac many years ago, and he seemed genuinely excited by my love for his work in that one.
I will say this much for sure, if you are a blonde, busty woman, you will have his undivided attention. I am not blonde or busty. Nor am I a woman ( Ya hear that, Sculpterino! 😂), so I suppose the convo I had with him will suffice.

I watched Monster Dog recently. I'd heard about it before, but didn't think of it as anything more than a bad horror movie. However I found that I'm an Cooper fan so I took another look at it. Still bad. But it was enjoyable.

Crucible of Terror(1971) 7/10
Deadly Strangers(1974) 8/10

Cat's Eye(Anthology comedy horror film from 1985) First story with James Woods 7.5/10, second story with Robert Hays 6.5/10, and last story with Drew Barrymore 7.5/10. Overall I enjoyed it.

XTRO 1983

A father returns to try and claim his son after being missing for 3 years. He also claims to have no knowledge or memory of where he's been.

Not quite what I expected but a nice watch.

I'm with you on Stuff.

I love The Stuff, but I concede that that may have more to do with my being a big Michael Moriarty fan than the film itself.

Yeah, it is pretty bad, but You gotta love The Coop. New LP coming out in a couple of days!

I really like him as well...thought he was excellent in the 1978 Big Event HOLOCAUST and really should see BANG THE DRUM SLOWLY.

DESPERATE LIVING (1977). Like a lot of John Waters's early films, this has a tendency to go off in different directions, but the first 15 minutes are truly funny and some good gross out scenes too. When I had my Movie Club in the 90's, showed this and one of the members had quite commercial tastes (but to be fair, he did give the off the wall stuff a try) and a few of the scenes , particularly one involving transplants had him bellowing "WHAT THE F--K!!!??!!"::big grin::::wink::::devil::. ***

The Prowler -

I finally saw this movie and it's pretty good. It reminded me of a harsher Friday the 13th at times. The kills went a bit further than in Friday the 13th. They were meaner and more graphic. The effects were very good and when I saw Tom Savini was credited for the effects I wasn't surprised. Also, I looked up the director and he also directed a Friday the 13th entry. The mean nature of the movie means it wouldn't be that much fun for me to watch again though. I thought the lead actress was cool though and wish she was in a Friday the 13th movie.

You are suggesting the movie is too dark even for horror fans, ala Cannibal Holocaust?