Written by James M. Tate / 1/28/2023 / No comments / action , alice krige , body count , brian krause , horror , mädchen amick , mark hamill , mick garris , nineties , stephen king , thriller , vampire
ALICE KRIGE & BRIAN KRAUSE IN STEPHEN KING'S 'SLEEPWALKERS'
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Title: SLEEPWALKERS Year: 1992 Rating: ***Stephen King found himself a worthy future director in Mick Garris for the TV mini-series THE STAND two years after SLEEPWALKERS, an intentional b-movie that introduces a new kid in school, fawne
Written by James M. Tate / 1/27/2023 / No comments / candy clark , drew barrymore , horror , horror anthology , james woods , kenneth mcmillan , lewis teague , robert hays , stephen king , suspense
STEPHEN KING'S OTHER HORROR ANTHOLOGY FILM 'CAT'S EYE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/27/2023
Robert Hays stuck again in a very high place for CAT'S EYES Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2Iconic horror author Stephen King, backing his second anthology horror after the successful CREEPSHOW by his good friend George A. Romero and CAT'S EYE by
Written by James M. Tate / 1/25/2023 / No comments / corey haim , eighties , everette mcgill , gary busey , horror , lawrence tierney , megan follows , stephen king , terry o'quinn , werewolf
BITING INTO STEPHEN KING'S WEREWOLF HORROR 'SILVER BULLET'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/25/2023
Title: SILVER BULLET Year: 1985 Rating: ****Stephen King famously hates Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING because it's not Kubrick's... despite the fact it is very much his movie adapted from King's novel; the author especially loathed the cas
Written by James M. Tate / 1/24/2023 / No comments / action , arnold schwarzenegger , eighties , jim brown , maria conchita alonso body count , paul michael glaser , richard dawson , science-fiction , stephen king , yaphet kotto
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 'THE RUNNING MAN' RICHARD DAWSON
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Richard Dawson & Arnold Schwarzenegger in THE RUNNING MAN 1987 Score: ****There was a stretch between the first two TERMINATOR films when Arnold Schwarzenegger could do no wrong... and even his wrongs were right as this bizarre story. from
Written by James M. Tate / 1/21/2023 / No comments / adaptation , article , barry dennen , barry nelson , danny lloyd , eighties , essay , horror , jack nicholson , joe turkel , philip stone , scatman crothers , shelley duvall , stanley kubrick , stephen king , thriller
MOTIVATION OF JACK NICHOLSON GONE CRAZY FOR 'THE SHINING'
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Article on the madness of King Jack Nicholson and Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING from 1980Thanks to the famous image of a grimacing madman's head through a slashed door, it seems THE SHINING would be nothing more than a fi
Written by James M. Tate / 1/19/2023 / No comments / body count , david soul , fred willard , geoffrey lewis , horror , james mason , julie cobb , kenneth mcmillan , lance kerwin , lew ayres , miniseries , seventies , stephen king , tobe hooper , tv movie , vampire
TOBE HOOPER DIRECTS THE TV VAMPIRE MOVIE OF 'SALEM'S LOT'
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David Soul in SALEM'S LOT Year: 1979 Rating: ****1/2Although groundbreaking horror/exploitation director Tobe Hooper is best known for and forever linked to the legendary low-budget slasher TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, his coolest, tightest and
Written by James M. Tate / 1/16/2023 / No comments / action , catherine mary stewart , cop , eighties , exploitation , hillarie thompson , joe spinell , keith emerson , lindsay wagner , nigel davenport , rolling stones , rutger hauer , sylvester stallone , thriller
SYLVESTER STALLONE AND RUTGER HAUER IN 'NIGHTHAWKS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/16/2023
TITLE: NIGHT HAWKS YEAR: 1981 RATING: ***1/2In any crime flick, the villain moves into the hero's territory, like, say, in the case of THE FRENCH CONNECTION, which NIGHTHAWKS was originally intended to be the third entry of... and Rutger Ha
Written by James M. Tate / 1/13/2023 / No comments / christopher allport , cult , denny miller , eighties , leo rossi , terence knox , thriller , tony plana , walter olkewicz , yvette mimieux
YVETTE MIMIEUX LEADING 'BRAINWASH' AKA 'CIRCLE OF POWER'
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Yvette Mimieux in BRAINWASH/CIRCLE OF POWER Year: 1981 Rating: ****Mostly known by the far more dramatic title CIRCLE OF POWER — which probably made the video rental more of a shelf-grabber — this early-80's cult curio genuinely titled BRAI
SYLVESTER STALLONE STARRING AND DIRECTING 'ROCKY II'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/13/2023
Title: ROCKY II year: 1979 Starring/Director: Sylvester Stallone RATING: ***1/2It seems like the last person who gets credit for the original ROCKY is director John G. Advilson... yet he did win the Academy Award; and Sylvester Stallone's b
Written by James M. Tate / 1/12/2023 / No comments / 3D , bess armstrong , creature , dennis quaid , disaster , eighties , franchise , joe alves , lea thompson , louis gossett jr. , sequel , shark , simon maccorkindale
DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'
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Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: ***Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and who’d have thought the third JAWS would abandon Amity Beach to take place at an oceanic theme park, rel
Written by James M. Tate / 1/11/2023 / No comments / action , ann dusenberry , body count , donna wilkes , franchise , horror , jaws , lorraine gary , monster , murray hamilton , roy scheider , sequel , seventies , shark , suspense , thriller
ROY SCHEIDER FOR MORE A MORE THRILLER THAN CHILLER 'JAWS 2'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/11/2023
Title: JAWS 2 Year: 1978 Rating: ***1/2Grading on the dorsal curve of the Steven Spielberg classic, this sequel feels like a would-be pilot episode of a JAWS television series: Thus it's somewhat lacking, and to be fair, shouldn't be compar
Written by James M. Tate / 1/10/2023 / No comments / action , crime , enzo g. castellari , exploitation , franco nero , italian import , seventies , shark , treasure
FRANCO NERO IN ENZO G. CASTELLARI'S 'THE SHARK HUNTER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/10/2023
Title: THE SHARK HUNTER Year: 1979 Rating: ***Actually more similar to Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE from 1975, the same year as JAWS... The latter literally mentioned in Enzo G. Castellari's THE SHARK HUNTER and that he'd ingloriously r
Written by James M. Tate / 1/08/2023 / No comments / jaws , lance guest , lorraine gary , mario van peebles , michael caine , sequel , shark , suspense , thriller
BITING INTO THE DESERVED BLASPHEMY OF 'JAWS THE REVENGE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/08/2023
Title: JAWS THE REVENGE Year: 1987 Rating: *If you don't count CADDYSHACK II, the fourth JAWS... tag-titled JAWS: THE REVENGE... takes the cake, or in this case, the chum, winning all awards for the worst sequel ever, ever, ever made... Whi
Written by James M. Tate / 1/07/2023 / No comments / 3D , adventure , byron haskin , import , joanne dru , mark stevens , neo noir , robert strauss , shark , sixties , treasure
MARK STEVENS & JOANNE DRU IN THE NEO NOIR 'SEPTEMBER STORM'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/07/2023
Pulpy poster featuring a lovely painted lovely actress Joanne Dru for SEPTEMBER STORM Year: 1960 Rating: *** Directed by underrated WAR OF THE WORLDS filmmaker Byron Haskin, for a 3D movie with a giant shark on the poster, it's amazing how
Written by James M. Tate / 1/06/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , cliff osmond , cornel wilde , david canary , david gilliam , exploitation , homosexual , hostage , john neilson , nature , neo noir , seventies , shark , thriller , treasure , yaphet kotto
CORNEL WILDE IN 'SHARKS' TREASURE' WITH YAPHET KOTTO
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/06/2023
Title: SHARK'S TREASURE Year: 1975 Rating: ****Cornel Wilde's SHARKS' TREASURE, a Neo Noir in the Ernest Hemingway tradition of the TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT style, centers on machismo verses elements of the sea...The title killer fish seems
DOUBLE TRIAD FROM STEVEN SPIELBERG'S MASTERPIECE 'JAWS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/06/2023
Defining the three leads of JAWS Year: 1975 Rating: *****Never has a motion picture made such perfect use of three acts, and three main characters... As Martin Brody, the relatively new Chief of Police in the beachside town of Amity, ROY S
Written by James M. Tate / 1/02/2023 / No comments / action , adventure , arnold schwarzenegger , eighties , fantasy , grace jones , olivia d'abo , richard fleischer , tracey walter
DIRECTOR RICHARD FLEISCHER SECONDS 'CONAN THE DESTROYER'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/02/2023
Title: CONAN THE DESTROYER Year: 1984 Rating: ***1/2John Milius's CONAN THE BARBARIAN was a passion project for the ruggedly raucous auteur, who loved Robert E. Howard's short stories but with Oliver Stone's overlong and brooding, revenge-d
Written by James M. Tate / 1/01/2023 / No comments / action , andrés garcía , exploitation , fiona george , jaws-clone , jennifer ashley , mexico , priscilla barnes , romance , seventies , shark , susan george
SUSAN GEORGE IN 'TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK' W/ JENNIFER ASHLEY
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 1/01/2023
Title: TINTORERA: KILLER SHARK Year: 1977 Rating: **1/2If the sexually-driven/dream-vacationing ménage à trois of the 1980's SUMMER LOVERS were a 1970's JAWS-clone then you'd have the extremely bizarre Mexican exploitation TINTORERA: KILLER
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