The first scene we see in The Medusa Touch is the lead character John Morlar (Richard Burton) being beaten around the head with a solid object! French detective Monsieur Brunel (Lino Ventura) is assigned to find out who might be responsible and why. One of his leads is the psychiatrist he was seeing, Dr Zonfield …
Continue reading Day 26- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Medusa Touch (1978)
New York writer Jennifer Hills relocates temporarily to a lakeside idyll in Connecticut to write her first novel. A local gang of four men attack, humiliate and rape her. They then order one of the gang to go back and kill her. He lies to them and says he has but they then learn that …
Continue reading Day 11- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
After Corky Withers (Anthony Hopkins) bombs as a magician at a nightclub amateur night, he changes tack and ploughs ahead with the aid of a gimmick- a ventriloquist's dummy named Fats. After a year of hard slog, he becomes well-known and even attracts the attention of an agent (Burgess Meredith). He's on the verge of …
One of the best things about Yorkshire Television, when I was growing up, was the eclectic fare that made up their schedules. At night they showed the most wonderful and unexpected films you could ever imagine. They also showed films you had never heard of before that were either unavailable on video because of some …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Slithis (1978)
Gail Osborne is a 16 year old who starts dating Steve Pastorinis who goes to the same school as her. It's also around this time that she starts to receive abusive notes stuck in the grills of her school locker and also abusive telephone calls. For a film, let alone a TV movie to deal …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 31- Are You In The House Alone? (1978)
This infamous film from 1978 starts with an anonymous man wearing a balaclava and going on a killing spree. He uses a different tool for each murder such as an electric drill, a screwdriver and nail gun. But then events take a bizarre twist as we get to see who the killer is and...to tell …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 25- The Toolbox Murders (1978)
I saw this film in the best way possible back in the 80's- on late night TV, lights dimmed with it being the last thing I watched before hitting the hay. Ryan O'Neal plays The Driver (no name is given for his character and this is the case for all of the lead characters), a …
Dirk Bogarde stars in this 1978 Fassbinder film as Hermann, a chocolate factory owner living in Berlin during the Weimar Republic who suffers from dissociation. He dreams of escape. On his travels he meets a homeless man who he thinks can imitate him in a scam. This will involve his faked murder so that he …
A peach of a soundtrack to look at is the Trunk Record's compilation of some of the De Wolfe library music that was used within George A Romero's masterpiece Dawn of the Dead. The fact that Romero used muzak that would be played inside a shopping mall within a film set in a shopping mall …
Continue reading Soundtrack of the Week- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
I'm loving going through the Yorkshire Evening Post's archives to reveal the ads used to publicise a film's release. I fondly remember seeing these as a kid- little glimpses into a film's grittiness and sleaziness when I was too young to actually see the film. The other day I stumbled upon the original ads …
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