ALL THE KIND STRANGERS *** USA 1974 Dir: Burt Kennedy. 75 mins Made for Television movies were a new outlet during the seventies long before streaming services. In many ways, they were a throwback to early television that featured such ground break series as Hallmark Hall of fame, Philco Playhouse…
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KILLDOZER *** USA 1974 Dir: Jerry London. 74 mins Sandwiched between Spielberg’s DUEL and THE CAR, this short, snappy tale of vehicular mayhem from the golden age of American made-for-TV horror films has an unusual setting, an eccentric plot and an impressively straight-faced all-male ensemble. A six-man construction crew working…
THE MUNSTERS’ SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS *** U.S.A. 1996 Dir: Ian Emes. 91 mins THE MUNSTERS’ return for their fifth and (currently) final movie outing and it is full of so much charm that even little monsters will enjoy watching it over the Christmas period. With Christmas coming up Herman Munster…
BODY BAGS **** USA 1993 Dir: John Carpenter / Tobe Hooper / Larry Sulkis. 91 mins Showtime’s attempt to cash in on the success of HBO’s TALES FROM THE CRYPT resulted in this one-off horror anthology, framed by amusingly bad taste scenes of a coroner (the appropriately cadaverous John Carpenter,…
SOMEONE’S WATCHING ME! **** USA 1978 Dir: John Carpenter. 97 mins Shot in under ten days – and two weeks before Carpenter began filming HALLOWEEN – this exceptional TV movie provided the filmmaker with an early showcase for the kind of framing, Panaglide camerawork and suspense / scare tactics he would…