Warning: this review contains spoilers. The highlight of Salem’s Lot part one (the vampire boys floating outside and rap-tap tapping on...

Warning: this review contains spoilers. In Salem’s Lot (1979) Mark Petrie (Lance Kerwin) reminds me of myself as a monster kid. His room...

With last week’s movie, The Death of Ocean View Park, and now Disaster on the Coastliner, it seems like the television networks were...

Which came first: an 80-year-old amusement park scheduled to be purposely demolished or a Hollywood studio making a TV movie about an...

In 1981, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll created the classic television series, Hill Street Blues. Throughout the 1980s, Bochco was an...

It’s been a while since we’ve had a 70s TV movie with so many familiar faces, although they’re mostly underutilized. Leading the cast is...

With the old bait and switch, CBS emphasized the salacious aspects in its advertising for The Darker Side of Terror (1979). Yes, what we...

If you search for Express to Terror (1979) on the internet, you’re likely to find Horror Express (1972) first. Take my advice: watch the...

Back in June, I called The Savage Bees (1976) “the best killer bee movie I’ve seen.” Back in the day, others must have liked it, too,...

In 1976, Warner Bros. hired a mostly unknown director named John Carpenter to write a screenplay for a feature film based on the...

The following are excepts from my feature about A Fire in the Sky (1978) in the We Belong Dead publication, Spotlight on Science Fiction,...

Linda Blair and her hair star in Summer of Fear (1978), but, contrary to the appearance of the latter, they’re not the ones possessed....

In the vein of not judging a book by its cover, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) isn’t nearly as ridiculous as it sounds. If demons...

Watching horror films as much as I do, I’m not easily offended. However, I think Are You in the House Alone? (1978) did it. It’s mostly a...

For a simple werewolf movie, no more, no less, Deathmoon (1978) has a little going for it for classic horror fans, but very little for...

With all the evil that ghosts do, it’s easy to forget that sometimes they’re benevolent, remaining on this earthly plane to warn others...

The Initiation of Sarah (1978) is such a blatant rip-off of Carrie (1976) that the few original ideas it threatens to offer are forgotten...

Backed by a relentless soundtrack that ensures you know how to react while simultaneously beating you into submission, Cruise into Terror...

As 1970s TV movies evolved and started mirroring their theatrical counterparts, they got further and further from what was so unique...

Known primarily for its holiday television specials outsourced to Japanese animation companies, Rankin/Bass Productions occasionally...