At Home Movie Night
Feb. 26th, 2006 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzThere has been a steady trickle of DVD's showing up from my Amazon Marketplace purchases from earlier this week. Lately, I've been very bad about buying movies and not watching them, so I selected some of the horror movies from the 1970's to watch tonight, along with a the Ultimate Avengers: The Movie.
Summer of Fear (1978) -- Visine gets the red out...
I remember this movie from my childhood. The image of the red-eyed witch with her hair blowing in the dusty wind has been burned into my memory since I was five, when this movie came out. The other day I searched to find the title of this movie, which I had long forgotten and was happy to see it was available on DVD.
Summer of Fear stars a young, post-Exorcist Linda Blair as Rachel whose family brings a recently orphaned cousin to live with them. Soon, bizarre occurrences and accidents begin to happen to the family and Rachel believes that the supposedly innocent cousin is the cause, which no one else believes. The movie was written by Lois Duncan, who wrote other teen horror/thriller novels upon which movies like Killing Mr. Griffin and I Know What You Did Last Summer were based. It's not the greatest thriller in the world, partly because of its made-for-TV origin, but it is entertaining and very nostalgic for me.
Ultimate Avengers
This movie was an impulse buy. I love cartoons and comic books, so it seemed like a natural purchase for my interests. I thought the movie was very well done and was written and drawn for the PG-13 or older crowd. I had hoped that the Scarlet Witch would have been included, but this is the origin movie and I suspect she may show up in the second one due out in August or maybe a later one if they become popular.
Black Christmas (1974) -- The original calls from inside the house...
I remember seeing Black Christmas long ago on Commander USA's "Up All Night" show. The story centers around the few remaining college girls at a sorority house at the beginning of Christmas vacation. The girls begin to get disturbing phone calls and they slowly start disappearing one at a time, not realizing the obscene phone caller is hiding inside the sorority house.
This movie has that great low-budget, suspenseful feel to it that I love. You can often see two characters having a tense discussion, not realizing that a shadowy figure is behind them, listening and waiting. Such dramatic irony can be very chilling. The movie stars several very young, but now-famous actresses, including Andrea Martin, Olivia Hussey, and Margot Kidder (as above). Some trivia about this movie: The movie was directed by Bob Clark, who directed Porky's and A Christmas Story. Also, the movie When a Stranger Calls was originally supposed to be a sequel to this flick, using the same "the calls are coming from inside the house" plot device.
Summer of Fear (1978) -- Visine gets the red out...
I remember this movie from my childhood. The image of the red-eyed witch with her hair blowing in the dusty wind has been burned into my memory since I was five, when this movie came out. The other day I searched to find the title of this movie, which I had long forgotten and was happy to see it was available on DVD.
Summer of Fear stars a young, post-Exorcist Linda Blair as Rachel whose family brings a recently orphaned cousin to live with them. Soon, bizarre occurrences and accidents begin to happen to the family and Rachel believes that the supposedly innocent cousin is the cause, which no one else believes. The movie was written by Lois Duncan, who wrote other teen horror/thriller novels upon which movies like Killing Mr. Griffin and I Know What You Did Last Summer were based. It's not the greatest thriller in the world, partly because of its made-for-TV origin, but it is entertaining and very nostalgic for me.
Ultimate Avengers
This movie was an impulse buy. I love cartoons and comic books, so it seemed like a natural purchase for my interests. I thought the movie was very well done and was written and drawn for the PG-13 or older crowd. I had hoped that the Scarlet Witch would have been included, but this is the origin movie and I suspect she may show up in the second one due out in August or maybe a later one if they become popular.
Black Christmas (1974) -- The original calls from inside the house...
I remember seeing Black Christmas long ago on Commander USA's "Up All Night" show. The story centers around the few remaining college girls at a sorority house at the beginning of Christmas vacation. The girls begin to get disturbing phone calls and they slowly start disappearing one at a time, not realizing the obscene phone caller is hiding inside the sorority house.
This movie has that great low-budget, suspenseful feel to it that I love. You can often see two characters having a tense discussion, not realizing that a shadowy figure is behind them, listening and waiting. Such dramatic irony can be very chilling. The movie stars several very young, but now-famous actresses, including Andrea Martin, Olivia Hussey, and Margot Kidder (as above). Some trivia about this movie: The movie was directed by Bob Clark, who directed Porky's and A Christmas Story. Also, the movie When a Stranger Calls was originally supposed to be a sequel to this flick, using the same "the calls are coming from inside the house" plot device.
