Tag: horror movies
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Two Davids Carrie Special!
https://archive.org/download/FrequentWireTwoDavidsCarrieHalloweenSpecial/Frequent%20Wire%20Two%20Davids%20Carrie%20Halloween%20Special.mp4 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! The Two Davids are joined by Bronwyn Knox and John Froehlich for an intense discussion of the three film adaptations of Stephen King’s novel, Carrie. The first movie, directed by Brian De Palma, was released in 1976, followed by a made-for-TV version directed by David Carson in 2002, and the 2013 remake directed…
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The Wolves of 1981
Frequent Wire: Two Davids Walk Into A Bar 122: The Wolves of 1981 Happy Halloween from Frequent Wire! Bronwyn Knox joins us for a roundtable discussion of the key horror films of 1981; all of them about werewolves or wolf-like creatures. This episode is loaded with great clips and teaser trailers. The Howling is a…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, 1984
“Die! Die! Die! Die!” Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, 1984 (Crispin Glover), Paramount Pictures As is the course for the Friday the 13th franchise, we start with a clip show. This is like watching Happy Days, Family Ties, Friends or any number of sitcoms where the actors’ contractual demands per episode outweighed any reason…
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Vintage Cable Box: The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982
“All of you are very pretty. I love you. It takes a lot of love for a person to… do this. You know you want it. You’ll like it.” The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982 (Michele Michaels), New World Pictures I’m going to have to get analytical now. I knew this day would come, where I…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th Part III, 1982
“Look upon this omen and go back from whence ye came! I have warned thee! I have warned thee.” Friday the 13th Part III, 1982 (Richard Brooker), Paramount Pictures We pick up right where we left off with the previous installment, and then I begin to suspect these opening scenes exist only to pad out…
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Extreme Cinema! “Kill This Guy, Would You?”
Dead Heat is a 1988 American action comedy horror film directed by Mark Goldblatt and starring Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo and Vincent Price. The B movie is about an LAPD police officer who is murdered while attempting to arrest zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th Part 2, 1981
“I told the others, they didn’t believe me. You’re all doomed. You’re all doomed.” Friday the 13th Part 2, 1981 (Adrienne King), Paramount Pictures Adrienne King is having nightmares. Specifically, nightmares about the carnage from a few months prior. Pamela shakes her, tells her Jason should have been watched. He wasn’t a very good swimmer,…
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Vintage Cable Box: Friday the 13th, 1980
“It’s got a death curse!” Friday the 13th, 1980 (Betsy Palmer), Paramount Pictures The slasher film was by no means a new idea when Friday the 13th opened to theaters in 1980, nor even Halloween two years previous. A quick trip to the Wikipedia unearths unusual obscurities like Maurice Tourneur’s The Lunatics from 1912 (which…
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A Year of Vintage Cable Box!
“Our technology forces us to live mythically” Marshall McLuhan Cable television is a beautiful woman (or man, I suppose) who gets into your brain and relaxes you. She wants you to sit back and unwind. Just imagine slender fingers rubbing and squeezing against your tense shoulders, then forming a fist to dig into the middle…
Misadventures in Blissville 