Tag: horror
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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: “Poltergeist, 1982”
“A terrible presence is in there with her. So much rage, so much betrayal, I’ve never sensed anything like it. I don’t know what hovers over this house, but it was strong enough to punch a hole into this world and take your daughter away from you.” Poltergeist, 1982 (JoBeth Williams), MGM/UA I had not…
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Extreme Cinema! “Chainsaws of Love”
You know why I’m excited? You know why I’m jumping up and down in my seat? I interviewed Fred Olen Ray! We had a great interview. I was watching “Haunting Fear” last week, last Saturday ( I still really love that movie), I figure what the Hell, I’ll take a look and see if he…
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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: 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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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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Vintage Cable Box: Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983
“You wanna see something REALLY scary?” Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 (Dan Aykroyd), Warner Bros. I popped in the old Warner Brothers clamshell VHS tape of this, because I wanted to watch the movie as I remembered it when I saw it on cable television in 1984. Of course I had to play it on…
Misadventures in Blissville 