Vishniac (video review)
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Tag: streaming
Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride (1978)
[written June 18, 2011] Sitting down to watch Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride the other night, I got a sense of déjà vu. I sensed that I had seen this movie before. I waved it off, after all the late Christopher Lee played Count Dracula many times. But something was nagging at me. Yes!, […]
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Maybe I just got my hopes up, but I got it stuck in my head that after his disturbing horror debut with the revenge thriller The Last House on the Left that Wes Craven’s return to horror five years later (in between taking a directing a porn flick called The Fireworks Woman under the name […]
Midnight Express (1978)
How am I suppose to approach Midnight Express? I know going in that the movie is based on the true story of the nightmarish journey of Billy Hayes, a young American student who spent time in a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of the country. But I also know, coming out, that […]
The Big Fix (1978)
The biggest problem with The Big Fix is that it never lands on an idea of what it wants to be. It’s a comedy, a drama, a message picture, a detective potboiler and an expose about how the radicals of the 60s have sold their souls to the corporate structure. Those are the bullet points […]
Goin’ South (1978)
I never do this, but in preparing to write a review of Goin’ South, I read some reviews from the past, mostly by critics who disliked the film for a variety of reasons. The response was mixed, but there wasn’t one overriding problem that anyone could pinpoint. I wanted to see for myself. For me, […]
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
If it didn’t have so many impressive names attached, then I might be tempted to think that The Boys from Brazil could make for great schlock. Yet, the gated names that keep it out of that realm (or seem to) are Laurance Olivier, Gregory Peck, James Mason, Denholm Elliot, Bruno Ganz, Michael Gough, director Franklin […]
Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
Few things get under my skin like a movie that is made for reasons other than wanting to make a good movie. Somebody Killed Her Husband is such a movie. It was touted as a return to the great old comedy mysteries of the 1930s, which is coded for me as yet another desperate attempt […]
Death on the Nile (1978)
Perhaps one of the greatest faults of Agatha Christie is that while her legendary mysteries were crafted with clockwork precision, she was not as adept at writing characters. The players were always types – the secretary, the dowager, the gum shoe – but they were merely chess pieces to be moved around. And this, perhaps, […]
