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Professor’s Fall Journal: October Week 4

Nov29 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Let's Drive X Mad", Adaptation, Aliens, Animation, Based on a Book, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Camp, Comedy, Dracula, Family, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Lycanthropy/Jekyll and Hyde, Mad Scientist, Made for TV, Period Film, Quick Reviews, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Short, Silent, Slasher, Space Travel, Thriller Tagged "homage is French for rip off", Brian Cox, Britain, cartoon, Donald Pleasence, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Klaus Kinski, London, meta, Peter Cushing, Porky Pig, rip-off, sylvester cat

October 31st, 2014: Halloween (1978)

Oct31 by Professor Mortis

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7 Comments Posted in Horror, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slasher, The Original, Thriller Tagged abandoned house, annoying children, Arthur Malet, asylum, baby sitters, Blue Oyster Cult, boogeyman, bullies, Charles Cyphers, Compass International Pictures, Dean Cundey, Debra Hill, dogs, Donald Pleasence, final girl, graveyard, Halloween, homecoming, Irwin Yablans, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, killer in the back seat, Kyle Richards, marijuana, Moustapha Akkad, Nancy Kyes, Nancy Stephens, P.J. Soles, psychiatrists, sheriff, sorroricide, Tommy Lee Wallace, unstoppable killer, urban legend

July 19th, 2014: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)

Jul19 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Made for TV, Movie of the Day, Stalker, Thriller Tagged Adrienne Barbeau, apartment, asshole reporter, before they were famous, California, Charles Cyphers, high rise, homage, John Carpenter, Lauren Hutton, Len Lesser, lesbian, Los Angeles, low-budget, NBC, reporter, telephone, telephone company, telescope, TV director, Warner Bros. Television

January 16, 2014: Escape from L.A. (1996)

Jan16 by bellabone

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Apocalypse, Crime, Dark Future, Disaster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel Tagged EMP, Escape from New York, hologram, John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, leather pants, Los Angeles, Map to the Stars, nineties, post-apocalyptic, Snake Plissken, Steve Buscemi, surfing, Universal Pictures, WMD

January 16th, 2013: Escape from New York (1981)

Jan16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Dark Future, Independent, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged "but I get results", "New York", "You will self destruct in 24 hours", Adrienne Barbeau, Air Force One, airplane, arena, Avco Embassy Pictures, Bob Minor, bridge, Britain, Charles Cyphers, co-production, Donald Pleasence, double cross, Drive-In, Ernest Borgnine, futures past, George "Buck" Flower, glider, Harry Dean Stanton, helicopter, hostage, Isaac Hayes, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, John Diehl, Kurt Russell, land mines, low-budget, musical interlude, New York City, plane crash, President of the United States, prison, prison warden, prisoner, rescue mission, scientists, Tom Atkins, veteran, World War Three

December 17th, 2012: Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Dec17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Action, Adventure, Buddy Flick, Comedy, Event Film, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Movie of the Day, Screwball Tagged "martial arts", 20th Century Fox, Al "Kabong" Leong, Alan Howarth, brothel, California, card game, Carter Wong, Chinatown, cult, Dean Cundey, demon, Dennis Dun, Donald Li, flop, gambling debts, Gerald Okamura, homage, immigrants, it's not over, James Hong, John Carpenter, kidnapping, Kim Cattrall, Kurt Russell, madame, prostitutes, sacrifice, San Francisco, sorcerer, street gang, Triads, truckers, undead, Victor Wong

September 12th, 2012: Christine

Sep12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Book, Horror, Killer Cars, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Possession Tagged 1950s, 1970s, Alexandra Paul, bullies, cheerleader, classic car, cursed objects, doo-woop, football player, Harry Dean Stanton, high school, it's not over, John Carpenter, John Stockwell, Keith Gordon, Kelly Preston, Plymouth Fury, Robert Prosky, shop class, Stephen King, teens

The Ward (2010)

Nov2 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Full Reviews, Ghost, Horror, Independent, Mystery, Period Film, Reviews, So-Bad-It's-Bad, Thriller, Whodunnit Tagged Amber Heard, asylum, child abuse, child molestor, domineering nurse, insanity, it's not over, John Carpenter, ModernVideo Film, nurse, orderly, psychiatrists, repressed memories, rip-off, teens

August 20th, 2011: Starman (1984)

Aug20 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Chase, Fish-Out-of-Water, Movie of the Day, Romance, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged autopsy lust, cash-in, Charles Martin Smith, children of famous people, Christ figure, Columbia Pictures, George "Buck" Flower, Industrial Light and Magic, Jack Nitzsche, John Carpenter, Larry J. Franco, M.C. Gainey, Mickey Jones, NORAD, Richard Jaeckel, rip-off, scientists, SETI, Voyager II

January 17th, 2011: The Thing (1982)

Jan17 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Based on a Short Story(ies), Body Snatchers, Horror, Monster, Movie of the Day, Remake, Sci-Fi Tagged alcoholic, Antarctica, better than the original, bleak ending, box office poison, cash-in, Dean Cundey, dogs, Donald Moffat, gore, helicopter, isolation, John Carpenter, Keith David, Kurt Russell, paranoia, Richard Dysart, Richard Masur, Rob Bottin, scientists, shape-shifter, Stan Winston, storm, T.K. Carter, Universal Pictures, Wilford Brimley

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