A lot of great TV horror movies rely on a final image, a real shocker, to hammer home the fear. But not all of them. When Michael Calls (1972) is a telefilm that measures out its chills, leading to a logical conclusion (for a small screen sinner) instead of an iconic screen shot for nostalgic viewers. Regardless, this one provides a platform for a solid thriller with a pedigree behind and in front of the camera.
Originally broadcast on Saturday, February 5th, as the ABC Movie of the Weekend, When Michael Calls had the normal competition from CBS’ New Dick Van Dyke Show/Mary Tyler Moore Show and NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies. But ABC’s Movies of the Week (on Tuesday’s, and here) almost always won out with viewers, providing exciting, original fare. This one is no exception.
Let’s crack open our fair weathered faux TV...
Originally broadcast on Saturday, February 5th, as the ABC Movie of the Weekend, When Michael Calls had the normal competition from CBS’ New Dick Van Dyke Show/Mary Tyler Moore Show and NBC’s Saturday Night at the Movies. But ABC’s Movies of the Week (on Tuesday’s, and here) almost always won out with viewers, providing exciting, original fare. This one is no exception.
Let’s crack open our fair weathered faux TV...
- 3/26/2017
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
James Holmes, who is accused of murdering 12 people and injuring 59 others at an Aurora, Co movie theater screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" last summer, has plead not guilty. District Court Judge William Sylvester entered a standard Not Guilty plea on Tuesday, denying Holmes' lawyer's request for more time to build a case for a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
"As far as we're concerned, they are entering a plea of not guilty, and what they have done to this point is not sufficient to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity," Arapahoe County Ada Karen Pearson said, according to E! Online.
On April 1, prosecutors will announce whether they plan to seek the death penalty. Holmes is likely to be given truth serum or a mandatory lie-detector test. He is charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder, 116 counts of attempted murder, possession of explosive devices and inciting violence.
"As far as we're concerned, they are entering a plea of not guilty, and what they have done to this point is not sufficient to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity," Arapahoe County Ada Karen Pearson said, according to E! Online.
On April 1, prosecutors will announce whether they plan to seek the death penalty. Holmes is likely to be given truth serum or a mandatory lie-detector test. He is charged with 24 counts of first-degree murder, 116 counts of attempted murder, possession of explosive devices and inciting violence.
- 3/12/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
James Holmes is accused of spraying gunfire at a theater full of people during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises last summer, murdering 12 and wounding 59 others. Today, a Colorado judge denied his attorney's request for more time to build an insanity defense and entered a standard not guilty plea on the 25-year-old's behalf. "As far as we're concerned, they are entering a plea of not guilty, and what they have done to this point is not sufficient to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity," Karen Pearson, an assistant district attorney for Arapahoe County, said in court. Prosecutors said they would announce whether or not they plan to seek the death penalty...
- 3/12/2013
- E! Online
Denver — The suspect in Colorado's deadly movie theater attack was barred from university property for threatening a professor, prosecutors said in court documents released Friday, raising more questions about why campus police didn't report his actions to other authorities.
The revelation conflicts with the university's statements that James Holmes was denied access to non-public parts of the campus because he had withdrawn from school.
The name of the person Holmes allegedly threatened has been blacked out. In court testimony Aug. 30, University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, also a professor at the school, said she contacted campus police after meeting with Holmes on June 11.
University officials did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
After weeks of secrecy surrounding the case, most of the documents filed in court were released to the public on Friday. But the release failed to answer several key questions about the July 20 tragedy – including what allegedly...
The revelation conflicts with the university's statements that James Holmes was denied access to non-public parts of the campus because he had withdrawn from school.
The name of the person Holmes allegedly threatened has been blacked out. In court testimony Aug. 30, University of Colorado psychiatrist Lynne Fenton, also a professor at the school, said she contacted campus police after meeting with Holmes on June 11.
University officials did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
After weeks of secrecy surrounding the case, most of the documents filed in court were released to the public on Friday. But the release failed to answer several key questions about the July 20 tragedy – including what allegedly...
- 9/28/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Four months before he allegedly opened fire on a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, James Holmes told a classmate at the University of Colorado that he intended to kill people. Arapahoe County Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Pearson, the prosecutor in the case against Holmes released documents on Friday that revealed Holmes made the threats before flunking oral exams in his University of Colorado graduate program; he was later barred from the campus after threatening a professor, and had begun withdrawing from the school. THR Cover: Reflections From 'The Dark Knight Rises' Tragedy Holmes is accused of killing 12 and
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- 8/25/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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