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Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back (2014)
Better Than Sound City
This is a sometimes nostalgic, sometimes funny, never boring look back at the band that opened the door for so many others.....a band that would never say die, even when their iconic, bombastic and brilliant singer, heartbreakingly did. I'd love to tell you of the moments in this superbly researched documentary that made me laugh, tear up and break out in Heavy Metal goose-flesh.....but that would simply give away too much. There may be "no way back", but when this film is finally released for purchase. I definitely WILL be going back, again and again. Oh....and by the way, if Heavy Metal isn't to your taste, you will still enjoy this film. This is about family, friendship and the will to go on, even when the odds are stacked against you.
The Return of Count Yorga (1971)
A "B" movie with "A" scares!
I saw this movie at my Junior High School in the '70's....halfway through it my buddy grabbed a teacher and she screamed her head off. This one caused a few sleepless nights for me as a kid. It is reminiscent of "Night Of The Living Dead" in the scene where all the female vamps break in and kill all inside, but it was somehow more scary in that this family was "at home", where we are supposed to feel safe. The opener with the kid running through the graveyard and the hands coming up out of the ground also creeped me out. Best line has to be when Count Yorga is at the costume party and the cheesy looking guy dressed as Dracula asks him "Where are your fangs?" Yorga replies "Where are your manners?" Classic.
The Night Stalker (1972)
The Best TV Horror Movie Ever Made......
This.....THIS film is the reason that an eight year old kid lost a lot of sleep in the '70's. I used to sleep with all the blankets tucked under my chin in case the Vampire came at me in the night....he'd have a hard time biting through all that cloth. The great thing about Darren McGavin's Kolchak is that he is a stubborn, obsessed reporter in dogged pursuit of the truth, but once he finds it, he's scared to death. Barry Atwater makes a chilling vampire, totally silent until the moment he opens that closet door and all hell breaks loose! I remember three-quarters of the way through this movie in 1972, my father asking me: "What's wrong son"? "I have to go pee Daddy." "Then why don't you go upstairs and go to the bathroom"? "Are you CRAZY??" The realistic way that this movie ends is with these now classic lines: "Judge for yourself its believability, and then try to tell yourself, wherever you may be, it couldn't happen here."
Black Christmas (1974)
Overlooked and underrated.....a Horror Classic.
As other reviews have stated, this set the bar for all the imitator slasher flicks came after it....unfortunately, since it is a cheaply made little Canadian movie, it has been overlooked by most Horror Movie Historians. I once read a book of horror movie reviews, and like others, "Black Christmas" was not reviewed. I contacted the author by e-mail, and he replied by saying "Gosh-darn it....I STILL haven't seen that movie". If you love well-made, classic horror, please see this movie. Scared the CRAP out of me when I first saw it in the '70's. Still does today. The scene that still fills the viewer with dread is when the heroine discovers her two friends dead in the bedroom, and when she tries to force the door open and falls down, we see what was blocking the door.....and he's staring psychotically at her through the crack in the door..... Well filmed, well acted and very well directed. Enjoy...and for cryin' out loud, make sure your attic door and all the windows are locked!