Tag Archives: 70s movies

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

In Slumber Party Massacre II we had an electrical guitar with a drill attached to it. Now, we can add a horn section to our murder band in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), which features a trombone knife. Holy In-N-Out Burgers, we didn’t see that one coming. In a post-war post-Roosevelt South, a town thatContinue reading “The Town That Dreaded Sundown”

Starcrash

Italian film producers in the late 70’s and early 80’s excelled at taking hit American films and then ripping them off completely. Hence, Jaws begat The Last Shark, Alien begat Contamination, Conan begat Conquest and Star Wars begat Starcrash. Starcrash is a film that on paper boasts an impressive pedigree. It stars Christopher Plummer, DavidContinue reading “Starcrash”