Category: Classic Movies

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The man who would be king

he story is set in the 1880s, starting off in India. Christopher Plummer plays Kipling, who narrates the story as it unfolds. But he remains in India and does not partake in the adventure, which takes it’s main characters, two scoundrels with great ambition cross the lands, beyond the Khyber

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Corvette Summer

coming of age movie about a gear-head who falls in love while chasing down a stolen Corvette that he helped restore. This movie captures the 70s, fashion, freedoms, easy-living.

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Carrie

The first cinematic adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Carrie’s naivety becomes apparent when at 16 she is panicked by her first menstrual flow. Her menarche is also the awakening of telekinetic powers, which manifest initially with her exploding the light bulbs to avoid prying eyes in the school locker area.

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Halloween

This is perhaps the best of all the suspense Halloween horror/slasher films one could hope to see. Although there were… read more Halloween

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The AmityVille Horror

Based on a best seller novel of the same name,The AmityVille Horror, this 1979 movie stars Margot Kidder (Superman) and James Brolin. The story follows a family who purchased the home of an extreme crime scene 13 months after Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. killed both his parents, two brother and two sisters with a shot gun in the house.

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The Serpent and the rainbow

This is another Wes Craven film, but the Serpent and the rainbow is shot with such surprising realism that you can forget at times you are watching a film and think you are watching a documentary or recreation of real life story

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When a stranger calls

The movie begins with Jill Johnson played by Carol Kane babysitting for a local Dr. and his wife. After the kids are asleep and she is waiting for the parents to return, she starts to get phone calls asking her if she has checked on the children. She has heard nothing from them and figured that it is just a prank call. But the calls continue and increase in frequency so she calls the police, who discover that the calls are originating from within the home. The children were murdered shortly after Jill arrived to babysit.

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Young Frankenstein

This is the story of a lecturing Dr. Frankenstein, named Frederick who is grandson to the infamous lunatic Dr. Frankenstein. (Part of the reason for making this film in black in white is to capture another epoch more realistically for 1970s audiences). Frederick, changes his name’s pronunciation in order to distance himself from his infamous relative.

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Friday the 13th

The story premise is pretty simple. The hereditary owner of the summer camp decides to reopen the long closed location after years of neglect. It’s 1980 and he has advertised for some summer counselors who are willing to help him with a few repairs and set up to get the camp going

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Nightmare on Elm Street

Wes Craven brought the world a Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984. Drawing from newspaper reports of tortured refuges who died in their sleep,

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The Cheerleaders

The Cheerleaders was a mainstream movie which hit theaters in 1973. Watching it, I am reminded of a Playboy channel… read more The Cheerleaders

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Crossroads

Crossroads is a 1986 movie named after a famous Robert Johnson song. The film sought to cash in on Ralph… read more Crossroads

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The Blue Lagoon

In 1980 Randal Kleiser brought to life the romantic teen survival drama of the 1908 novel The Blue Lagoon by… read more The Blue Lagoon

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Murder on the orient express

Murder on the Orient Express was written by Agatha Christie in 1934. In 1974, British director SIdney Lumet put together… read more Murder on the orient express

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Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a low budget horror film from 1981 that is surprizingly good because of quality… read more Dark Night of the Scarecrow

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Summer Lovers

Summer Lovers is a romantic comedy unlike any other. It explores open relationships and the complications they present on the… read more Summer Lovers