Format: Amazon Streaming
Viewing: First
Decade: 1963
Director: Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis
Sooooooo... I had two weeks worth of plans, maybe three, for our Friday viewings. But someone pulled their catalog off of Amazon Prime as near as I can tell. So, no Pump Up the Volume or Short Circuit for us. I'm in a bit of a panic, so I'm reaching for a personal favorite since it was pointed out it was on here by Jenifer.
It's a post-apocalyptic future of 1997, and America is perpetually at war. New York has been turned into one big penal colony, and Air Force 1 just went down nearby. The President's escape pod has fallen into the middle of NYC, containing the President and a recording which will bring an end to conflict.
The Feds happen to have just laid their hands on one of the toughest criminals to ever walk on American soil: Kurt Russell with an eyepatch.
Now, Kurt Russell with an eyepatch needs to enter NYC, retrieve the package, and make it back out before the bomb in his neck explodes. And he's gonna need Harry Dean Stanton and Adrienne Barbeau (which I think we can all say).
Written by John Carpenter! Directed by Carpenter! Music by Carpenter!
A favorite of MST3K, Elvira, and inexpensive UHF Halloween-time programming, Vincent Price is caught in a bad romance with a cranky blonde. For her birthday, he's rented a house with a reputation as a site of murder and, more recently, GHOSTS. Like, angry ghosts!
Price has invited several strangers, each in need of some quick cash. If they can survive the night, they get a sack of dough.
As a welcome gift, each of the guests receive a gun.
Anyway - it's a kooky, campy good time, with Price being all dapper in a well-cut suit. There's some good jump scares, crazy ideas and Elisha Cook freaking the @#$% out. Skeletons. Old ladies making faces.
It's a whole scene.
I know this doesn't LOOK scary, but this IS a scene from the movie. And that is Ms. Pitt. |
This weekend is Jenifer's birthday, and she had suggested we pick this one for our Friday night watch party. I've never seen it, and you probably haven't, either. But we're gonna watch it. Let's find out about corpses and the people who grind them TOGETHER.
AMAZON LINK - Right here, Doug
behold: the trailer!