‘Rollercoaster’ (1977): TV movie-style disaster film rumbles through…in Sensurround!
1977’s Rollercoaster is a first-rate TV suspenser, blasted onto the big screen via Sensurround.
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‘Millennium’ (1989): Marginal Canadian sci-fi exploiter
The grade Z drive-in double feature no one has been asking for!
‘The Seduction’ (1982): Morgan Fairchild ‘Alone, Terrified, Trapped like an Animal’!
Early 80s hot house tramp Morgan Fairchild naked? Automatic “recommend” for The Seduction.
‘Thank God It’s Friday’ (1978): Sanitized Hollywood disco shenanigans
Disney-fied PG-rated hijinks at a distressingly chaste, mildly drug-fueled, not-nearly-as-gay-as-we-expected late 1970s Hollywood disco!
‘Getting Gotti’ (1994): ’90s telefilm shines light on Gambino crime boss
Well, maybe more like Getting Close to Getting Gotti…but no cigar from the Teflon Don.
‘R.O.T.O.R.’ (1988): Micro-budget Robocop/Terminator ripoff
The grade Z drive-in double feature no one has been asking for!
‘Hard Times’ (1975): Primitive in tone, sophisticated in execution – a dark comic book comes to life
A mythic fantasy…shot in laconic, bare-knuckled, tough-as-shoe leather “realistic” style, with one central message: you gotta fight to survive…any way you can.
‘Drive-In’ (1976): Summer fun from a bygone era
Sony’s Choice Collection, their manufactured-on-demand DVD service for old Columbia Pictures library and cult titles, is still pumping out the discs, including one just right for these warm summer nights: Drive-In, the 1976 Columbia Pictures sleeper hit featuring a largely unfamiliar cast of fresh faces.
‘Payback’ (1997): Mary Tyler Moore & Ed Asner star in ill-fated reunion
Good ‘ol Mare. I had to poke around all the way up into the 1990s to find a TV movie where Mary Tyler Moore is menaced (apparently she was too good to do cheap actioners during her series’ heyday, unlike Cloris Leachman in 1973’s Dying Room Only & Valerie Harper in 1977’s Night Terror): ABC’s… Read More ‘Payback’ (1997): Mary Tyler Moore & Ed Asner star in ill-fated reunion
‘The Valachi Papers’ (1972): Bronson tough in violent, true-story gangster flick
Violent, pulpy gangster cartoon featuring our favorite Cro-Magnon-American actor, Charles Bronson.
