4th of July All-Night Power Play!

 

 

 
May you all still have all your fingers on toes come the 5th.

Multiplex Mash-Up :: We Are Not Alone. (December, 1977)

Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: All Aboard … If You Dare! (September, 1980)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Terror Train is another slasher that proved a lot better than I remembered it being when I watched it again about a year ago. But while the movie was enjoyable, the ads for it’s first run kinda stink. Yeah, the quality of the old Conestoga Four ad mats definitely took a nose dive when the 1980’s hit, with these hastily hacked and pasted together montages, which is both embarrassing and kinda sucks for ad hunters like myself. Feh.
 

 
Terror Train (1980) Astral Bellevue Pathé :: Sandy Howard Productions :: Triple T Productions :: 20th Century Fox / EP: Lamar Card, Daniel Grodnik / P: Harold Greenberg / D: Roger Spottiswoode / W: T.Y. Drake / C: John Alcott / E: Anne Henderson / M: John Mills-Cockell / S: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield, Derek McKinnon, Sandee Currie

Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: Proto-Slashers :: If This Picture Doesn’t Make Your Skin Crawl, It’s On Too Tight! (November, 1975)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This lurid and highly provocative art for Black Christmas was a revelation to me, as I had never seen it before until unearthing these ads. I was only familiar with the iconic image of the dead girl in the attack that was featured in the poster campaign, but this is amazing. However, they only got away with that ad once, and only once. (Once more, your local censors at work.) Known by many names before it found any cinematic footing, Bob Clark’s seminal Proto-Slasher has grown on me over the years. Yeah, the first time through I found it too slow and too deliberate, and that obtuse ending had me winging the rental case at the TV. (I guess my skin was on too tight back then, ‘natch.) Now, some 25 years later, one can truly appreciate this Creepy McMoody effort that helped secure a beachhead for a whole new species of cinematic thriller.

 Other Points of Interest:

Full film review of Black Christmas at the Brewery.

Poster campaign for Black Christmas at the Archive.

 

 
Black Christmas(1974) Film Funding Ltd. of Canada :: Vision IV :: Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC) :: Famous Players :: Warner Bros. / EP: Findlay Quinn / P: Bob Clark, Gerry Arbeid / AP: Richard Schouten / D: Bob CLark / W: Roy Moore / C: Reg Morris / E: Stan Cole / M: Carl Zittrer / S: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, John Saxon, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Art Hindle, Lynne Griffin

A Comedy for You and Your Next of Kin (July, 1978)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The End (1978) / Gordon-Reynolds Productions :: United Artists / EP: Hank Moonjean / P: Lawrence Gordon / AP: James Best / D: Burt Reynolds / W: Jerry Belson / C: Bobby Byrne / E: Donn Cambern / M: Paul Williams / S: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Sally Field, Strother Martin, Joanne Woodward, Norman Fell

Multi-Plex Mash-Up :: More BITE than JAWS, with Burt Reynolds as the BAIT! (October, 1975)

 

 

 

 

 

Man-Eater is actually a Samuel Fuller retread from 1969, re-released in 1975 for SOME reason.  It was originally released as either Shark, Caine or Twist of the Knife depending on which source you’re consulting. The film is somewhat notorious because a stuntman was actually killed by a shark while filming. And perhaps not in the most tasteful of moves, the producers decided to tout that fact in the initial ad campaigns, a decision that, along with some extensive re-editing, caused Fuller to disavow the film altogether.

Drive-In Mash-Up :: The Dead Shall Rise and Walk the Earth — For Three Days Only! (July, 1983)

 

 

 

Take a Bite and Feel All Right! (September, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 
White Lightning (1973) Levy-Gardner-Laven :: United Artists / P: Arthur Gardner, Jules V. Levy, Arnold Laven / D: Joseph Sargent / W: William W. Norton / C: Edward Rosson / E: George Jay Nicholson / M: Charles Bernstein / S: Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins, Louise Latham, Diane Ladd, R.G. Armstrong

What DID Happen on the Cahulawassee River? (July, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

The Battle of Cable Hogue?

Deliverance (1972) Warner Bros. / P: John Boorman / AP: Charles Orme / D: John Boorman / W: James Dickey / C: Vilmos Zsigmond / E: Tom Priestley / M: Michael Addiss / S: Burt Reynolds, John Voight, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Random Multi-Plex Mash-Up :: A Rather Kinky Tale of Survival (October, 1975)