Matinee idol Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) struggles with whether or not to ink a seven year contract with Hoff Federated, the movie studio that made him a star. His estranged wife Marion (Ida Lupino) is disenchanted with celebrity, and feels that the once passionate “Charlie Cass” has sold out his ideals and that they should […]
Entries from October 2006
The Big Knife (1955)
October 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: 24 hour time frame
C.H.U.D. (1984)
October 30th, 2006 · No Comments
A woman walking her poodle is yanked down a manhole by some kind of creature and becomes the latest in a rash of disappearances in the Big Apple. Belligerent fashion photographer George Cooper (John Heard) - who would rather do an expose on the homeless - is summoned to the local police precinct when one […]
Tags: Black comedy
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
October 29th, 2006 · No Comments
A man, his young son and daughter are introduced relaxing on a small sailboat when some idiot teenagers come along in a motorboat and plow over them, killing the dad and one of the kids. Eight years later, Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) and his shy cousin Angela (Felissa Rose) are sent off to Camp Arawak by […]
Tags: Black comedy
The Howling (1981)
October 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment
TV anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace, the mom from E.T.) agrees to help the LAPD capture a serial lunatic named Eddie Quist, who has been corresponding with the celebrity newslady. Meeting in an adult bookstore’s porno booth, there’s something extra weird about Eddie, but before Karen can figure out what, the cops shoot him full […]
Tags: Black comedy









