SCARED TO DEATH (1981) Reviews and free to watch on YouTube
‘If you’re frightened by the unknown… wait ’till you face reality!’
Scared to Death is a 1981 American science fiction horror film written and directed by William Malone (previously chief designer at the Don Post mask studio), based on a storyline co-written with Robert Short (The Scream Team).
The Lone Star Pictures production stars John Stinson, Diana Davidson, David Moses and Toni Jannotta.
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Very hilarious that the original guy who was going to play the hero in Scared to Death dropped out the night before shooting over the phone because he didn't want to miss his acting classes much to William Malone's dismay. Mind boggling that he chose that when this movie was the very thing he was studying to do.
I love old movies because it’ll show something and be like this is the future and it’ll look like this
Like if I fucking saw that I would absolutely not be like “ah cool the future, this thing will be good” I would immediately be like I’m in the fucking apocalypse
Swipe File #3: Drakula ve Kurt Adama Karşi (1990s Turkish release of Santo y Blue Demon contra Drácula y el Hombre Lobo)
Where to begin? First, “George Rivero” (aka Jorge Rivero) doesn’t appear in this film. Rivero did co-star with Santo in 2 movies, but not this one. Blue Demon (unbilled on this poster) did.
Now let’s get to the “swipes” part.
The main character image was taken from the original Mexican poster for Los Jaguares vs. el invasor misterioso (a 1973 Colombian-Mexican co-production) which starred masked wrestlers El Jaguar de Colombia, and Los Jaguares. The images of El Jaguar de Colombia on the poster is clearly Jack Kirby-inspired: I can’t find an exact match for the pose, so for the moment this will be “in the style of Jack Kirby,” rather than an actual swipe. This image was recreated by an unidentified artist for the Spanish release poster (which actually has better art than the Mexican one). When the Turkish distributor ordered up their poster, the artist lifted the character’s image from the Mexican original (never mind that El Jaguar de Colombia isn’t in the movie and looks nothing like El Santo). Not sure why they couldn’t find any suitable image of Santo, who was known in Turkey.
Christopher Lee as Dracula. I guess this makes sense.
Unidentified photo of a screaming woman.
The “wolfman” photo is from the 1982 Don Post mask catalog – Timberwolf (Grey).
The “3 scary monsters” image comes from pre-production marketing for Syngenor (1990), which was conceived as a semi-sequel to Scared to Death (1980) – actually the only connection is the monster, which was deliberately patterned after the one in the earlier movie. I was unable to find any indication that Syngenor (which appears to have gone direct to video) was actually released as Scared to Death II, and I was also unable to find this same “3 monster” image in other formats (video box, etc.), although that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. [The image shown here comes from The Bloody Pit of Horror: https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2014/02/syngenor-1990.html]
[:hu]Van, amit még mi sem láttunk című meglehetősen ritkán jelentkező rovatunk következik, konkrétan annyira ritkán, hogy ez lenne az első. Ugyanis egyik kedves olvasónk nem volt rest, és felhívta figyelmünket, hogy kishazánkban egyedülálló trash-filmes cikkarzenálunkból valamiért kimaradt egy igazán bűnös szórakozást nyújtó mű. Természetesen azonnal rávetettük magunkat, nyilván inkább E/1-ben,…