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spookydestinycat · 26 days

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Poll: You're favourite of these masters of horror?

Note: I don't condone Landis as a person... but it would have seemed strange to not include him here.

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666frames · 2 months

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Death Game (1977)

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everydaym0nstrosity · 1 year

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Sette scialli di seta gialla AKA The Crimes of The Black Cat (1972), Directed by Sergio Pastore.

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decadebattle · 1 month

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Which decade had the better movies?

The 1970's was the beginning of Hollywood's silver age. Films were becoming more gritty and realistic. This was the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster, and there was also a big market for independent films. Exploitation, grindhouse, Blacksploitation, independent horror and more.

Popular movies of the 70's include: Star Wars. Enter the Dragon, Alien, Jesus Christ Superstar, Up in Smoke, Fantastic Planet, Saturday Night Fever, The Godfather, The Exorcist, Dolemite and Grease.

The 1930's was the beginning of Hollywood's golden age. Silent films were on their way out in the beginning of the decade and talkies soon took over. This was the decade of the studios and big Hollywood stars. When people think of Hollywood, they're often thinking of the 1930's aesthetic.

Popular movies of the 1930's include: The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, Dracula, Gone With the Wind, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Modern Times, King Kong, Freaks, The Public Enemy and Bringing Up Baby.

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msookyspooky · 8 months

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It's giving the bitchy slutty friend in a 60's-70s grindhouse horror movie that gets offed in the first 30 minutes

#msookyspooky #i hope i died horribly in that film so at least im memorable ✌️#the way i hate writing these climax chapters of FaF bc the entire police force and GF got me fed up and im the writer 😤😭#like its coming but im grumbling the entire time

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filmnoirfoundation · 7 months

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ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, September 21, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens. In this episode, we discuss Eddie’s short story “Doc’s Oscar”, the essential Italian noirs and film museums, the disreputable noir characters of wholesome TV icons, memorable bell tower scenes, and more. We wind up the show with a discussion of our favorite film noir openings. On the cat front, Charlotte and Emily are too tired to participate.

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Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

This week's questions:

In a recent episode, Eddie highly recommended the film ROSAURA AT 10 O’CLOCK [ROSAURA A LA 10]. Is it possible for ROSAURA to be restored by the Foundation and made available through Flicker Alley?

Michael, Post Falls, Idaho

Just read your short story, "Doc's Oscar", in the JEWISH NOIR VOLUME 1. Can you give us a little background on its origin? When did you write it?

Jay and Connie, Ann Arbor, MI

I'm planning a trip to Italy. Please recommend your essential Italian crime/noir films. Also, I hope to visit a museum dedicated to cinema. Any ideas

Steve in Mississippi

Have you read “Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City” written by Nicholas Christopher?

Sean Land O Lakes, FL

For me one of the biggest surprises of seeing familiar actors in Film Noir was seeing Raymond Burr as the heavy. What other later-known actors are the biggest surprises for someone getting into Film Noir.

Carlton, Atlanta, GA

Why does Eddie sometimes use the alias "Eddy von Mueller" for some of his Blu-Ray commentary tracks?

David

The late-'60s and the '70's are thought of as the time of the great neo-noir films, but what about offerings designed to play at drive-in theaters or so-called grindhouses? I'm also curious about regional films or filmmakers since that era was rich with localized film production. Are you aware of any that could fall under the mantle of film noir?

Kathy and Michael, Rockford, Illinois

In the past Eddie has mentioned certain movies that he considers to be more “message pictures” than full blown noir for him. I would love to hear you both talk about what the difference for you is between movies like NO WAY OUT, CROSSFIRE, FORCE OF EVIL etc. and movies that have tinges of Noir but fall into the Message Picture category and maybe some examples of those and why they don’t make the cut. Thanks!

Nathanael from New Braunfels, Texas

I recently watched the Douglas Sirk 1951 film noir, THUNDER ON THE HILL, and noted the similarities between the bell tower scene in that movie with the great bell tower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 VERTIGO. Are there other films noir that include a bell tower scene? And, more generally, what other films noir have great staircase scenes?

Cliff in Fort Collins

Wondering if you know anything about scenes cut from THE MAN I LOVE DVD. The film is listed as being 96 minutes long, but the DVD version is only 90 minutes.

Michael, Chicago, IL

My question is about some very difficult to find Alan Ladd titles, specifically, CHICAGO DEADLINE with Donna Reed and SAIGON. Are these Alan Ladd films tied up in litigation or bound in some type of financial dispute? Is there any hope for their release in the US?

Don

Openings. I have always been fascinated by the first 90 seconds of noir films and I’d just like to pay tribute to my favorite openings and listen as you add in yours as well.

Chuck

#film noir #noir city #eddie muller #anne hockens #film noir foundation #jewish noir #raymond burr #william conrad #grindhouse films #odds against tomorrow #the stranger #i the jury #criss cross #crossfire #doc's oscar #noir city detroit #noir city dc

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moorheadthanyoucanhandle · 5 months

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TROUBLE WITH THE CARVE

Opening this week:

Thanksgiving--Slasher movies of the '70s and early '80s were often holiday-themed. Black Christmas, Halloween, My Bloody Valentine, Silent Night, Deadly Night, New Year's Evil and April Fool's Day are all examples, while Friday the 13th and Happy Birthday to Me, while not strictly about holidays, are still tied to special dates and the convenient unity of time they provide. But Thanksgiving was somehow the major holiday the genre seemed to miss.

There actually were a couple of little-remembered attempts--Home Sweet Home in 1981 and Blood Rage in 1987. But neither seemed to count, perhaps because they didn't use the holiday in the title, or perhaps because they didn't sufficiently exploit the gruesome possibilities offered by the day's rituals. Whatever else may be said about it, the newly-made but self-consciously old-school slasher picture Thanksgiving works hard to include every classic Turkey Day trope.

A shoppers' riot and stampede at a store that shouldn't be open on Thanksgiving leads to bedlam and grisly death in a small Massachusetts town. "One Year Later"--as a subtitle traditionally informs us--a figure in the mask and garb of a Pilgrim skulks around exacting vengeance on those deemed responsible for the disaster. Everything eventually converges in a ghastly sit-down dinner.

The film traces its inception back to 2007, when two movies, the Robert Rodriguez shocker Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino's stunt thriller Death Proof, were released as a double feature under the joint title Grindhouse. In and around the two features, the show included several "fake trailers" for fictitious grindhouse-style movies. Two of these have already wagged the dog as the basis for real features, Machete (2010) and Hobo With a Shotgun (2011); Thanksgiving marks the third.

Directed by Eli Roth, the Thanksgiving trailer in Grindhouse captured the nastiest, most low-rent atmosphere of a vintage gore movie, complete with scratched, faded footage, some really sleazo shocks, and the smarmy, glottal tones of the narrator (Roth himself?). You could almost believe it wasn't a put-on.

The new feature, directed by Roth from a script by Jeff Rendell, doesn't try for this level of faux-authenticity. The setting is contemporary, the budget clearly comfortable, and cell phones and social media figure prominently in the plot. But the movie still has a nice old-fashioned pace and structure and flavor, and the nostalgia of this is much of what makes it unsavory fun.

I'll admit that in recent years I've largely lost my stomach for slasher flicks. Moreover, I thought Roth's 2002 debut feature Cabin Fever was an interesting misfire at best, and I took a pass on his 2005 torture flick Hostel. But he strikes an affectionate tone here, and he employs techniques that distance us from compassion for the victims. Most simply and effectively, he makes many of them, especially the early ones, deeply and amusingly unsympathetic.

The cast is livened up by some veterans, like Patrick Dempsey, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon, and the "final girl" (Nell Verlaque) has a lovely presence, and unlike so many heroines back in the day, she fights back, resourcefully and successfully. It was also great to see Lynne Griffin, the first victim from 1974's Black Christmas--and the Hamlet figure in the Bob and Doug McKenzie movie Strange Brew--in a bit here.

Most notably, the film keeps it light. As with two other movies from earlier this year, Cocaine Bear and Renfield, Thanksgiving goes in for extreme, over-the-top splatter effects, and they aren't scary, nor do they seem meant to be. They aren't even all that gross. There's no visceral substance to them; the bodies of the victims go to pieces like gingerbread men, and the effect, seemingly deliberate, is cartoonish slapstick. We're about as likely to take their suffering seriously as that of Wile E. Coyote.

Maybe it's how entertainment like this works best: as a sort of anarchic Punch and Judy show, using humans instead of puppets. Like Thanksgiving dinner, it wouldn't be healthy to consume this sort of thing every day, but about once a year, it can hit the spot.

#thanksgiving #eli roth #patrick dempsey #rick hoffman #nell verlaque #addison rae #gina gershon #jeff rendell #quentin tarantino #robert rodriguez #grindhouse #cocaine bear #renfield

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hopepunk-priest · 1 year

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Okay since everyone's doing it, I'm gonna do it too

My version takes place in the 70's, the gang is college-aged, dodging the draft by solving mysteries with a background of the rise of grindhouse horror films, second wave feminism, student strikes, "the silent majority," environmentalism, Watergate, Queer liberation, and groovy rock music. As a more adult take, the monsters of the week and overarching villains will reflect, criticize, and celebrate the cultural movements of being in your early 20's during the 70's. That means villains ranging from nerds in star wars costumes to paranoid political scandals to actual real aliens. Stakes range from being inconvenienced to being in mortal peril.

Fred Jones: Mom friend with first aid training (that he learned from med students during a campus protest), the moral compass of the show in that he reminds the gang that laws exist and they are very much on the run, fucking HATES Nixon dude like HATES Nixon. Heart's always in the right place, even if things don't always work out. Knowledgeable in traps and whatever level of engineering is needed to solve the episode, also acts as the primary face. Also just loves mysteries.

Norville "Shaggy" Roberts: former track star, dropped out of culinary school, collects cool belt buckles a la original series, straight man in the horror movie "maybe we don't go in the haunted house" way, brave considering zombies and witch's ghosts are straight up real and he will still never leave his friends to face danger alone. Anxiety disorder he treats with weed, super knowledgable in pop culture which also gives him a variety of random trivia needed to fill gaps when needed. I think he really likes Lord of the Rings and Pink Floyd. Good at riddles.

Daphne Blake: inferiority complex because of her many successful siblings, wants to be a journalist like Gloria Steinem. Has taken a few self defense classes, but overall acts as the second face for the group. Still into make-up and fashion, and can use her skills (and a little high school theatre experience) to make believable disguises. She can pick up when someone's lying and can pick locks.

Velma Dinkley: Jewish. Loves mysteries and paranormal fiction, believes in conspiracy theories and urban legends. Her intelligence specializes in puzzles, historical, and chemical knowledge. She can be reckless, but only because she becomes very single-minded when she's onto something. Snarky, lesbian, and headstrong.

Scooby: Mischievous, food motivated, and gentle. Protective of the group, Scooby is just a big, goofy great dane who doesn't understand he isn't a lapdog anymore. He can talk, no one inside the group questions it, and only a select few outside the group even notice (part of the mystery). Intergalactic being but doesn't know it, he's much more dog than other iterations.

Scrappy: Just appears one episode, everyone acts like he's always been there. Revealed at the end that he's actually a trickster deity, comes in and causes chaos every now and then mostly just to fuck with Scooby.

The Hex Girls: a psychedelic witch-rock group with a heavy emphasis on environmental protection and new age metaphors, actual witches, a sound somewhere between Cream, Hendrix, and Stevie Nicks. Genuinely just friends with the gang.

Scooby is Shaggy's emotional support dog.

Daphne and Fred are together, healthy, and often end up hyping each other up to the point where other members have to step in and go "you're getting carried away, can we focus."

Daphne and Velma met at a feminist rally, and often have nuanced discussions about different feminist theories. Honestly, most likely to commit very real crimes to get to the bottom of a mystery.

Fred and Velma met in elementary school at a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book club (or whatever the 50's equivalent of this was) where they were the only two members. Their friendship is like an anti-macho brotherhood, paralleling the overly masculine friendships of the era.

Daphne met Shaggy in High School and she immediately adopted him the way extroverts adopt introverts. She is very dedicated to helping him build confidence, and Shaggy helps her with her inferiority complex and keeps her true to herself.

Fred and Shaggy are very physically affectionate, share a brain cell, most likely to get into shenanigans if left alone together. Second most likely to get into shenanigans if left alone together are Fred and Daphne.

Shaggy and Velma have a shared interest in music and films, and love talking conspiracy theories.

Shaggy and Scooby are inseparable. Real boy and his dog vibes.

They all smoke weed on screen, are constantly broke, they all are capable of being equally intelligent and dumb as rocks, they're all snarky in their own way, and they all say things like jinkies and Ruh Roh to like... Murders and cryptid kidnapings and issues of national security.

#scooby doo #adult scooby doo

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jimsmovieworld · 11 months

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ROLLING THUNDER- 1977 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Major Charles Rane (William Devane) returns home from the vietnam war where he spent years as a prisoner being tortured.

He is gifted with service medals and coins for his bravery overseas.

A group of thugs break into his house to steal them, they cut off his hand and kill his family.

Once recovered, he tracks the gang down in Tijuana. With his closest friend Johnny (Tommy Lee Jones) he attempts to kill them all....

Satisfying gritty revenge thriller written by Paul Schrader and directed by John Flynn.

Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of this film and named his production company "Rolling Thunder Pictures" after this.

Well written movie with intriguing characters and a cool 70's grindhouse feel to it. Enjoyed the ending very much.

#rolling thunder #movie #film #movie review #action movie #70s movie #cult movie #grindhouse

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talkaboutmovies · 1 year

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Terrifier (short) (2011)

Like so many others, I want to see “Terrifier 2″. The reports of people puking or passing out made it instantly appealing. Haven’t seen it yet, but I saw the first one a couple of weeks ago and loved it. Art the Clown makes an appearance in a 2011 short, also called “Terrifier”. It was written and directed by Damien Leone, who went on to do “All Hallows Eve” and the other “Terrifier”s. The main difference is that Art the Clown is played by a different actor. The film has a grainy look that looks like lots of low budget horror movies of the 70′s. Art has the same makeup, same little hat and a half-filled garbage bag. It’s low budget, which in this case is a plus. It would’ve looked right at home in “Grindhouse”. Gore is less, only because there is a smaller cast and it only runs twenty minutes. The plot is that a young woman driving alone at night is about to run out of gas. She makes it to a gas station where an employee helps her out and chases Art away, which he would later regret. The “Terrifier” short film is a must for anybody who loves the “Terrifier” films.

#Terrifier #Terrifier short film #Art The Clown #Damien Leone

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mararhodus · 10 days

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Saw Immaculate last week and The First Omen this week and... y'all remember the whole Antz vs. A Bug's Life thing? Well, imagine that but instead of 'CGI Ant Movies that use the structure of ant colonies as a critique of class' with '70's nunsploitation throwbacks that are about bodily autonomy and the death cult mentality of modern religion.'

Both were good, although I ultimately think I prefer Immaculate for its better pacing, more grindhouse inspired action, and Sydney Sweeney's performance as Cecilia. Although The First Omen must get its flowers for how good it looks, being an extremely close visual match for the 1976 film it serves as a prequel to.

#the first omen #film thoughts #immaculate

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cleoenfaserum · 15 days

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JOSEPH W. SARNO, THE HISTORICAL FILM FIGURE OF SEXPLOITATION OF THE 60's & 70's

Joseph W. Sarno was an American film director and screenwriter. born on March 15, 1921. He grew up in Amityville on Long Island and died of natural causes on April 26, 2010 at the age of 89 in his native New York City. Sarno married Peggy Steffans, who was younger than he and was a non-sex performing actress and costumer in some of his films, and they had a son.

Sarno emerged from the semi-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1950s & 1960s; he had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of shot-on-video features for the 1980s hardcore video market.

Sarno, was considerad a pioneer in the genre of sexploitation film.

A Life in Dirty Movies is a 2013 Swedish documentary about Sarno and his wife, and their attempt to make one last film.

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SEXPLOITATION FILM

What is it?

A sexploitation film (or sex-exploitation film) is a class of independently produced, low-budget feature film that is generally associated with the 1960s and early 1970s, and that serves largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films. The term "sexploitation" has been used since the 1940s.

Moonlighting Wives (1966).

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In USA, exploitation films were generally exhibited in urban grindhouse theatres, which were the precursors to the adult movie theaters of the 1970s and 1980s that featured hardcore pornography content. In Latin America (most notably in Argentina), exploitation and sexploitation films had meandering and complex relations with both moviegoers and government institutions: they were sometimes censored by democratic (but socially conservative) administrations and/or authoritarian dictatorships (especially during the 1970s and 80s), and at other times they enjoyed an important success at the box office.

Among his best-known films in the genre is Sin in the Suburbs (1964), which is about wife swapping, ...

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The term soft-core is often used to designate non-explicit sexploitation films after the general legalisation of hardcore content. Nudist films are often considered to be subgenres of the sex-exploitation genre as well. "Nudie" films and "Nudie-cuties" are associated genres.

Beginning in 1968, Sarno's work became somewhat more explicit, predicting the emergence of soft-core. His breakthrough feature Inga (1968) ...

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... was one of the first X-rated films released in the United States. Other noteworthy soft-core features include All the Sins of Sodom (1968),

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Critical reputation

Singled out for praise by critic Andrew Sarris during the 1970s, Sarno's work has been acknowledged in recent years by tributes at the New York Underground Film Festival, the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and The Andy Warhol Museum.

Sarno has had a tribute at the British Film Institute in London and has given an honorary lecture at Lund University in Sweden.

His career is being researched for a comprehensive biography by film historian Michael J. Bowen.

Virgile Iscan interviewed Joe Sarno and his wife shortly before Sarno's death in 2010. The interviews appear in Iscan's documentary The Divine Joe Sarno.

Filmography

Deep Inside (1968)

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Joseph W. Sarno - Wikipedia

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666frames · 2 months

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Death Game (1977)

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everydaym0nstrosity · 1 year

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Sette scialli di seta gialla AKA The Crimes of The Black Cat (1972), Directed by Sergio Pastore.

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theharpermovieblog · 4 months

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#HARPERSMOVIECOLLECTION

2024

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DOUBLE FEATURE pt. 1

I watched One Arm Boxer (1972)

The first in the One Arm Boxer two film series.

By doing the right thing, a student at a martial arts school causes a feud, loses his arm and must eventually avenge his fallen master.

For me, and most people where I'm from, 1970's Martial Arts films are most associated with grindhouse cinema. In the 70's, films from Hong Kong became popular in America, as Martial Arts itself became popular in the West. These films are known for their often similar plot-lines concerning feuding martial arts schools or Chinese gangsters, for their bad English dubbing, aggressive foley work, and their funky soundtracks.

Yes, due to the bad dubbing, the dated style, and several wild and weird moments, this movie is often unintentionally funny...but, it's all genuinely entertaining. It's among the best this genre has to offer.

Director and star Jimmy Wang Yu seemed to understand what was, and still is, so entertaining about this type of genre picture. Sure, on the surface it looks and even acts like most other Hong Kong Martial Arts flicks. But, the film's understanding of pace, it's well choreographed (if dated) fight scenes, and it's simple yet interesting story leave very little to complain about. It's just a fun movie, and that's what these genre films should always strive to be, first and foremost.

Genre films, like Martial Arts movies and B-horror, are the films in which the audiences and the filmmakers come closest to actually connecting. Genre filmmakers made these movies strictly to entertain and strictly for you to go see with other people, and to have fun seeing them together. If these filmmakers did their job right, the good genre pictures they produced almost feel interactive. Someone might yell out in the theater, you might laugh or clap as a group, you might connect with those around you, not by conversing, but simply by sharing an original experience. It's a lot like what William Castle was doing in the 50's and 60's with his gimmicky horror flicks...trying to create an experience ( often while cashing in on what was popular without "the kids")

Sadly, with theater attendance at a low, small cinemas that might host special nights to show these films are dying out, leaving us to watch them at home. And, sure, these movies are fun to watch at home too, but the true experience these movies were made for, the theater audience experience, the community experience...is sorely lacking.

Still, if you're looking for this type of movie "One Armed Boxer" is among the most fun.

#one armed boxer

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grindhousefunhouse · 4 months

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SLASHY SANTA | To All A Goodnight (1980) | Christmas Horror Movie Review

Welcome to Day 3 of Grindhouse Funhouse's 7 Days Of Christmas 2023!

Today's Christmas Movie Selection: To All A Goodnight.

It's about a group of female finishing school students and their boyfriends being murdered during a Christmas party by a psychopath dressed as Santa Claus.

This was the only movie directed by 70's favorite exploitation movie creep David Hess (Last House On The Left and House On The Edge Of The Park) and the first slasher movie released in the 80's.

Released in 1980 by Intercontinental Releasing Corporation.

Directed by David Hess and starring Jennifer Runyon, Forrest Swanson, Linda Gentile and William Lauer.

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#youtube #to all a goodnight #david hess #christmas movie #slasher movie

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