This year I want to focus on movies made in the 1980s. I have done a lot 70s and 60s movies, but never a dedicated tour of the horror movies on the 1980s. I also want to focus on the Occult and things that made people really nervous in the age of the Satanic Panic.
So let's get started.
Up first is John Saxon in Beyond Evil (1980). It's slightly less Blaxploitation than say Live and Let Die, but the vide it there. in fact this movie feels very 70s to be honest. No surprise of course, but it will be interesting to see when the shift happens.
The movie is a "Scooby-Doo" plot where John Saxon and wife Lynda Day George get a house in the Caribean. Of course, it is haunted by a woman who was murdered by husband. So we get a lot of Lynda Day George acting all possessed and weird. A lot of John Saxon not believing in black magic and then of course wackieness ensues.
The movie is not bad it an attempt to update the old haunted house trope by sticking it into someplace really nice. But in the end, the cast is better than their script.
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I've never heard of this one. Sounds interesting enough.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it makes me smile to see that you're using the banner I modified from the original ones a few years back.
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ReplyDeleteRadu and Herbert West... what else do you need? John Carpenter!
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