A new episode of the Real Slashers video series has just arrived online, and in this one we’re looking back at an ’80s classic that features special effects from the legendary Tom Savini: The Prowler (watch it Here)! To hear all about it, check out the video embedded above.
Directed by Joseph Zito, who would go on to make Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter a few years later, The Prowler was scripted by Neal Barbera and Glenn Leopold. Here’s the set-up: A crazed World War II veteran gets revenge on his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, then stalks teens 35 years later.
The film stars Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger, Cindy Weintraub, Lisa Dunsheath, David Sederholm, Bill Nunnery, Thom Bray, Diane Rode, Bryan Englund, Donna Davis, Carleton Carpenter, Joy Glaccum, Timothy Wahrer, John Seitz, Bill Hugh Collins, Dan Lounsbery, Douglas Stevenson, and Susan Monts.
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Directed by Joseph Zito, who would go on to make Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter a few years later, The Prowler was scripted by Neal Barbera and Glenn Leopold. Here’s the set-up: A crazed World War II veteran gets revenge on his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, then stalks teens 35 years later.
The film stars Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger, Cindy Weintraub, Lisa Dunsheath, David Sederholm, Bill Nunnery, Thom Bray, Diane Rode, Bryan Englund, Donna Davis, Carleton Carpenter, Joy Glaccum, Timothy Wahrer, John Seitz, Bill Hugh Collins, Dan Lounsbery, Douglas Stevenson, and Susan Monts.
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- 8/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Flying saucers and alien invasion movies were the trend in the 1950s. UFO sightings in Washington State in 1947 and the famous crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1948 had ignited a fever for all things alien. The movies soon followed the public interest with films like The Thing from Another World (1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), War of the Worlds (1953), This Island Earth (1955), Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956), Invasion of the Saucer-Men (1957), and many more of varying levels of quality. Many of these science fiction/horror hybrids were aimed toward an audience of children and teenagers and often featured young people, but few placed the viewer so deeply in the child’s perspective as the 1953 classic Invaders from Mars.
In many ways, Invaders from Mars walked so that Invasion of the Body Snatchers could run just three years later. Much of this is due to its extremely low budget and independent production.
In many ways, Invaders from Mars walked so that Invasion of the Body Snatchers could run just three years later. Much of this is due to its extremely low budget and independent production.
- 5/30/2023
- by Brian Keiper
- bloody-disgusting.com
Tony Sokol Aug 4, 2019
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard took the tinsel out of Tinseltown, the gild off the golden boy, and the cover off a forgotten murder.
Movie audiences in the naïve early days of film sometimes didn’t know that somebody had to sit down and write a movie. They thought the actors made it up as they went along. Sunset Boulevard, the 1950 film noir classic directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, did a lot to change that and other myths of old Hollywood--like the real-life murder at the heart of the story.
Sunset Boulevard told an old familiar story. William Holden’s Joe Gillis helps a timid soul named Norma Desmond cross a crowded street on Paramount's back lot. She turns out to be a multimillionaire silent screen icon played by the legendary Gloria Swanson and she leaves him all her money, which she’s already spent,...
Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard took the tinsel out of Tinseltown, the gild off the golden boy, and the cover off a forgotten murder.
Movie audiences in the naïve early days of film sometimes didn’t know that somebody had to sit down and write a movie. They thought the actors made it up as they went along. Sunset Boulevard, the 1950 film noir classic directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, did a lot to change that and other myths of old Hollywood--like the real-life murder at the heart of the story.
Sunset Boulevard told an old familiar story. William Holden’s Joe Gillis helps a timid soul named Norma Desmond cross a crowded street on Paramount's back lot. She turns out to be a multimillionaire silent screen icon played by the legendary Gloria Swanson and she leaves him all her money, which she’s already spent,...
- 8/2/2016
- Den of Geek
Panorama Entertainment
NEW YORK -- A sweet-natured drama in the ethnic mode that is lately proving such a popular indie trend, this debut feature written and directed by Melissa Martin is a slice of Italian-American cheese that may prove a bit hard for audiences to fully digest. Featuring such plot elements as an elderly woman dying of cancer, a lovable, learning-impaired lug and a couple who pretend to get married only to, surprise, actually fall in love, "The Bread, My Sweet" has apparently wowed them on the festival circuit and in Pittsburgh, where the film was shot, but anything resembling breakout potential is unlikely.
Scott Baio, whose role as television's Chachi has forever doomed him to trivia-game-answer status, delivers a highly effective and restrained performance as Dominic Pyzola, a young Italian-American who improbably divides his working time between serving as a ruthless acquisitions executive for a big corporation and baking biscotti in the family bakery that he also manages. His partners in the business are his brothers Pino (Shuler Hensley), whose mental deficiency doesn't prevent him from being a first-class baker, and Eddie (Billy Mott), a struggling actor.
The brothers' surrogate mother is their endearing upstairs neighbor Bella (theater and soap opera veteran Rosemary Prinz), who lives with her brusque, English-impaired husband Massimo (John Seitz). When Bella learns that she has but six months to live, she has one request for Dominic: reunite her with her estranged daughter Lucca (Kristin Minter), who left law school years ago for the Peace Corps. Not only does Dominic fulfill the request, he decides to go it one better. In order to make Bella truly happy before she dies, he'll pretend to marry Lucca, whose beauty and grace don't exactly make the task difficult.
If you're willing to swallow those formulaic plot machinations, you may reasonably enjoy this rough-hewn debut effort, which is far more effective in its quieter, dialogue-heavy moments than when it attempts more ambitious cinematic conceits. While the supporting players fall victim to their broadly conceived roles, Baio and Minter underplay charmingly, and actually manage to make us care about their characters despite their less than credible aspects.
NEW YORK -- A sweet-natured drama in the ethnic mode that is lately proving such a popular indie trend, this debut feature written and directed by Melissa Martin is a slice of Italian-American cheese that may prove a bit hard for audiences to fully digest. Featuring such plot elements as an elderly woman dying of cancer, a lovable, learning-impaired lug and a couple who pretend to get married only to, surprise, actually fall in love, "The Bread, My Sweet" has apparently wowed them on the festival circuit and in Pittsburgh, where the film was shot, but anything resembling breakout potential is unlikely.
Scott Baio, whose role as television's Chachi has forever doomed him to trivia-game-answer status, delivers a highly effective and restrained performance as Dominic Pyzola, a young Italian-American who improbably divides his working time between serving as a ruthless acquisitions executive for a big corporation and baking biscotti in the family bakery that he also manages. His partners in the business are his brothers Pino (Shuler Hensley), whose mental deficiency doesn't prevent him from being a first-class baker, and Eddie (Billy Mott), a struggling actor.
The brothers' surrogate mother is their endearing upstairs neighbor Bella (theater and soap opera veteran Rosemary Prinz), who lives with her brusque, English-impaired husband Massimo (John Seitz). When Bella learns that she has but six months to live, she has one request for Dominic: reunite her with her estranged daughter Lucca (Kristin Minter), who left law school years ago for the Peace Corps. Not only does Dominic fulfill the request, he decides to go it one better. In order to make Bella truly happy before she dies, he'll pretend to marry Lucca, whose beauty and grace don't exactly make the task difficult.
If you're willing to swallow those formulaic plot machinations, you may reasonably enjoy this rough-hewn debut effort, which is far more effective in its quieter, dialogue-heavy moments than when it attempts more ambitious cinematic conceits. While the supporting players fall victim to their broadly conceived roles, Baio and Minter underplay charmingly, and actually manage to make us care about their characters despite their less than credible aspects.
- 10/27/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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