TV Terror Guide: The Death of Ocean View Park (1979)
Which came first: an 80-year-old amusement park scheduled to be purposely demolished or a Hollywood studio making a TV movie about an...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 17
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Vampire (1979)
In 1981, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll created the classic television series, Hill Street Blues. Throughout the 1980s, Bochco was an...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 10
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Death Car on the Freeway (1979)
It’s been a while since we’ve had a 70s TV movie with so many familiar faces, although they’re mostly underutilized. Leading the cast is...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Mar 3
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: The Darker Side of Terror (1979)
With the old bait and switch, CBS emphasized the salacious aspects in its advertising for The Darker Side of Terror (1979). Yes, what we...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 24
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Express to Terror (1979)
If you search for Express to Terror (1979) on the internet, you’re likely to find Horror Express (1972) first. Take my advice: watch the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 17
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
Back in June, I called The Savage Bees (1976) “the best killer bee movie I’ve seen.” Back in the day, others must have liked it, too,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 10
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
In 1976, Warner Bros. hired a mostly unknown director named John Carpenter to write a screenplay for a feature film based on the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Feb 3
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: A Fire in the Sky (1978)
The following are excepts from my feature about A Fire in the Sky (1978) in the We Belong Dead publication, Spotlight on Science Fiction,...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 27
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Summer of Fear (aka Stranger in Our House) 1978
Linda Blair and her hair star in Summer of Fear (1978), but, contrary to the appearance of the latter, they’re not the ones possessed....
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 20
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Devil Dog The Hound of Hell (1978)
In the vein of not judging a book by its cover, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) isn’t nearly as ridiculous as it sounds. If demons...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 13
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Are You in the House Alone (1978)
Watching horror films as much as I do, I’m not easily offended. However, I think Are You in the House Alone? (1978) did it. It’s mostly a...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Jan 6
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Deathmoon (1978)
For a simple werewolf movie, no more, no less, Deathmoon (1978) has a little going for it for classic horror fans, but very little for...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Dec 30, 2022
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978)
With all the evil that ghosts do, it’s easy to forget that sometimes they’re benevolent, remaining on this earthly plane to warn others...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
The Initiation of Sarah (1978) is such a blatant rip-off of Carrie (1976) that the few original ideas it threatens to offer are forgotten...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Dec 16, 2022
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Cruise Into Terror (1978)
Backed by a relentless soundtrack that ensures you know how to react while simultaneously beating you into submission, Cruise into Terror...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Dec 9, 2022
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Night Cries (1978)
As 1970s TV movies evolved and started mirroring their theatrical counterparts, they got further and further from what was so unique...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Dec 2, 2022
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Known primarily for its holiday television specials outsourced to Japanese animation companies, Rankin/Bass Productions occasionally...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Nov 25, 2022
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
A two-part television miniseries is the perfect format for The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978.) There’s more time to learn about the...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
TV Terror Guide: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
How can a movie about the creepiest, crawliest, most shiver-inducing creatures on Earth have no suspense, thrills, or chills? It seems...
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Classic Horrors Club
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
TV Terror Guide: Count Dracula (1977)
During the last few years, I’ve increasingly heard people mention how much they like Count Dracula, the 1977 BBC version of the classic...
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