Tag Archives: José Ferrer
Bloody Birthday (1981)
In Meadowvale, California, on June 9, 1970, three children are born during the totality of a solar eclipse. As a result, these kids – Debbie, Curtis, and Steven – will become sociopaths. That, at least, is the premise of Bloody … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Billy Jayne, Eclipse, Ed Hunt, horror, José Ferrer, Julie Brown, Killer Kids, Lori Lethin, Slasher, Susan Strasberg
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The Sentinel (1977)
Only in the Satanic panic of the 70’s could there be a crazy, overstuffed occult thriller like The Sentinel (1977), based on a novel by Jeffrey Konvitz describing the portal to Hell as located in a New York brownstone apartment building. Konvitz … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Ava Gardner, Beverly D'Angelo, Burgess Meredith, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Cristina Raines, demons, Dick Smith, Eli Wallach, Freaks, Hell, horror, Jeff Goldblum, Jerry Orbach, John Carradine, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Michael Winner, Sylvia Miles, Tom Berenger
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Dune (1984)
It’s the 50th anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the science fiction novel which broadened the scope and ambition of the space opera. Herbert’s novel nudged the genre into new degrees of sophistication with its dense plotting, elaborate backstory, wide cast … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Fantastique
Tagged 80's, Brad Dourif, David Lynch, Dean Stockwell, Dino De Laurentiis, Dune, Francesca Annis, Frank Herbert, Freddie Jones, Jack Nance, José Ferrer, Jürgen Prochnow, Kyle MacLachlan, Linda Hunt, Max von Sydow, Patrick Stewart, sand worm, Science Fiction, Sean Young, Sting, Surreal, Virginia Madsen
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