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31 Days of Horror Day 31 TARANTULAS: THE DEADLY CARGO
Source-Svengoolie airing
Back in the 70s it felt like every few weeks one of the 3 networks would air a new made for TV horror film. Some were great like Duel. Some were middle of the road. Then some were boring like today's movie.
We start off with Tom Atkins and Howard Hesseman are smuggling a large amount of coffee beans fro Ecuador. Yea not drugs these morons are smuggling coffee. And in those black market beans is a deadly bunch of banana spiders.
The plane crashes right outside the town of Finleyville CA. These spiders have a fast acting deadly venom. People all over town start dropping dead.
While this movie is only 100 minutes long it feels like it was 6 hours. Not sure if the print Sven showed was in bad shape, but the colors look faded. And if I didn't know better I would think this was filmed on an cheap early 90s camcorder.
At least Sven's bits were entertaining. But they weren't good enough for me to ever watch this movie ever again.
Tarantulas:The Deadly Cargo gets a F+.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
31 Days of Horror Day 30 Two Evil Eyes
Source-Vudu
Yep another film I read about in Fangoria. I was looking forwArd to this movie. Where George Romero,RIP, and Dario Argento would each adapt a classic tale of Horror from Edgar Allen Poe. Much time passed and the movie never played any theater near me. Saw that it was hitting VHS. But no video store I went to had a copy. Finally late one weeknight in 92 it aired on Showtime. So I stayed up till 2am to watch it.
Up first is Romero's part,The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. Which is about a wife using hypnosis to get her elderly husband to give her control of his money.
The husband has a heart attack while hypnotized. So the wife and her lover hide they body. Which causes all kinds of creepy shit to start happening.
This is based on one of the few Poe stories I haven't read. Adrianne Barbeau is the wife. And for some reason she still has the crappy perm she had on Maude.
Over all it is decent. But I was expecting much more from Romero.
The second story is directed by Dario Argento and is based on The Black Cat. We get Harvey Kietel as the lead. He is a crime scene photographer.
This story is much better than The first one. It looks great. Has good sound design. Plus Harvey is a way more talented actor than Adrianne.
Sadly even though the film is based on stories from a great author,and has two mega talented directors at the helm...well it turns out to be average at best.
Two Evil Eyes gets a C+.
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