Wes Craven (like Carpenter for that matter) is SUCH an amazingly uneven director from brilliant to crap, but I always found it odd that he did a TV movie based on a Lois Duncan movie after having only two very underground hits with Last House on the Left and Hills Have Eyes though I know he was often through the 80s a director for hire-- I wonder if Lois Duncan was as upset with it as she was with the slasher movie movie very loosely based on Lois Duncan's I Know What I Did Last Summer which she was so vehemont about for warping her story (fair enough after her child's brutal murder I suppose).
Thanks for both links--I've wanted to see clips from both of them for a long time. They really made some great and even scary TV horror movies in the 70s--as the awful Del Toro produced remake of Don't Be Afraid of the Dark proved this past year.
And speaking of Wes Craven and some of his crappy movies, while Swamp Thing took Alan Moore's great horror comic and turned it into crap, his Paul Sorvino tv movie thriller Chiller is deadly dull and by the numbers, and Deadly Friend an odd mix of teenaged-best-robot-friend comedy/bad horror that apparently was taken away from him.
Anybody remember I'm Dangerous Tonight, a 1990 made for USA network horror movie starring Madchen Amick, Anthony Perkins, and Dee Wallace Stone? It was directed by Tobe Hooper. It's pretty decent for what it is. trailer
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Posted: 5/11/12 at 03:20pm