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FOOTAGE FETISHES: ROBERT STIGWOOD’S TRILOGY OF TERROR

By | October 2003

It’s time for another trip in the Way-Back Machine with Pete Vonder Haar as he takes a look at some of Robert Stigwood’s most notorious works…

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FOOTAGE FETISHES: ROBERT STIGWOOD’S TRILOGY OF TERROR

Like Rasputin, or the Terminator, or that nefarious Johnny Gasparini in “Better Off Dead,” the movie musical simply refuses to die. Just when something...

FOOTAGE FETISHES: ROBERT STIGWOOD’S TRILOGY OF TERROR

Scenes From An Italian Paint Store “Saturday Night Fever’s” status as a classic of American cinema remains inexplicable to me. This was the late...

THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: SURVIVING TWISTED NIGHTMARE WEEKEND

FRIDAY Actually, the con, for us, began on Thursday. Or, at least, it was supposed to. Amy and I drove up to the great wilds of Akron, Ohio right after...

PETE JONES’ “DOUBTING RILEY” DIARY X

Last week in PETE JONES' "DOUBTING RILEY" DIARY, the Sundance deadline was met and Harvey Weinstein made Pete's weenie shrink up into his body cavity. ...

KILL BULL

“Television is the retina of the mind’s eye” – Videodrome. The time and place: a not-so long time ago in a galaxy not-so far, far away…...

TALKING PICTURES: TELLING TIME

It’s ironic. After accepting my invitation to see the film Out of Time, starring Denzel Washington as a wronged cop, New York novelist J. Robert Lennon...

THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH: SURVIVING TWISTED NIGHTMARE WEEKEND

The next time you attend a convention – be it horror, science fiction, comic book, hunting and fishing, whatever – take a moment to stop and look...

EXCESS HOLLYWOOD: MAKING LOVE TO LADY DI’S CORPSE

Those who know me know I'm a big fan of comic books. I even enjoy a few of the comic book movies like Ghost World, Hulk, Daredevil and "The Crow." Marvel...

Bootleg Files Features

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY”

Bootleg Files 006 Film: "The High and the Mighty" (the all-star aircraft-in-peril disaster flick starring John Wayne). Last seen: US television broadcast...

THE BOOTLEG FILES: “THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY”

The granddaddy of the all-star disaster movie was William A. Wellman's 1954 "The High and the Mighty," in which an evening's trans-Pacific flight from...

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