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Defending Your Life *** (1991, Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant) – Classic Movie Review 9678

The 1991 film Defending Your Life is an amiable, hit-and-miss romantic fantasy comedy drama from multi-talented writer-director Albert Brooks, in which he also stars. The star’s character Daniel Miller is killed in a car crash […]

Apr, 26

Motel Hell ** (1980, Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 8745

Rory Calhoun stars as an extremely creepy old man called Farmer Vincent Smith, who runs the Motel Hello with his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons), and sells meat that originates with the customers – unsuspecting kidnapped […]

Jul, 22

Bad Taste ** (1987, Terry Potter, Pete O’Herne, Craig Smith) – Classic Movie Review 8416

Debut director Peter Jackson’s 1987 New Zealand horror movie Bad Taste is junk food for the mind – no substance and too much ketchup, and it is so rare that it is still uncooked and […]

Apr, 30

Jumpin’ Jack Flash *** (1986, Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts) – Classic Movie Review 7617

Director Penny Marshall’s 1986 fast-moving spy caper Jumpin’ Jack Flash stars Whoopi Goldberg (Oscar-winner for 1990’s Ghost) as a computer operator who keeps getting messages on her screen from a British agent trapped in Eastern Europe. […]

Sep, 23

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre *** (2003, Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen, Mike Vogel, Eric Balfour, Andrew Bryniarski, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 5989

Five terrified teens are stuck in a 1973 Texas town and fighting for their lives against a crazy chainsaw-wielding monster, the chilling masked Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski), and his cannibal family. Director Marcus Nispel’s hit 2003 […]

Aug, 29

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation * (1994, Renée Zellweger, Matthew McConaughey, Robert Jacks) – Classic Movie Review 5988

Following the flop of Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III in 1990, the revamped Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise returns in 1994 with original co-writer Kim Henkel as writer, co-producer and director. But despite that, and being […]

Aug, 28

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ** (1986, Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Jim Siedow) – Classic Movie Review 5986

Graphic gore takes over from psychological horror in Tobe Hooper’s disappointing 1986 sequel, made for producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus at Cannon Films, for whom he had made Lifeforce in 1985. Hooper returns from […]

Aug, 28

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