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Movie: Someone's Watching Me!

[TRAILER] Leigh Michaels (Lauren Hutton) rents a unit in a high-rise apartment building where the previous tenant committed suicide. She tries settling in, finding a boyfriend Paul (David Birney) and making fast friends with her lesbian co-worker Sophie (Adrienne Barbeau). Weird "prizes" from a supposed sweepstakes and strange calls begin to make her worried that someone in the neighborhood is out to get her. This TV movie was made immediately prior to Carpenter's theatrical hit Halloween and aired on NBC on November 29, 1978. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 11, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: Creepshow

[TRAILER] Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen. In one story, a monster escapes from its holding cell. Another focuses on a husband (Leslie Nielsen) with a creative way of getting back at his cheating wife. Other stories concern a rural man (Stephen King) and a visitor from outer space, and a homeowner (E.G. Marshall) with huge bug problems and a boozing corpse. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on May 6, 2024 - 14 comments

Movie: Back to School

[TRAILER] Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) is concerned that his son Jason (Keith Gordon) is unsure whether to go to college, so the uneducated self-made millionaire encourages him by signing up as a student as well. As Jason tries to establish himself among his peers and make the diving team, Thornton falls for a pretty professor (Sally Kellerman) and gets others do his schoolwork for him. When the suspicious dean (Paxton Whitehead) finds out, Thornton needs to show he can get by on his own. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 30, 2022 - 13 comments

Movie: Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

The U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's avocado supplies, recruits feminist professor Margo Hunt to make contact with the Piranha Women, an all-female tribe who believe men are only good as a source of food. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jul 17, 2022 - 7 comments

Movie: Escape from New York

In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 10, 2016 - 14 comments

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