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The Mutilator (1984) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - October 24, 1985

I always remembered seeing The Mutilator as part of a double-bill with Re-Animator, but it turns out that was not the case. While I did see both The Mutilator and Re-Animator at the Empire Cinema, in San Francisco, it was not as a double-bill.

Silver Bullet was the movie paired with The Mutilator and chances are better than average that, even though I had already seen the Stephen King scripted werewolf flick on its opening weekend, I chose to sit through Silver Bullet for a second viewing on the big screen. Just because... 

Alien (1979) - Sticker #21

 

Bad Ronald (1974) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - October 23, 1974

I remember being freaked out by a promo for a broadcast of Bad Ronald, but do not remember if I actually watched said broadcast. So this is yet another gap in my viewing history that might be in need of filling.

Fathom Press has reprinted the source novel, written by Jack Vance, of this production. Might be getting that for a read, at some point. 

Lady Death: Dark Alliance - Trading Card #35

The Old Man in the Mine

When a Hollywood cast choose to shoot a film in an long-abandoned gold mine, they didn't realize they'd have an additional cast member - the Dweller - the furious ghost of the long-dead prospector!

That sounds like a fun read! 

Final Exam (1981) / Graduation Day (1981) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - October 22, 1981

Here is a double-bill release that made zero blips on my pop culture radar back in 1981. I was laser focused on the upcoming release of Halloween II.

But I did read the Final Exam novelization, which I devoured in lieu of doing my homework. So when I did get around to seeing Final Exam, there was little about it that I did not already know. Not that there was that much to know to begin with. An unknown killer stalks a college campus, nothing more than that. Bare bones as can be.

I have yet to see Herb Freed's Graduation Day. Which is weird, as it features Christopher George and I would watch just about anything he was in, back in the day. I think Linnea Quigley is in it, as well.

Alien (1979) - Sticker #20

 

Our Trail Cam - Vol. 32

Halloween III Season of the Witch (1982) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - October 21, 1982

Met with critical and audience derision, Halloween III Season of the Witch failed to launch the planned anthology format producers John Carpenter and Debra Hill hoped to follow their commercial success of Halloween II (1981) with. So it goes.

Although a modest money maker in its own right, Halloween III did nowhere near the business of the previous films and, for a few years, was perceived as something of a franchise killer. Which is too bad, as the movie is undeserving of that reputation.

Being a John Carpenter fanatic at that time, I saw Halloween III on the big screen and, during the end credits, my father, who was sitting beside me, muttered, "No wonder this was no good, Dino De Laurentiis had something to do with it." Ouch.

I liked it, though... Still do. It has become one of my perennial Halloween season viewings.

Lady Death: Dark Alliance - Trading Card #34

War Room

Every two-bit player in Hell wants a bigger piece of the pie. Even though they are all fiercely independent, alliances are formed - with neither side trusting the other as far as they can see them. Power is Hell's ultimate prize.