1970's QUASI-SCARY TV MOVIES!

Here's a list of 13 TV movies made in the 1970's that either I, or Lord Litter, have found on the Internet Archive (And you could too for free) that I'm almost sure I'm never going to get around to watching, but should somehow be included here at least for historical significance! With that said........

....Here we go! In chronological order starting with...

"Weekend Of Terror" from 1970 with Robert Conrad, Carol Lynley, and Lee Majors!

"Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts."

Sounds like a good time, how could you go wrong there?!?

 From 1971, "A Howling In The Woods" starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Eden who were both not only in "I Dream Of Jeannie," but also on "Dallas!!"

 The 1972 ghost story "The Stone Tape!"

 Barbara Eden is back in the 1972 movie, "The Woman Hunter" with two other Dungeon notables, Robert Vaughn and Stuart Whitman!
 "There's A Killer In Paradise!"

 Also in 1972 was "Night Of Terror" with Martin Balsam, Chuck Connors, Donna Mills, and Agnes Moorehead!
"He's Out There!"

 1973 delivered "A Cold Night's Death" with Robert Culp and Eli Wallach!

 Also in 1973 came "The Norliss Tapes" with Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson!!

"Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality!" 

 The cast of the 1974 movie "Scream Of The Werewolf" was a fairly all-star affair that included Peter Graves, Clint Walker, Jo Ann Pflug, and Don Megowan, who ironically enough or not, was the Sheriff in the 1956 classic, "The Werewolf!"

The 1974 movie "The Day The Earth Moved" also had a cast of immense pop culture proportions, that included Jackie Cooper, Clevon Little, Stella Stevens, and Beverly Garland, but I still doubt I'll ever watch it!

 "Curse Of The Black Widow" from 1977 also had a fairly all-star cast that included
Anthony Franciosa, Donna Mills, Patty Duke, June Lockhart and Sid Caesar!
Big Girl!!

"Night Terror" aka "Night Drive" also came out in 1977 with Valerie Harper! 

Housewife vs. Psycho!

By 1978, it was time for "Devil Dog:Hound Of Hell," with a killer cast that included Richard Crenna, Yvette Mimieux, and Martine Beswick! (Okay, I might have to watch it some day just for those two!)
"A Halloween Howler!"

"A teenage girl is harassed by a stalker" in another 1978 movie called "Are You In The House Alone?"
So, there you go! IF I've slighted your favourite movie, then by all means leave a comment, and I'll make sure and give it the treatment it deserves, but until then, Aloha, Auf Wiedersehen, & Buenos Noches!

THE MONSTER CLUB - "Happy Halloween" (1981)

 Well, tonight's Saturday Night Special wraps up my Countdown To Halloween 2017, and it's a good one! Thanx again to John Rozum for organizing this whole thing one more year, and all the contributors new and olde!

 Tonight's special Halloween presentation is a curious movie made in 1981 that should be the go to Halloween movie because it's got it all! It's called "The Monster Club," and it not only has an all-star cast, it also has an all-star cast of musical performers! How in the Hell can it get much better than that??

 All three members of this power trio were still going strong in 1981 thank goodness!

"The Monster Club" is a movie that there is so much going on story wise and music wise that it's just too much for this format! It's a trilogy of terror with rockin' fun horror based music interspersed in between the story segments! In other words, it's almost freakin' prefect!

Vincent Price is an olde vampire that, after just taking a neck-sip wants  his almost-victim John Carradine to join him in a members only place called "The Monster Club!"

"The Monster Club" is literally a jumpin' place! They serve up terrific Bloody Marys using real blood, but they substitute tomato juice in John's drink since he's human!

 Vincent explains to John the whole lineage of monsterology! Even I, before watching this had never thought about how Werewolves, Vampires, and Ghouls are all related, and all the cross species you never even normally hear about, like shadmocks, and humghouls!

 Random shots of evil! I know, I have a split face calico cat in my face every morning at 5:00 AM!

 I am a sucker for long hall/path shots, and I just never ever get tired of this perspective!

 One of the stories is about a monster guy who is quasi-normal some of the time, but if you upset him, and he starts whistling, this is what can happen to you! 

 B.A. Roberstson performs "I'm A Sucker For Your Love!"
 Slurp, Slurp!! 
It just doesn't get much better than this!
TURN IT UP!!

The always beautiful Britt Ekland is the vampire's wife in one story!

This is the front door of the vampire's house! Other than that, they're just a normal family with a Father that works nights!

This trio are the notorious vampire killers! That's Donald Pleasence in the middle!

The band called Night with Stevie Lange on vocals, rocks the house down with a song called......

..... "The Stripper!" 

 Drop dead goregous Suzanna Willis takes it ALL off!!

And you can watch the show for free right HERE!  

I guess there's no soundtrack CD available, which is too bad because the music is killer throughout! The Pretty Things, and The Viewers also perform, and the solid background music is provided by UB40!

Way back in 1981, and these creatures still look more gruesome than current members of the walking dead. I think it's the smiles! These things are having way too much fun!!

As always, Stuart Whitman puts in a fine performance, this time as a movie maker looking for a quaint village location he can exploit! Stuart's going to be 90 this coming February, and we wish him well!

As a human, John Carradine questions why he is invited to be a member of a monster club, so Vincent the vampire in a nice monologue enlightens him to the fact that humans are the biggest monsters of all, and are single-handedly responsible for more death, mayhem and malice than all types of monsters combined! No vampires, ghouls or werewolves have ever created an atomic bomb etc, and you know what? He's right!!

Come on back on Monday when Tabonga will bring you our last Countdown to Halloween feature of the year!

EATEN ALIVE / Mars Productions Corporation - 1976

It's Friday, and, time for more Halloween Countdown fodder for the masses!.. This story is about Judd, he runs the run down Starlight Hotel out in a swampy place outside of town and is unfortunately a real nut job, and, has a crocodile conveniently placed in the water below the hotel's front porch railing! The monster will eat just about anything, as the hapless guests at the hotel are about to find out! A reformed hooker and the father and sister of the girl all suffer various types of terror as Judd tries to cover up the crimes.

This Toby Hooper production stars Neville (WITHOUT WARNING) Brand as Judd, Mel (NIGHTMARE CITY) Ferrer as Harvey Wood, Carolyn (THE ADDAMS FAMILY) Jones as Miss Hattie, Marilyn (THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE) Burns as Faye, William (PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE) Finley as Roy, Stuart (SHOCK TREATMENT) Whitman as Sheriff Martin and Robert (Freddy) Englund as Buck.

Get used to this spot in the movie, it's the railing that has a giant crocodile that dwells in the water at Judd's beat up Starlight Hotel. Here's Judd tossing a woman into the water after attacking her with a steel rake!

Visiting Roy is drunk on his ass and wants to shoot a crocodile, you know, booze and guns! They use a red filter to designate dusk here. Anyway, Judd attacks Roy with his trusty sickle, then, as he's laying against the rail, the croc pulls his ass into the water, never to be seen again!!

Later, Sheriff Martin takes Harvey over to see Miss Hattie to discuss his problems. She gives him some insight into the disappearance of his daughter and they leave.

Harvey goes back to the hotel to confront Judd about his daughter, Judd grabs his sickle again and charges at the unsuspecting victim!

In a bizarre scene, the sickle gets stuck through Harvey's neck, pretty sickening! Judd has trouble getting the sickle out of Harvey's neck but he eventually tosses him into the water just like all the others!!

Buck and his girlfriend are horny and go to the hotel for some fun, but, Buck ends up in the water and the crocodile chomps away on him too! Wow, Robert looks so young here!

Oh yeah, there's a little girl there that gets chased by Judd, she hides under the hotel and has to crawl through a ton of creepy spider webs!! Judd is ready to grab her when the Sheriff shows up, whew!..

Back in the mad hotel, Judd is trying to catch two girls that got loose. He charges at one of them and almost falls out the window, then, pushes the other girl through the railing and she ends up on the floor below, battered!

Then, the little girl barely escapes when the croc chases her under the hotel. She gets hung up on the wire fence and is an easy target for the monster that has gone back into the water!

Judd is trying to shake the little girl loose from the fence, when, the wounded girl shows up and pushes Judd over the fence and onto the ground at the edge of the water. And, guess what happens next?!..

So, there you have it, the little girl is saved and everything turns out as good as it could! Tune in tomorrow when Eegah!! takes the pumpkin by the vines!!