Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion
Book
Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously...
Bibliophilia: One Man's Obsession with Book Collection: an Epistolary Novel
Book
Flush with $400,000 dollars from selling his great great grandfather's correspondence with Victorian...
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)
Movie
Comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr.) is basically a decent guy. Sure, he's...
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Movie Watch
BOYZ N THE HOOD is the critically acclaimed story of three friends growing up in a South Central Los...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Maniac Cop (1988) in Movies
Sep 25, 2020
For a start, it has a decent cast including the always reliable Tom Atkins, a post Evil Dead II Bruce Campbell, final girl Laurene Landon, and even a small role for Robert Roundtree of Shaft fame.
It was written by B-movie legend Larry Cohen and directed by genre veteran William Lustig - all in all a pretty strong cast and crew, who all managed to turn this would be low budget trashy horror into a cult classic.
The Maniac Cop himself, played by Robert Z'Dar, cuts an imposing figure. The choice not to show his face for the majority of the run time lends him a creepy edge. He also has an uncomfortably massive chin... Throw in a load of blood flying about the place, some unsettling music score, and a pretty fun car chase near the climax, and it's easy to see why Maniac Cop is pretty beloved by horror fans.
80s horror is just the best.
Baldify - Go Bald
Entertainment and Games
App
Baldify - Go Bald Stroll down the Norwood Scale of Hair Loss! Get the balding app installed by over...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Invaders in TV
Mar 15, 2018 (Updated Mar 15, 2018)
Larry Cohen's original concept - a paranoid thriller with few overt SF elements - was rapidly abandoned, and Cohen himself had little involvement. The programme is really a victim of the time it was made: episodic storytelling means that the aliens come up with bizarrely different schemes on a weekly basis (weather control, infiltrating industry, man-eating butterflies), and there are nagging problems with the format - it is required that the aliens never just kill Vincent, and that he never manages to get evidence of their activity, either. Some would say that Roy Thinnes' intensely dour performance is not exactly what a show like this needs.
Still, there are some good individual episodes, and the iconography of the show does hang around in your head (it's clearly one of the shows that was a major influence on The X Files). It's a shame this kind of story has since been done to death as you could easily imagine a contemporary Invaders remake being really good (even though the 90s mini-series really wasn't).
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 8
TV Season
As the CSIs race to save one of their own ("Dead Doll"), Sara makes a life changing decision...
True Crime (1999)
Movie Watch
Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars as a troubled investigative reporter whose search for the...