I saw this movie in 1978 at the cinema when it was released, and I really liked it. It didn’t hurt that I saw it at the Imperial Six, right across the street from the at-the-time brand new Eaton’s centre, where a couple of key scenes take place. Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer are excellent as adversaries in this cat-and-mouse crime duel, and of course I fell in love with the Susan George character, rather than the sexy French-Canadian love…
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The Third Man 1949
It’s hard to believe that Orson Welles was only an actor in this film and that he appears for the first time only in the last third of the movie. The mysterious and moody camera-shots and angles seem quite Wellesian. Masterful noirish mystery-suspense story-telling, with a great screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Carol Reed, with cinematography by Robert Krasker.
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Puppet Master 1989
Yes, it’s a movie with cute little bloodthirsty puppets who do the will of their master, but it ‘s the right ‘80s-horror mix of cheeze, sleaze, gore, and humor for me. And it has that haunted house trope that I love, of disparate quirky people brought together to spend time at a weird old house where sinister things, including death, happen, lol. In this case, they are all psychics, because psychic powers were used to animate the puppets.
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Saturn 3 1980
Sure there are many cringeworthy things about Saturn 3 (especially as it’s a futuristic outer-space-based science fiction movie from 1980 that is not affiliated with Star Wars, 2001, or Alien), but the sci-fi/horror story at the heart of it is a pretty decent reworking of the Frankenstein and Jeckyll/Hyde mythologies, telling a cautionary tale about man’s delegating of the safeguard of our welfare to machines, to which we pass on our own defects and shortcomings… and Farrah Fawcett makes a pretty sexy Scream Queen… How’s that for a run-on sentence?😜
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