Looking back …
A lot of my recent viewing has been catching up on a range of movies from the ’60s through the ’80s, some of which I saw when they were first released, while others weren’t accessible to me at the time. These include some […]
Review: Bloody Birthday (1980)
Director: Ed Hunt
Cast: Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Susan Strasberg, José Ferrer,
Lori Lethin
Melinda Cordell
Julie Brown
Susan Strasberg
José Ferrer
Plot: In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
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Beware the children!
In the past year or so I’ve seen five “evil kids” horror movies. Jaume Collet-Serra’s Orphan (2009) uses the classic “cuckoo” storyline: a couple with one young child decide to adopt a needy orphan, in this case a strangely […]