Rollerball (1975)
Feb 2, 2001Future Ultra-Violent Sport
Classic work of dystopian SF set in a future where an ultra-violent sport has been created to pacify the masses
John Houseman
The Fog (1980)
Aug 25, 2002Vengeful Ghosts
John Carpenter’s immediate successor to Halloween is a suspenseful and scary ghost story about undead sailors descending on a small town in a fog bank, even if the narrative logic holding everything together is thin
Bells (1981)
Feb 7, 2000Exploding Telephone Calls
Rather silly thriller in which Richard Chamberlain tries to track a madman who has discovered a means of transmitting explosions by telephone
Ghost Story (1981)
Jan 27, 2001Supernatural Retribution
Big-budget studio adaptation of Peter Straub's novel about four aging men who tell ghost stories to exorcise their past. This strips many of the book's storylines and never seems to make any of its attempts to scare pay off