John Farris Archives

Dear Dead Delilah (1972)

Rating: ★

Feb 12, 2019Grand Dame Guignol/Southern Murder Plot

A work of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? inspired Grand Dame Guignol with Agnes Moorehead as a Southern matriarch whose relatives are eliminating one another in the hunt for the family fortune

Director: John Farris

Actors: Agnes Moorehead, Dennis Patrick, Michael Ansara, Will Geer, …

Category: Horror

12 February 201930 November 2021 by Roog

When Michael Calls (1972)

Rating: ★★

Feb 8, 2022Phone Calls from a Dead Child

TV movie that comes with a great opening hook – a family receive phone calls from a brother who died 15 years earlier

Director: Philip Leacock

Actors: Michael Douglas, Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Al Waxman, …

Category: Horror

8 February 20228 February 2022 by Roog

Brian De Palma returns to psychic powers themes in this successor to Carrie, but this is a much more sprawling and often incoherent narrative with only occasional moments of De Palma’s directorial flourish

Director: Brian De Palma

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes, Andrew Stevens, …

Category: Horror, Science Fiction

10 June 200215 February 2026 by Roog