Malpaso Archives

The Beguiled (1971)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 8, 2000Southern Gothic

Underrated work of Southern Gothic with Clint Eastwood as a wounded soldier sheltered at a Confederate girl's school during the Civil War where he succeeds in manipulating the sexual tensions of the teachers and schoolgirls to his advantage

Director: Donald Siegel

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Mae Mercer, …

Category: Horror

8 August 200027 December 2025 by Roog

Dirty Harry (1971)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 2, 2000Tough Individualistic Cop vs a Psycho

The film that made Clint Eastwood's name. He is a rule-bending cop who decides he has to defy the system in his pursuit of a psycho (a thinly disguised version of the then active Zodiac Killer)

Director: Donald Siegel

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Reni Santoni, Harry Guardino, …

Category: Horror

2 November 200018 January 2026 by Roog

Tightrope (1984)

Rating: ★★

Nov 5, 2000S&M/Serial Killer Thriller

One of the darkest films Clint Eastwood ever made where he is a detective who becomes tempted by the world of BDSM during his pursuit of a serial killer

Director: Richard Tuggle

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Alison Eastwood, Dan Hedaya

Category: Horror

5 November 200016 April 2025 by Roog

Ratboy (1986)

Rating: ★★

Jan 8, 2000Deformed Boy Fable

Sondra Locke directs an odd little fable about a boy with rat-like features but the result never quite comes off

Director: Sondra Locke

Actors: Sondra Locke, Gerrit Graham, S.L. Baird, Robert Townsend

Category: Fantasy

8 January 200024 February 2025 by Roog

The Dead Pool (1988)

Rating: ★

Sep 12, 2000Dirty Harry vs a Psycho

The fifth and last of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry films, the weakest of the series. Dirty Harry comes up against a betting pool on celebrity deaths and a killer who decides to help it along

Director: Buddy Van Horn

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson, Evan C. Kim

Category: Horror

12 September 200015 October 2025 by Roog

Blood Work (2002)

Rating: ★★

Jan 30, 2005Aging Detective Pursues Serial Killer

This could be essentially be called Dirty Harry's retirement. Clint Eastwood directs/stars as an aging detective brought back into the game to track down a serial killer from his past.

Director: Clint Eastwood

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Wanda de Jesus, Tina Lifford, …

Category: Horror

30 January 200512 July 2026 by Roog