Errr Look…I am not quite sure what I watched but it did in fact keep me waiting for some kind of explanation that never came? Where the hell was it? why was Peach Fuzz working in there? ? How did they go from MRI machines to that? What the fuck did I just see? It was like having a bad acid trip inside a hotel. Alone, lost, scared. Quite like an elevator with a Japanese fellow inside with all the potted plants on each floor…not that I had that experience….moving on….
Listen, if you don’t know who Dan Curtis is, you need to go check your head, alright? This guy was an absolute maniac back in the day, just cranking out these dark, gritty horror flicks for television like it was nothing. He’s the genius who gave us Dark Shadows, but his absolute masterpiece was that 1974 made for TV Dracula movie with Jack Palance. Now, usually, you hear "made for TV movie" and you think of some cheap, low budget…
So you ever see the 1972 made for TV flick Gargoyles? Oh my god, it’s peak seventies ridiculousness. Stan Winston did the creature suits, so the monsters actually look fantastic for a budget movie, but the human stuff? Completely unhinged. Cornel Wilde plays this generic anthropologist guy, and he brings his daughter along to the desert played by Jennifer Salt, who I swear to you, spent ninety percent of the movie walking around looking like an absolute tramp, just rocking…
Alright, look, you ever look out the window at a crowded city sidewalk and think, "Man, at least seventy percent of these people are completely out of their minds"?Well, if you want a movie that takes that exact feeling, dips it in grease, and drags it through a New York City gutter in 1980, you look at William Lustig’s Maniac.
Let me paint the picture for you normal people who don't spend your weekends watching grainy movies about degenerates.
This…
