People ask me that all the time! I would say about one out of every five people I tell about Horrorthon asks if we're almost "finished." "Ha!" I say to them. "Ha!"
It is more likely that we'll run out of flicks from 1980 to see, but it's wonderful how many keep turning up. Excellent find. You made me laugh with "(stop me already!)"
I was looking at video on demands list of new release horror films the other day. There were about 70, all from 2013, all but a few that nobody has reviewed. WE would need another dozen catfreek-style viewers to keep up with new releases alone.
eric would fit right in with this crowd, barring the psychotic break and murder spree, of course.
October 26, 2013 8:23 AM
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(1980) ***
Eric Binford is a lonely, angry,
socially isolated, awkward (stop me already!) young man. By day he works in a Los Angeles film exchange where he ships and
receives film prints. At night he lives
with his wheel-chair bound, shrewish aunt who barrages him with endless criticism. Eric spends his free time holed up in his
film museum-like room watching and memorizing old movies. He uses his vast film knowledge of useless
facts to challenge and bet people on film trivia (e.g. “What was Hitler’s
favorite movie?”*).
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Eric’s life begins to unravel due
to a coalescence of stressors. He is
bullied at work by his J. Jonah Jamison-like boss, he is picked on by
co-workers, he is stood up on a date by a Marilyn Monroe lookalike, and his
aunt ratchets up her criticism of his life, eventually wheeling herself into
his room and breaking his film projector.
Like Michael Douglas in ‘Falling Down’, Eric has a psychotic break and
begins killing his tormentors while masquerading as famous film
characters. The story climaxes on the
roof of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (of
course!)
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As I was watching Fade to Black I
thought, “I wish I could invite Eric to participate in Horrorthon!” Fade to Black was more fun than I expected
and it was another film I never heard of until I watched a Friday the 13th
documentary recently. I love revenge
films and it was fun to see Eric dispatch his tormentors while dressed as
famous film characters. In my favorite
sequence he challenges one of his bullies to a duel while dressed as ‘Hopalong
Cassidy’. Look how creepy he looks,
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How many horror movies were made
in the 1980s? I mean, eventually I will
have seen them all, right? After 8 years
of Horrorthon how is it that I keep learning about other 1980 films I haven’t
seen? Someone once suggested to Octo
that we would eventually run out of films to watch – how silly! Watch the trailer,
"Fade to Black"
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People ask me that all the time! I would say about one out of every five people I tell about Horrorthon asks if we're almost "finished." "Ha!" I say to them. "Ha!"
It is more likely that we'll run out of flicks from 1980 to see, but it's wonderful how many keep turning up. Excellent find. You made me laugh with "(stop me already!)"
October 25, 2013 11:17 AM
I was looking at video on demands list of new release horror films the other day. There were about 70, all from 2013, all but a few that nobody has reviewed. WE would need another dozen catfreek-style viewers to keep up with new releases alone.
October 25, 2013 5:30 PM
This film sounds great, I love the whole idea of it.
October 25, 2013 8:41 PM
eric would fit right in with this crowd, barring the psychotic break and murder spree, of course.
October 26, 2013 8:23 AM