I loved the ITC productions of the 60s and 70s. They had such great theme music and were often shot on location around the world. My favourites were Space 1999, Danger Man, Man of the World, The Sentimental Agent, Man In A Suitcase, The Baron, The Saint, The Strange Report, The Champions, The Protectors, The Adventurer and The Persuaders. Not to mention all the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's "Supermarionation" stuff.
Death Valley is a home run. I never knew it existed until a couple of years ago. It blew my mind to see a movie where Stephen Mchattie menaces Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Good stuff!
Do you know about that brilliant independent Australian animation named " The Big Lez Show " ? It has a few offshoots named " The Donny and clarence show " and " The Mike Nolan show " It was made by a young man named Jarrad Wright. It was all drawn and animated in paint. It is truly a work of art.
Awesome pick-ups there, my friend. So many goodies to pick up Imprint are killing it so many i would love to pick up. I definitely got my eyes on The Baron set. Fare anuff mate on your thoughts of the director that can't be named and not crossing your own line you draw.
I watched American Broadcasting Company's "Tuesday Movie of the Week" many weeks in the 1970s, when I wasn't doing my homework...great mix of horror and Sci Fi..seen some more of them on reruns.
Cool picks. Happy to hear you enjoyed "Suspira." Tilda Swinton definitely steals the show. I still prefer the original but I would definitely watch the remake again. The length might honestly be my biggest drawback. Cheers.
Fun fact (well, for me anyway!) -- I live about 1 hours drive from Burkittsville, Maryland -- where the original Blair Witch is set. But some of the scenes were filmed in Patapsco River State Park -- not 10 minutes from where I live. And it can be a creepy, wooded place to go hiking off trail....
@@terrytalksmovies -- Well, "Mama says, Creepy is as Creepy does...." -- I think that a place, thing -- or even a person -- can be 'Creepy' without that meaning anything supernatural.
Re Department S: the things I remember most are the brilliant theme tune and Jason King. Peter Wyngarde was perfectly cast. Might be time for a revisit. Cheers
@@terrytalksmovies Sad and true. But he'll always be Jason King. The 70s were a hotbed of quirky UK TV, with shows like Jason King and Randall & Hopkirk, along with tried and tested formats like the Sweeney. Not forgetting Space 1999, where Nick Tate often out-heroed the star and future Oscar winner, Martin Landau. Cheers
I always got an. "Emperor's New Cloth" vibe when I hear people lauding "Blair". I was there, saw it in the theater and felt like I missed the punchline. "The Saint", Must have been a contender for the "Baron" stand in. Moore was no doubt dapper. The first thought when I heard the title was. "Antichrist" The 2009 Lars von Trier. opus. Totally insane.
Great news about the TV movie releases! I hope they have some of the ones I remember best. Some of the best ones have already been release on DVD/BD, like "Duel", "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "Trilogy of Terror", but there are plenty more good ones, like "The Love War". I hope they stick with the horror/thriller/sci-fi movies. BTW, that one with the wide screen version was probably done for a foreign feature release. They did that a lot with TV movies, like "Duel" for instance.
I got on a horror TV movie of the week craze lately. Saw Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Buried Alive, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, some of the stuff Richard Matheson did with Dan Curtis. I watched some episodes of The Baron on Britbox, that first feature was a 2 parter about criminals making a double of Steve Forrest to pull off a robbery. I recall the Blair Witch mania of 99 with some people thinking it was real. Maybe that's why the sequel isn't liked, they spoiled the illusion. I liked the new Suspiria up until the climax, then I was baffled and off put. Maybe I need another watch. Good stuff, more for my on look out list.
See if you can find fear no evil and ritual of fear. These 2 tv movies were pilots for a tv series but was cancelled production because of the heavy occult content. With louie Jordan playing a psychologist who investigates occultism . Really good for 2 television movies
With Blair Witch it was the whole "fake documentary" thing which caused the backlash. Can't say that hasn't happened before as with Cannibal Holocaust and whatnot. All William Castle type stuff!
I remember The Deadly Dream! Another TV movie from that time with its own paranoid vibe is The Brotherhood of the Bell, which is a bit stodgy but gets enlivened by, of all people, William Conrad, and I recommend it. I appreciate your recalling The Love War as well, as it is wild to look back and see how often Lloyd Bridges dabbled in science fiction, not great stuff but fun. I still say that the best Blair Witch property of all is the promotional TV special Curse of the Blair Witch. Thanks, Ter.
I got the Blu-ray of SUPERSTITION, and Raquel and I watched it. It's… I'm not sure how to describe it really, except to say that it looks like episodic television from a country where they don't censor violence at all. 😅
I actually remember seeing some of these movies on TV . Baffled I particularly liked I would definitely have watched as a series. I seem to remember Lloyd Bridges popping up in many telemovies of the 1970s. I quite like the Baron and love the gorgeous Sue Lloyd. Steve Forrest was a servicable hero but never really grabbed me. I wouldn't say he was wooden but he lacked the charisma of other ITC leads. Nice one as always mate 👍
@terrytalksmovies Absolutely such an impressive group of character actors. I recently spotted Yootha Joyce ( George & Mildred) as a Russian Agent. Anthony Hopkins famously features in an episode of Department S
Hi Terry. Superstition’s alternate art is the same as the old Aussie VHS cover. It’s good fun, not perfect but heavy on Italian Horror Vibes without being Italian. Death Valley was good too, kind of like Hitcher-Lite in a way. Kid against a serial killer. Enjoyed them both. Not total Gems but well worth dusting off for reappraisal.
My lips are sealed on the subject of the Suspiria spoiler Terry. I own both versions of Suspiria. I think there are pros and cons to both. I like both films and I tend to agree with you about Dakota Johnson - I think she rides on the 'eye candy' horse too much, rather than actually acting. Great haul from Imprint. I love the sound of The Baron. btw While we're in Suspiriaville, are you familiar with The Neon Demon? I was aware of the notoriety of that film long before I finally purchased a copy and obviously, there are similarities. Have an awesome week.
The Baron and Department S both great series. I am going currently watching the Department S episodes. Got a great region free bluray release from the UK.
@@terrytalksmovies I have it on dvd. Will do after Dept S finished. Hopefully they will release it on blueray. Glad I bought it a few years ago as the price in outrageous now.
Plenty of found footage films before Blair Witch. The Last Broadcast is very similar it even had the Internet marketing gimmick. And of course Cannibal Holocaust. I warched Blair Witch on a date and my date got up half way and left. Not because they were scared but because they were bored. The only thing I liked about it was the weird aspect ratio. Almost square. It would have been more effective projected in a town hall on a sheet. Or discovered on video.
@@terrytalksmovies definitely but Last Broadcast is so weirdly like Blair Witch but better in my view and it was made just before. It's a bit like Dark City coming out the same year as The Matrix.
Good haul there. I have to say though, that I don't rate 'The Blair Witch Project' at all. I have owned shoes that were scarier than that. Like 'The Exorcist', I find it completely unfrightening. I do own the soundtrack album, which was marketed as a mixtape disc found in the car of one of the people shown in the movie. It's full of nice dark alternative music. I'm glad you mentioned 'Department S' - that was a great show - such mad Ideas, that wouldn't seem out of place in a more modern show, like, say, 'The X-Files', or 'Fringe', or 'Warehouse 13'. We haven't had a show like that for ages, where people solve things that everyone else has given up on. ITC series could always be relied on to provide an enjoyable half hour/hour, and there would always be actors you liked in them, and most of the time, quality writing, by people like Terry Nation, and Dennis Spooner.
I haven't seen the SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY or THE DEADLY DREAM either-but I have seen, and really liked, BAFFLED, which gave Leonard Nimoy a chance to be charming and funny.
I did find a lot to like in the Susperia remake but given the choice would opt to rewatch Argento’s original. Jessica Harper displayed an actor’s grasp of the lead character. Dakota Johnson did not.
Some interesting us tv movies Dying Room only base on a script by Richard Matheson Deliver us from Evil directed by Boris Segal Both are worth checking put
Hi Terry. I totally respect your stance on not reviewing and accepting problematic content. I havent a clue who your talking about there but the fact you handled it so well speaks volumes. Keep it up.
Saw Baffled! on UA-cam (OK video quality, but not great) -- I enjoyed it, and it feels like it would have made a good series, but this pilot was never picked up.
The cast seemed very comfortable in the roles -- made it easy to watch. Always enjoyed watching a more relaxed Leonard Nimoy than as Spock. Oh -- have any thoughts (or a video) on the BBC series 'Late Night Horror' and the one recovered episode "The Corpse Can't Play"? Or the BBC series "Dead of Night"? Or any similar UK TV horror anthology series (were there any such Australian series?)....?
@@terrytalksmovies - I'm living in America and it looks very much like the Americans already watch lots of ww2 films and miss the point. I was trying to make a playlist of films that might open their eyes. It's getting really weird here... and scary.
@@timetraveller6643 Several 1930s and 1940s American films took on that subject. "Keeper of the Flame" is a good one. The book and various versions of "It Can't Happen Here" are also good about fascists running America. Book by Sinclair Lewis. "Watch on the Rhine" is interesting about soul searching before the War. America is getting scary right now. Collapsing empires tend to do that. Stay safe.
THE LOVE WAR? Isn't that the SF movie Harlan Ellison trashed in THE GLASS TEAT? 😂 I know, Ellison had his issues, a lot of them. I didn't realize how many until I bought the Kindle version of THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS (finally completed by J. Michael Straczynski) where, as the executor for Harlan Ellison's estate, he felt he needed to set the record straight about Ellison's many episodes of erratic behavior. If you want to know, Straczynski wrote a lengthy forward about it, because part of the explanation was why THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS wasn't finished in Ellison's lifetime....
I loved the ITC productions of the 60s and 70s. They had such great theme music and were often shot on location around the world. My favourites were Space 1999, Danger Man, Man of the World, The Sentimental Agent, Man In A Suitcase, The Baron, The Saint, The Strange Report, The Champions, The Protectors, The Adventurer and The Persuaders. Not to mention all the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's "Supermarionation" stuff.
They also had groovy cars and affordable accomodation in London. 😉😀
Death Valley is a home run. I never knew it existed until a couple of years ago. It blew my mind to see a movie where Stephen Mchattie menaces Ralphie from A Christmas Story. Good stuff!
Stephen McHattie was always great value.
Do you know about that brilliant independent Australian animation named " The Big Lez Show " ? It has a few offshoots named " The Donny and clarence show " and " The Mike Nolan show " It was made by a young man named Jarrad Wright. It was all drawn and animated in paint. It is truly a work of art.
Thanks for the tip!
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up satanic cults!"
Last week is the best week for that.
Awesome pick-ups there, my friend.
So many goodies to pick up Imprint are killing it so many i would love to pick up.
I definitely got my eyes on The Baron set. Fare anuff mate on your thoughts of the director that can't be named and not crossing your own line you draw.
I have moral gates in my viewing. Not everyone does but that's okay, too.
I watched American Broadcasting Company's "Tuesday Movie of the Week" many weeks in the 1970s, when I wasn't doing my homework...great mix of horror and Sci Fi..seen some more of them on reruns.
They did good movies within a straightjacket of censorship.
Cool picks. Happy to hear you enjoyed "Suspira." Tilda Swinton definitely steals the show. I still prefer the original but I would definitely watch the remake again. The length might honestly be my biggest drawback. Cheers.
Yeah, it's a tad long but having the same environment as Possession, another supernatural movie, makes it really kick arse.
Fun fact (well, for me anyway!) -- I live about 1 hours drive from Burkittsville, Maryland -- where the original Blair Witch is set. But some of the scenes were filmed in Patapsco River State Park -- not 10 minutes from where I live. And it can be a creepy, wooded place to go hiking off trail....
I don't believe in creepy places, just interesting ones. 🙂
@@terrytalksmovies -- Well, "Mama says, Creepy is as Creepy does...." -- I think that a place, thing -- or even a person -- can be 'Creepy' without that meaning anything supernatural.
Re Department S: the things I remember most are the brilliant theme tune and Jason King. Peter Wyngarde was perfectly cast.
Might be time for a revisit.
Cheers
Peter Wyngarde was hammered for being gay and being caught cottaging. These days, his career would've been much longer and better.
@@terrytalksmovies Sad and true. But he'll always be Jason King. The 70s were a hotbed of quirky UK TV, with shows like Jason King and Randall & Hopkirk, along with tried and tested formats like the Sweeney. Not forgetting Space 1999, where Nick Tate often out-heroed the star and future Oscar winner, Martin Landau.
Cheers
Love that Animated devil Terry.
My editing software has some cute additions. 😉
I always got an. "Emperor's New Cloth" vibe when I hear people lauding "Blair". I was there, saw it in the theater and felt like I missed the punchline. "The Saint", Must have been a contender for the "Baron" stand in. Moore was no doubt dapper. The first thought when I heard the title was. "Antichrist" The 2009 Lars von Trier. opus. Totally insane.
I am a defender of the Val Kilmer version of The Saint. It's underrated.
Great news about the TV movie releases! I hope they have some of the ones I remember best. Some of the best ones have already been release on DVD/BD, like "Duel", "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "Trilogy of Terror", but there are plenty more good ones, like "The Love War". I hope they stick with the horror/thriller/sci-fi movies. BTW, that one with the wide screen version was probably done for a foreign feature release. They did that a lot with TV movies, like "Duel" for instance.
Also the Man From UNCLE movies were in that format in the 1960s.
@@terrytalksmovies Yes, they would slap a couple of episodes together and release it as a feature. I remember going to see one of them.
I got on a horror TV movie of the week craze lately. Saw Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Buried Alive, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, some of the stuff Richard Matheson did with Dan Curtis. I watched some episodes of The Baron on Britbox, that first feature was a 2 parter about criminals making a double of Steve Forrest to pull off a robbery. I recall the Blair Witch mania of 99 with some people thinking it was real. Maybe that's why the sequel isn't liked, they spoiled the illusion. I liked the new Suspiria up until the climax, then I was baffled and off put. Maybe I need another watch. Good stuff, more for my on look out list.
My pleasure. I think Suspiria 2.0 sticks the landing with the exception of Dakota J's lack of affect.
See if you can find fear no evil and ritual of fear. These 2 tv movies were pilots for a tv series but was cancelled production because of the heavy occult content. With louie Jordan playing a psychologist who investigates occultism . Really good for 2 television movies
Thanks for the tip! 😀
With Blair Witch it was the whole "fake documentary" thing which caused the backlash. Can't say that hasn't happened before as with Cannibal Holocaust and whatnot. All William Castle type stuff!
Part of the BWP backlash was because of its success. It happens.
I remember The Deadly Dream! Another TV movie from that time with its own paranoid vibe is The Brotherhood of the Bell, which is a bit stodgy but gets enlivened by, of all people, William Conrad, and I recommend it. I appreciate your recalling The Love War as well, as it is wild to look back and see how often Lloyd Bridges dabbled in science fiction, not great stuff but fun. I still say that the best Blair Witch property of all is the promotional TV special Curse of the Blair Witch. Thanks, Ter.
I reviewed The Love War so if you file through the science fiction playlist you'll find the video. 😀
I got the Blu-ray of SUPERSTITION, and Raquel and I watched it. It's… I'm not sure how to describe it really, except to say that it looks like episodic television from a country where they don't censor violence at all. 😅
LOL!
That star doesn't actually obscure everything you wanted it to 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cool!
I actually remember seeing some of these movies on TV . Baffled I particularly liked I would definitely have watched as a series. I seem to remember Lloyd Bridges popping up in many telemovies of the 1970s. I quite like the Baron and love the gorgeous Sue Lloyd. Steve Forrest was a servicable hero but never really grabbed me. I wouldn't say he was wooden but he lacked the charisma of other ITC leads. Nice one as always mate 👍
Thanks, Doug. As much as anything, watching the ITC shows is an exercise in enjoying the character actors surrounding the lead actor.
@terrytalksmovies Absolutely such an impressive group of character actors. I recently spotted Yootha Joyce ( George & Mildred) as a Russian Agent. Anthony Hopkins famously features in an episode of Department S
Hmmm... Tilda cubed suggests some pharmacology from the sixties. Be safe and watch those beverage additives!
95% of the time I drink straight up espresso or water, so I'm fairly sure I'm okay.
Hi Terry. Superstition’s alternate art is the same as the old Aussie VHS cover. It’s good fun, not perfect but heavy on Italian Horror Vibes without being Italian. Death Valley was good too, kind of like Hitcher-Lite in a way. Kid against a serial killer. Enjoyed them both. Not total Gems but well worth dusting off for reappraisal.
Thanks for the extra info. I'll definitely be watching them.
My lips are sealed on the subject of the Suspiria spoiler Terry. I own both versions of Suspiria. I think there are pros and cons to both. I like both films and I tend to agree with you about Dakota Johnson - I think she rides on the 'eye candy' horse too much, rather than actually acting. Great haul from Imprint. I love the sound of The Baron. btw While we're in Suspiriaville, are you familiar with The Neon Demon? I was aware of the notoriety of that film long before I finally purchased a copy and obviously, there are similarities. Have an awesome week.
I've seen The Neon Demon but I don't think it sticks the landing well.
The Baron and Department S both great series. I am going currently watching the Department S episodes. Got a great region free bluray release from the UK.
Then of course you have to move on to Jason King. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies I have it on dvd. Will do after Dept S finished. Hopefully they will release it on blueray. Glad I bought it a few years ago as the price in outrageous now.
Always impressed with [Imprint]’s off the beaten path releases with the extras.
IKR? Excellent extras with nuanced commentary.
good sets you have an edge treating us as friends rather than subscribers
Thank you. It's about sharing the love, so why not treat people as friends?
Thank you Terry! Have a great weekend!
My pleasure! Have a great one, too.
Plenty of found footage films before Blair Witch. The Last Broadcast is very similar it even had the Internet marketing gimmick. And of course Cannibal Holocaust. I warched Blair Witch on a date and my date got up half way and left. Not because they were scared but because they were bored. The only thing I liked about it was the weird aspect ratio. Almost square. It would have been more effective projected in a town hall on a sheet. Or discovered on video.
Blair Witch is the one that hit big and had many copycats. 🙂
@@terrytalksmovies definitely but Last Broadcast is so weirdly like Blair Witch but better in my view and it was made just before. It's a bit like Dark City coming out the same year as The Matrix.
Good haul there. I have to say though, that I don't rate 'The Blair Witch Project' at all. I have owned shoes that were scarier than that. Like 'The Exorcist', I find it completely unfrightening.
I do own the soundtrack album, which was marketed as a mixtape disc found in the car of one of the people shown in the movie. It's full of nice dark alternative music.
I'm glad you mentioned 'Department S' - that was a great show - such mad Ideas, that wouldn't seem out of place in a more modern show, like, say, 'The X-Files', or 'Fringe', or 'Warehouse 13'.
We haven't had a show like that for ages, where people solve things that everyone else has given up on.
ITC series could always be relied on to provide an enjoyable half hour/hour, and there would always be actors you liked in them, and most of the time, quality writing, by people like Terry Nation, and Dennis Spooner.
Imprint's people seem to love 1960s Brit TV action series. They're pumping them out in quality editions every month or so.
I haven't seen the SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY or THE DEADLY DREAM either-but I have seen, and really liked, BAFFLED, which gave Leonard Nimoy a chance to be charming and funny.
He was definitely trying to break out of the Paris in Mission Impossible and Mr Spock stereotyping.
I did find a lot to like in the Susperia remake but given the choice would opt to rewatch Argento’s original. Jessica Harper displayed an actor’s grasp of the lead character. Dakota Johnson did not.
I did like the Jessica Harper cameo in the second one. 🙂
Actually hard to find TV movies for a lot of them.
They are. And high-quality versions are even more difficult to source.
You got me curious, so I had to look it up. OIC. You like Rome, just not that which pertains to it...😉
LOL
Death Valley would be a good double bill with A Christmas Story as it has Ralphie !
Not sure they have the same audience demographic. 🙂
@terrytalksmovies To some and to others, comedy and horror movies are like peanutbutter and chocolate. They go together quite well.
I assume that the director we are not talking about rhymes with Oman Olanski ?
That would be correct.
Some interesting us tv movies
Dying Room only base on a script by Richard Matheson
Deliver us from Evil directed by Boris Segal
Both are worth checking put
Cool. Thanks for the tips. 😀
Hi Terry. I totally respect your stance on not reviewing and accepting problematic content. I havent a clue who your talking about there but the fact you handled it so well speaks volumes. Keep it up.
If you want a clue... Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.
💚!
😉
Saw Baffled! on UA-cam (OK video quality, but not great) -- I enjoyed it, and it feels like it would have made a good series, but this pilot was never picked up.
It's simple but charming.
The cast seemed very comfortable in the roles -- made it easy to watch. Always enjoyed watching a more relaxed Leonard Nimoy than as Spock. Oh -- have any thoughts (or a video) on the BBC series 'Late Night Horror' and the one recovered episode "The Corpse Can't Play"? Or the BBC series "Dead of Night"? Or any similar UK TV horror anthology series (were there any such Australian series?)....?
Good climaxes in the Colosseum? Does 20 Million Miles to Earth count?
Fairly good.
Hallo Terry. Iv'e got a request:
The best anti fascism warning films.
There's one called "Die Welle", there's an American version The Wave.
Any WW2 movie?
@@terrytalksmovies - I'm living in America and it looks very much like the Americans already watch lots of ww2 films and miss the point. I was trying to make a playlist of films that might open their eyes. It's getting really weird here... and scary.
@@timetraveller6643 Several 1930s and 1940s American films took on that subject. "Keeper of the Flame" is a good one. The book and various versions of "It Can't Happen Here" are also good about fascists running America. Book by Sinclair Lewis. "Watch on the Rhine" is interesting about soul searching before the War. America is getting scary right now. Collapsing empires tend to do that. Stay safe.
Thank you @@phyllisbronock2745 . Men in big trucks waving big flags shouting slogans. How did this happen . . . twice.
Not to nitpick, but isn't Cannibal Holocaust the first found footage film?
But BWP is the one that really kickstarted the modern found footage genre.
THE LOVE WAR? Isn't that the SF movie Harlan Ellison trashed in THE GLASS TEAT? 😂
I know, Ellison had his issues, a lot of them. I didn't realize how many until I bought the Kindle version of THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS (finally completed by J. Michael Straczynski) where, as the executor for Harlan Ellison's estate, he felt he needed to set the record straight about Ellison's many episodes of erratic behavior. If you want to know, Straczynski wrote a lengthy forward about it, because part of the explanation was why THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS wasn't finished in Ellison's lifetime....
Yeah, Harlan's issues definitely curtailed his career and achievements. He was a phenomenon.