Tuesday, August 04, 2015
Beach Week Trailer: Jaws the Revenge (1987)
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
50 Years Ago: Earthquake (1974)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) hold up beautifully as examples of th disaster film all these years later. ...
-
Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1... -
The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...
I was in a crowded theater in 1987 -- I think to see the very mediocre Dragnet spoof -- when this trailer came on. When the guy says, "This time it's personal," there was huge roar of laughter.
ReplyDeleteI looked up its box office -- $51 million worldwide. Had to have been a "so bad it might be good" audience. Don't know, though. To me it just looked "so bad it might be excruciating." Still haven't seen it and I never will.