Aaron Spelling produced a staggering number of television shows during the course of the 70’s. His productions included iconic TV series, like “Dynasty”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Fantasy Island” and “The Love Boat”, as well as some of the best-remembered (if not necessarily the best) TV movies, including Crowhaven Farm, The Daughters of Joshua Cabe and The Boy in the Plastic Bubble . Not everything he touched turned to television gold, but even some of his less successful productions are still memorable (does the phrase “Football — you bet!” ring a bell?).
1978’s Cruise Into Terror is one of the misfires. The script seems like somebody stuffed an issue of the National Enquirer in a blender… but the formidable all-star cast makes the resulting mess much more entertaining than it has any right to be.
#1 by Mr. Rational on August 8, 2010 - 10:30 am
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“The Reverend Mather doesn’t quite cotton to the idea of exhuming the dead.”
Beautifully deadpan, sir. I was a paragraph further down before that clicked. If you meant to do that, bravo!
Oh, and the rest of the review was great as well.
#2 by Ed on August 8, 2010 - 10:59 am
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Good stuff, Will.
#3 by DamonD on August 8, 2010 - 3:33 pm
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I love this kind of supernatural hokum, where they throw absolutely everything in a blender in desperate hopes of making something great.
Sadly there’s no video of this online and no idea where you could get a copy (especially a PAL copy), so I’ll just have your description and that little gif to get the breathing coffin spookiness over…
#4 by Richard on August 8, 2010 - 9:55 pm
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Good heavens! You mean Aaron Spelling was behind “The San Pedro Beach Bums”?
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