#made for tv movie

[inthedarktrees]

Karen Black as “Therese” in Trilogy of Terror (1975)

[oldshowbiz]

"We now return to Women in Chains - on ABC"

[bitter69uk]

Believe it or not, I got sucked into watching the new Netflix documentary about Martha Stewart. My memory about her saga was hazy, especially the legal insider trading scandal. Considering Stewart herself participated, the doc was surprisingly, frankly "warts and all.” (Having said that, the filmmakers let Martha freely disparage her ex-husband and ex-boyfriend of fifteen years, but I was thinking, I would be curious to hear THEIR side of the story, too!). Who Stewart ultimately reminded me of was Betty Draper from Mad Men (imagine frosty impeccable obsessed-with-appearances “Betts” rising to the top as a powerful CEO). Stewart was clearly a blunt, no-nonsense business genius. It raised interesting questions about why we expect her to also be "likable", “humble” and "relatable" too. (I wouldn't want to be on her staff, mind you). Her stint in prison clearly made Stewart a better person. And I completely forgot about her doing the Comedy Central roast for Justin Bieber. Who knew she was so funny – and filthy? Anyway, last night YouTube “recommended" to me an ancient clip of David Letterman reflecting on the 2003 made-for-TV biopic Martha Inc: The Story of Martha Stewart starring the perfectly cast Cybill Shepherd (pictured). Letterman showed little snippets from it (mostly of Stewart berating underlings) to roars of laughter. The highlight: Martha drives up to a woman jogging (an employee who’s having an affair with Stewart’s husband) and screams "Hey, slut! I'm writing your mother a letter telling her you're a whore!” and speeds away. It’s an outrageously campy moment worthy of John Waters and Mink Stole and Shepherd NAILS it. (If Kathleen Turner had been unavailable for Serial Mom (1994), Shepherd would have been a viable alternative for Beverly Sutphin). So, imagine my heartbreak to discover Martha Inc isn’t streaming anywhere in the UK! Not even a grainy pixelated version on YouTube. It’s a hate crime!

[stra-tek]

Michelle Yeoh. Section 31 movie. Paramount+

[jillyb2004]

Happy (Late) 5th Anniversary to Invader Zim: Enter The Florpus!

[brokehorrorfan]

Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 will be released together on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on September 10 via VCI Entertainment.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow is a 1981 made-for-TV horror movie directed by Frank De Felitta and written by J.D. Feigelson. Larry Drake, Charles Durning, Tonya Crowe, Jocelyn Brando, and Lane Smith.

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is a 2022 sequel written and directed by J.D. Feigelson. Amber Wedding, Aiden Shurr, Carol Dines, Adam Snyder, and Tim Gooch star.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Dark Night of the Scarecrow audio commentary by writer J.D. Feigelson (new)

Dark Night of the Scarecrow audio commentary by film historians Heath Holland, Robert Kell, and Amanda Reyes (new)

Dark Night of the Scarecrow audio commentary by director Frank DeFelitta and writer J.D. Feigelson

Bubba Didn't Do It: 30 Years of the Scarecrow featurette

Dark Night of the Scarecrow cast reunion Q&A at Frightfest 2011

1981 CBS world premier promo

1985 CBS re-broadcast promo

Photo gallery

Dark Night of the Scarecrow tells of the murder of a young girl, Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe), and the vicious mob justice wrongly enacted on Marylee’s innocent, mentally challenged friend Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake). A cover-up by the murderous mob, led by Otis P. Hazelrigg (Charles Durning), results in a strange turn of events. Soon, one by one, the guilty are stalked and served a specific kind of justice by an unknown figure.

40 years in the making, Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 picks up with Chris (Amber Wedding) and her young son Jeremy (Aiden Shurr), moving to the small town where the events of the first film took place. Chris finds a tattered scarecrow amongst the cornfields of her new home and tells the effigy her secret; the real reason she has come to this small town. Soon after, a mysterious figure begins to roam the fields of their new home… stalking them or protecting them from unknown threats?

Pre-order Dark Night of the Scarecrows 1 & 2.

[mediaomnivore]

Jem: Truly Outrageous! (1986):

There’s a certain joy in forgetting that a film exists, or, in this case, that a feature length recut of a TV cartoon exists, and then getting to enjoy it all over again as if it were the first time. That’s how I feel about this version of the early Jem and the Holograms episodes. Apparently all I ever wanted was a superhero Madonna and a group of diverse women teammates, making synth pop and solving problems.

[imstuckin1999]

Sabrina Down Under (1999)

[elijones94]

👻 Phantasma and Sibella from “Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School” 🦇

[mysterytheater]

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) CBS Saturday Night Movies Opening (Cl...

[areyou-talkin-to-me]

Camp Cucamonga

I first heard of this movie from a podcast. Its a pretty cute kids movie, i enjoyed watching it. It had a lot of stars from the 80s/90s which was fun to see. If i had seen it when i was 12 i would have loved it.

🔗 IMDB

[horror-aesthete]

Frankenstein: The True Story, 1973, dir. Jack Smight

[oldshowbiz]

[bitter69uk]

I haven’t seen the Pamela Anderson movie The Last Showgirl yet, but I do intend to! (It only recently opened in the UK). Alongside Demi Moore in The Substance, Andeson’s is the comeback story de nos jours. But what I did revisit in preparation is the ABC 1973 made-for-TV Third Girl from the Left, which shares a virtually identical theme. Written by singer-songwriter Dory Previn, it’s a downbeat, wistful character study starring Kim Novak (in her television debut) as Gloria Joyce, a veteran New York showgirl (so not Vegas!) who’s hit a crisis point in her life: at 36, after years of being centre stage in the line-up, she’s  been asked to “move to the back” to make space for a new girl. Has Gloria “aged out” of her showbiz career? (Isn’t it wild to reflect that 36 was considered “past it” in 1973? Novak herself is 40 years-old here). In addition, Gloria’s 13-year love affair with lounge crooner Joey Jordan (Tony Curtis, clearly having a blast luxuriating in this sleazebag role) is hitting the skids. Bruised and uncertain, she tentatively embarks on a romance with a younger man (Michael Brandon). Misty, ethereal and vulnerable, Novak seems to be deliberately evoking her earlier performance as Polly the Pistol in Billy Wilder’s Kiss Me, Stupid (1964). There are introspective songs via Previn (the genius who wrote the lyrics to the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls theme!). In the striking opening credits, we watch Gloria in close-up applying her stage make-up as Previn sings about her on the soundtrack (“Gloria / Remember her? A flowered blouse, a ribbon bow, the night you had a year ago … Her eyes were sad … you asked if you could see her place / A pale perfume, a paler face / You stayed a while / She liked your smile …”). You’ll notice the credit “Executive Producer: Hugh M Hefner”: Third Girl from the Left is a Playboy Production (perhaps inevitably, his then-mistress Barbi Benton has a supporting role. So does Anne Ramsay from Throw Mama from the Train!). Curtis and Novak would reunite years later in The Mirror Crack'd (1980). Watch it here.

[splatteronmywalls]

[balthazar-sketti]

Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

Dir. Robert Greenwald, 1978