Movie Review: Bad Dreams

(1988)
Directed by Andrew Fleming
Starring Jennifer Rubin, Richard Lynch, Bruce Abbott, Harris Yulin, E.G. Daily, Dean Cameron, Susan Ruttan, Sy Richardson

I would make a strong guess this film was made to jump on the Freddy bandwagon when it first was being made. First, it came out right after Nightmare 3, which seemed to be at the peak of Freddy-mania, and even getting one of the cast from the film, Jennifer Rubin to play the lead protagonist. Whatever the reasoning behind it, I remember not really caring for it when it first came out in the theaters way back then. When I recently watched it again, I tried to watch it with a fresh set of eyes and see if it played any better this time. Well . . . not so much.

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Movie Review: Vampire

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Vampire (1979)
Directed by E.W. Swackhamer
Starring Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Michael Tucker, Joe Spinell, Barrie Youngfellow, Jonelle Allen, Jessica Walter

At a ground breaking ceremony for a new church, a huge cross towers behind the podium where a priest is blessing the site. The shadow of the cross falls across the land behind the small stage. Where the cross is casting a shadow, the earth has turned black, as if burnt, and is smoldering. Later that night, a hand breaks through the dirt, pulling its owner to the surface. Rising from his grave for the first time in 30 years, a creature of the night returns to stalk the city of San Francisco. And so starts the 1979 made-for-TV movie simply titled Vampire.

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