Tag: movies

I mentioned awhile back that I scored at the coffee shop, picking up three old-school horror flicks.  Well, I just watched another today, Wolfman (1979), written and directed by Worth Keeter and staring Earl Owensby, Kristina Reynolds, Julian Morton, Sid Rancer and Ed Grady.  By far, Ed Grady was the biggest name in the film, staring in; The Notebook, Dawson’s Creek, Children of the Corn III, Matlock, among others.  In all, Grady has stared in more than sixty movies and television shows.

From the back of the movie:

An early 20th century family has been under the spell of an evil and ancient bane.  Colin Glasgow comes home to bury his father who died after a long illness…or was he murdered?  Colin discovers his father’s will has been altered.  His investigation leads him to his father’s grave for answers.  After discovering his father was under the curse of the werewolf, he finds the spell is being kept alive by the mysterious Reverend Leonard (Ed Grady) who performs santanic rituals along with Colin’s cousins.  Colin falls under this spell after being attacked by wolves in the graveyard.  Even though he remains under this spell, he fights to break this evil curse and release his family from their awful fate.

This movie was just OK.  Even being only fifty cents, I probably wouldn’t have bought it if I had known ‘how’ it was.  But, hey, don’t take my word for it.  If you ever see it in one of those 50-cent bins, pick it up and give it a try…then again, maybe not…unless it’s marked down to 25-cents…and even then…nah!

I was at a local coffee shop in Berea, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland) yesterday to get my usual drink of choice – Iced Coffee – when I peered over my shoulder and spotted a bin full of movies priced at only 50 cents.  Needless to say, I said, “hold on” to the barista and headed on over to the bin.  As I started to dig through the movies, with the help of my 2 year old, I started to notice that a few of them were of the horror variety.  Though, as you might imagine these movies weren’t new or even close-to-new releases.  For the most part they were all movies and shows from the 60’s and 70’s.  But, that didn’t deter me from finding a few movies that caught my interest.  Among them are: Wolf Man (1979), Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) and Scream of the Wolf (1974).

I watched the Scream of the Wolf, tonight, staring Peter Graves and Clint Walker.

From the back cover of Scream of the Wolf:

Adventure writer John Weatherby, played by Peter Graves (Mission Impossible) is called in to investigate a series of brutal murders that has investigators confused.  The clues are not clear and leave no clear trail.  The tracks left at the murder site appear to be that of a wolf, or a man, or both.

Lost in his search for answers, Weatherby contacts his old friend Bryon, played by Clint Walker, a mysterious hunter and recluse, to help him track this unknown killer.  His friend is not much help but may know more than what he’s willing to say.  The suspense and terror builds as danger lurks in the shadows of the night.  SCREAM OF THE WOLF will keep yo on the edge of your seat and remind you to stay in at night and lock your doors because you never know what could be lurking in the shadows of the night!

I’m not going to say much about the movie itself, except that I enjoyed it.  The movie was fast paced (it was only 80 minutes long) and had some classic 70’s music, which I was bobbing my head to!  Oh, and I definitely didn’t see this particular ending coming.  Overall a pretty good early horror flick!

Oh, did I mention Scream of the Wolf was written by the one and only Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)?  Cool!