Reviews

In the opening credits of "Aloha Bobby and Rose" (1974) you can see a movie theater marquee showing "Last House on the Left" & "Don't Look in the Basement" ! (I suspect that 90% of the fans on here never saw this in a theater because they were too young). I was not aware of the extra gore AND *nudity* ( the classic Allyson & phone company man scene) on the DVD after all the times I saw this (edited for TV) on good ole WOR Channel 9's FRIGHT NIGHT (Saturdays, 1:00 AM late 70s thru the early 80s). There is no way a remake can come close to the sleazy , creepy, late-nite atmosphere of D.L.I.T.B. I love hearing how people first reacted to seeing this on TV to begin with. Seems like most had seen it in 1980 or so on TV (at least that's when I did). YES: we need this to be listed under it's more common title instead of the post release "Forgotten" name.

The ABC Movie of the Week was still pretty new in 1970 (I think they started in 1969?) and this was not typical for them as it was not a mystery or supernatural thriller. I too saw this as a child and it left an impression on me as it did for the other posters on here. What none of the other posters mentioned however was that one of the things that gave this movie a special touch of reality was that it was filmed on location is a real suburban home! This made some scenes claustrophobic yet intimate as well. (Many of the TV movies were shot on sterile studio sets). So yeah, I guess the house becomes one of the characters in the movie too. I think with a bigger budget and possibly more "adult" themes or nudity or course language ; this would have made a nice theatrical feature. If you like "Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring" you should check out another movie called "The People Next Door" made the same year. Similar plot yet more gritty and down-beat--it was an "R" rated feature film. As stated above; what a shame that this did not win an Emmy Award that year.

Audiences still had "What's Up Doc?" fresh in their minds by 1974, so on that alone--I think the movie did OK at the box office. But the differences are MANY; mainly the script which feels too much like a sit-com or a (bad) slapstick comedy. The cast of FPS is a mere shadow of the WUD cast, and Barbara - who looked pretty snazzy & sexy in WUP?, look horrible in that short wig in FPS (was it a wig or a bad haircut from Jon Peters?). FPS is not all that bad , and has some funny bits (the dog chasing her on the subway) but people expecting this to be "What's Up Doc, Part 2" were let down. The title sequence animation / song in the opening credits is cute enough.

I saw this in high school around 1979. It was playing at our local Century theater and it was a blustery fall night. This movie was paired with another low budget movie called "The Redeemer" that was like an early slasher film about a masked killer knocking off people at (I think) a high school reunion. I cannot add anything more or repeat the plot as the above posters did, but I will say that low budget 16 MM film is the perfect medium for horror and nothing has surpassed it! This movie proves it. The stories are pretty tame but the atmosphere is perfect. With all the garbage that turns up on DVD....why not this?! I so expected this to show up in one of those "20 Chilling Movies" sets for $9.99. I have a bootleg copy from a VHS and that first story (shot as "day for night") is WAY TOO DARK. This played on cable TV in the early 80s and I told all my horror fan friends to watch it but they did not enjoy it as I did. I miss the old days when you'd go into a movie and see things like this. No hype, no stars, no fanfare. Just unexpected terror!

If you are like me and grew up in the 1970s watching horror movies and Creature Features on TV you will love this movie! This was "lost" for years, never played on TV and barely got released to theaters. Odd because this was released by Cinerama (Bing Crosby owned this company --and they released other movies like "Willard" ) so it should have been more well known than it was. I won't tread through the plot again, but if this movie had big name stars and a big budget it would play like a classic Hollywood horror movie from the 1940s or 1950s. It's clear that the director loves the horror/thriller genre and it shows. I expected this to be like an average A.I.P. "Count Yorga" movie--but "Doctor Death" is a notch above. The photography, music, lighting, sets, acting and pacing are above your average 1970s pot-boiler. Remember Warren Publications ? They did the Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. This movie looks exactly like one of their magazines made flesh by cinema. I actually cheered and applauded at some of the scenes in this movie and would LOVE to see this in a theater full of horror fans. The DVD has a amusing commentary track by "Doctor Death" himself and a moderator that is a true horror buff --so this guy asks all the right questions about the history and background of the film. Just perfect. "Doctor Death" is not as scary as say "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things" , but is wildly colorful and fun!

Great early 1970's "shocker"...if you are a fan of "Don't Look in the Basement", "Last House on the Left", or various late-night cheapie thrillers. The double shock ending on this one, is surprising and chilling! I'm surprised this movie is not well known by Psychotronic movie fans. The plot is original enough, the cast is a mixture of battle-worn old people and "blah" newcomers. The family / "teens" that Jeanne Craine goes to babysit for...are too old, and all the same age! This movie moves quite well (no boring parts) I think the producer was responsible for the equally obscure and weird 1973 movie "The Baby" (which also has a shock ending). Not on DVD, I had to buy the VHS on E-Bay. Look for this! "The Night God Screamed" must have played at drive ins at one point.

...for his misfired and excessive piece of garbage:"Grindhouse". "Midnight" is a TRUE grind-house flick that really feels like a 1970's movie, even though released in 1981/82, and most likely filmed in 1980. What stuck us a very funny was the lead girl (who looks like Helen Reddy!) was often referred to as "jail-bait" and it was so obvious that she was like, 23 or something. This movie is shocking and laughable but it moves fairly well and should be granted "cult movie" status. There are some shocking murders, blood and the gritty (Pittsburgh?)scenery , all filmed on what looks like rainy/overcast weather, adds pure atmosphere to this "schlocker".

Everyone seems to LOVE this BOMB movie!I was going to school in NYC when the movie opened. The poster looked cool....then I saw it on HBO in 1983, or thereabouts. It was *NOT* a punk movie at all. Parts made no sense at all. All I remember was Tim Curry telling teenagers (on the air) "They treat you like criminals so wear masks; they treat you like garbage--so wear garbage bags" (or something like that). Then all these teenagers emerge in the "big scene" at the end wearing "bandit" masks and black Hefty bags, and I was like "What the F--k is going on?". A real "wrong time/wrong place" movie, that MAY have been altered a little bit, a few years later, into a Molly Ringwald "Brat Pack" vehicle. Maybe. The double LP soundtrack was a cut-out bin STAPLE till the mid-1980's. Stigwood & co. should have learned their piggish little lesson with the Bee Gees "Sgt. Pepper" movie. There are better "new wave" girly movies than this ("Starstruck" , "Breaking Glass" perhaps?). Overall, this movie was a corporate plan to sanitize punk rock for Mall Girl Consumption by the greedy Grease people! Nothing more. But hey, I'm a 40 year old guy (now), so maybe if I was a 15 year old budding lesbian in 1980, this would have been my "Citizen Kane"?

"Insight" and "This is the Life" were two of TV's great "Hangover Morning" shows if you came home all messed up from Saturday night partying.....stark, creepy and presented like play filmed in a church auditorium. Big stars must have done this show for personal reasons--not for the paycheck--this was a very cheaply produced show! Yes, with all the CRAP on DVD , this needs to be seen!

Lloyd Bridges was on it way too much though. Deborah Winters was a teen actress who was in one LSD episode. She was great, and this lead to her teen trauma feature film; "The People Next Door"--which almost looked like the feature length version of "Insight" !

....Yeah, he would have arrived at something like this! I first saw this in the theater (about 1985?) when it was released. The movie poster had a large knife stuck into some train tracks. Me and my friends thought it was a slasher flick about a psycho loose on a train....BOY WERE WE WRONG! This movie is TOTAL entertainment for fans of inept horror-exploitation cinema who think they have seen them all, and are jaded (like me!). The best thing about this movie is, there is SO much going on! You mind will be reeling and trying to make sense of it all, and then you hit over the head with something ridiculous and/or gory. In the "Suicide Club" segment, the "wrecking ball" that's prepared to crush some of the members, is , if you look closely, a Hoppity Hop! (one of those heavy rubber balls with loop handles that kids would bounce/ ride on in the 1970's). Also in that segment, the girl ("Greta"?) suddenly has a short haircut, and is wearing a man's tuxedo and looks like one of the "Time Warp" party guests from "Rocky Horror". Why?????? The young guy who played the devil-playboy mansion owner in the last segment looks like an effeminate/annoying David Cassidy. The first story about the organ theft mansion was the only one here that actually had some creepy moments. The best thing about this movie is, it really MOVES. Never a dull moment, and as a LOT of grade Z exploitation and horror flicks get bogged down with long scenes of dialog with no action, Night Train To Terror never stops (till the train crashes at the end). I would love to see an interview with whoever assembled this mutilated, wonderful mess of a movie. What a shame that the current state of exploitation is totally geared to the "Saw" / "Scream" viewing crowd, and as such, is mechanical, predictable and silly. Has Quentin Tarantino seen "Night Train To Terror" ??

At the beginning credits of the Marlo Thomas "That Girl" series (first season), there is a montage of Times Square and Broadway Theatre marquees that flash by pretty fast. I had taped a few episodes of this on TV Land once, and I paused the intro to see what was on some of the theater signs. Lo and behold, "Seconds" can be see on one of the movie theater marquees! The series began in 1966, so I assume this movie came out before the fall of 1966. I love "Seconds" and fear it will be remade soon and "Hollywood-ized" with a happy ending. P.S. I do agree with some posters here, the middle sags because of the prolonged and over-stated "Grape Crushing Festival" sequence. If it was shortened by a mere 3 or 4 minutes it would have been perfect.