This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. We're into October, which means that it's that time of the year again when everything switches to a horror theme. (And yes, pumpkin spice foods are a horror, thank you very much.) So every edition of the blogathon this month is horror-related. For this first Monday in October, we have horror related to school. It took a bit, but I came up with three movies:
Black Christmas (1974). Students at a sorority house about to head home for Christmas are getting obscene phone calls. That's bad enough, but then one of the girls go missing. We know there's an intruder who killed her, but the sorority sisters don't. And there are other people in their lives who could be plausible suspects, especially once more of the sisters disappear.
The Fury (1978). Kirk Douglas plays a former CIA agent whose son gets kidnapped. It turns out the son has psychic abilities, and has been taken to a school the CIA has set up just for adolescents with various pyschic powers, run by John Cassavetes. Kirk wants his son back, and another student at the school who wants out (Amy Irving) eventually tries to help him, even though both of their lives will be in danger.
Flatliners (1990). Kiefer Sutherland plays a medical student who wonders if there's an afterlife, and devises a highly unethical experiment to test that hypothesis. This will require help from fellow medical students William Baldwin, Julia Roberts, and Oliver Platt, along with suspended classmate Kevin Bacon. Sutherland's experiment seems a success, and the other members of the group want to try it too, but by the time they do Sutherland realizes he's being harassed by somebody who died and who he saw in his near-death experience.
5 comments:
I haven't seen the original Black Christmas but I have seen your other 2 picks. The Fury I think is underrated as it is often overlooked when it comes to Brian de Palma's filmography as I just love that ending. Flatliners was a film I grew up on as I thought it was cool.
Oh, I have not seen the first and probably won’t although the Douglas film looks interesting. The last film is ok but got more famous for Julia’s affair with Kiefer becoming engaged but a few days before their wedding she took off with his friend. Ah yes those were the days.
I haven't seen any of your picks, though I do remember they remade the 1st and 3rd. Never bothered with those either. I would like to see the original Black Christmas at least.
I haven't seen any of these. I'm curious about Flatliners - is it worth a watch, Ted?
I'd say Flatliners is absolutely worth a watch (I've only seen the original, not the remake). It's certainly not a perfect movie, but the idea is intriguing enough to make it worthwhile.
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