In 1973, David Lowell Rich directed the fondly remembered television film The Horror at 37,000 Feet, in which Chuck Connors, William Shatner and a host of familiar TV faces were menaced by an invisible demon aboard an airliner in flight. Four years later, on 25 February 1977, he was back in the air, overseeing SST: … Continue reading
There’s a standard, site-wide spoiler warning in operation here at The EOFFTV Review but in the case of Paul Wendkos’ small screen fantasy it probably needs something a bit more specific – there’s a twist in the evocatively titled Haunts of the Very Rich that is revealed about two thirds of the way through, a twist … Continue reading
Today, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark has a fearsome reputation as the scariest made-for-TV movie of all time. Which is pushing it a bit (it’s not a patch on Screen One: GhostWatch (1992)) but it’s still a very effective chiller that doesn’t quite live up to its hype but which is still rather fascinating. At … Continue reading
For a whole generation of horror fans, the curiously titled Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) was likely their first introduction to Mary Shelley’s famous creations. It was something of an event at the time, heavily hyped and clearly displaying the benefits of a sizeable budget. At a time when most made-for-TV productions, particularly the genre … Continue reading
A real oddity from the early 70s, still fondly remembered and much-loved, perhaps due in part to its Beatles connections. Based on a an album of the same name by Harry Nilsson (a long-time John Lennon associate), it’s an animated made-for-TV “fable” which bears more than a passing resemblance to the feature film Yellow Submarine … Continue reading
The BBC have long had a tradition of Christmas ghost stories on both television and radio, the most famous being the series of A Ghost Story For Christmas (1971-1978) and its more recent revivals. In 1972, the series presented A Warning to the Curious on Christmas Eve and gave fans of the supernatural on the … Continue reading
One of those increasingly hard-to-find pre-fame Steven Spielberg TV gigs, one which didn’t get the theatrical release afforded Duel (1971) so which is now consigned to relative obscurity. Back in the 1970s, as an impressionable young-ish child, this seemed to be the scariest thing ever – time hasn’t been particularly kind to it, but there’s … Continue reading
