Stuart Gordon is a true auteur as well as a frightmaster but his 1990 television movie Daughter of Darkness is distressingly impersonal despite a solid turn from Anthony Perkins as an Eastern European vampire with dignity.
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In 2001 Virginia Madsen starred in a movie about innocent parents accused of all manner of gothic sexual molestation that’s a period piece based on a true story but also weirdly prescient given the current mania about child sex cults and Satanic conspiracies.
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My patron-funded jaunt through the films and television projects of disgraced former Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart explores Vanishing Son III a surprisingly solid martial arts TV movie melodrama she appeared in alongside noted hunk Russell Wong.
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One of you kind souls paid me to watch and write about a TV movie that cross-pollinates The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Rosemary’s Baby. But, you know, shitty.
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A patron-funded exploration of the films of troubled starlet Rebecca Gayheart begins with a look at the wonderfully insane 1994 TV movie Vanishing Son, a simultaneously progressive and reactionary look at two very different Chinese brothers who follow antithetical paths upon immigrating to the United States.
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Travolta won our hearts as a strapping, virile bubble boy in the iconic 1976 television movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.
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