More on Hallmark Channel Movies
I’m sorry to keep beating this particular dead horse, as I promised in the last of my three articles about Hallmark Channel movies that I wouldn’t write about ‘em any more, but I’ve got a bit more to say
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
THE BURNING HELL
This hour long atrocity dramatizes the fire and brimstone preachings of Estus W. Pirkle, a Baptist minister, by the veteran sleazemeister Ron Ormond
HEAVEN CAN HELP
An uber-rarity that for years has been near the top of the want lists of quite a few film collectors (this one included), HEAVEN CAN HELP was made by the late LA based, Iranian born trash movie auteur Tony Zarindast (1934-2016)
TV Flashback: HOT SEAT WITH WALLY GEORGE
Here we have the grand-daddy of so-called combat television: the So Cal based HOT SEAT WITH WALLY GEORGE
THE MIND PARASITES
A bizarre book with an even more bizarre history
YOR: THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE
One of the more endearingly ridiculous entries in the early 1980s sword and sorcery movie craze was this Italian-Turkish co-production, which plays like an unholy mash-up of QUEST FOR FIRE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN and STAR WARS
IT’S ALIVE III: ISLAND OF THE ALIVE
The second sequel to IT’S ALIVE (following 1978’s IT LIVES AGAIN) was this straight to video goof from 1987
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: NOT A LOVE STORY and THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE
Here I’m going look at 1981’s NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY, one of the most infamous documentaries of its time, and 1984’s THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE, which is considerably less well known
THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL
Fact: everything you’ve heard about this, the notorious STAR WARS Christmas TV Special, is true