#Sydney Lassick

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what's your favorite Lassick? The Unseen? Cuckoo's Nest?

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Curse II: The Bite (The Bite, 1989)

"I just ran over about a hundred snakes back down the road here. I mean, they were all grouped together on the road, like some kind of mass exodus or something."

"Ain't God punishing the desert. It's people. Tearing up the heaven and the earth, testing bombs beneath our feet, poisoning the air and the water. Turning this place into one big dumping ground."

"Well, I guess before too long everything's gonna be extinct."

"Almost everything."

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The Unseen (1980)

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Sonny Boy (Robert Martin Carroll, 1989) Cinematography by Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli

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New addition to my Sydney Lassick collection.

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Cool as Ice (1991, David Kellogg)

4/9/23

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The Sydney Lassick Centennial

The Sydney Lassick Centennial

Born 100 years ago today: Sydney Lassick (1922-2003) ! Let me answer your question right away, Lassick was the guy who played Cheswick in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Though Lassick had been a bit player since the late ’50s, Cheswick proved one of his first decently sized roles. Cheswick is one of the bigger parts in the ensemble, larger for example, than the parts played by Danny…

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Horror Movie Review: Future Shock (1994)

A psychiatrist's use of virtual reality as therapy nets deadly results for three unsuspecting patients.

Future Shock is a 1993 Sci fi horror, directed by Eric Parkinson. Future Shock is an anthology about a psychiatrist who uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients. Each of the stories revolve around a different patient. A wealthy woman Jenny (Vivian Schilling) faces her fear of being home alone and the terror of the evening news. A shy and easily intimidated morgue…

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Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Will Sampson, William Redfield, Brad Dourif, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Vincent Schiavelli, Scatman Crothers. Screenplay: Laurence Hauben, Bo Goldman, based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Cinematography: Haskell Wexler. Production design: Paul Sylbert. Film editing: Sheldon Kahn, Lynzee Klingman. Music: Jack Nitzsche.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is beginning to show its age, as any 48-year-old movie must. It no longer exhibits the freshness that won it acclaim as a masterpiece and raked in the five "major" Academy Awards: picture, director, actor, actress, and screenplay -- only the second picture in history to do that: The first was It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934), and only one other picture, The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991), has subsequently accomplished that feat. Today, however, One Flew has the look of a skillfully directed but somewhat predictable melodrama; its tragic edge has been blunted by familiarity. In treating the material, director Forman goes for straightforward storytelling, without showing us something new or personal as an auteur. And as time has passed, some of the elements of the source, Ken Kesey's novel, that screenwriters Laurence Hauben and Bo Goldman took pains to mitigate -- namely the countercultural glibness and antifeminism -- have begun to show through. It's harder today to wholeheartedly cheer on the raw, anarchic antiauthoritarianism of McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) or to accept as a given the unmitigated villainy of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher). We want our protagonists and antagonists to be a little more complicated than the film allows them to be. There are still many who think it a great film, but if it is, I think it's largely because it's the perfect showcase for a great talent -- Nicholson's -- supported by an extraordinary ensemble that includes a shockingly young-looking Danny DeVito, Scatman Crothers, Sydney Lassick, Christopher Lloyd, Will Sampson, and a touchingly vulnerable Brad Dourif.

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The Unseen (1980)

Director: Danny Steinmann Starring: Barbara Bach, Sydney Lassick, Lelia Goldoni Three female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being that lurks in the basement. Reporters Jennifer, Karen and Vicki travel to the town of Solvang to cover the town’s annual festival. After a hotel reservation blunder, and with no accommodation available in town due to the…

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ALLIGATOR (1980) – Episode 241 – Decades of Horror 1980s

“Will you put that goddamn map away? Look, I gave you 78 men, you’ve got the National Guard, and he’s still loose in my city! And look at the hole he made!” Would that be a… manhole? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr – as they brave the body-strewn sewers populated by Alligator (1980).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 241 – Alligator (1980)

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Decades of Horror 1980s is partnering with the WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL (https://wickedhorrortv.com/) which now includes video episodes of 1980s and is available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and its online website across all OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop.

A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

  Director: Lewis Teague 

Writers: John Sayles (screenplay); (story by) John Sayles, Frank Ray Perilli

Cinematographer: Joseph Mangine (director of photography)

Editing by: Larry Bock, Ron Medico (as Ronald Medico)

Special Effects Makeup: Robert Short

Special Effects:

Special effects coordinator: Richard O. Helmer

Special effects: William F. Shourt, Pete Girard, David Beasley, David Bartholomew, John Ramsey Jr. (as John Ramsey)

Gator operators: Kevin Blackton, Tom Goeken

Original alligator created by: The Stansbury Company

Miniatures: Bill Kaufman

Production Assistant/Effects Assistant: Bryan Cranston

Selected Cast:

Robert Forster as David Madison

Robin Riker as Marisa Kendall

Michael V. Gazzo as Chief Clark (as Michael Gazzo)

Dean Jagger as Slade

Sydney Lassick as Luke Gutchel (as Sidney Lassick)

Jack Carter as Mayor

Perry Lang as Officer Jim Kelly

Henry Silva as Col. Brock

Bart Braverman as Kemp

John Lisbon Wood as Mad Bomber

James Ingersoll as Scientist Arthur Helms

Robert Doyle as Bill

Patti Jerome as Madeline

Angel Tompkins as Newswoman

Sue Lyon as ABC Newswoman

Leslie Brown as Young Marisa

Buckley Norris as Bob

Royce D. Applegate as Callan

Mike Mazurki as Gatekeeper (as Michael Mazurki)

The Grue Crew chase down the classic creature feature Alligator starring Robert Forster. Writer John Sayles and director Lewis Teague turn the urban legend of flushing baby alligators, which in turn grow to sewer-dwelling alligator adults, into a full-fledged monster movie. How glorious! Silly hijinks and fun chomping ensue! What will the Grue Crew think of it?

At the time of this writing, Alligator is available for streaming from Shudder and Tubi, and asPPV from multiple sources. It is also available on physical media as Alligator – Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [4K UHD] from Shout! Factory.

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Bill, will be Fear No Evil (1981), written and directed by Frank LaLoggia (Lady in White, 1988).

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Sonny Boy (1989)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Love you miss you Sydney!