When Dee Wallace was asked what it was like to work with kids and dogs, she laughed and responded, “I don’t think I would have had a career if it weren’t for kids and dogs!”
Think Blade Runner or even Robocop and then forget they exist for just a moment and recall if you can or put it in your queue: Nemesis, directed by Albert Pyun.
Cassandra Peterson, however, will always be the Hostess with the Mostess, the Queen of Halloween, the Mistress of the Dark, and for that we can never thank her enough.
Mikels was a true lover of filmmaking from the very beginning and while he provided plenty of titillation in his films, rarely was there explicit sex, nudity, or gore.
But Lewis wasn't a big fan of Psycho, feeling that it cheated viewers by not showing the actual violence, just the aftermath, and developed the idea for Blood Feast, which would feature bathtubs of blood and gore.
One day, while dressed in his best suit, eating at the studio’s commissary, James Whale happened upon Karloff and asked him to audition for the film that would make him a star, Frankenstein (1931).
In 1996 Peter Jackson got a bigger budget and chance to use his creativity with ground breaking special effects to bring us his US film debut, The Frighteners (my personal favorite Peter Jackson movie).
However, thanks to one of the great child actor performances Halloween 5 is elevated to, emphatically better typical 80s horror slasher fare. That actor was Danielle Harris.
