Month: October 2022

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Fatal Attraction’

Jeff Mitchell

“Fatal Attraction” (1987) –  Don’t cheat.  Don’t cheat on your spouse.  Don’t cheat on your spouse, or you’ll find a bunny in a pot.  That was the message delivered to every married man in 1987 in the wild psychological thriller “Fatal Attraction”.  When Dan (Michael Douglas), a married man, has a one-night fling with Alex (Glenn Close), he thought their “relationship” would only last one night, but she wanted more.  Alex becomes relentless which threatens Dan’s insulated world, seemingly complete with his daughter and beautiful wife Beth (Anne Archer). In…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘April Fool’s Day’

Jeff Mitchell

“April Fool’s Day” (1986) – Hey, it’s Spring Break!  It’s time to paaaarty!  Well, 9 college pals decide to skip the Florida beaches.  Instead, they take a ferry to celebrate the weekend on an island mansion, courtesy of Muffy (Deborah Foreman), one of the kid’s cousins. Unfortunately, the co-ed hijinks is interrupted, by a series of murders! Director Fred Walton’s (“When a Stranger Calls” (1979)) movie plays out like a “Friday the 13th” picture, except the setting is a gorgeous home, and a hockey mask doesn’t make an appearance.  Still,…

Movie of the Week: ‘Dave’

Jeff Mitchell

“Dave” (1993) – U.S. President Bill Mitchell suffers a stroke and lies in a coma, so Chief of Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) and Communications Director Alan Reed (Kevin Dunn) have a local employment agency manager, Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline), impersonate the president…for a while.  You see, Dave is Bill Mitchell’s uncanny doppelganger, but pretending to be the leader of the free world?  That sounds frightening, but not as scary as attempting to convince First Lady Ellen Mitchell (Sigourney Weaver), who carries the gravitas of a U.S. president herself.  While…