Year: 2022

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…

31 Scary Movies that are 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon: ‘Motel Hell’

Jeff Mitchell

“Motel Hell” (1980) – Vincent (Roy Calhoun) and Ida Smith (Nancy Parsons) are a brother and sister team who run a motel in the countryside.  Vincent sports a southern accent of sorts, but Ida’s might be placed somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic.    Anyways, their lodging doesn’t sit off a busy highway, but a winding road with a marsh close by, and the accommodations look low budget.  In fact, the second “O” flickers on the MOTEL HELLO sign, so it reads MOTEL HELL.  For folks who unfortunately attempt to drive by,…