[Inspector Abberline]

The Lost Boys...
Well I am gonna eat my word's here,after a couple of decades dismissing The Lost Boys as a sort of vampire Goonies,I finally got around to re-watching it...And to my surprise I rather enjoyed, after all this time...And while it is definitely not as good as Fright Night,it certainly a lot better than I remembered or gave credit for...For a start I rather enjoyed Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander as the Frog Brothers,I loved the fact these comic book nerds,took themselves so seriously...And what particularly struck me this time was Greg Cannoms special make-up effects, especially the exploding vampire at the end... Mind you Greg seem to be a specialist in vampires,he worked on Vamp, Fright Night 2 and Coppola's Dracula...Any how I really enjoyed this 80s vamp movie,Keifer Sutherland made a great baddie, flouncing around with his band of 80s metal wannabe sidekicks which include Alex Winter,after his ground breaking experience in Death Wish 3, but before Bill and Ted...Also Bernard Hughes as Grandpa has one of the best lines in movie ending history...All in all a pleasant surprise,so I take it all back....

Lady in a Cage*(1964)...
Labelled as hag horror,(a horrible term itself) this turned out to be a rather disappointing and in some cases pretentious and meandering piece of melodrama, about a woman, played by Olivia De Havilland stuck in her lift at home, while her 30 year old son ( who has never married,hint hint,he just might be gay???) is away for the weekend...This could of been a great bit of exploitative trashy cinema,but unfortunately it hammers home it's social commentary with a giant sized wrecking Ball...James Caan,is very young here,as the leader of a bunch of teenage hooligans who break into Havilland house after following a tramp played by Jeff Corey, who had already robbed the place of its toaster.... Coming across as an overlong Twilight Zone episode,( in fact it probably would of worked better as a shorter length TV episode)...Over wrought with melodramatic dialogue that tries to be some sort of commentary on the social ills of the time, unfortunately it comes across as Just laughable today,and to be honest it probably was back then as well.Still a great idea, just poorly executed, what was needed was Shelley Winters battering Bette Davis with a baseball bat,now that's hag horror...