I was watching TCM's "Now Playing." I love Turner Classic Movies! Old movies are a joy. Some of them are off the scale great. And I do have TCM to thank for introducing me to "the best worst movie ever made" -- Plan 9 from outer space.
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One of the movies noted as coming up on TCM is "The Boogens." Would have slipped right by, except that Robert Osborne said that Stephen King had said it was "one of his favorites." Really? Because nothing they were running on screen made it look like anything more than another B-spook-im movie. But, with that endorsement, I'll have to check it out.
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IMBD says, "In his Twilight Zone Magazine review, author Stephen King called The Boogens... "A wildly energetic monster movie!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082094/trivia?tr0713862
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fright.com called The Boogens a "1981 cheapie" and that it was "notable primarily for the fact that Stephen King rather curiously gave it a rave in the now defunct Twilight Zone Magazine, and because it took 16 years to be released on video (which gave it an undeserved cult following). It's about giant carnivorous worms loose under a small mining town." http://www.fright.com/edge/boogens.html
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Humm! TCM has put it on their "underground" broadcasting. Meaning late night horror. Osborne says, "These quirky and irreverent and occasionally awful films are scheduled for one reason, to help you escape the normal."
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The King article was titled, "Digging the Boogens" -- Twilight Zone Jul 1982.
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THE BOOGENS:
Taft Entertainment Pictures
Director: James L. Conway
Producer: Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
Screenwriters: David OäMalley, Bob Hunt
(Story by Tom Chapman and David OäMalley)
Cinematography: Paul Hipp
Editor: Michael Spence
Cast: Rebecca Balding, Fred McGarren, Anne-Marie Martin, Jeff Harlan
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TCM, October 23, 2010 @2:30 a.m. (eastern time.)
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