The Dead 1987  PG, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Huston
Cast: Donal McCann, Anjelica Huston, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany, Rachael Dowling, Dan O'Herlihy, Sean McClory, Colm Meaney, Ingrid Craigie, Marie Kean, Donal Donnelly, Frank Paterson, Maria McDermottroe, Kate O'Toole, Maria Hayden
This is John Huston's final film effort–he died before it was released. One of Huston's best films, this is the adaptation of a James Joyce short story about the reminiscences of a group of friends attending a party. Spinsters Aunt Kate (Helena Carroll) and Aunt Julia (Cathleen Delany) live in Dublin and are giving a New Year's Eve party in 1904. A young couple, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy (Donal McCann and Anjelica Huston), are enjoying the party until Gretta is prodded by Kate and Julia to remember her long-lost lover. As secrets from Greta's past are revealed, Gabriel begins to question the lack of passion in his own life.
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973  R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos, Mitch Ryan, Jack Kehoe, Helena Carroll, James Tolkan, Peter MacLean, Kevin O'Morrison, Marvin Lichterman, Carolyn Pickman, Margaret Ladd
Eddie "Fingers" Coyle (Robert Mitchum) is a small-time hood who becomes an informer as the means of escaping a life sentence in prison. When the mob learns that Eddie is informing on his cohorts, they send Eddie's friend Dillon (Peter Boyle) on a mission to kill Eddie. After spending a night on the town together, Dillon plans to take Eddie's life. This is a powerful film, which is realistic in depicting the world of the underworld.
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Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat 1991  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Western
Director: Anthony Hickox
Cast: Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, David Carradine, John Ireland, Bert Remsen, M. Emmet Walsh, Maxwell Caulfield, Deborah Foreman, Jim Metzler, Dabbs Greer, Dana Sshbrook, John Hancock, Marion Eaton, Sunshine Parker, Helena Carroll
It's been a hassle, all those years with vampires vs. humans. So, it seemed the right time for the vampires to live in peace in an old ghost town with their sun block 30, etc., and artificial blood made from plants. When the blood plant does not produce enough blood, its designer David Harrison (Jim Metzler) and his wife Sarah (Morgan Brittany) arrive in the ghost town and find themselves in the middle of trouble. There are those fundamentalists, led by Jefferson (John Ireland), who want the real thing and are ready to rise up against the peaceful vampire leader, Count Mardulak (David Carradine), who ordered the blood plant as a method of integrating the vampires into the human world. War it shall be.
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| 1. The Dead (1987)
2. The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
3. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1991)
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