June Berry Movies
Friends in Georgia are broken up when an enticing teenager comes between them as told in this true story. ~ Rovi
- 1980
- R
An agoraphobic author decides she needs a more suitable environment in which to pen her best-selling Gothic novels and so moves to a decaying Victorian mansion. She isn't there long before she discovers that it is being haunted by a pack of ghostly prostitutes, all of whom died there when it was a house of ill repute. The spirits take over the woman and use her as their instrument of revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robin Groves, Christopher Loomis, (more)
In The Children, an above-average horror film, the children in a bus on the way to school become murderous, black-fingernailed zombies after being exposed to poison gas during a nuclear-plant leak. Sheriff Billy Hart (Gil Rogers) must battle the children in order to save his town. This horror film directed by Max Kalmanowicz was also released as The Children of Ravensback. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi
- Starring:
- Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, (more)
- 1979
- R
The bizarre premise for this often remote and uninvolving drama is that an otherwise apparently normal man can become so alienated from his own feelings and his own wife and children that he plans their murder. Paul Steward (Hal Holbrook) and his wife (Louise Fletcher) are about as interesting as a TV test pattern. Although Paul has realized the American Dream -- that it to say, he has money and is successful in business -- he finds the dream hollow and meaningless. Instead of waking up, he decides that his family is to blame for everything and begins to make elaborate plans for killing them off, talking it over with others and disguising it as a fictional story for his magazine. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hal Holbrook, Louise Fletcher, (more)
- 1977
- PG
Looking Up is an independently produced domestic drama filmed in New York and drawing its cast from the soap-opera pool. Marilyn Chris plays the daughter of a Jewish seltzer-stand operator. She hopes to pump money into her dad's business by running her own "Burger Crown" franchise. Complications include the fact that Marilyn's husband (Dick Shawn) has fathered her sister's child, and that Marilyn is saddled with caring for her contentious grandchildren while her daughter tries to wean herself away from a pill-popping habit. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Marilyn Chris, Dick Shawn, (more)
