Census Bloodbath: Parasocial relationship

Halloween might be cancelled, but it's still October, and that means it's time again for the peanut butter and chocolate we call The Switcheroo, with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture and Alternate Ending doing my weird, gross, nostalgic 1950s sci-fi thing for a spell, whilst I do some nice, wholesome slashers from the brightest days of the 1980s.

THE FAN

1981

Directed by Ed Bianchi

Written by Priscilla Chapman and John Hartman

Spoiler alert: moderate

Busby Berkeley: Flying away from Rio

WONDER BAR

1934

Directed by Lloyd Bacon

Written by Earl Baldwin (based on the plays by Geza Herczeg, Karl Farkas, and Robert Katscher)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Cineramarama: Vacation's all I ever wanted

CINERAMA HOLIDAY

1955

Directed by Robert L. Bendick and Philip De Lacy

Written by Louis de Rochemont III and Otis Carney (based on a book, somehow, called America Through a French Looking Glass by Renee Gossett and Pierre Gossett)

Spoiler alert: N/A

Census Bloodbath: Cultural appropriation

Halloween might be cancelled, but it's still October, and that means it's time again for the peanut butter and chocolate we call The Switcheroo, with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture and Alternate Ending doing my weird, gross, nostalgic 1950s sci-fi thing for a spell, whilst I do some nice, wholesome slashers from the brightest days of the 1980s.

NIGHT SCHOOL

1981

Directed by Ken Hughes

Written by Ruth Agerton

Spoiler alert: high, I guess, I said reluctantly

This is the voice of world control

COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT

1970

Directed by Joseph Sargent

Written by James Bridges (based on the novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones)

Spoiler alert: high

Busby Berkeley: When good Americans die, they go to Paris

FASHIONS OF 1934

1934

Directed by William Dieterle

Written by Harry Collins, Warren Duff, F. Hugh Hubert, Carl Erickson, 

Spoile alert: moderate

What a disaster: The sudden decompression at 30,000 feet is something you gotta see to believe

AIRPORT

1970

Written and directed by George Seaton (based on the novel by Arthur Hailey)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Cineramarama: Beautiful for spacious skies

THIS IS CINERAMA

1952

Directed by Merian C. Cooper, Michael Todd Jr., Ernest B. Schoedsack, and Gunther von Frisch

Spoiler alert: as inapplicable as it gets

G-d Week: Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

QUO VADIS

1951

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Written by S.N. Behrman, Sonya Levien, and John Lee Mahin (based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz)

Spoiler alert: moderate