What a disaster: There's got to be a morning after

THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE

1972

Directed by Ronald Neame

Written by Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Mayes (based on the novel by Paul Gallico)

Spoiler alert: a little bit more than moderate, a little bit less than high

Opie on Opie

HILLBILLY ELEGY

2020

Directed by Ron Howard

Written by Vanessa Taylor (based on the book by J.D. Vance)

Spoiler alert: man, this guy is doin' fine

Cardboard Science: Challenger of the unknown

THE LOST WORLD

1960

Directed by Irwin Allen

Written by Charles Bennett and Irwin Allen

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: Nobody dies on my airplane, not me, not him, not them—not even you, you son of a bitch

SKYJACKED

1972

Directed by John Guillermin

Written by Stanley R. Greenberg (based on the novel Hijacked by David Harper)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Busby Berkeley: Who cares if they've got a plot or not when they've got a lot of dames?

DAMES

1934

Directed by Ray Enright

Written by Robert Lord and Delmer Daves

Spoiler alert: moderate

Moon blinked

OVER THE MOON

2020

Directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs

Written by Audrey Wells

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: Crystal healing

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

1971

Directed by Robert Wise

Written by Nelson Gidding (based on the novel by Michael Crichton)

Spoiler alert: a little bit higher than moderate, but there's no way to talk about it without at least alluding to the ending

Blonde Sunday

I MARRIED A WITCH

1942

Directed by Rene Clair

Written by Robert Pirosh, Mark Connelly, Dalton Trumbo, Andre Rigaud, and Rene Clair (based on the novel The Passionate Witch by Thorne Smith and Norman H. Matson)

Spoiler alert: well, the title's a dead giveaway

Hoping that her next leap will be the leap home

POSESSESSOR

2020

Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg

Spoiler alert: moderate

Census Bloodbath: For me to poop on

MADHOUSE

aka And When She Was Bad aka There Was a Little Girl

Halloween might be cancelled, but it's still October but it's still early November, for which I apologize, though now that the true terror and pain is over, perhaps we can catch up.  Either way, it's still within the general timeframe prescribed for that mix of 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.

1981

Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis

Written by Stephen Blakeley, Peter Sheperd, Roberto Gandus, and Ovidio G. Assonitis

Spoiler alert: moderate