 And welcome to today's edition of Frightfully Forgotten, but to start things off, what are we drinking? Sir Alexander Saxton's Fossil. It's a German ice-bok. And what percent? Oh, nine, ten percent? Ooh. Today we're continuing our Made For TV horror theme, and we're going to dedicate a whole episode to John Carpenter's Made For TV efforts. So the first one is called Someone's Watching Me, and it came out in 1978, written and directed by John Carpenter, stars Adrianne Barbeau, who he ended up marrying. They met on the set of this movie. And Lauren Hutton is in this as well. The movie starts off with, uh, we get introduced to Lee, which is Lauren Hutton's character, and she's moving to a big high-rise apartment building for a new job. She befriends Adrianne Barbeau's character, kind of an interesting thing. She's actually gay in this, Adrianne Barbeau. That's right, yeah. Which is pretty rare. Oh, for 78 they don't really have female gay characters on TV. Yeah. Lee starts noticing, like when she comes home, the door is open ajar. She also starts getting really strange phone calls. She also gets gifts, too, in the mail. Little by little she starts getting more and more paranoid that somebody's watching her, right? She goes to the cops to try and get them to help her and get them to do something. No, they won't do anything. Eventually, her and her friend sort of cook up a scheme to try and catch this guy. Perfect example of taking the format of a TV movie where you can't have a lot of gore. Just have a story, a really good, simple story, told and paced perfectly. Exactly. It's all building tension. You feel what she feels. Yeah. She sympathizes with these characters a lot because there's a lot of character building, right? The scene where she comes home and then you see the shadow of whoever's in the apartment just kind of go by her and leave because they're still there and she gets home, you know? Yeah. It's like... And the scene in the laundry mat, the guy's stalking her and she has to go under that grate. Yeah. She drops the key. Yeah. And then the guy comes and stands on the grate and is kind of looking around and she's just... Yeah, yeah. And if you would have looked down, he would have clearly seen her. Yeah. It's a good mystery too. It's a good mystery movie. Uncle Leo is in this. He's kind of a patsy. Yeah. They all send him away and he loses his pension and everything. So it's kind of nice seeing Uncle Leo in something different, you know? Yeah. He's young but he's still old. Yeah. It's the perfect mix between Rear Window and Black Christmas. And you can tell where Carpenter's going from here, right? Exactly. He uses a lot of elements and techniques in this in Halloween. Yeah. He's perfecting that. Body bags sort of hosted by John Carpenter himself. It's an anthology series and the first one is the gas station. A girl starts a new job at a gas station. Make sure you have your key on you because once the door closes, that's it. You're locked out. You're locked out on the news that somebody's on the loose, right? He's still on the loose. And it takes place in Haddonfield. That's right, yeah. All these weird people start coming around. West Craven. Yeah. George Buck Flowers, his name, he's using tons of John Carpenter things. Tons of things and generally he's always the drunk guy or the bum, crazy drug driver. And the suspense builds, eventually all of this kind of culminates into somebody really chasing her and wanting to kill her. And she's going to have to fight for her life. It's a simple story told perfectly by the master where it's all about building tension and suspense. And like all the foreshadowing is really neat in this. Yeah, you have to pay attention, right? It's, again, it's a classic Carpenter thing where if you're not paying attention, you're going to miss these clues that elevate the story to the next level, right? Even all the cameos are super neat in this. You know, Chloe of the Month, a little picture, and it's Sam Raimi, you know. And David Naughton is a little cameo in this too. He was, of course, famous for American werewolf in London. Exactly. But Jason is in this too, and he's a Carpenter regular, basically, he's in Prince of Darkness. The next story on Bodybags is called Hair, and it is not really a horror. It's more of a comedy. Stacy Keech is in it, and he's great. He plays a great straight man in this, and he plays a balding man, can sympathize with this guy. I've been there where he's trying to style it different, so it's kind of hiding it a little bit, and he's super obsessing over going bald. Got that toupee. He goes to the barber shop wearing a toupee. He tries doing some one of those painted on jobs, where you just paint your scalp thing. When he answers the door, he's super obvious. Your girlfriend goes to kiss him on the top of the head, and she's got all that paint shit on her lips. So he keeps seeing infomercials for this new hair restoration. He chooses hair style, right? That super 90s tech wakes up the next day, and he's got all this hair. But the hair keeps growing, and the hair is alive. You see the little follicles moving, like worms and stuff. This one's great for just the characters. You really sympathize with the characters, and you can relate to them. I can relate to them. I think a lot of people can, even if they're not bald. This is about vanity. The next one is called Eyes. This one wasn't directed by Kardonger, it was directed by Toby Hooper. This one tells the story of Mark Hamill, who's a baseball player, and he's kind of making it to the big times. He seems kind of old to be making it to the big times. On his drive home, it's raining out, and he gets into an accident, and a big shard of glass goes into one of his eyes. We do learn that there's a new treatment to replace his eye with a cadaver's eye. Everything's going great, except all of a sudden he starts getting flashes, and he sees flashes of somebody buried in the backyard, or putting stuff down the garboretor in the sink, and he sees an arm going down, his blood everywhere, and he also starts turning against his wife. He starts getting very irate with her, and it turns out that this eye they got from a serial killer. If you want to see what Mark Hamill does exactly, keep watching. Keep watching if you want to see Luke Skywalker's ass. This one is great. I really like the story. It's really good. Mark Hamill fucking kills it in this. So that's body bags, really, really good made for TV horror anthology, and the music for the whole thing is great too. It's so John Carver. Perfect. The next one on our list is part of the Masters of Horror, and we've already covered it, so we're not going to go super into detail, but it is cigarette burns. If you want to see our full review, click the link. We're going to post it up here, but just to quickly go over it, it's basically about a film buff who is hired to find a lost film by a very eccentric man, and he gets involved in this weird CD underworld trying to find this lost film. It's fucking killer. So check out cigarette burns and check out our review for it. The other Masters of Horror one that Carpenter directed is Pro Life, and not so good, not as good as the first one he did, but this one tells the story of a girl, a young girl who finds her way to an abortion clinic. She wants an abortion, bad, like she's telling these guys, I want it out of me. Her dad pulls up, played by Ron Perlman, everybody seems afraid of him, he's got this big reputation, and he's basically going to do everything he can to stop it, breaking into the place and trying to shut the whole thing down. The reason why she wants to get rid of this baby is because it's not really a human baby. It's growing very quick. Very fast, yeah, and that's where we're going to end it, because you're just going to have to keep watching and see what this thing really is and how it turns out. I think it seems a bit phoned in on Carpenter's end. He just took it for the job, for the paycheck. The story is really neat. The conflict of abortion, right, like there's this guy who's super against abortion, he's going to these extremes to stop it, but in this case, maybe he should change his mind. Yeah, exactly. And he's using God as the excuse, right? But the funny thing is, is that God, you don't have to worry about God in this one. So the idea is really good, I think that the way it's told is really just lazy. It falls flat, it feels flat. And the effects are pretty good in it actually, but they don't need to be there. That's kind of my problem with it, you don't need to see all that stuff. You could have got the job done without any of those things happening. So yeah, definitely check it out. It's worth watching, it's just not going to change your life. You compare this to cigarette burns and they're like drastically different. You can tell John Carpenter cared about cigarette burns and not so much about pro-life. That's our little episode on John Carpenter made for TV horror that some of them I didn't even really know existed until not too long ago. You may not know they exist either, so definitely check them out. And until next time, keep drinking.