This may, possibly be, my most inane post ever.
Mrs. ChillerPop is an avid Real Housewives fan. I have been involuntarily drawn into that nightmarish netherworld of sick, Lovecraftian torture-porn.
I did almost once write a post about the demoniac affliction of Kelly Bensimon. But I thought better of it.
And tonight, the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" premiered. I was prepared to suffer relentlessly. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the Richards sisters are on this show...
Kim Richards...
Who, along with her "Witch Mountain" sibling, Ike Eisenmann, starred in 1978 made-for-TV trash classic, "Devil Dog: Hound of Hell
" (possibly the best thing she's ever been in).
" (possibly the best thing she's ever been in).
Here is a small meditation on "Devil Dog" I wrote a few years ago on a geeky forum:
Imagine Damien Thorne was actually a cute little puppy, and you can see where the plot of this goes. The creators bothered to delve into Irish legends and come up with a Barghest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barghest
After a cornball suburban family adopts a German Shepherd (named Lucky) bred by a laughably deadpan Satan cult, the family becomes this demonic dog’s familiars! Lucky also exhibits mighty feats of pyrokinesis, super-speed, and Final Destination/Omen coincidence-fu!
The cast includes those obnoxious brats from Escape to Witch Mountain, and Hammer/Bond siren Martine Beswick. No one in this movie drives anything other than a wood paneled station wagon…
Like Invitation to Hell, it’s essentially cheese right down to its pyrotechnic showdown, but there are things to recommend it, particularly strong, in-your-face Satanic motifs of the kind you just don’t see in modern horror.
Also like Invitation to Hell, there’s a theme that I’ve just began to notice with some of these made-for-TVers. Instead of horny teens getting punished for indulging, the hero/victim is the American Dad whose family becomes subverted from within and become distant, unloving and unrecognizable to him. Divorce anxiety perhaps?
It is my feeling that Lucky the Devil Dog could totally kick the ass of Zoltan, Hound of Dracula. But I have yet to see Zoltan.
But it is not just Kim Richards who is gracing "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." No, it's a family act.
sister Kyle Richards is on the show....
Kyle Richards, who was in John Carpenter's brilliant and seminal "Halloween
" (also from 1978).
" (also from 1978).
Little Lindsey Wallace won't know what hit her -- but surely Michael Myers is preferable to most of those Beverly Hills Frankenstein monsters she is now teamed with.
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