ARPAVAX:UNKNOWN:upstill (10/31/82)
Those who only know about this one from print advertising should be aware that ICfH is a collection of clips from grade Z movies of the past, mostly horror and sf, mostly the fifties, mostly rank to the point of hilarity, interspersed with commentary and skits by the likes of Cheech & Chong, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and John (SCTV) Candy. People who didn't spend hundreds of hours of their adolescent years watching cheesy movies on Creature Features et al will finally find out what they missed. The clips are pretty funny, but the skits are about half-and-half; John Candy is pretty good, C&C mostly bite the big one. In all, the show is not a very satisfying moviegoing experience and is best awaited on cable, where it will be in record time I bet. Readers of Cinefantastique take note: This is not the same beast that was written up in the last issue. It is longer (mostly due to extra sections on Teenage movies and musicals), and has no evident involvement by Universal (it is a Paramount release) or John Landis, for whose name I scoured the credits. Horror buffs will note this means many fewer movies to choose from, and also, disappointment of disappointments, it does NOT include Alfred Hitchcock's trailer for Psycho, alas.