SCHLOCK AND AWE DOUBLE: JOHN SAXON AND THE TWO NIGHTMARES
DOUBLE FEATURE Wes Craven's New Nightmare Written and Directed by Wes Craven (1994) Nightmare Beach Written and Directed by Umberto Lenzi and Henry Kirkpatrick (1989) It was one of the coincidences that I was watching New Nightmare when I heard the news that genre movie legend John Saxon had passed away. Saxon was one of those rock 'n' roll solid working actors that made everything he was in better, no matter how Schlocky. Many obituaries call him the Actor from Enter the Dragon or if you are lucky Nightmare on Elm Street. But, John Saxon was so much more. In classic genre movies like: Black Christmas , Tenebrae , Battle Beyond the Stars, Queen of Blood and The Evil Eye . If you are aware of these movies, all you you want to do is watch these movies again cause they are all kinda great. I wish I had included Tenebrae in this, cause that movie rocks, it would have been the perfect excuse to watch it again. But this is a Doub...