John Landis’s Psycho-meets-The ’Burbs film, “Family,” stars George Wendt as a kind of suburban Norman Bates trying to construct the ideal nuclear family when he sets his sights on his neighbor’s wife. Italian master Dario Argento’s sleazy, horrific “Pelts” is a gruesome, black-as-night morality tale starring Meat Loaf as a fur-peddler obsessed with a stripper.
Other directors include Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Brad Anderson (Session 9).
Grade: A-
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