Saturday, August 22, 2020

Thrill Me- 13 Tom Atkins Movies: 70 Days to Halloween

 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

What's not to love about this movie, probably the most underrated starring role of his career. Often dissed because it lacks Michael Myers, Halloween III is now considered one of the best movies thanks to Tom Atkin's portrayal, the catchy tune, and the seriously scary premise that is pure evil.  


Night of the Creeps (1986)

I got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here.

Playing a disgruntled cop, Atkins shines in this great movie written and directed by Fred Dekker. A great homage to 50s B Movies and some of the best one-liners makes this movie one his best with fans


The Fog (1980)

Are you weird?

Yes, I am. Yes, I am weird.

A great spooky film directed by John Carpenter and starring Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook. Atkins appears as a character named Nick Castle and has a great time with a young Jamie Lee Curtis. 


Maniac Cop (1988)

William Lustig's killer cop movie has become a big cult classic with Robert D'Zar appearing as the title character. Atkins plays Det Frank McCrae who is one of the few police officers who believes that a fellow policeman is not the killer cop preying on innocent citizens in New York.


Escape From New York (1981)

In John Carpenters dystopian thriller starring Kurt Russell as Snake Plisken, Tom Atkins costars as a police officer named Rehme who works with Commissioner Hauk as they await Plisken's attempt to rescue the President in the island prison,


My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)

The 2009 remake to the Canadian slasher My Bloody Valentine features Tom Atkins as the town police chief who took out Harry Warden but has to face a new threat to his town that may very well be Warden's work

 

Lethal Weapon (1987)

Richard Donner's 1987 buddy cop movie starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover has Tom Atkins playing Michael Hunsaker., a war buddy of Glover who is an early casualty in the film's story. 


Two Evil Eyes (1990)

Tom Atkins appears as Det Grogan in this horror anthology based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe "The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar."


The Ninth Configuration (1980)

Exorcist author William Peter Blatty wrote and directed this thriller based on the story "Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane". Atkins appears as Sgt Krebs, one of the Marine guards who oversees the mental patients in the military asylum.

 

The New Kids (1985)

Friday the 13th director Sean S Cunningham directed this dark thriller about a pair of teenage siblings who face problems with a teen gang after they move to a new town after the death of their parents. Tom Atkins portrayed their father Col John MacWilliams in the opening scenes. 


Creepshow (1982)

The 1982 anthology based on the EC horror comic featured Tom Atkins in the opening and closing segment as the father who takes away his sons comic book and faces a cruel fate for his misdeed.

 

Bruiser (2000)

Tom Atkins appears as Det McCleary in this 2000 horror-thriller that starred Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, and Leslie Hope. 


Trick (2019)

Tom Atkins appears as a character named Talbott who runs a haunted maze that the killer Trick murders a number of victims in this 2019 slasher directed by Patrick Lussier

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