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EEAAO is awesome. If it had been made by anybody else it would be a pretentious mess.
Burnt Offerings- A 70's made for TV horror piece starring Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bettie Davis and Burgess Meredith. Pretty basic modern-gothic haunted house stuff but it's done well enough that it elevates it past it's made for TV trappings. If you dig 70's horror this is worth checking out.
This led me down a rabbit hole of reading about Oliver Reed and wow what a maniac. Dude was a massive alcoholic misogynistic asshole and there are some wild stories about him.
-He started a fight in a pub and after it was broken up the two guys he was beefing with waited for him outside and attacked him with broken beer bottles and fucked him up big time.
-He used to hang out with Keith Moon and they'd go on some pretty serious benders.
-He puked on Steve McQueen.
-Shelly Winters dumped a glass of whiskey on his head on live TV after he mocked her.
-While filming Cutthroat Island he showed up to set drunk, showed his dick to Geena Davis and got into a fist fight.
-He basically became a joke for the British TV networks as they'd have him on panel shows knowing that he'd just get drunk and make some sort of scene.
-He died at age 61 while filming Gladiator, he went to a local pub and got into a drinking competition with a group of British sailors.
Burnt Offerings- A 70's made for TV horror piece starring Oliver Reed, Karen Black, Bettie Davis and Burgess Meredith. Pretty basic modern-gothic haunted house stuff but it's done well enough that it elevates it past it's made for TV trappings. If you dig 70's horror this is worth checking out.
This led me down a rabbit hole of reading about Oliver Reed and wow what a maniac. Dude was a massive alcoholic misogynistic asshole and there are some wild stories about him.
-He started a fight in a pub and after it was broken up the two guys he was beefing with waited for him outside and attacked him with broken beer bottles and fucked him up big time.
-He used to hang out with Keith Moon and they'd go on some pretty serious benders.
-He puked on Steve McQueen.
-Shelly Winters dumped a glass of whiskey on his head on live TV after he mocked her.
-While filming Cutthroat Island he showed up to set drunk, showed his dick to Geena Davis and got into a fist fight.
-He basically became a joke for the British TV networks as they'd have him on panel shows knowing that he'd just get drunk and make some sort of scene.
-He died at age 61 while filming Gladiator, he went to a local pub and got into a drinking competition with a group of British sailors.
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