Retro-Musings: 1975’s “Race with the Devil” is a true vacation from hell…

*****SATANIC SPOILERS!***** The late 1960s and early 1970s broke new ground with high-end supernatural/occult-themed films, such as “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) and “The Exorcist” (1973).  That wave continued into the mid-1970s, but it devolved into a slew of exploitation flicks made primarily for drive-in theaters, such as 1975’s “The Devil’s Rain” and “Race with the Devil,”…

“Blue Thunder” (1983) is an unsettlingly prophetic action flick…

*****TURBO SPOILERS AHEAD!***** I remember going to see the action movie “Blue Thunder” sometime in the summer of 1983, just before I began my junior year of high school. This was one of those ‘word of mouth’ flicks that a few of my classmates were buzzing about just before summer break, and upon seeing it,…