Michael Pataki Archives

The Baby (1972)

Rating: ★

Jan 6, 2004Demented Lunacy/Man with a Child's Mind

The story of a grown man with the mind of a child is launched into with a spectacularly over-the-top tackiness that has to be seen to be believed. Middle-aging Ruth Roman let all stops out in a Baby Jane-type performance

Director: Ted Post

Actors: Ruth Roman, Anjanette Comer, Marianna Hill, Suzanne Zenor, …

Category: Horror

6 January 200417 December 2025 by Roog

The Bat People (1974)

Rating: ★★

Feb 26, 2002Man Becomes a Bat Creature

Rather ridiculous film where Stewart Moss is bitten by a bat and afterwards turning into a bat creature. Not a terribly interesting film – it takes three-quarters of the show for him to work out what the title tells us

Director: Jerry Jameson

Actors: Stewart Moss, Michael Pataki, Marianne McAndrew, Paul Carr

Category: Horror

26 February 200222 November 2025 by Roog

Spider-Man (1977)

Rating: ★

Mar 29, 2001Comic-Book Superhero

The first big screen incarnation of the Marvel Comics character, the theatrically released pilot for a dreary tv series starring Nicholas Hammond that stripped Spider-Man down to being no more than a superpowered detective in a tv cop show

Director: E.W. Swackhamer

Actors: Nicholas Hammond, Thayer David, David White, Michael Pataki, …

Category: Science Fiction

29 March 20013 December 2021 by Roog

Zoltan … Hound of Dracula (1978)

Rating: ★

Apr 4, 2001Dracula's Dog

aka Dracula's Dog. Most people who hear the title think this is a joke but this is a real film and one that takes a ridiculous premise - the idea of Dracula’s dog - surprisingly seriously

Director: Albert Band

Actors: Michael Pataki, Jose Ferrer, Reggie Nalder

Category: Horror

4 April 200122 November 2025 by Roog

Spider-Man Strikes Back (1979)

Rating: ★★

Jul 13, 2016Comic-Book Superhero

The 1970s Spider-Man tv series was a miserable failure at live-action superheroics, little more than a crime show with a costumed hero. This was the best of three theatrically released films edited from it with the plot of students building an atomic bomb has an undeniable real world credibility

Director: Ron Satlof

Actors: Nicholas Hammond, Robert Alda, Robert F. Simon, Michael Pataki, …

Category: Science Fiction

13 July 201621 March 2025 by Roog

Graduation Day (1981)

Rating: ★½

Jun 16, 2016Slasher Film

Another entry from the slasher heyday, appropriating a holiday as title. This is fairly tatty as the lowered standards of the slasher genre go, although the cast contains some interesting names in retrospect

Director: Herb Freed

Actors: Christopher George, Patch McKenzie, Michael Pataki, Carmen Argenziano, …

Category: Horror

16 June 201626 October 2025 by Roog

Sweet Sixteen (1983)

Rating: ★★

Aug 20, 2020Deadly Teenage Girl/Slasher Film

80s slasher film about a teenage temptress who leaves a trail of dead men around her. An impressive cast but the film sits on a very dubious line

Director: Jim Sotos

Actors: Bo Hopkins, Aleisa Shirley, Patrick MacNee, Susan Strasberg, …

Category: Horror

20 August 202020 August 2020 by Roog

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Rating: ★½

Dec 13, 2002Slasher Film

Following John Carpenter's departure from the Halloween series, the sequels begin their progression into a series of interchangeable slasher films in which Michael Myers is inevitably released to kill anew

Director: Dwight H. Little

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Danielle Harris, Ellie Cornell, Michael Pataki, …

Category: Horror

13 December 200222 November 2025 by Roog