'We're gonna be star-arrrs.' — "Fats"

It had been two weeks after seeing Phantasm that my family's weekly "Movie Date Night" continued on with the next film treat on our list: Magic, the Richard Attenborough directed psychological horror, in which the now legendary Anthony Hopkins stars as Charles "Corky" Withers, an aspiring magician and Ventriloquist, whom, "in partnership" with a profanity-spewing ventriloquist dummy named "Fats", perform their comedy shticks before live audiences and together become a huge success. But the newfound fame - even coming with an offer to star in his own tel... read the rest.

Anthony Hopkins as a schizophrenic magician and Ann-Margret the woman he loves

A shy man finds success as a ventriloquist with his dummy “Fats,” but curiously self-exiles himself to his hometown in the Catskills where he reunites with his high school crush. What’s he gonna do when his agent shows up at his door, not to mention her hubby? Burgess Meredith and Ed Lauter play the latter two.

“Magic” (1978) is a slow burn Hitchcock-ian psychological drama/thriller that mixes bits of "Psycho" with the creepy mannequins of several 70's movies/shows, like Kolchak: The Night Stalker's "The... read the rest.