The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Amazon)
While the knuckledraggers in track pants and backwards ball caps would cite The Departed (blah) or Boondock Saints (blech) as the greatest of the Massploitation crime capers, true Hub-centric cinephiles know it doesn’t get much better than 1973, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Featuring Robert Mitchum at his best as a grizzled gunrunner caught in a moral quandary and the inimitable Peter Boyle as drink-slinging hitman and hooligan-wrangler, this film is crime cinema at its most hardboiled and Boston at its most broken and badass.
Night School (Amazon)
We can all agree that working all day and going to school at night is no easy task, but at least nobody is trying to chop you dead. Decapitating the coeds is the name of the game in the 1981 giallo-style slasher film from the director of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That’s right, Ken Hughes, the director of your favorite childhood film made a movie about killing colleges. We’re going to guess that he had to ride the B line during rush hour too—it’s the biggest horror show in town and has been since who knows when.
