“A reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the U.S. President is sent to Hungary. There he is bitten by a werewolf, and then gets transferred back to Washington, where he gets a job as press assistant to the President. Then bodies start turning up in D.C. . . .” – IMDB
The wolf costume is funny. Its all weird and over the top in a very 70’s kind of way. Its kind of grating.
“A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.”
The “huge snake” is a large cobra, maybe 3 meters long. It is possessed by Satan and can control and influence near by cobras to do its bidding. There’s a lot of snakes.
Staring Wilford Brimley and Michael Ironside. Its another TV movie. Originally broadcast without the ending to let the viewers try and solve the mystery of who the killer was. The ending was then shown at a later date.
The crew of a international space station are about to return to earth when an explosion happens and then someone starts murdering the crew. Its very much a standard who-done-it TV murder mystery with some Cold War anti Russian sentiment thrown in. The sets and costumes remind me of the TV series V. Oh, and Michael Ironside the American captain is the murderer. 1.5
Theres some very interesting but also poorly used effects, stop motion video and miniatures, the superimposing of claymation creatures directly onto other footage, lots of smoke and coloured lights to hide elements. Its an interesting watch for all that alone, there is some real strange stuff going on. The actual story is drawn out and I’m not sure if it is meant to be a comedy or not. For how terrible it is at some points, its a 2/5 because you’re just wondering the whole time about the choices made in this films creation. A real strange one.
“A beautiful telephone operator is stalked by a murderous madman.” – IMDB
Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter. A classic telephone based horror? (I hope).
Lynda Carter lives in the early 80’s which is infested with sex pests. She works at a bar that looks like Cheers, and also gets a volunteer job doing some kind of crisis hotline work. A serial killer starts calling her and admitting to murders and she needs to find out who it is. There’s a few men in her friends circle and it ends up being an associate of one of them? Its really convoluted and I just got bored and unfocused too often. Oh, it’s also a TV drama. Lynda puts in a great effort, though, plus .5 for that. 1.5/5.
The version I watched was just called The Deadly Spawn, but it seems to be also called Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn to try and cash in on the film Alien, which is just bizarre.
A meteor crashes and some young people go to inspect it. They are killed by something that was inside the meteor? Whatever it is then moves into the basement of a near by house and kills anyone who ventures down into it. A electrician who arrives to fix some fault discovers the basement is full of slug-like creatures. More people turn up, more people are killed. Some teens who I guess are the main characters turn up. Eventually they try and blow up the main large creature with a fake severed head stuffed with explosives, and succeed. People arrive to hunt the creatures. At night there is a rumbling noise near the house and huge super massive creature bursts from the earth. The end.
Really not much at all happens, people run around a house and are killed by cool looking monsters. But some of the gore effects are great and the thousands of teeth filled monsters looks fantastic. It rather sparse but enjoyable. 2.5/5.
“Nigel the Psychopath was shot on super 8 film and VHS video as an amateur production between the years of 1986 and 1989”
Super B-grade. Super low budget. IMDB says “A psychotic maniac with a gas mask lurks the local playgrounds and kills all the children in his path” and yep, that’s about it. There’s some dialogue, maybe attempts at character development and maybe a story? Its generally just footage of kids and teens hanging around and then Nigel turns up they run away or he kills some/all of them. Difficult to really call this a film in some ways. A low budget oddity from the late 80’s. Its terrible but strangely enjoyable. 2/5.
“That night, now alone in his mansion, Jason witnesses hundreds of frogs breaking into the house and staring at him”
Its called frogs but all of the attacks and killings are by other creatures like alligators, snakes and leaches. Normal frogs are seen though out the film, and during the big finale frog scene they are just normal sized frogs as well. They mention giant frogs, but you never see any.
A wildlife photographer canoeing through a swamp encounters a wealthy family who he stays with for a while, and then as people go about their business they are attacked by the swamps wildlife. Its hinted at that the “giant” frogs are caused by pollution. I think all the frogs they show are actually toads. 2/5
“This location was torn down in the early 1990s, when the current owners were made aware this film had been shot there.”
This is super b-grade. Shot on video, with shitty in-camera effects and fades. Produced and written by I assume the main character, and I’m also going to assume its their shitty music all through the film. I guess this is what you call a vanity project. Despite the warning at the start there’s no gore or horror, and many of the scenes are really dark and out of focus. Not great, not even really fun in a dumb way. 1/5
“It ought to be burned down … and the ground sowed with salt.”
A source of early Skinny Puppy samples. A guy invites a select group of people to stay in an old house and decide if it is actually haunted or not. I found it very enjoyable Its a 2.5/5.
Theres basically 2 films here. The scenes originally shot by the producers, crew, cast etc…and called Twisted Souls, and the scenes shot after the films financier fired them all and decided to complete the film himself. Easier to just quote the Wikipedia page for Spookies
I’m not sure the film would have been good had it been completed as intended, or if it had been fully produced by the financier, but the end result we do have is pretty crazy. I like all the monster costumes and effects. The 1985 stuff is just a mind boggling. Not intentionally as funny and enjoyable as it ended up being, it’s a weird mess. Farting zombies. 2/5.
Death Spa. Stars Ken Foree. A guy owns a health club and his wife commits suicide and then she possesses the clubs computers and equipment, using it to murder people. It ends with the husband frying the buildings computer destroying his spirit-wife which causes the health club to burn down killing what seems to be hundreds of people trapped inside. 1.5/5
This is a Neo-noir Crime Thriller with a murder plot. It’s the directorial debut of the Coen brothers. I really liked this but I’m going to watch it again before posting a text review. 3/5.
“The Italian version of this film, called Sexy Jeans, was edited with pornographic inserts” – Wikipedia
New kid David moves to a new school, its run by a gang of bullies, and after seeing them attack other students and try and rape students he intervenes to help. The bullies cripple David by kicking out the jack of the car he is under and repairing. He then seeks total revenge. The school students also side with David and take some revenge of their own. The culmination is the bombing of the school dance where David dies and his friends blame it on students who died earlier.
The bullies are over the top brutal, but the revenge is just fucking insane. The biggest similarities between this and Heathers is the bombing of the school dance (a pep rally in Heathers), and the crazed ego of David at times (maybe similar Slaters character at moments) . This not comedic at all and not cynical like Heathers. Its acted well enough, shot well, an is not a B-grade film. Worth it for the over the top revenge sequences. 2.5/5.
It’s the Betty and Barney Hill story staring James Earl Jones. A 1975 TV drama. It addresses their encounter via flashbacks while they discuss them with a psychologist and undergo hypnosis. Its get rather dramatic and focuses on their first main abduction encounter. The aliens and UFO’s are uses sparingly, though it does show Betty and Barney being taken onto a spacecraft and experimented on, it is rather dark. Enjoyable enough for a 1975 TV movie. 2/5.
Its meant to be a horror comedy but its not that funny.
An author breaks up with his wife and their son disappears. He moves to some house and has to write a new novel. He writes it about the Vietnam war and has nightmares about a person he fought with in Vietnam, and they eventually turn up as an undead creature to exact revenge because he let them be captured and killed. Also its the creature that took his son.
It’s not bad I guess, not very funny but has comedy moments none the less, the creature looks cool. 2/5.
¿Quién puede matar a un niño? Some real 70’s exploitation insanity.
Kids are attacking and killing adults in retribution for decades of abuse and past atrocities against children (as seen in the opening montage of stock footage of war, famine, the holocaust, that just keeps going for a full 10 minutes). Initially the adults are incapable of killing the children in defense, but that soon ends… The adults fight back. The children seem to be able to recruit other children just by looking at them. An unborn child “joins” the children by killing the pregnant main female character from the inside.
It’s a rather slow and meandering and occasionally very fucked up film.
The movie ends with a small group of children preparing to head to mainland Spain on a motorboat, taking care to go in low numbers to avoid suspicion. When one girl asks, “Do you think the other children will start playing the way we do?” the boy in charge grins and says, “Oh, yes…there are lots of children in the world. Lots of them.” 2/5.
A horror comedy by Ken Russell based on the Bram Stoker novel, staring Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi.
Peter Capaldi is an archeologist digging on the grounds of Hugh Grants manor. They find a skull, possibly that of the the d’Ampton ‘worm’ (Lambton worm), a legendary created said to have been slain by an ancestor of Grants. A missing persons watch is found, a seductress is encountered, and the legend of the “worm” may be more real than it seems.
An interesting really enjoyable film, a bit raunchy, and almost camp? There’s some far out psychedelic moments, some horror moments. It is absolutely a comedy and in ways you are not initially expecting at all, dry yet overt and often just outlandish and bizarre. Intelligently and stupidly, almost subversively, fully aware of its insanity. 3/5
A woman takes a vacation in the country after the suicide of her husband. She encounters men in a variety of fucked up forms.
Its shot lovely, and the score is excellent. Its atmospheric yet intense, grounded but with big surreal moments, rich in subtext, and genuinely creepy and fucked up and confronting as needed. An interesting, different and even enjoyable film. 3/5
