Saturday, April 26, 2014

Ghost Town(1988)

"The good. The bad. The Satanic."
  
 Deputy Langley(Franc Luz) tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman. 

Starring Franc Luz, Catherine Hickland, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Penelope Windust, Bruce Glover, Zitto Kazann, Laura Schafer and Blake Conway.

Directed by Richard Governor.


 

Getting Even(1986)

"No matter who you are...There comes a time to get even."
  
Edward Albert stars as Taggar, a wealthy industrialist who lives for danger. Together with luscious secret agent Paige Starsen (Audrey Landers), Taggar takes on rival businessman King Kenderson (Joe Don Baker). Having gotten hold of a poison gas which consumes human flesh, Kenderson threatens to unleash the gas over the city of Dallas unless he's paid a $50 million ransom.

Starring Edward Albert, Audrey Landers, Joe Don Baker, Rod Pilloud, Billy Streater, Blue Deckert, Dan Shackleford, and Caroline Williams.

Directed by Dwight H. Little.

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Fade To Black(1980)

"People used to laugh at Eric Binford. Now he knocks them dead with every performance." 
  
Eric Binford(Dennis Christopher) watches a lot of movies. He is the truest definition of a film geek. One day, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he begins acting out his favorite scenes from the movies. In doing so, he manages to involve his enemies and the scenes usually result in death. 

Starring Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Norman Burton, Linda Kerridge, Morgan Paull, James Luisi, Eve Brent, John Steadman, Marcie Barkin, Peter Horton, and Mickey Rourke.

Directed by Vernon Zimmerman.

Don't Mess With My Sister!(1985)

"Lust destroyed his life. Passion led him to murder. Greed left him a beaten man. Fear pushed him to the edge of insanity. All because he wouldn't listen when they said: Don't mess with my sister!"
  
Steven(Joe Perce), a meek accountant-in-training, is living contentedly with his wife Clara(Jeannine LeMay) and working for her brothers, managing the books at their junkyard. All of this changes when the belly dancer they hire for Steve's birthday turns out to be Annika(Laura Lanfranchi) one of his classmates. Suddenly smitten, Steven begins to pursue Annika, who falls for him when he protects her from a overly-lecherous customer. News travels fast in a close-knit neighborhood, however, and soon Clara and her brothers find out about the illicit relationship. Pushed to the edge, Steven will have to decide between his marriage with Clara and his love for Annika.
 
Starring Joe Perce, Jeannine Lemay, Jack Gurci, Peter Sapienza, Laura Lanfranchi, Kit Bard, Roy Miller, and Helen Perle.
 
Directed by Meir Zarchi.
 






Damned River(1989)

"A Dream Vacation...Becomes A Grim Nightmare."


Four friends decide to travel to Zimbabwe for a white-water rafting trip, but find that its no vacation when their stoic American guide (Stephen Shellen) turns out to be an ex-soldier with a few psychotic grudges against humanity.

Starring Stephen Shellen, Lisa Aliff, John Terlesky, Marc Poppel, Bradford Bancroft, Louis Van Niekerk, and Leslie Mongezi.

Directed by Michael Schroeder.

Conflict Of Interest(1993)



"Fast Cars, Hot Women, Cold Cash. You want it, he's got it. But you may have to pay with your life."

Gideon(Judd Nelson) rules the down and dirty side of town. From the docks where he runs an export business in stolen cars, to the heavy metal club where he can turn a little extra cash on hot women and cool drugs. Everyone loves Gideon, especially his posse of desirable women, everyone except the corpses he leaves behind and the cops who clean up after him. But now there's a new cop on Gideon's back, Mickey Flannery(Christopher McDonald), and he's fighting mad.

Starring Judd Nelson, Alyssa Milano, Christopher McDonald, Harrison Page, Dey Young, Clifton Powell, and Jay Acovone.

Directed by Gary Davis.
 
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Last Match(1990)


Somewhere on an island in the Caribbean a girl is imprisoned for owning drugs. Since she is the daughter of a football team coach(Ernest Borgnine) help is soon on the way: the entire football team mounts an expedition to set her free.  

Starring Ernest Borgnine, Oliver Tobias, Charlies Napier, Henry Silva, Martin Balsam, Robert Floyd, Melissa Palmisano, Jim Kelly, Jim Kiick, Bart Schuchts, and Jim Jensen.

Directed by Fabrizo De Angelis. 

Sledgehammer(1983)

"Flesh tears - Bones shatter - The nightmare has begun." 

 Seven friends get together to enjoy a crazy weekend in the mountains, drinking and partying to their hearts content. The house they rent for the weekend, though, is keeping a dark secret: years ago, a young boy murdered his mother and her lover inside the house. Unbeknownst to the group, a shape-shifting evil still lurks within the walls of the secluded mountain home, waiting to be unleashed. The first day at the house, after being dropped off by a driver, John, one of the seven friends, goes searching through the garage. He finds a sledgehammer and takes it. This is the key that unlocks that evil spirit inside the house, and the fight for survival is on. 

Starring Ted Prior, Linda McGill, John Eastman, Janine Scheer, Tim Aguilar, Sandy Brooke, Stephen Wright, Michael Shanahan, Mary Mendez, Justin Greer, Doug Matley, and Ray Lawrence.

Directed by David A. Prior.

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Sole Survivor(1983)

"This woman has cheated death. Now, Death wants to even the score."

Denise Watson(Anita Skinner) is a TV station worker who is the only survivor of a unexplained, horrific airplane crash in which she is completely unscratched. Soon, Denise becomes haunted by feelings of unworthiness as well as seeing strange people following her and hearing voices calling her name which no one but she can hear. Disregarding warnings from a psychic actress friend, Denise tries to get on with her life while it's revealed that she was supposed to die in the crash, but somehow escaped, now the unseen specter of death wants to collect her by sending its minions, people that have recently died, to kill Denise and finish the job what death had planed for. 

Starring Anita Skinner, Kurt Johnson, Robin Davidson, Caren L. Larkey, Andrew Boyer, Daniel Bryan Cartwell, and Wendy Dake.

Directed by Thom Eberhardt.

One Dark Night(1983)

"A night to remember - until the day until you die!"

 A strange man named Karl Rhamarevich dies shortly after discovering a way to become even more powerful in death through telekinesis. On the night of his burial in a crypt, Julie is to spend the night there as part of an initiation rite, supervised by two other girls. The crypt becomes a scene of horror as Raymar returns to life and deploys his horrifying telekinetic powers, with coffins sliding out and splintering open to release decaying bodies on Raymar's command. The bodies soon begin to menace the three girls trapped inside. Will they survive the horrific night in the crypt? 

Starring Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights, Donald Hotton, Elizabeth Daly, David Manson Daniels, Larry Carroll, Adam West, and Kevin Peter Hall.

Directed by Tom McLoughlin.


Sunday, March 23, 2014

Shock Waves(1977)

"Once They Were Almost Human!"

This horror film concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain (John Carradine) run aground on an island when they hit an odd-looking freighter. Once beached, they meet up with an aging SS Commander (Peter Cushing) who had been in charge of a crew of zombies. This is not meant as a comment on the quality of the men under him, they were "real" zombies. Since the zombies were taken from the ranks of murderers and other miscreants, they were not activated and the SS Commander sunk them with his submarine. Now they are rising up from the depths to create mayhem among the stranded members of the yachting party. 

Starring Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, Fred Buch, Jack Davidson, Luke Halpin, D.J. Sidney, Don Stout, John Carradine, and Clarence Thomas.

Directed by Ken Wiederhorn.



Hell Night(1981)

"Pray For Day."

Before being able to join Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity and its sister sorority, four pledges must spend the night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family. Some, however, say that one member of the Garth family survived, and still resides somewhere in the now-deserted mansion. 

Starring Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten,  Peter Barton, Kevin Brophy, Jeremy Neumann, Suki Goodwin, Jimmy Sturtevant, and Hal Raston.

Directed by Tom DeSimone.

Cookers(2001)

"What is the shape of your soul?"

After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector (Brad Hunt) and Darena (Cyia Batten) plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hectors old buddy Merle (Patrick McGaw) has the perfect hideout / meth lab, an old abandoned farmhouse in the woods where no one will ever find them. Unfortunately, no one will here their screams either. Turns out. they may not be alone after all. It seems the farmhouse is the site of a horrific urban legend. Paranoid and tormented by demons and terrifying visions, they fall prey to their descending spiral of drug use and mysterious horrifying hallucinations causing the scared and frightened trio to ultimately turn deadly against each other. 

Starring Brad Hunt, Cyia Batten, Patrick McGraw, Paul Banashek, Ahsley Ann LaPan, Karole Nellis, and Frankie Ray.

Directed by Dan Mintz.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Night Junkies(2007)

"They Need to Feed."

In London, Vincent Monroe is a young man addicted in blood that wanders through the red light district looking for lonely people to satisfy his addiction, dropping their bodies in the Thames River. When the stripper Ruby Stone meets Vincent in a coffee shop after her show, they immediately fall in love with each other. They have one night stand and Vincent does not resist and bites Ruby's neck, freaking her out. Ruby leaves his apartment and returns to the night-club, where the psycho pimp that is obsessed on her harasses her. Vincent finds Ruby fainted in an alley and soon she discovers that Vincent has turned her into a vampire. Ruby convinces Vincent to stop drinking human blood and seek out a cure in Edinburgh. But the sadistic psycho, who has killed fifteen women, has discovered their address and is stalking Ruby. 

Starring Giles Anderson, Lucy Bowen, Beverly Eve, Matt Tully, Katia Winter, Jonnny Coyne,  Daniel Kobbina, Lauren Adams, Rene Zagger, Phillip Simon, Mark Jackson, and Sasha Jackson.

Directed by Lawrence Pearce.



The Believers(1987)

"Nothing Can Stop Them. No One Can Help You. They Know Who You Are."

 After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it's been Voodoo and, ignoring the warnings of his housekeeper, enters the scenery and soon gets under their influence. They try to get him to sacrifice his own son. 

Starring Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Wilson, Harris Yulin, Lee Richardson, Richard Masur, Carla Pinza, Jimmy Smits, and Malick Bowens.

Directed by John Schlesinger.


Society(1989)

"If You Don't Belong They'll Eat You Alive."

Billy Warlock stars as Bill Whitney, the troubled scion of a wealthy Beverly Hills family. Feeling like an outcast his entire life, Bill begins seeing Dr. Cleveland (Ben Slack), a therapist who's trying to help him reconcile his conflicted feelings about his parents, who seem to lavish more attention on his sister Jenny (Patrice Jennings). Bill then discovers that his doubts have more of a foundation in reality than simple teen angst. After he receives a copy of an audio tape of horrific sounds at Jenny's coming out party, Bill becomes convinced of the existence of a secret "society" of wealthy people preying on outsiders, and that his family is involved.

Starring Billy Warlock, Devin DeVasquez, Evan Richards, Ben Meyerson, Charles Lucia, Connie Danese,  Patrice Jennings, Heidi Kozak, Ben Slack, David Wiley, and Tim Bartell.

Directed by Brian Yuzna.


I Was A Teenage Zombie(1987)

"Now The Girls Are Dying To Go Out With Him."

Six high school buddies accidentally kill a drug pusher and dump his body in toxic waters. When the pusher returns as a zombie and goes on a killing spree, their only recourse is to dump the body of one of their own recently dead, and have him return as a "good" zombie to face off with the "bad" one. The producer's hook for the film was to feature music by groups the likes of The Fleshtones and Los Lobos. 

Starring Michael Rubin, Steve McCoy, George Seminara, Robert C. Sabin, Peter Bush, Allen Lewis Rickman, Kevin Nesgoda, and Cassie Madden. 

Directed by John Elias Michalakis.


Saturday, February 22, 2014

Zombi Holocaust(1980) aka. Dr. Butcher M.D.

"Not for the faint-hearted." 

The members of an expedition in search for the last faithful of Kito, the cannibal god, land on a small island in the Moluccas (East Indies) and are soon hunted by cannibals and zombies, these being created by a sinister Doctor O'Brien who is experimenting with corpses. Suzan, a sexy lady in the expedition team, eventually takes a hold on things, as she is accepted as queen of the cannibals, and direct them against the mad scientist and his army of zombies.  

Starring Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O'Neal, Donald O'Brien, Dakar, Walter Patriarca, and Linda Fumis.

Directed by Marino Girolami.



Wired To Kill(1986)

"1998. A War Will Be Fought By A Boy, A Girl, And A Toy."

In the near future, law and order breaks down, diseases, violence and immorality are rampant. However, a young man decides not to turn the other cheek anymore. He modifies his wheelchair to help him protect his home and family, and kill the thugs first. 

Starring Emily Longstreth, Devin Hoelscher, Merritt Butrick, Frank Collison, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Kim Milford, Michael Wollet, and Garth Gardner.

Directed by Francis Schaeffer.


The Rage(1997)

"On the run...and running out of time!"
 
FBI Special Agent Travis(Lorenzo Llamas) is trying to catch deranged serial killer and is doing his best despite having a new and inexperienced partner in the form of Kelly McCord(Kirsten Cloke). It turns out that the serial killer is an entire army of disgruntled CIA mercenaries from Vietnam.

Starring Lorenzo Llamas, Gary Busey, Roy Schieder, Kristen Cloke, Brandon Smith, Tiani Warden, Dell Yount, and David Carradine.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie.