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Saturday, April 26, 2014

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.

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.

Sunday, March 30, 2014

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.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

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.


Saturday, February 22, 2014

Tenement(1985)

"Slaughter In The South Bronx!"
  
A South Bronx gang rape and kill the residents of an isolated tenement. The tables turn and the surviving residents viciously dispatch the gang. There is a gruesome scene depicting the repeated stabbing of the leader with a TV aerial followed by a lightning strike for good measure. 

Starring Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant, Corrine Chateau, Angel David, Martha De La Cruz, Rhetta Hughes, Larry Lara, Alfonso Manosalvas, and Gy Mirano.

Directed by Roberta Findlay.


 


Rent-A-Cop(1987)

"In the hustling backstreets of Chicago where violence prevails, there is one ultimate solution." 

 Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice. 

Starring Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, James Remar, Richard Masur, Dionne Warwick, Bernie Casey, Robby Benson, John Stanton, and John P. Ryan.

Directed by Jerry London.


(I have to comment on this tagline..YEAH FUCKING RIGHT! What a load of bullshit.)

Body Parts(1991)

"A medical miracle has become a murderous nightmare."

 When Bill Chrushank(Jeff Fahey) loses his arm in a car accident, the arm of an executed death row inmate is grafted on in its place. The only problem, as Bill soon discovers, is that the arm is possessed by a force he cannot control. 

Starring Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Zakes Mokae, Brad Dourif, John Walsh, Paul Ben-Victor, and Peter Murnik.

Directed by Eric Red.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead(2008)

"Detours can be deadly."
  
While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiancé Bobby, Kayla stops the car in the gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest of Bobby but the car breaks down. They find a house in the middle of nowhere and decide to take the car parked in the house's garage to the next city, and return with a rented car to pay for the damages provoked by Nik; Melissa leaves her cell number. However, they discover that the owner of the place is the sadistic truck driver Rusty Nail and they have to pay a high price for what they did. 

Starring Nicki Aycox, Nick Zano, Laura Jordan, Kyle Schmid, Mark Gibbon, Krystal Vrba, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Rob Carpenter, Gordon Tripple, and Rebecca Davis.

Directed by Louis Morneau.





Joy Ride(2001)

"Terror comes in all shapes. And all sizes..." 

Lewis Thomas, a college student, decides to go on a cross-country trip to pick up his girlfriend, Venna. On his way there, he picks up his older brother, Fuller, from jail. Fuller, looking for a good time, decides to tag along with his brother. During the trip, Fuller also decides to play a prank on a guy, only known as Rusty Nail, through his CB radio and convinces Lewis to do it with him. At first, it seemed like fun. But not soon after, the joke goes too far. Pretty soon, Lewis, Fuller, and Venna find themselves in danger when a psychotic truck driver would constantly follow them on their tails and would stop at nothing just to see them dead. 

Starring Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Stuart Stone, Basil Wallace, Brian Leckner, and Mary Wickiffe.

Directed by John Dahl.



Death Weekend(1976)

"Their first mistake was raping her. Their second, letting her go."
  
Four sadistic young men arrive at the remote home–in the countryside of Ontario, Canada–of a playboy dentist. They kill the dentist and then plot horrendous acts against his girlfriend.

Starring Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards, Don Granberry, Ed McNamara, Michael Kirby, and Richard Donat.

Directed by William Fruet.


Deadly Game(1991)

"People Are Dying To Play."

A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osiris. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osiris and now must face his revenge. The seven must reach a boat on the opposite side of the island before Osiris and his hunters track them down and kill them. 

Starring Michael Beck, Jenny Seagrove, Frederic Lehne, Steven Vincent Leigh, Roddy McDowall, Soon-Tek Oh, John Pleshette, Mitch Ryan, and Marc Singer.

Directed by Thomas J. Wright.


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Friday, November 29, 2013

Enemies Closer(2013)

"Keep Your Friends Close."

Forest ranger and Ex-Navy SEAL Henry is forced by the drug cartel to help retrieve a major shipment of drugs which went missing on the US-Canadian border. While in the woods, he runs into a man who has a vendetta against him, but both men must struggle to escape the forest and defeat the cartel, while at odds and at knife's edge with each other. 

Jean-Claude Van Damme, Orlando Jones, Tom Everett Scott, Linzey Cocker, Kristopher Van Varenburg, Zahary Baharov, and Atanas Seberev.

Directed by Peter Hyams.

Hide and Seek(2000) aka. Cord

"It's Not A Game."
  
A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead. 

Starring Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Bruce Greenwood, Vincent Gallo, Johanna Black, Sharon Bajer, Chad Bruce, Vanessa McCrae, and Blake Taylor.

Directed by Sidney J. Furie

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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Flight Of Black Angel(1991)

"A renegade pilot armed with a nuclear missile...only one man can stop this angel of death."

A top US Air Force fighter pilot decides that his call sign of Black Angel means that he's a messenger of God. Freely committing murders as he goes, he steals a nuclear weapon and his plane. Taking a family hostage to help him, he works on bypassing the bomb's security lockouts so he can use it on the most sinful of American cities.

Starring Peter Strauss, William O'Leary, James O'Sullivan, K Callan, Michelle Pawk, Michael Keys Hall, Ben Rawnsley, Marcus Chong, Jerry Bossard, and Patricia Sill.

Directed by Jonathan Mostow.

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Dangerously Close(1986)

"At Vista High there's a thin line between being cool and getting caught."

At an elite school, a group of students who call themselves "The Sentinels" begin terrorizing their socially undesirable classmates. Soon, one of their targets ends up brutally murdered. An editor of the high school paper begins to investigate and The Sentinels become even more ruthless in their behavior.

Starring John Stockwell, Carey Lowell, J. Eddie Peck, Madison Mason, Bradford Bancroft, Don Michael Paul, and Thom Mathews.

Directed by Albert Pyun. 





Thursday, November 21, 2013

The Fan(1981)

"This is the story of a great star and a fan who went too far." 

 Douglas is a lonesome record salesman and a true fan of the actress Sally Ross. Every day he writes her gleaming letters of love. But the only response he gets are formal letters. So his love turns into hatred. 

Starring Lauren Bacall, James Garner, Maureen Stapleton, Hector Elizondo, Michael Biehn, Anna Maria Horsford, Kurt Johnson, Dwight Schultz, Dana Delany, Kaiulani Lee, Feiga Martinez, Reed Jones, Charles Blackwell, Terence Marinan, and Lesley Rogers.

Directed by Edward Bianchi.



Judgment Night(1993)

"There comes a time when you've got to take a stand."

Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but gets stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere. 

Starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven, Peter Greene, Erik Schrody, and Michael Wiseman.

Directed by Stephen Hopkins.

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Enemy Territory(1987)

"When entering enemy territory...You're entering a war-zone"

 An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires." 

Starring Gary Frank, Ray Parker Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent, Frances Foster, Tony Todd, Stacey Dash, Deon Richmond  Tiger Haynes, and Charles Randall.

Directed by Peter Manoogian.



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Chains(1989)

"We leave no traces, but we live in memory, and in the nightmares of our enemies."

While on a night out in Chicago, two innocent couples inadvertendly get embroiled in an all-out gang war.

Starring Rengin Altay, Michael Dixon, John L. Eves, and Jim Jourdan.

Directed by Roger J. Barski.


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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Lady Beware(1987)

"When fantasy leads to terror..."

Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life hellish and when the girl tells his wife about him he becomes wild with fury having been exposed and goes to the store to kill her...

Starring Diane Lane, Michael Woods, Cotter Smith, Tyra Ferrell, Peter Nevargic, Edward Penn, Chelsea Benedict, Don Brockett, and David Crawford.

Directed by Karen Arthur.


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