Italy made a lot of rip-offs and mockbusters in the 1970s and '80s, and Contamination is no different. If you can't tell from the poster art, this movie tried to pull heavily from Alien in its advertising. It also uses the idea of killer alien eggs that were inspired by HR Giger's work, though budgetary … Continue reading Contamination (1980)
Yes, talking about Troll 2 feels like a cop out, because it's become just so infamous at this point. If you haven't heard of it, I'm greatly surprised. Odds are most cult film fans are familiar with much of it, and even a layperson has encountered it at some point through Internet memes and coming … Continue reading Troll 2 (1990)
Dora Baldini moves back into her home with her son and new husband after having spent several years in an institution, where she underwent electroshock therapy for a nervous breakdown related to her first husband's mysterious disappearance. The previous husband was an addict and a failure, and Dora tells her son that one day he … Continue reading Shock (1977)
Hey, this movie stars Trucky, Bad Bitty, Dirty D, Lacy, JB, Biggie Shorty, and Robert Vaughn. ...well, ok, only Robert Vaughn. Killing Birds starts off with the harrowing tale of a Vietnam vet returning home to find his wife in bed with another man, causing him to go on a murderous rampage throughout the house … Continue reading Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1988)
A weird gunslinger, a bunch of Mexican banditos, betrayal, revenge, a fuzzy timeline, and everybody's dirty. Yep, it's another Italian Western! Hole in the Forehead follows Billy Blood, a quirky cowboy with a terrible name that never likes to use his right hand for anything except shooting and always shoots people in the forehead for … Continue reading Hole in the Forehead (1968)
Terrorists get hold of a biological weapon called Death One in the Philippines, but the lone survivor in their group accidentally contaminates himself. The US Army tracks him down and burns the corpses of everyone in the hotel he was staying in, but this causes Death One to enter the atmosphere, kill birds, and bring … Continue reading Zombi 3 (1988)
Two criminals try to double cross each other over a map to a goldmine while a man arrives in town to avenge his brother's death. Also, there are hook fights. That's Hate Thy Neighbor or Hate Your Neighbor, however you want to put it. At the start of the film, outlaw George Eastman shoots a … Continue reading Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
Another misleading movie poster. There's like one car in this movie, and it doesn't have a roof...or much of anything, really. But that one guy does shoot his gun over his forearm, so I suppose it's only half wrong. The Bronx Executioner is another Italian post-apocalyptic Mad Max/Escape from New York wannabe, only this time … Continue reading The Bronx Executioner (1989)
The Earth shall tremble...graves shall open...they shall come among the living as messengers of death, and there shall be the nigths of terror... "Profecy of the Black Spider" I didn't misspell anything, this is exactly how it's written in the postscript for Burial Ground. Nobody cared enough about this movie to even bother checking if … Continue reading Burial Ground (1981)
Ok, so perhaps you're wondering why the movie poster says this film is called Virus while the header says Hell of the Living Dead. That's because this movie has half a dozen names, such as Hell of the Living Dead, Apocalipsis canibal, Virus, Virus - l'inferno dei morti viventi, Night of the Zombies, Zombie Creeping … Continue reading Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
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