I really have to hand it to the artist, that movie poster is so much better than the actual film. I mean, I think I can finger a detail or two in there which isn't in the film itself, but with so much going on, I bet you can put your thumb on it too. … Continue reading Demonoid (1981)
Who doesn't love a Halloween party? They're even better when hosted in an abandoned funeral home built on forsaken ground and haunted by a demon in the crematorium. Don't believe me? Then you gotta watch this movie! Night of the Demons is about just such a party. Ten teenagers show up to party down and … Continue reading Night of the Demons (1988)
The original The Exorcist is considered a classic of American horror cinema. Exorcist II: The Heretic movie was a bizarre acid trip involving psychics and locust plagues that just doesn't work. But The Exorcist III brings in George C. Scott as a homicide detective to investigate the possible ghost of a serial killer, and along … Continue reading The Exorcist III (1990)
You know how earlier I posted my thoughts on Sorority House Massacre being surprisingly unexploitative, with limited nudity, sexuality, and excessive violence, intelligent characters whose behavior was understandable, and a plot that was heavily inspired by the greats of its genre? Sorority House Massacre II goes entirely in the opposite direction. But then what should … Continue reading Sorority House Massacre II (1990)
Oh, oh my. Well, this went in a completely different direction than I expected. Prom Night III is effectively a remake of Prom Night II, only now as a horror comedy and starring a bunch of Canadians. Mary Lou Malone still died on her prom night in 1957, but she manages to escape Hell and … Continue reading Prom Night III: The Last Kiss (1990)
Well, this series went off the rails in the best possible way. Whereas Prom Night was a slasher film with Jamie Lee Curtis and Leslie Nielsen, Prom Night II is a supernatural horror film starring Michael Ironside. Actually, this movie wasn't supposed to be a Prom Night at all. Instead, it was originally titled "The … Continue reading Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
Yes, the Italians ripped off a lot of American movies in the 1970s and '80s. But you know who really excelled at the mockbuster, folks? Turkey. Seytan is a product of this rich atmosphere of copying that which is great in other nations' cinema, because Seytan is the Turkish equivalent of The Exorcist. I don't … Continue reading Seytan (1974)
Bikers and hooligans in 1980s Los Angeles are really just ghosts. I don't know if this makes them better or worse. Pierce Brosnan plays a French anthropologist who dies at the beginning of the film. However, Lesley-Anne Down, the attendant doctor, somehow gets possessed by his memories. Through hallucinations, Down discovers that Brosnan had come … Continue reading Nomads (1986)
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