Monday, June 29th, 2009
by Perfesser Deviant
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Release Year: 1972
Two girls have a Hess of a time.
Two girls, straitlaced Mari Collingwood (Sandra Cassel) and wilder girl Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham) go to New York City to attend a concert, but they run afoul of a problem. That problem comes in the form of two escaped criminals – Krug Stillo (David Hess) and Fred ‘Weasel’ Podowski (Fred Lincoln) – and two scumbags – Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and Junior Stillo (Marc Sheffler). When the scumbags end up at the home of Mari’s parents, Dr. John (Richard Towers) and Estelle (Cynthia Carr), things go from bad to ugly to Leatherface very quickly….
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Tags: Exploitation, Rape/Revenge
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Horror, Reviews, Thriller
Monday, June 29th, 2009
by Perfesser Deviant
Director: Thomas Smugala
Writer: James Dean Schulte & Thomas Smugala
Release Year: 2005
When the going gets tough the tough get a beauty queen.
Society goes down the tubes and only former beauty queen Amber Bathory (Beverly Hynds) has the sheer force of will needed to keep things going in her small, frigid community. She makes great efforts to make a show of helping out the less fortunate, many of whom follow her because she’s attractive, but really, she’s a monster. You see, like her namesake Elizabeth Báthory, Amber has a nasty habit of bathing in the blood of her serving girls to keep her youth. Things start to go wrong when her servants, sick of her increasing delusional megalomania decide that it might be time to retire her….
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Tags: Post-Apocalyptic
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
by Vomitron
Director: Toby Wilkins
Writer: Brad Keene, based on a concept & characters created by Takashi Shimizu
Release year: 2009
Mimic 3 meets Amityville 6 in a J-Horror franchise... or maybe not.
After surviving the vicious spirit attacks in a Chicago apartment building, Jake is placed in a psychiatrical clinic. While most of the tenants have already left the building, the curse lives on in the appartment complex. Back in Tokyo, a Japanese woman believes she holds the key to stopping the vengeful ghost of Kayako once and for all…
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Tags: Curse, Ghosts
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
by Perfesser Deviant
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Glenn M. Benest & Max A. Keller based on a book by Lois Duncan
Release Year: 1978
Aka title: Stranger In Our House
When common sense isn’t one of your neighbors.
When Julia Trent’s (Lee Purcell) parents are killed in an accident, she comes to live with her aunt Leslie Bryant (Carol Lawrence) and uncle Tom (Jeremy Slate). At first daughter Rachel (Linda Blair) accepts Julia as a new friend while her older brother Peter (Jeff East) lusts after Julia and her younger brother Bobby (James Jarnigan) doesn’t seem to notice. When Rachel’s horse hates Julia and steals Rachel’s boyfriend Mike Gallagher (Jeff McCracken) and her best friend Carolyn Baker (Fran Drescher), Rachel starts to suspect that her cousin is more than just a bitch….
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Tags: Possession, Witchcraft
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
by -Multiple Authors-
Writer: Vidal Raski
Director: Harlan Asquith & William Mayo
Release year: 1973
Danish title: Dvaergen
Great evil can sometimes come in very small packages….
I have waited quite a while to see this film. I do not exactly know why I wanted to see it so badly, considering I have a great distaste and fear towards dwarves, little people, midgets….whatever the hell they are called. I guess for someone who is well over 6 feet tall, it makes sense that my fears are of things that are tiny.
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Tags: Dwarfsploitaion, Sleaze, Trash
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Director: Wes Craven
