Horror

Director: Fredric Hobbs
Writer: Fredric Hobbs
Release year: 1973

It makes sense, I swear, but where are the luchadores?

Alabama (Christopher Brooks) finds the magician gear formerly owned by Carter the Great (E. Kerrigan Prescott) in the basement of a nightclub and decides to become a magician. He seeks out Granny (Ken Grantham) to find out about Carter, then goes to Moxie (also Ken Grantham) to learn magic and becomes Alabama, King Of The Cosmos. He goes on tour and soon we get vampires, a Nazi mad scientist, and some voodoo, plus a script that looks like it was co-written by Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds….

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Director: Jack Sholder
Writer: Jack Sholder, Robert Shaye and Michael Harrpster
Release year: 1982

An overlooked early 80′s horror gem

Sometimes films will charm you right off the bat. Sometimes you’ll enjoy them only to later wonder what the hell you were thinking. And sometimes they appeal more to you the more you see them. This is the case for me with writer/director Jack Sholder‘s 1982 film Alone in the Dark. (By the way, confusing it with the 2005 video game adaptation would be doing it a real disservice).

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Director: Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet
Writer: Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet
Release year: 2009

An unworldly piece of cinematographic art

We all go through cycles in life. And we also grow and evolve outside these cycles. We leave paths laid out for us, we seek adventure. We also revisit places we came from. In the real world, and in our minds. In a way, this is what Amer is about. It is to me. But as a film, it’s something else.

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Director: Antonio Margheriti
Writer: Giovanni Addessi and Antonio Margheriti
Release year: 1970
Italian title: E Dio Disse A Caino

Hurricane Kinski comes to town…

Gary Hamilton (Klaus Kinski) is pardonned after ten years of prison labor in the desert. The first thing he has on his mind, is getting a shotgun and a horse. It soon becomes clear that the man has his own reasons for making this a priority…

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Director: Joe D’Amato
Writer: Joe D’Amato and George Eastman
Release year: 1980
Aka title: Man-Eater, The Grim Reaper

The Grim EastMan-Eater

Six tourists find themselves stranded on a seemingly uninhabited Greek Island. While they try to figure out what to do next, someone is watching them. Someone, some being, with a craving for human flesh… and the will to kill, kill, KILL!!!

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