Horror

Director: Bernard Rose
Writer: Bernard Rose
Release Year: 2005

It’s art imitating life imitating art.

Boris Arkadin (Jeroen Krabbé) is a horror director who lost his pregnant wife to an attack by a group of fans who wanted to replicate part of one of his films; his son survived an amateur caesarian. This left him less interested in making another horror film and he faded into hermitage. Years later, Arkadin is making a new film, and so casts eager young things Wendy Jones (Lisa Enos), Jack (Joe Reegan), Pamela (Teri Harrison), and Matt Drazin (Sharif Rosales-Webb)….

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Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Release Year: 1968   

Caught in the web of… inbred teenage girls!

Seeing Spider Baby on the big screen is a quite unique experience, since there aren’t that much 35-mm copies in good condition left of this movie. For the Offscreen Festival screening last year (2008), Jack Hill provided a print out of his private collection, for which we thank him heartily. Spider Baby is a black & white sixties treasure filled with demented humor and grotesque terror, dealing with rather bizarre family values.

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Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Writer: Jiku Yamatoya, based on a manga by Masaaki Sato
Release year: 1979
Japanese title: Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari

Human depravation… Sex… Torture… Death.
Or, how to be mislead by Japanese 70′s exploitation cinema.

Tatsuya is a handsome but lonely man who inherits his family’s fortune. This includes his late parents’ luxurious mansion on an isolated and serene location.  Tatsuya likes beautiful young women. He also likes inviting them to his mansion. But sadly, they don’t really like what all he does to them.

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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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Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven based on a comic book by Len Wein & Bernie Wrightson
Release Year: 1982

It’s a thing, from the swamp…

Government chick Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) is assigned to protect research scientist Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) and his sister Dr. Linda Holland (Nannette Brown) and their plant research from the evil Dr. Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan). Dr. Arcane – what a stupid name – want this research because … I guess … he’s evil, and evil guys need plant research. When Ferret (David Hess) and his mercenaries screw up the snatch of the research, Dr. Alec Holland gets turned into a monstrous thing of the swamp called SWAMP THING!!!!

Yeah.

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