Horror

Director: Charles McCrann
Writer: Charles McCrann
Release Year: 1980
Aka title: Bloodeaters

Drugs are bad but Agent Orange is worse.

A bunch of dirty hippies up in the mountains are growing marijuana for immoral purposes so a government organization decides to spray the hippies’ fields with some sort of chemical doom. This chemical has the disastrous side effect of turning all the hippies into foul-smelling zombies. A forest filled with zombies with only a heroic ranger, Tom Cole (Charles McCrann), capable of stopping them….

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Director: George A. Romero and Dario Argento
Writer: George A. Romero, Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini and Peter Koper, based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Release year: 1990
Italian title: Due Occhi Diabolici

Two different movies with two different results

For the vast majority of horror fans, filmmakers Argento, Romero, Carpenter and Craven are very well respected figures in the history of horror cinema, having shaped the genre in the last half of the 20th century. And for many amongst that vast majority of horror fans, the idea of a project involving the four of them is certainly an immensely attractive one.

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Director: Jaromil Jires
Writers: Jaromil Jires & Ester Krumbachová with additional dialog by Jirí Musil and based on a novel by Vítezslav Nezval
Release Year: 1970
Czech title: Valerie a týden divu

Bleed little girl, bleed.

Thirteen year old Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) – who looks like a young Britt Ekland – lives with her grandmother (Helena Anýzová) in a large house. One day, missionary / actor-player / complete weirdo Tchor-konstábl (Jirí Prýmek) appears in the town with Orlík (Petr Kopriva) – who may have already been there – and quickly becomes interested in grandmother and Valerie. There’s much more to it than that as the film unfolds like a fever dream story of incest, lesbianism, sexual-awaking, molestation, sexuality, marriage as well as vampires, weasels and religion….

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Director: Vincent Lannoo
Writer: Frédérique Broos and Vincent Lannoo
Release year: 2009

Man Bites Vampire!

A Belgian documentary crew is sent out to film the life of a vampire family. Previous filmcrews weren’t very lucky in getting their documentary made, as none of them returned. But this time they seem to have found an odd enough vampire family willing to fly with the idea of theirs lives being documented…

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Director: Luigi Cecinelli
Writer: Andrea Dal Monte
Release year: 2009

Ambitious Italian thriller

When Matt wakes up in a mental health hospital after a car accident, he’s suffering from amnesia. Trying to learn more about his life, he accidentally stumbles upon Dr. Leeman’s hidden files of an unsolved serial killer case. From that moment onward, Matt starts having strange visions of the victims.

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