Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Peter Nelson, Doris Silverton & Guerdon Trueblood
Release Year: 1978

Be my hairy he-goat of love.

Doctor David Martin (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Jeannie Devereux (Tovah Feldshuh) are bee researchers, trying to breed a better species of honeybee that will resist being taken over by Africanized bees. Something goes wrong and it’s up to Jeannie’s boyfriend Nick Willis (Dan Haggerty) to help the scientists – who would, had this film been made in the 50s, have created the bees using grisly atoms – stop the stingee plague.

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Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Writer: Muriel Roy Bolton and Ian McLellan Hunter based on a story by Crane Wilbur
Release Year: 1948

When Horror and Film Noir collide!

Historically, it’s always thought that after living a time of great splendor in America during the first decade of sound, the horror genre disappeared in the 40s, the years of World War II, to cede its place to the propaganda of war films, the paranoia of spy films, and the cynicism of Film Noir. Horror is supposed to be dormant, only to be resurrected in the 50s with Atom era horrors and the films of Hammer Studio.

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Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Writer: Hangan Oguri
Release year: 2009
Japanese title: Yomigaeri No Chi

Simply beyond and back, with the sound of rock.

Japan during the middle ages, a time when mysticism and dark overlords still ruled the land. A deviant tyrant, master of a ruthless clan, calls on a respectable masseur to ease his physical burdens. The masseur agrees to help, and for this he pays with his life. But his refusal to enter the hereafter, has him coming back as a ‘hungry ghost’ to take care of unfinished business…

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Director: Tony Maylam
Writer: Harvey Weinstein, Tony Maylam, Brad Grey, and Peter Lawrence
Release Year: 1981

Is it hot in here or is it just me?

A bunch of stupid teenagers accidentally set fire to their camp’s drunken caretaker leaving him scarred badly enough that latex hookers have no interest in him. This makes him a mite bitter, so he returns to the camp to kill some of the superfluous teenagers that seem to congregate there. Some of those degenerates are Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and Holly Hunter as well as some other recognizable faces….

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Director: Tom Shankland
Writer: Tom Shankland, based on a story by Paul Andrew Williams
Release year: 2008

Raising kids can cause serious health problems

Christmas holidays are so much fun, aren’t they? Relaxing on the snow-covered countryside with friends and family. Joyful children running around. Slicing up their parents.

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