Director: Jack Starret
Writer: Lee Frost and Wes Bishop
Release Year: 1975
Satanists. You gotta hand it to them, they’re usually not the most friendly kind of people. In ‘Race With The Devil’ Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit and Lara Parker run into more than a whole bunch of them during their vacation. The only thing for our foursome left to do, is get in their vehicle and drive… Racing away right up until the terrifying climax.
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Director: Mark Jones
Writer: Joe Ruby & Mark Jones
Release Year: 1996
Well what do we have here? Here’s proof that some film-makers were still freezing and (to a lesser extent) shocking during the nineties. Not exactly the most memorable of all horror decades, but a modest little B-movie playing it tongue-in-cheek like RUMPELSTILTSKIN, is bound to at least put a stupid grin on any horror-fan’s face.
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Director, writer: Robert Hiltzik
Release year: 1983
When we’re talking about freeze-frame shock-endings, I think this one is edged in the collective memory of all true horrorfans. Slasherfans in particular.
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Director, writer: Genie Joseph, Thomas Doran
Release year: 1987
Oh, how I love the 80’s… Well, at least when it comes to cheesy horror movies. And SPOOKIES, although mildly atmospheric and effectively creepy at some moments, is a prime example of how crazy an 80’s horror movie could get.
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Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Richard Matheson based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe
Release Year: 1961
Roger Corman has always been a versatile film-maker and a very productive one at it too. He can also be considered a pioneer of genre movies for more than one reason, and one could be that he was already shocking audiences at the end of a movie since the early sixties.
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