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!!!
Director: Jess Franco
Writer: Erich Tomek
Release year: 1981
German Title: Die Säge des Todes
If only every slasher film had a stone mill saw at its disposal.
A boarding school is plagued by grisly murders. Cult director Jess Franco, with his inimitable ways of poor or artistic taste – you be the judge of that – gives us his take on the late 70′s/early 80′s whodunit slasher format.
Director: Bruno Mattei
Writers: J.M Cunilles, Rossella Drudi, Claudio Fragasso, and Bruno Mattei
Release Year: 1980
Pardon us for this thing we have created
Somewhere in Papua New Guinea, the Hope 10 research facility is working on a project called “Sweet Death”… A chemical agent that would curb population in the Third World by turning them into zombies and feeding on each other. When two engineers clad in the weakest looking bio-hazard suits find a zombified rat in the plant, all hell breaks loose and the contagion spreads through the compound.
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….
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Release Year: 1972
Two girls have a Hess of a time.
Two girls, straitlaced Mari Collingwood (Sandra Cassel) and wilder girl Phyllis Stone (Lucy Grantham) go to New York City to attend a concert, but they run afoul of a problem. That problem comes in the form of two escaped criminals – Krug Stillo (David Hess) and Fred ‘Weasel’ Podowski (Fred Lincoln) – and two scumbags – Sadie (Jeramie Rain) and Junior Stillo (Marc Sheffler). When the scumbags end up at the home of Mari’s parents, Dr. John (Richard Towers) and Estelle (Cynthia Carr), things go from bad to ugly to Leatherface very quickly….
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Neva Friedenn, Robert Easter, and Ann Kindberg
Release Year: 1978
DIY killer.
Mrs. Andrews (Faith McSwain), Debbie (Marciee Drake) and Maria (Evelyn Guerrero) are minding their own business when a psycho with a toolbox comes into their apartment and slays them. The police, represented by Detective Jamison (Tim Donnelly), are baffled because the manager, Vance Kingsley (Cameron Mitchell), assures them that the building is secure and the tenants are decent. The only connection between the killings, and most of those that follow, is the fact that nubile young women are executed with tools, and not the fun kind…
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….
