SYNOPSIS: Jack Chandler is a private eye tracking down Samantha the runaway. In his travels, he comes across a gang of chainsaw weilding prostitutes that like to carve people up for their cult REVIEW: Director: Fred Olen Ray Starring: Gunnar Hansen, Linnea Quigley and Jay Richardson At one point in this film, a woman takes off all of her clothes …

SYNOPSIS: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. REVIEW: “Now I’ll show you what I already know.” John Carpenter’s most indispensable film, The Thing, is based on John W. Campbell Jr.’s Who Goes There?, a novella dealing with paranoia and the fear of assimilation by an alien …

SYNOPSIS: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort. REVIEW: I love watching the early films of what are to become legendary directors both good (Peter Jackson’s “Meet the …

SYNOPSIS: A deranged man (that suffers from horrible nightmares) escapes from a mental hospital and goes on a bloody rampage. REVIEW: I have a friend that is quite the horror buff that saw Nightmare (AKA Nightmares in a Damaged Brain) at a drive-in theater when he was younger and it scared the living hell out of him. He said that …

SYNOPSIS: “The crew of the Dark Star are on a twenty year mission to clear a path in space by destroying planets that are in the way of navigation routes. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a ‘smart bomb’ who thinks it is God. The late …

Paul McCartney Really Is Dead:  The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010) SYNOPSIS: In the summer of 2005, a package arrived at the Hollywood offices of Highway 61 Entertainment from London with no return address. Inside were two mini-cassette audio tapes dated December 30, 1999 and labeled THE LAST TESTAMENT OF GEORGE HARRISON. A voice identical to Harrison tells a …

SYNOPSIS: The night before their 10-year high school reunion, the pre-party takes a deadly turn when one-by-one, former classmates go missing and turn up dead according to their senior yearbook superlatives.

SYNOPSIS: The film begins with of American athletes competing in Eastern Europe who are supposed to get on a train to continue the competition. And our group of people miss the train ’cause they went partying the night before. They get on a different train to catch up with their teammates and horror ensues. I researched real crimes that happen …

SYNOPSIS: A mysterious nomad known as the “Artist” practices a dark art form passed down through the generations.

SYNOPSIS: When Thomas, a grizzled and hard-drinking homeless man, lucks into an empty house, he thinks he’s got a warm bed and a hot bath ahead of him. What he doesn’t know is that the house isn’t as empty as he thinks it is.

SYNOPSIS: A former beauty queen plots the death of her overbearing mother with the help of her pen-pal, a serial killer on death row. REVIEW: The resurgence of exploitation cinema has been met with mixed emotions and certainly mixed reviews.  From Grindhouse releases to the lesser-known (and in this humble opinion, better) works of Richard Griffin and the wonky Canadian …

SYNOPSIS: A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord. REVIEW: Titles can be incredibly confusing things as they conjure up all kinds of mental images that lead to films either living up to expectation, surpassing them or plunging the viewer …

SYNOPSIS: A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life. REVIEW: George Mihalka struck gold with his miner slasher in My Bloody Valentine, and …

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends head to an out of the way resort for a weekend of fun and relaxation. When they get there no one is around and it isn’t long before members of the group start to literally disappear. Will anyone survive and figure out what is going on or all of them destined to vanish into thin …

SYNOPSIS: In Australia’s outback, a family struggles to keep the wolves from the door when a bank tries to foreclose on their land; but it soon becomes clear the family has even bigger problems when a pack of vicious dogs literally arrives at their door – and they’re looking for something to eat. REVIEW: The film begins with beautifully crafted …

SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl moves into a remote countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family. REVIEW: Jaume Balagueró was onto to something with this “dark” horror film echoing its title in not only its story, but as a vital “element” to the story as …