Tag Archives: 1980

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded lab rats, injected with growth hormones. The small animal grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage. REVIEW: Urban legends, by now we’ve heard them all; killer calling from inside the house, the kidney thief, killer in the backseat, …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Some plucky college aged kids find themselves reopening a summer camp despite the dark cloud and pile of dead bodies that surround it. As the partying begins, the clothes come off and the pots smoked, the kids find them selves killed one by one in increasingly creative ways. Who is behind this killing spree and who will …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs. REVIEW: I’m sure a lot of you remember Cannon Films, and for those of you who don’t, you missed out on quite a bit of fun. Until it finally closed down in ’94, Cannon pumped out a lot …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A crazed killer is going around murdering brides-to-be and anyone associated with them that are unlucky enough to get in his way. As he stalks his latest victim (a young lady named Amy who isn’t certain that she actually wants to go through with the wedding as she is having more than just a few doubts) …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A father seeks from a gang of thugs who raped his daughter and murdered his son. REVIEW: While The Beasts (Shan Kou) has been marketed as a Hong Kong version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and/or The Hills Have Eyes (1977) it is in fact much closer in feel and structure to the rape-revenge film …

SYNOPSIS: An architect and his wife moves into a house with a bloody past and a 100 year old ghost, who possesses the wife. REVIEW: Director – Herb Freed Starring – John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante Sometimes there is nothing like a good haunted house movie. This subgenre is filled with classics and of course some not so …

SYNOPSIS: Harry is a weird and mentally unstable factory worker who is obsessed with Christmas and Santa Claus. After being treated like garbage by his co-workers and pretty much everyone else around him for years he finally snaps and takes it upon himself to dress up like Santa and go on a killing spree, brutally murdering anyone he comes across …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular television series Death Watch.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: A common feature of modern dystopias is to imagine a future so devoid of …

SYNOPSIS: The story is set amongst jungle tribes that live in fear of the devil. Laura Crawford is a model who gets kidnapped by a gang of thugs whilst working in South America. They take her into the jungle and demand a huge ransom. Laura is guarded by some ridiculous looking native who calls himself “The Devil” and has to …

SYNOPSIS: Time to party hardy. Hardly! It’s more like time to bail when two psychotics gate-crash a perfectly delightful get-together and turn it into a gore-fest with a huge body count. Directed by Ruggero Deodato, House on the Edge of the Park makes no pretense — it’s an exploitation flick complete with ritualistic torture. REVIEW: Written by: Gianfranco Clerici and …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this horror-thriller. He is after her money and must try several times before he finally succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide, but soon the husband begins experiencing her ghostly presence.” …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 20 years after killing off their mother’s twisted, abusive lover siblings Lacey and Willy find themselves being targeted by his evil spirit after it is released from a mirror that was present during the time of his death. Will they find a way to defeat him or are they (and everyone they hold dear) destined to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. REVIEW: A very strange man portrayed in a very stage film, we are talking about out none other than super journalist Hunter S. Thompson played by Bill Murray in the 1980 cult classic titles: “Where the Buffalo Roam“. Now when I say strange I’m …

SYNOPSIS: Members of a film crew learn to their dismay that the horror film that they are working on is actually a snuff film. REVIEW: I knew pretty much nothing about Effects before I watched it (to be honest I had never even heard of it) but I thought that it sounded like it had potential to be a pretty fun little …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Giovanni Lambardo Radice and John Saxon are Vietman vets that bring back contagious virus that turn people into cannibals when bitten.