Tag Archives: 1980

SYNOPSIS: Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the young man, the shaman has the nasty habit of pushing candidates out of windows to test them (“Nope, not him.”) REVIEW: Pumaman was an Italian superhero flick …

SYNOPSIS: A man’s best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him. REVIEW: It’s great to see some of the lost gems arriving on DVD, better yet on Blu-ray. Synapse Films …

SYNOPSIS: A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors. REVIEW: When I was given this flick to review, I had to admit I was definitely interested when I saw that it was a Roger Corman production. While some of …

SYNOPSIS: “Flash Gordon is an American football player who, along with Dale Arden, is returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes into the laboratory of Russian scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale become unwilling passengers on-board Zarkov’s rocketship as Zarkov sets a course for the planet Mongo. Arriving …

SYNOPSIS: A meteor lands in the swamps of a backwater town and turns some of the people that live there into flesh-eating zombies. First they start eating all the alligators in the area but after they have wiped them out they start chowing down on the humans in the area. Will the newspaper reporter investigating the incident be able to …

SYNOPSIS: The death of Sebastian’s father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older brother dies, he feels that he has caused it. He undergoes hypnosis, but his apparent supernatural powers continue. As his own life nears its end, he becomes even more violent …

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SYNOPSIS: The adults in a quiet town in Massachusetts are plagued by a murderous outbreak committed by their very own children who sport black fingernails following a school bus ride through a thick cloud of radioactive leakage, causing the titular monsters to hug their parents and burn them to a crisp.   

SYNOPSIS: A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

SYNOPSIS: Professor Nugget and his students try to track down Bigfoot, but end up uncovering something more sinister at work. REVIEW: “Night of the Demon”, not to be confused with “Night of the Demons”, is exactly the kind of campy old horror movie I love. I spent, or according to some, misspent many Saturday nights of my childhood watching low …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Two crooks (Mario and Roberto) kidnap a girl and hide out in the house of a friend who lives by trading with the natives in a nearby jungle. The friend’s wife is raped by Mario; she exacts revenge by tying him to a tree and leaving him to the cannibals. She then informs the kidnapped girl’s parents …

SYNOPSIS: A socially awkward young man who is also a film addict, jumps into his favorite past time and uses his favorite Hollywood characters to cope with life and exact revenge on those who have wronged him. REVIEW: This film begins in the home of the main character, Eric Binford, portrayed by Dennis Christopher (chariots of fire, Stephen King’s IT). …

SYNOPSIS: A series of corpse mutilations in hospitals around New York City prompt an anthropologist and her doctor colleague to investigate. The trail leads them to an Indonesian archipelago, where they rendezvous with Dr Obrero, who works there helping the natives. Not only do they encounter groups of roaming cannibals in their search, but it becomes apparent that the island …

SYNOPSIS: A corpse that is brought back to life by an unknown entity terrorizes a small town, feeding on the life essence of anyone that it comes into contact with. REVIEW: Don Dohler may not have been the best horror director in the history of cinema but he had a lot of heart and I don’t think that his movies …

SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist uses a different method of treatment to help his patients overcome their phobias. Things seem to be going well until members of the group start getting killed off one-by-one by a mysterious person. REVIEW: I wasn’t very familiar with Phobia before I watched it but I thought that it sounded like it could be pretty interesting. I …