Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A 747 carrying three hundred passengers crashes killing everyone on board but the pilot. The sole survivor miraculously walks away unharmed, with no memory of what caused the crash. The victim’s ghosts return to haunt the lone survivor while taking vengeance on anyone who desecrates their memory. REVIEW: 1981’s The Survivor was produced during the 70’s …
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Film Review: Bloody Birthday (1981)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: You think kids today are bad than you should check out this one from the early 80’s, these kids are downright evil. Three kids born during an eclipse are born without a conscience and proceed to terrorize a small town in this sicko classic from everyone’s favorite mom and pop video shop. REVIEW: Directed by: Ed Hunt …
Read More »Film Review: An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: 2 american Backpackers are touring around europe and have arrived in a desolate part of the UK . Before long they are warned by the Locals of The Slaughtered Lamb to avoid the moors at night. Shortly afterwards they are attcked my a mysterious beast which kills one of them and wounds the other. the beast …
Read More »Film Review: Nightmare (aka ‘Nightmare in a Damaged Brain’) (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A mental-patient, who is troubled with horrible nightmares, has escaped from his hospital. Now on the streets, he can’t help killing innocent people. But there is one family he is more than interested in and when he tries to kill them, he finds that it’s not that easy.
Read More »Film Review: Night School (1981)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Someone is killing off the female students who are taking night classes at a local college. Each victim is decapitated and has her head thrown into the nearest body of water for some unknown reason. The detectives working the case discover a connection between the victims and a certain professor at the college, which makes him their …
Read More »Film Review: Piranha Part 2: The Spawning (1981)
Rate This Movie 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 …
Read More »Film Review: Nightmare (1981)
Rate This Movie 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. …
Read More »Film Review: The Pit (1981)
SYNOPSIS: A solitary and strange boy wreaks revenge on the people who harasses him when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest. REVIEW: Director – Lew Lehman Starring – Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits In the interest of full disclosure I own this movie. I bought it as part of a double pack, drive-in double …
Read More »Film Review: Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
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: Many films cropped up in the late 1970s to early ‘80s looking to capitalize on the popularity of Jaws, …
Read More »Film Review: Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth …
Read More »Film Review: A Day of Judgment (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Most of the people that live in a small town in the 1920’s live lives full of various sins much to the chagrin of the local preacher (who decides to leave town as a result). One night a mysterious stranger rides into town, and he is determined to show them the error of their ways…by killing each and every …
Read More »Film Review: Oasis of the Zombies (1981)
SYNOPSIS: An expedition searching for treasure supposedly buried by the German army in the African desert during WW II comes up against an army of Nazi zombies guarding the fortune REVIEW: “Oasis of the Zombies” (1981) (sometimes referred to as “The Treasure of the Living Dead”) is one of those films that you’ve probably heard about, but never seen. There’s …
Read More »Film Review: Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
SYNOPSIS: “The year is 1936. Archeology professor Indiana Jones narrowly escapes death in a South American temple with a gold idol – by poison dart, fall, and finally a giant boulder that chases him out the front. An old enemy, Rene Belloq, steals the idol and then orders Hovito Indians after Indy. Indy, however, escapes back to the USA, where …
Read More »Film Review: Midnight Offerings (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Vivian has magic powers. She doesn’t hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and it comes to a mental struggle between the two women over David. …
Read More »Film Review: Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him. REVIEW: 1981 saw the third installment of the Omen series and perhaps (although a matter of opinion) it is probably the best film of the three. Directed by Graham Baker, the gripping demonic tale takes place years after Damien; …
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