Tag Archives: 1981

SYNOPSIS: When a hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island, the crew discovers Dr. Frankenstein’s ancestor carrying on the family work, along with a race of mutants and a population of Amazons. REVIEW:Today’s B-movie romp is 1981’s Frankenstein Island, which centers on a group of guys that were traveling in hot air balloons in hopes of breaking some records. However, …

  SYNOPSIS: In one of the more angry entries into the slasher cycle a young soldier returns home from the war only to find that his sweetheart has left him for another man. The soldier tracks down his sweetheart and her new lover and quickly impales the both of them on a pitchfork during the local college’s graduation dance. After …

SYNOPSIS: After a woman tells her husband that she wants a divorce she starts acting stranger and stranger as some pretty bizarre things begin to happen all around them.  REVIEW: I know this guy that fancies himself as some sort of intellectual (even though he isn’t as nearly smart as he thinks he is) that only watches “intelligent” movies that the …

SYNOPSIS: A feral man who lives out in the wilderness kills anyone stupid enough to enter his woods. REVIEW: I am a connoisseur of 1980’s slasher films and take pride in the fact that I have almost seen every single one of them. However, from time to time some of them manage to slip through the cracks and I don’t …

SYNOPSIS: Sitting around the campfire, a camp counselor tells the campers about the story of Madman Marz, a mean-spirited famer who went nuts one night years ago and slaughtered his entire family. He was supposedly killed by an angry mob as a result, but his dead body disappeared as if it just got up and walked away. The legend goes …

SYNOPSIS: Three friends on snow mobiles come across what appears to be a closed-down ski resort, only to wish that they had kept going once the harridan of an owner reluctantly takes them in with her two sons and a mystery in the basement. REVIEW: Ghostkeeper (1981), a highly atmospheric horror film from Canada, begins with a title card that …

SYNOPSIS: “Damien, the Antichrist, is a thirty-something CEO of a huge multinational corporation and the new ambassador for Great Britain (Scotland, England & Wales), but he lusts for control of the world. The Dark One’s only enemies are seven monks sworn to Damien’s destruction with sacred daggers forged for that one purpose. As the monks hunt Damien, he orders the …

SYNOPSIS: Julia, a young teacher of deaf children, is haunted by memories of brutal abuse at the hands of her identical twin sister Mary, who is slowly dying in an insane asylum. After a failed attempt at reconciliation Mary escapes from the asylum and suddenly everyone Julia cares about starts dying mysteriously. REVIEW: It feels strange to watch a movie …

SYNOPSIS: Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a Penanggalan; a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck. It is now up to the local holy men who are then enforced …

SYNOPSIS: A family is confronted in their house by an evil force. REVIEW: Director: Lindsey C. Vickers Starring: Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow and Samantha Weysom During my schooldays, there was this guy I used to hang out with all the time. He was rude, incredibly stubborn, didn’t shower very often and smoked at every available opportunity. And although I still …

SYNOPSIS: A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men kill each other… REVIEW: Le Bunker de la Derniere Rafale, or The Bunker of the Last Gunshots, is a …

SYNOPSIS: A Family moves into a house inhabited by scary creatures and a number of close calls ensue. REVIEW: Director – Howard R. Cohen Starring – Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Jeffrey Tambor There are some movies that stand the test of time and no matter how long ago they were made still manage to enthrall audiences. I really wish I …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Potters Bluff, Rhode Island. may seem to be a sleepy little town. At least for the casual visitor and the local sheriff, Daniel Gillis. However, all of a sudden, there are a lot of strange murders where strangers or people passing through are killed by mobs of townspeople. Only Sheriff Gillis has no clue to what’s going …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome fifty-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley’s twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Ghost Story (1981) is another film about a cohesive social group (not religious zealots this time, but …

SYNOPSIS: A killer named the Breather tallies up a score of teenage bodies in this scathing parody of slasher films. REVIEW: