SYNOPSIS: A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks. REVIEW: 1981 was the year of the “Werewolf” in Hollywood as no less than three major films were released that year that featured menaces of the lupine variety. First out of the gate was Joe Dante’s classic “The Howling” which featured Rob Bottin’s amazing creature …
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Film Review: Murder Syndrome (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Michael is a successful actor who is currently playing a killer in his new movie; he goes for a weekend visit with his girlfriend Deborah to his mother’s house. Deborah has no idea what she is in for and to say the least the creepy “butler” Oliver is only a glimpse of what is to come. Deborah has no …
Read More »Film Review: The Howling (1981)
SYNOPSIS: “There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at an adult video store, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn’t want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in …
Read More »Film Review: Time Bandits (1981)
SYNOPSIS: “A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness …
Read More »Film Review: Hell Night (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds. REVIEW: I hate Linda Blair. There! I said it and I mean it too. Why do I hate Ms. Blair …
Read More »Film Review: The Burning (1981)
SYNOPSIS: A former summer camp caretaker, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong, lurks around an upstate New York summer camp bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement. REVIEW: 1981’s “The Burning” was something of a “Missing” movie for a long time. Although it did get a small theatrical release back in the day, it was not a …
Read More »Film Review: Absurd (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Priest comes to small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then decides to go on a killing spree of its own REVIEW: Absurd is one of those horror films that use the premise of a hard to kill demon in …
Read More »Film Review: The Other Hell (1981)
SYNOPSIS: Nuns become possessed by the Devil and lust after the abbot! REVIEW: Ah Satan, that embodiment of all the hatred and evil that resides in the heart of man. Fun fact: Satan was originally depicted in art as being blue since the definition of hell was nothing more than the absence from God, and was therefore assumed to be …
Read More »Film Review: Galaxy of Terror (1981)
SYNOPSIS: SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations. REVIEW: As we all know by now, Roger Corman helped to launch the career of pretty much everyone in Hollywood. I couldn’t tell you how many films he has produced or how many of them I have actually seen but …
Read More »Film Review: Inseminoid (1981)
SYNOPSIS: A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: The Funhouse (1981)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Two young couples on a double date go to a mystifying carnival. For fun, they decide to spend the night in the funhouse. When they witness a vicious murder, they suddenly find themselves in terrible danger. REVIEW: The film was momentarily banned in the UK and labeled as a ‘video nasty’. This was because the movie was …
Read More »Film Review: Halloween II (1981)
SYNOPSIS: This bloodier sequel picks up where the original ended. An injured Jamie Lee Curtis recuperates in the hospital not knowing that murderous Michael Myers is licking his wounds in a nearby room. The hospital setting makes for spooky sequences with Myers’ slow footsteps echoing loudly on the tile floor. The diagnosis for impressionable viewers: long nights of insomnia. REVIEW: …
Read More »TV Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (1981)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An Earth man and his alien friend escape Earth’s destruction and go on a truly strange adventure as space hitchhikers. REVIEW: “There is a theory which states that if anybody discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. …
Read More »Film Review: The Evil Dead (1981)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. They discover The Book of the Dead and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape– which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of …
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