Tag Archives: 1986

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A carnivorous alien creature is accidentally beamed to a family’s house from space via their new satellite dish and goes about eating everyone in sight. REVIEW: I remember watching TerrorVision when I was a kid with my cousin Marty on VHS one night back in the summer of 1986 (if memory serves me correctly, we also …

SYNOPSIS: A group of college friends decide to spend their spring break relaxing, getting drunk, and having sex at their rich friend’s mansion that is located on an island. Unfortunately though, there is a mysterious killer on the island as well who is stalking the group and picking them off one-by-one in a series of gruesome ways. Is the killer …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Sometime in the distant future, a fledgling band gets an opportunity for a breakthrough, if they can make it in time to a faraway planet to perform in a very popular club. REVIEW: Director Albert Pyun has always been kind of an odd director to me. I’m not talking about his personality so much as the …

SYNOPSIS: A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. REVIEW: “Be Afraid. Be very afraid” So went the tagline to director David Cronenberg’s “The Fly”, more a re-imagining than a remake of the original 1958 shocker. I remember seeing the posters for this film all over back …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: A mad doctor displays a selection of her more gruesome case studies. Starting with one family whose heads explode if they get angry and a woman whose heart explodes if she’s surprised, the doctor then presents us with a man whose right half wants to kill his left. Other subjects put on display are the effects of …

SYNOPSIS: Leslie is in an abusive relationship with her fiancé Josh and needs a break from him so she heads out to a cabin by the lake with her best friend Janna. After they get there they take a job at a local diner and meet nice guy Tor (who takes an instant liking to Leslie). What they don’t know is that Tor is actually …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When two fraternity brothers thaw out a corpse from their school clinic, evil slugs from outer space that had been frozen inside the body race across campus, infecting lusty coeds and turning them into flesh-hungry zombies. Now it’s up to a chain-smoking former cop (Tom Atkins) to save the whole town from the alien menace. Fred …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The students at a private art school are unaware that the school’s headmistress is secretly using a machine to extract the life energy from young girls there. REVIEW: It takes effort for a movie to be completely and utterly forgettable. It has to be bad enough that the audience has no vested interest in what happens, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man gradually transforms into a robotic, metal-encrusted monster. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! And I’m really excited about this one. Today we have Futsû saizu no kaijin (The Phantom of Regular Size), a film from 1986 written and directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto. Some of you out there may recognize the director’s name. That’s because he …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Two people, a man and a woman enters a warehouse that will change their life and minds forever. REVIEW: Over the years I have seen my fair share of weird films and avant-garde cinema. I can even consider myself a fan of such filmmakers as Kenneth Anger and Shinya Tsukamoto, both of whose film catalogues are …

SYNOPSIS: An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it. REVIEW: The Abomination is the first full-length movie written and directed by Bret McCormick (see also One Man War and Repligator), but …

SYNOPSIS: Upon visiting a secluded summer home, four high school girls are soon targeted by a horrific creature in the basement with a knowing housekeeper trying to keep the unspeakable heap secret and at bay using a flute. REVIEW: If I had to pick a favorite era of horror, it would easily be the late 70s through the end of the …

  SYNOPSIS: Reincarnated “Satanic Witch” from New Amsterdam, circa 1600’s comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people. REVIEW: Today’s dive into B-movie mania is a little film called Necropolis.It was executive produced by Charles Dance, a man who’s managed to make a name for himself in schlock cinema through his Empire Pictures …

SYNOPSIS: a babysitting uncle spins a trio of twisted bedtime stories freely adapted from the Brother’s Grimm. REVIEW Fairy tales have always been great source material for low budget filmmakers, primarily because the stories are public domain (AKA free), have built-in marquee value and the films can be distributed to a less discerning audience of children. During the sixties and …