Tag Archives: 1987

SYNOPSIS: Dodger must confront the struggles of life as he is visited by the Garbage Pail Kids and intimidated by some older bullies. REVIEW: The opening credit “A Topps Chewing Gum Production” does not bode well for the film to follow and sure enough “The Garbage Pail Kids” follows through on this ill omen. It fails to deliver on every …

SYNOPSIS: An academy coed (Virginia Madsen) discovers a faculty plot to achieve immortality with a serum made from students’ brains. REVIEW: “Zombie High” belongs to that particular little subset of school-based horror/thrillers wherein the teachers are villains and students are guinea pigs. Watching it I recalled such films as “Strange Behaviour” (aka “Dead Kids”), “Disturbing Behaviour” and, to an extent, …

SYNOPSIS: A psychiatrist takes a group of her patients (suffering from various mental problems) on a trip to the desert for special therapy. Unfortunately for them there is a killer running around in said desert and when everything is said and done none of them may make it back home alive. REVIEW: I wanted to like Blood Frenzy. I really, …

SYNOPSIS: An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman’s house. They are killed and the lamp is moved to a museum to be studied. The curator’s daughter is soon possessed by the genie and invites her friends to spend the night at the museum, along with some uninvited guests. The genie kills them off …

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends go camping out in the woods only to be stalked by some loon running around in a bear skin. REVIEW: I don’t know about anyone else who watched this movie, but the entire time I was sitting through it I kept thinking about Silent Bob’s Russian cousin from Clerks singing his song called Berserker. I …

SYNOPSIS: In her search for a missing friend, a young student crosses paths with a private detective who offers his services. Once her guard is down he is able to abduct her, and she wakes up in his lair – a shipping container on the back of a truck perched atop a tall building in Tokyo. It turns out that …

SYNOPSIS: In a small town, people are being murdered by having their throats cut. REVIEW: Tiny Tim took the world by storm in the late 1960s. He covered a song called Tiptoe Through the Tulips with a ukulele and skyrocketed to popularity. Sadly, it would be his only popular song. The novelty would soon wear off and Tiny Tim would …