Tag Archives: 1989

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier. REVIEW: So every now and then, you might find yourself asking “yunno what I feel like watching today? A good Rutger Hauer movie!” Of course you might make your way to the 1986’s release, The …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When Henry Jekyll’s experiments with cocaine have gotten out of control, he transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As Hyde he searches the London streets at night for his prey in whorehouses and opium dens. The police can’t catch him, he has nothing to lose but his mind. REVIEW: Director – Gerard Kikoine Starring – Anthony …

SYNOPSIS: A woman investigating her father’s mysterious death discovers that an evil spirit is responsible and it isn’t long before it starts taking out anyone it comes into contact with in a number of gruesome ways. REVIEW: Review-To be honest I had never even heard of Maya before I watched it so I went into it not knowing a single …

SYNOPSIS: The almost human son of “The Fly” searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wish to continue his father’s experiments. REVIEW: David Cronenberg’s “The Fly” (1986) is (In my opinion) the greatest film of his storied career. A perfect melding of science fiction and horror which surprisingly, also works as …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Toxic Avenger travels to Tokyo to search for his father and leaves his home (Tromaville) open to complete domination by an evil corporation.

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection. REVIEW: As some of you may know, Swamp Thing is a recurring character in DC comics. Created in the early ‘70s by Len …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 1939 a spaceship carrying four alien escaped prisoners crash-lands on Earth and the aliens take over the bodies of four locals. Fifty years later the aliens find out that an artist has written a comic book called “Space Avenger,” which they believe is about them. They go to New York to try to kill the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Typical Mondo in the style of Faces of Death REVIEW: This is one of those movies that folks might call a “shockumentary” – a movie that is most often found in the horror section of your video store, but claims to contain “REAL” footage of death and dismemberment. The most famous of these, of course, is …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he’s more than capable — busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot-spot. But …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of friends partying at a rental house in the middle of nowhere is terrorized by a homicidal, Satan-worshipping police officer. REVIEW: When I was in high school I came home one Friday night after hanging out with some friends to find my parents watching Psycho Cop on our VCR. Neither one of them really …

SYNOPSIS: A small town is terrorized by a demented killer. REVIEW: If you ask me some of the best movies are the simple ones. Killer! is a perfect example of this. I know my synopsis for it sounds mighty generic and simplistic, but that-in a nutshell-is the best way to describe this movie. It does have a very simple premise …

SYNOPSIS: Two daughters of mobsters get out of the sanitarium after having killed a boyfriend in the shower, supposedly cured and on the right track. They hold a party and invite all their old boyfriends, making all of them think there is still hope for a relationship. Then the boyfriends start disappearing one by one. REVIEW: The movie Murder Weapon …

SYNOPSIS: A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future. REVIEW: An apocalyptic cyberpunk martial arts driven action movie? Well there can be only 1 film that comes to mind at least from the late 80’s era, and that movie is the Jean-Claude Van Damme featured film “Cyborg“. With “Road Warrior” and “Mad Max Beyond …

SYNOPSIS: Four friends discover that an urban legend about a seductive phantom hitchhiker is no myth. Now the spectral beauty is intent on loving one of them to death. To lift the curse they must venture to an abandoned ghost town and face a parade of zombies and evil spirits. It’s a deranged paint-huffing Evil Dead wannabe from the director …

SYNOPSIS: While on vacation, suburbanite Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) wants nothing more than to fritter away his time at home — drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube. But when new, secretive neighbors move in next door, Ray and his friends (Bruce Dern and Rick Ducommun) let their paranoia get the best of them …