Tag Archives: 1990

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the 1950’s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area. REVIEW: Being a little kid before the days of the Internet was a different world. You were kept in the dark about a lot …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait. REVIEW: So I am guessing that every review starts out this way…., no, not the …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him. REVIEW: The anthology horror movie; a sub-genre that’s seen more than its fair share of weird, wonderful and – let’s face it – pretty wonky efforts over the years. These go back much further than one might expect, with …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A guy in a basketball mask starts knocking off (well, kind of) the players of a crappy college basketball team. REVIEW: Several nights ago my wife was looking through movies on Tubi and asked if I’d ever seen Night of the Dribbler. When I said that I hadn’t she was surprised because apparently it was made …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An alien (Matthias Hues) travels to earth on a mission to harvest human endorphins to sell on the intergalactic narcotics market. Meanwhile, undercover cop Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is determined to avenge the death of his partner at the hands of a gang of upscale drug dealers known as The White Boys. Once the rogue cop …

SYNOPSIS: “A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.” REVIEW: Written and directed by Robert Resnikoff, The First Power turns thirty. This is a movie that I have always remembered and watched. Jeff Kober portraying Patrick Channing. Kober starts off with a mask …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “In Vietnam on the 6th October 1971, American soldier Jacob Singer is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in a New York subway while going home late at night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah, lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel in …

SYNOPSIS: As a young man Luther watches a geek being goaded into biting the head off of a chicken, by a torch wielding mob. Somehow related to this, he trips, knocking out his front teeth and tasting his own blood. Upon that taste, for reasons beyond logical understanding his psyche is damaged beyond repair. Years later he is released from …

SYNOPSIS: George Romero and Dario Argento’s modern takes on two of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short stories, “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” and “The Black Cat,” both set in Pittsburgh in the 1990s. REVIEW: Review-I am a bit of a literature nerd (I have a degree in English and have taught middle and high school Language Arts …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him. REVIEW: “I don’t believe in using too much graphic violence, although I’ve done it. It’s better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Detective Russell Logan (Lou Diamond Phillips) breathes a sigh of relief when the serial murderer the Pentagram Killer (Jeff Kober) is finally caught and executed. But it turns out the detective’s work is far from finished when he discovers that the killer has transferred his soul into another living body. With the help of a psychic …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way. REVIEW: I’m not entirely sure my brain had completely recovered …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Lt. Kinderman and Father Dyer cheer each other up on the anniversary of the death of their mutual friend, Father Damien Karras, by going to see “It’s a Wonderful Life” at the local theater in Georgetown, near Washington D.C. But there’s no cheering Kinderman while a particularly cruel and gruesome serial killer is at large. His murders, …

SYNOPSIS: Back in the 60’s a young pledge named Sid died as the result of a hazing stunt gone wrong. Years later he returns, and he isn’t happy, slaughtering anyone he encounters at his old college in the name of revenge. REVIEW: My ex and I rented Pledge Night one Saturday night back in the summer of 1995 and while …

SYNOPSIS: A woman goes to a back alley abortion clinic, only to have her aborted fetus attack her, her boyfriend, and everyone else at the clinic. REVIEW: Trust me when I tell you that “The Suckling” is not a movie that I ever planned on watching. Between the cover art and the title, I just couldn’t see watching something that …