Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Four homicidal maniacs escape from an insane asylum when a black out causes the state of the art security system keeping them locked up malfunctions. After killing some staff members of the asylum they head toward their new psychiatrist’s house (who they want to kill as they think that he murdered the psychiatrist that he replaced), …
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Film Review: Generation X (1996)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A group of young mutants–humans with a genetic variation that gives them superpowers and makes them feared by the population at large–begin training at a school for heroes. Their studies are interrupted when they must rescue one of their number from a mad scientist who can enter others’ dreams. REVIEW: This 1996 Made-for-TV film might have …
Read More »Interview: Director Jack Sholder
From William Butler Yeats to Freddy Krueger and Beyond: An Interview with a True Cinema Maverick, Director Jack Sholder One of my very first experiences of quaking in my boots (er, sneakers really) at a horror feature in the theaters came in 1982 as a completely sponge-like, impressionable 15-year-old was accompanied by his dad to the local second-run house to …
Read More »Film Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)
SYNOPSIS: A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him to continue his murdering in the real world. REVIEW: In 1985, hot off the tail off the successful release of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” came the rather odd follow up “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge“. That notion wasn’t …
Read More »Film Review: The Hidden (1987)
SYNOPSIS: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who’s borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in the chase. …
Read More »Nightmare on Elm St. II Director Jack Sholder on Horror Happens Radio to Promote “Freddy fest” May 9th
Horror filmmaker Jack Sholder (THE HIDDEN & WISHMASTER 2) will be talking live on Tues May 9th with the Rondo Nominated Radio Host & Writer Jay Kay to open THE HORROR HAPPENS RADIO SHOW at 325 PM EST/1225 PM WEST. They will be talking about his entry into the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET franchise as well as the up and coming FREDDY FEST …
Read More »Film Review: Arachnid (2001)
SYNOPSIS: A secret expedition, to a South Pacific island, is searching for an unknown deadly virus. Loren Mercer, ex-Navy pilot, is in the South Pacific looking for her ex-boyfriend, Captain John Lightfoot; who disappeared while on a secret mission. What Mercer doesn’t know is that Lightfoot collided with an alien spacecraft that discharged biological material all over the island that …
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