Bloody New Year, Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting, Killer Party, and More
BLOODY NEW YEAR (1987) Enormously stupid British slasher about a group of wankers left stranded on a small island after their boat capsizes. Seeking shelter from the chilly July sunshine, they find an empty hotel that’s seemingly stuck in time,…
Halloween: Resurrection, and Rob Zombie’s Halloween & Halloween II
HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION (2002) In one of the many WTF moments in the Halloween franchise, Resurrection boasts perhaps the most insanely ridiculous explanation for Michael Myers’ return. After mistaking a paramedic as Michael and cutting off the poor guy’s head at…
The Burning Moon, Dracula, The Exorcist III, and Trick
THE BURNING MOON (1992) It’s always disheartening when you sit down to watch a movie that has notoriety and, by the end, you find yourself more bored than shocked – a good example is A Serbian Film. This is also…
Def by Temptation, Disturbing Behavior, Endangered Species, and The Fly II
DEF BY TEMPTATION (1990) Young minister-in-training, Joel (James Bond III), while visiting his childhood friend, K (Kadeem Hardison), in New York City gets caught up in sinful desire in the form of a demonic seductress known as Temptation (Cynthia Bond).…
Halloween Ends (Badly)
By Frank Pittarese Here’s what happens: Completely disregarding her emotional and mental state of the previous films — and despite the brutal murder of her daughter — Laurie Strode is living a happy, pie-making suburban life in Haddonfield, with her…
Spotlight: V/H/S
V/H/S (2012) The first of the low-fi found footage anthology series offers five unsettling tales of terror from a handful of filmmakers, including Ti West and Adam Wingard. A group of petty criminals are hired to break into a remote…
Alien Predators, The Fog, and More
ALIEN PREDATORS (1987) Bland American tourists traveling through the Spanish countryside are beset by parasitic alien beings that have taken over the minds of the locals and turned them into killers. It sounds like a rip-off of John McTiernan’s Predator,…
Angel Heart, Body Snatchers, Hellraiser, and Tales from the Hood
ANGEL HEART (1987) Interesting, but sedate, filming of William Hjortsberg’s book, Falling Angel, about 1950s gumshoe, Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke), who’s hired by the strange Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down a former client who disappeared years earlier.…
Deadstream, Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, and More
DEADSTREAM (2022) If The Blair Witch Project and Evil Dead 2 had a baby it might look like Deadstream, a funny, reverent, and highly inventive little scare show. To facilitate his comeback, disgraced internet celebrity, Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter, co-director),…