Blood Mania, Devil’s Nightmare, Sweet House of Horrors
BLOOD MANIA (1970) Tight sweater-donning Vicky (Maria de Aragon) is a nympho—a female character trait frequently found in low-budget horror movies of the time period—who’s plotting the murder of her ailing father so she can inherit daddy’s fortune. After attending…
Cellar Dweller, Island of the Fishmen, Mutant
CELLAR DWELLER (1987) Using a Satanic text for inspiration, comic book artist Colin Childress (Jeffrey Combs) accidentally conjures his creation (an eight-foot tall demonic creature) into the real world and the two go up in flames. Years later, Childress’s house…
Breeders, Necropolis, The Stepford Children
BREEDERS (1986) Virginal women in New York City are being maimed and raped by an E.T. that resembles a housefly. When the alien gets the urge to mate, it takes over the body of human man only to messily break…
Heartstopper, Psychos In Love, The Unnamable
HEARTSTOPPER (1989) Interesting if not fully successful vampire yarn in which a surgeon in the American Revolution (Kevin Kindlin) is executed for drinking human blood—whether vampirism was common practice in 1776 is never explained—but reawakens in 1980s Pittsburgh. Kindlin tries…
Angst, Forbidden World, It’s Alive III
ANGST (1983) A mentally deranged man (Irwin Leder) is released from prison ten years after committing cold-blooded murder and immediately sets up shop at an isolated house where he indulges in terrorizing its inhabitants. Since the film is narrated by…
The Black Cat, Equinox, The Ripper
THE BLACK CAT (1989) (AKA: Demons 6: De Profundis) While filming a trashy adaptation of Poe’s The Black Cat, actress Anna (Florence Guérin) is cast by her director husband (Urbano Barberini) to play the witch in an upcoming remake of…
Destroyer, Eyes of Fire, The Zero Boys
DESTROYER (1988) The worst prison riot in American history results in the assumed escape of serial killer Ivan Moser (Lyle Alzado), who disappears the night of his execution. The soon-abandoned jailhouse becomes the perfect location for a movie crew making…
Daughters of Satan, Madness, Psycho III
DAUGHTERS OF SATAN (1972) Art dealer Tom Selleck becomes obsessed with a 17th century painting that features a witch who Iooks exactly like his wife (Barra Grant). Subsequent strange incidents propel him to investigate the painting’s provenance, leading him to…
Goodnight God Bless, I Was A Teenage Zombie, Slime City
GOODNIGHT, GOD BLESS (1987) (AKA: Lucifer) A priest opens fire on a group of schoolchildren for no apparent reason and subsequently goes on a pointless killing spree. The survivor of the shooting, a small girl (Jane Price) who seems completely…