Welcome to the late 80s. This was one of those video rental boxes I used to look at and wonder what it was like. The title was ridiculous and the box art made it look kind of spooky. The story starts with bad girl MaryLou Maloney's accidental death in the 50s. Flash forward to "present day" when a high school girl, Vicki, becomes possessed…
A classic monster movie from the late 80s, Pumpkinhead is FX master Stan Winston's first foray into film direction. It stars Lance Henriksen as the lead, Ed Harley, who owns a general store out in the middle of nowhere. After a terrible accident involving Ed's son Billy and some city slicker campers driving dirt bikes recklessly, Ed seeks revenge from a backwoods witch. Using the…
The movie opens with a flashback where some sadistic pre-teens torment a girl who just wanted to play hide and seek with them. The girl falls out of a window and dies, setting the stage for a classic revenge tale. Fast forward 6 years and Jamie Lee Curtis is the girl's grown up sister. Someone wants to kill all the kids that had a…
Look, I'm a die hard Alien fan. I loved the first movie for its creepy subtleties, the second one for its humor and bombast, and the third one for its darkness and attempt at something fresh. I even liked some parts of Alien: Resurrection, though it was terribly flawed. Then time passed and eventually we got the mother of all pre-prequels: Prometheus. I wanted…
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