Here we go again. Another useless sequel to a mostly useless series. There is nothing linked to the MaryLou mythos. Instead, an insane priest goes on a murderous rampage to cleanse the world of sluts and dirty heathens. The characters are supposed to be in high school, yet all the actors appear to be in their 30s. Instead of going to their prom, two…
MaryLou's spirit is back again in this campy horror sequel that no one ever wanted. Alex is a typical high school student who sucks at studying, has a girlfriend, looks like he's 30, and becomes the main pawn for the evil ghost of MaryLou. He has visions of her and then she makes him dispose of bodies with a bumbling musical score to cement…
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…
I kinda feel like this one should be called Halloween 5: The Final Night He Came Home. Or Halloween: The Final Revenge.Otherwise, I have no idea that the series was supposed to be done for a 7 years. It's a direct continuation of part 4. Michael Myers is almost killed but gets away and then starts stalking his niece, played by Danielle Harris, who has a…
From horror masters George Romero and Stephen King comes this horror anthology. The movie starts with a kidnapped boy (Matthew Lawrence) being held by a housewife (Deborah Harry) as the intended main course of a dinner party. The boy attempts to stall the cooking process by reading some stories to the housewife from a big book called Tales from the Darkside that he was given…
An alien organism arrives on earth and starts taking over the human race by duplicating people while they sleep. The clones are identical in appearance but are usually missing their personality or well known character traits. By the time anyone figures it out, it's almost too late. Almost. Donald Sutherland plays health inspector Matthew, the one who puts together what is going on. We…
An alien canister crash lands in the 50s and releases a zombie virus. The first infected person is put on ice only to be thawed 30 years later by some punk kids trying to steal a cadaver for a frat pledge prank. 80s TEEN COMEDY HORROR TIME!!!!!!!! It's mostly slow going as the infection starts to spread in the form of fast-moving slug creatures…
A mad scientist and his assistant (Jeffrey Combs) create a device called The Resonator that allows them to see things beyond reality. Unspeakable, horrible things, which cause the mad scientist to be decapitated and his assistant put in a nuthouse for the murder. The doctor who treats the assistant gets him out of the nuthouse and they, along with a detective (Ken Foree from Dawn…
