In 1891, the survivors of a prison ship wreck, including a medical officer, Lieutenant Claude de Ross (Claudio Cassinelli), and several prisoners, wash up on the shore of an uncharted island in the Caribbean. They are discovered by the island’s self-proclaimed owner, Edmond Rackham (Richard Johnson) and a woman named AmandaContinue Reading
The “Golden Age of Slasher Films” is widely considered to be between the late 1970s to 1984. Halloween, with its explosive box-office success in 1978, prompted a wave of clones and rip-offs that saturated theaters until their return on investment wasn’t profitable enough to keep the blood flowing. One of theContinue Reading
The Amityville Horror is based on the 1977 book by Jay Anson, which has been the subject of controversy since its publication as a “true story.” Both the book and the movie tell the story of George and Kathy Lutz (played in the movie by James Brolin and Margot Kidder), whoContinue Reading
Professor Alexander Saxton (Christopher Lee) has made a the scientific discovery of a lifetime in the frozen wilderness of Manchuria. Encased in ice are the fossilized remains of what could be the “missing link” between human and ape. He arranges for the transport of the remains back to Europe viaContinue Reading
Dr. Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) has just moved his family — wife, Rachel (Denise Crosby), daughter, Ellie (Blaze Berdahl), and young son, Gage (Mikos Hughes) — into an old home in the country. The neighbor across the road, Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne,) warns them about the trucks that speed byContinue Reading
Dario Argento’s Suspiria follows Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), a young American ballet student, who travels to Germany to study at a prestigious dance academy. When she arrives via taxi during a terrible thunderstorm, she sees a young woman run from the building. The next morning she discovers that the woman wasContinue Reading
Reporter Karen White (Dee Wallace) has been receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be a serial killer. She goes to meet him at an adult video store while wearing a wire for the local police. The meeting goes awry and the killer, named Eddie, is shot dead by police.Continue Reading