The Forest (1982) Directed by Don Jones. Starring Dean Russell, Gary Kent and Tomi Barrett. Two couples camping in the mountains are terrorized by a cave-dwelling hermit with a taste for people meat. This slasher film, from the director of “Schoolgirls In Chains” and “The Love Butcher,” was shot in … Read More
Attack Of The Beast Creatures (1985) Directed by Michael Stanley. Starring Robert Nolfi and Julia Rust, neither of whom made another movie beyond this one. The quarreling survivors of a shipwreck wash up on an island populated by tiny monsters. We open with our protagonists stuck in a lifeboat … Read More
Escape Room (2019) Starring Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell and Tyler Labine. Directed by Adam Robitel. Six strangers with haunted pasts are invited to a mysterious escape room event that proves deadly. Mild spoilers follow. At the outset, we see a young man frantically emerge through a wall … Read More
Editor’s Note: Last year was a veritable fright fest of new films. Here we present the top 10 scariest horror movies of 2018 10) Revenge After being raped and almost killed, a woman rises up to slaughter her attackers. You could make the argument that the multi-genre “Revenge” … Read More
Honeymoon Horror (1982) Starring Paul Iwanski, Bob Wagner and Cheryl Black. Directed by Harry Preston.On a secluded couples resort island off the coast of Florida, a series of gruesome murders tied to the resort owner’s dark past terrify the newlywed guests. We open with a married couple, Frank and Elaine, … Read More
I am rather new to both Facebook and Twitter. With Google Plus, which was my media of choice, sliding into the abyss this coming August, I was kind of forced into looking into these services. I have to admit, I really like them. A few weeks ago, during a discussion … Read More
The Possession Of Hannah Grace (2018) Directed by Diederik Van Rooijen. Starring Shay Mitchell, Grey Damon and Kirby Johnson. A troubled Boston morgue attendant and her coworkers are terrorized by the demonically animated corpse of a young girl killed in a failed exorcism. Originally given the far more effective title “Cadaver.” … Read More
Suspiria (2018) Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Starring Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth, Tilda Swinton and Jessica Harper. Amidst the violent political turmoil of 1977 Berlin, young American dancer Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) discovers that her elite ballet academy is run by a coven of bloodthirsty witches feeding on the … Read More
Terrifier (2017) An evil clown with a huge bloodlust slashes his way through anyone who insults him or just happens to be around. Starring David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown. Directed by Damien Leone. Related to the short film “Terrifier” (2011) and “All Hallow’s Eve” (2013), both starring … Read More
Halloween (2018) Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Andi Matichak. 40 years after terrorizing babysitter Laurie Strode and murdering her friends, incarcerated serial killer Michael Myers escapes to kill again in the small Illinois town of Haddonfield. Mild spoilers follow. We open with … Read More
