It’s My Job: A Ghost Waits

When handyman extraordinaire Jack (MacLeod Andrews) winds up in the abandoned rental house, his boss Neal (Adam Stovall) asks him to, among his other duties, try to figure out why all the tenants at the place break their lease early. Well, there’s only so much Jack can do, since all the last tenants’ things are […]

Underground Goddamned Monsters: Tremors

Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) are pals and coworkers, a couple of handymen in the small town of Perfection in the lovely though arid American southwest. After reaching a boiling point and deciding to get the heck out of town, heading for the medium sized city of Bixby for good, they encounter Edgar […]

The Horrors, Black Humors, and Heartbreak of War (YA Edition): The Great Yokai War

Ino Tadashi (Kamiki Ryûnosuke) is a new kid in the local village. He was born in Tokyo, and his dad (Tsuda Kanji) and sister (Narumi Riko) still live there. His mom (Kaho Minami) has moved back in with her dad, the often drunk Shuntaro (Bunta Sagawara). He’s not used to the spooky customs and rituals […]

The Haunted Tokaido Road: Along With Ghosts

When the yakuza killers arrive at their ambush site, an old man waits there. Jinbei (Hidari Bokuzen) is the guardian of this sacred place, and he warns them not to shed blood here for a terrible curse will befall them. The leader, Higoruma (Yamaji Yoshindo), is unimpressed and commits to his plan. In addition to […]

Don’t Mess With Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

When a couple of tomb robbers looting Babylonian ruins find a hidden chamber, they expect riches. Instead, they release a giant green headed ogre monster with a deadly staff named Diamon (Hasimoto Chikara). Soon enough, he whisks away across the sands and waters, in search of a good man to corrupt. He encounters Isobe Hyogo […]

Respect My AWE-thority: 100 Monsters

When the residents of a local tenement wake up one morning, they discover construction workers outside, ready to knock down the local shrive as well as their residence. It’s all making way for a brothel and other big income ventures. To hell with the poor … and besides, the shrine is to some old beings […]

Par for the Course: Blades

So there’s this golf course and country club owned by a typical horror flick businessman, Norman Osgood (William Towner), which has just brought in a brand new Pro to help its members. Roy Kent (Robert North) was a talented golfer before he picked up the habit of drinking instead of practicing. Kelly Lange (Victoria Scott) […]

Party Girls in Peril: Shallow Grave (1987)

When a quartet of Catholic University girls head south, they expect to find cute boys and fun times on Fort Lauderdale beaches. Along the way, they even meet a few hunky lads from Michigan (!), Chad (Vincent Tumeo) and Owen (Gregg Todd Davis). This is the stuff of fun and silly college comedy flicks. However, […]

Choosing Horror as a Vocabulary: Deadline (1980)

Steven Lessey (Stephen Young) is a horror novelist and screenwriter whose work has found wild levels of success. Unfortunately, that success has come at a cost: his personal life is a living hell. His wife Elizabeth (Sharon Masters) has come to hate him, his children Sharon (Cindy Hinds), Philip (Philip Leonard), and David (Tod Woodcroft) […]

She IS My Mother, Ya Know: Flesh-Eating Mothers

So, there’s this dad, Roddy Douglas (Louis Homyak), who doesn’t have good sex at home with his wife. What’s he do? He visits all the other women on his block. He’s pretty good about having tests done to check for STDs, and his doctor (Allen Rickman, no not that Alan Rickman) assures him he doesn’t […]

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