When Navy pilot Javi Mercer has a strange encounter, he winds up ditching his experimental stealth fighter, landing on a jungle island and encountering something really bizarre. A mysterious, cloaked ship has crashed here … and its extraterrestrial pilot is having a fit. Actually, he’s being eaten by something with big mean, nasty legs and […]
Read more "Eight Eyes to Watch You: Arachnid (2001)"Sam Nash (Patrick Lowe) is a photographer for the local university paper, and he likes taking pics around campus. He’s not terribly hard hitting, so when he tries to convince animal researcher Dr. Ethridge (Bo Svenson) to give him an interview, he gets shot down and pretty much shrugs … only to ask again later […]
Read more "Anger Management: Primal Rage (1988)"Eddie Whitt is walking wounded. He’s tried to cover those wounds with martial arts training, marksmanship courses, and a tough demeanor, but this is scab tissue at best. Easily ripped free by misadventure. He refuses to let the scabs set and the scar tissue to develop, preferring to tear them open every day. Then again, […]
Read more "The Meeting of Yourself Is the Meeting of a Stranger: Tom Piccirilli’s The Dead Letters"It all starts with a trio of kids in a cabin. Teresa (Mirabai Pease) is trying to get some pages turned on Wuthering Heights, but her cousin Jessica (Anna-Maree Thomas) got sick or something, leaving her stupid boyfriend Caleb (Richard Crouchley) spinning his wheels. Meanwhile, an eerie presence glides through the woods, over the rivers, […]
Read more "Mommy Is With the Maggots, Now: Evil Dead Rise (2023)"Morgana (Holly Fields) and her boyfriend Eric (Chris Weber) are thieves in the midst of swiping paintings and objects d’art from an LA museum when the wrong step is taken, the wrong case smashed, and the alarm goes off. Soon enough, they are on the run and trading shots from a pistol-packing security guard (Al […]
Read more "Fulfill The Prophecy: Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)"Crystal “White Girl” (Natasha Lyonne) got flushed by the system. A sadistic judge (John Landis) sent her to juvie until she comes of age and then on to grown up prison for another 25 years. What did she do? Ripped off her mother’s bag of crack, tried to sell it. She seduced johns, beat them […]
Read more "Devil Inside, Devil Inside, Every Single One of Us The Devil Inside: Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby"Early in her career, Catherine Cavendish toyed with the concepts of Egyptian mythology and gothic horror in a trio of novels for Lyrical Underground. One of her current publishers has gathered all three of those books together into a single omnibus volume, added new cover art, and unleashed them for new readers. The author was […]
Read more "Relics, Rituals, and Revenge: Catherine Cavendish’s Nemesis of the Gods Trilogy"Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) has been serving Dracula (Nicolas Cage) for over a century as his titular film opens. He’s betrayed every principle, his wife and daughter in order to protect this horrible Narcissistic “master,” pulling up stakes and moving when things get too hot, when the vampire hunters come calling (and are inevitably defeated). It’s […]
Read more "Yes, Master: Renfield (2023)"For Detective Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) and his partner Cliff Willace (Ed O’Ross), the terror starts with a mild mannered guy named Jack DeVries (Chris Mulkey) who goes on a spree, butchering people, robbing stores and banks, and stealing Ferraris that he rides at top speed. When the police chase him, he goes kill crazy, […]
Read more "I Want It: The Hidden"Vanessa Lutz (Reese Witherspoon) does not have the easiest life. She’s illiterate but going to school and in love with Chopper (Bokeem Woodbine), but there are a lot of things stacked against her. Her mom Ramona (Amanda Plummer) turns tricks right there outside their no tell motel room, and her stepdad Larry (Michael T. Weiss) […]
Read more "The Long and Winding Road to Grandma’s House: Freeway (1996)"
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