Orphaned Johnathan Graves (Peter Liapis) is moving back to the old family home and bringing his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) with him. The house is a fixer upper, but nevertheless a sprawling manor with grounds. While searching around the place, trying to get a feel for the family he never knew, Johnathan discovers a large […]
Read more "And Don’t It Make Your Brown Eyes Greeeen: Ghoulies (1985)"Willy Griff is an actor with aspirations of greatness. Sadly, his agent can’t seem to get many doors open. But when he arranges for one, Griff is happy to give it a shot. Sadly, he is interrupted on his way out the door by a private detective whose client wants a word. That client is […]
Read more "The Perfect Crime: Fredric Brown’s The Murderers"Emma (Kaley Cuoco) and Dave Brackett (David Oyelowo) are a couple living the dream. Nice house. Two kids, upper middle class lifestyle. Dave’s coworker Meyer (Dominic Holmes) calls them a goal couple, the kind of pairing most relationships aspire to. Well, that isn’t quite the truth. Emma is on the road a lot. Dave handles […]
Read more "You’re A Whatnow? Role Play (2024)"When the Malone family relocates on base, they are not a military family making a home during a new deployment. Dad Steve (Terry Kinney) is an EPA man, looking to perform some tests to better understand biochemical weapon storage and the impact this is having on the environment. His wife Carol (Meg Tilly) is a […]
Read more "Where You Gonna Go? Where You Gonna Run? Where You Gonna Hide? Nowhere … ‘cause There’s No One Like You Left: Body Snatchers (1993)"When folks near the Ramapo Mountain State Forest discovered a six or seven year old child abandoned in the woods, he became a popular mystery: who was this “Real-Life Mowgli,” how long had he been out there, how did he know how to survive, and where did he come from? Those questions were never answered, […]
Read more "Life Comes at You Fast: Harlan Coben’s The Boy from the Woods"In the days of the Teutonic Knights (around the year 1000 C.E./A.D.), a gang of afflicted, demonic disease bearing infidels were put to the sword. Before evil energies could resurrect the bodies and seek revenge, a priest (Enrico Osterman) demanded that the mass grave be covered and consecrated. Later, a church would be erected on […]
Read more "Calling Up What Cannot Be Put Down: The Church (1989)"Once upon a time, Michael worked for a department of defense organization that operated under somewhat shady circumstances, trying to utilize nanotechnology for the end goal of public security. Well, that didn’t work out so well. An accident occurred (or was it an accident at all?) that killed everyone on site. Including Michael. However, unlike […]
Read more "On the Run: Dean Koontz’s After Death"Even though it’s Christmas Eve, David Carruthers (Joel McHale) has to work. His slick willy boss, Henry Waters (Justin Long), wants to close a deal with local oldster Roger Evans (William B. Davis), taking his house so he can move forward on his plans to make a megamall for the town. Well, Roger refuses to […]
Read more "Just Call Me Angel of the Mourning, Baby: It’s A Wonderful Knife"When Rose Brooks (Annie Ross) gets an opportunity to invest in a hotel, she wants to take a look at the property first. So, packing up her family—husband Freddie (Robert Champagne), pregnant daughter Jane (Linda Blair), and grandson Tommy (Michael Manchester)—as well as crew like architect Linda Sullivan (Catherine Hickland) and realtor Jerry Giordano (Rick […]
Read more "The Hotel with a Witch in the Walls: Witchery (1988)"Mia and her family have come to the United States from China chasing a dream. Unfortunately, the 1990s America they have come to does not have the opportunities they hope for. After two years of living out of their car, they then lucked into a job managing a motel for the wealthy Michael Yau. He […]
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