When Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti) agreed to score a horror film for director Sandra (Anny Papa), he finds the quiet retreat he’s been given is anything but quiet. The gardener who lives across the way is a perv, women stop by at all hours of the night (some looking for the former tenant, Linda, and others […]
Read more "This is Gonna Hurt: A Blade in the Dark (1983)"It’s a festive atmosphere when the latest edition of the Paradise calendar is released. That little enterprise features a dozen beautiful women, nekkid as the day they were born, and it is the jewel in the Paradise enterprise crown, a real win for Richard Trainor (Robert Culp). So big, it features a gala televised event, […]
Read more "A Snake in Paradise: Calendar Girl Murders"As Are You in the House Alone? (1978) begins, the camera creeps up a lovely little suburban neighborhood walk and to a nondescript house, enters through the front door and finds a disturbing scene. Young Gail Osborne (Kathleen Beller) lies on the floor of a contemporary living room, beaten and abused. As the authorities carry […]
Read more "He’s Watching, Always Watching: Are You in the House Alone?"Synopsis: The dead of night is that time when reality seems to fall away and dream logic intrudes on the real world. Such is the theme of the 1977 anthology picture Dead of Night, which presents a trio of stories (ala 1975’s Trilogy of Terror) from scenarist Richard Matheson and directed by Dan Curtis. The […]
Read more "Let’s Play Hide and Seek: Dead of Night"Synopsis: When Johnathan Harker (Murray Brown) went to Transylvania to meet a reclusive nobleman about purchasing some properties in Victorian England, he never suspected the fellow to be quite so eccentric. But there he is, living in a castle with protective Rom servants, a trio of voluptuous women (Virginia Wetherell, Barbara Lindley, and Sarah Douglas), […]
Read more "Dude, Stop Sucking: Dan Curtis’ Dracula"Synopsis: When The King of Rock and Roll kicked off his comeback tour in Las Vegas, 1969 he had been away from stage for almost a decade. “Living in seclusion” newscasters and commentators said. In the hours leading up to the performance, what did Elvis (Kurt Russel) think about? Well, as John Carpenter’s movie for […]
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