The Initiation is an American slasher film from 1984 directed by Larry Stewart. Starring Daphne Zuniga, Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, and James Read. Plot Since childhood, college student Kelly Fairchild has suffered from a recurring nightmare in which a strange man is burned alive in her childhood home. The nightmare began when Kelly suffered amnesia […]
The Last Starfighter is an American science fiction /space opera directed by Nick Castle. Starring Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan O’Herlihy, Norman Snow, and Kay E. Kuter. It may have been a cash-in on the success of Starwars and Wargames with a focus on arcade videogames. Plot Alex is a teenager […]
Zombie Holocaust also known as Dr. Butcher MD is an Italian horror film from 1980 with a mix up of the Zombie and Cannibal subgenres. It’s directed by Marino Girolami. Starring Ian McCulloch snd Alexandra Delli Colli. Written by Fabrizio de Angelis. Plot A hospital worker is found to have been devouring bodies in the […]
Blackout is a psychological thriller from 1985 directed by Douglas Hickox. Starring Keith Carradine and Richard Widmark. Blackout gained notoriety with Ed Sherman’s murder of his wife Ellen who was pregnant at the time on 3 August 1985 in Connecticut. Sherman was inspired by the film and used an airconditioner to slow decomposition and get […]
Deep Red or Profondo rosso is a giallo movie from 1975. It was directed by Dario Argenzo and features David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi. The music was made by Goblin an Italian band that made more scores like Suspiria for Agento. Plot Professor Giordani is attending a parapsychology conference and meets psychic medium Helga Ulmann. […]
Cannibal Ferrox, also known as Make Them Die Slowly in the US and as Woman from Deep River in Australia, is a 1981 Italian cannibal exploitation horror film written and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Plot Cannibal Ferrox A group of anthropologists take a trip to the jungle of Colombia to study native cannibals. Instead, they […]
Revenge of the Ninja one of the first cult ninja movies directed by Sam Firstenberg, the director of a range of Ninja flix like American Ninja. The film stars martial arts actor Sho Kosugi, Keith Vitali and Kane Kosugi. It is the second film of the Ninja Trilogy, starting with Enter the Ninja (1981) and […]
Maniac is a slasher movie directed by William Lustig released in 1980. It stars Joe Spinell as Frank Zito, a serial killer residing in New York City who murders and scalps young women. Cult actress Caroline Munro co-stars as Anna D’Antoni. Tom Savini has a role as boyfriend and was responsible for the splatter effects. […]
