In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans. Flash forward to 1980's New Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), a minister, for the ...
Stephen King wrote his first original screenplay for this horror gore fest that features cameos by directors Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tobe Hooper, John Landis, and King himself (playing a cemetery attendant). The story concerns a twilight people named "sleepwalkers" --creatures similar to vampires and werewolves whose faces turn animalistic ...
Joel M. Reed directed this notorious cult-horror comedy, which was the center of impassioned protests by Women Against Pornography. Seamus O'Brien stars as the epicene Sardu, who stages Grand Guignol torture performances at a downtown New York club. What the amazed audiences don't know is that the performances are real, using kidnapped victims who ...
The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol factory filmmaker Paul Morrissey, though ...
Tom Burman's innovative prosthetic special effects (used to greater effect in later horror films) are the saving grace of The Beast Within. The premise concerns a couple honeymooning in Mississippi. Caroline (Bibi Besch) is brutally raped by a hairy, sub-human monster and gives birth to a child named Michael (Paul Clemens), who appears normal ...
A virtual remake of Katt Shea Ruben's existentialist vampire opus Dance of the Damned, this direct-to-video item revisits the tale of a brooding bloodsucker (Scott Valentine) who befriends a suicidal stripper (Charlie Spradling), reveals his sanguinary intentions to her, and entices her to enjoy the dark pleasures of immortality. Where Ruben's ...
A woman tempted into a lesbian affair discovers her potential lover has a dangerous secret in this tongue-in-cheek horror parody for adults. Monique is a beautiful and alluring woman with a deadly secret -- she's a vampire, and her thirst for blood (as well as her passion for sex) can only be satisfied by another woman. When she moves to a small ...
An ornery alley cat sets in motion a chilling series of supernatural events in this horror film. The terror begins as a newlywed couple moves into a gloomy old Los Angeles apartment. They are not there long before the ominous kitty shows up. For some reason she utterly despises the bride, Alex, and slyly manages to trip her on the stairs, ...
This gory, scary low-budget shocker from the Roger Corman stable concerns the battle over a salmon cannery in a Pacific Northwest town. Genetically treated salmon escape the plant and are eaten by coelacanths, who mutate into humanoid monsters with giant craniums and sharp claws. The creatures begin attacking teen couples, killing the boys and ...
A lusty female vampire takes unusual steps to regain her humanity in this erotic horror story. In 1966, Scarlet Brooks (Brick Randall) is a beautiful and talented singer whose career is on the rise when she encounters a mysterious stranger who calls himself Count Dracula (William Smith). The suave but deadly vampire drinks Scarlet's blood, and she ...
Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is motivated more by romance than by bloodlust. He punctures the necks as a means ...
This stylish combination of expressionistic horror and deadpan black comedy centers on the activities of a beautiful female vampire on the streets of New York City. Playing fast and loose with the Dracula legend, the film examines the legendary count's children, particularly the alluring and mysterious Nadja (Elina Lowensohn). At the film's ...
Matt Hastings' science-fiction film Decoys concerns a freshman at college who discovers a pair of beautiful, sexually aggressive female students who are actually aliens sent to engage in sex with humans before they move in and overtake the human race. The young man takes it upon himself to save the world. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
The feature-film debut of multi-talented filmmaker Clive Barker, this grim and surreal project is based on the writer/director's own novella The Hell-Bound Heart. The film opens with a chilling prologue in which globe-trotting pervert Frank (Sean Chapman) -- a connoisseur of sexual depravity seeking the ultimate sensual experience -- purchases a ...
An innocent girl becomes the victim of an ancient curse in this erotic horror story. Charlotte (Alyssa Milano) is a beautiful but chaste college freshman who is nearing her 18th birthday. Charlotte's boyfriend Chris (Harrison Pruett) would like to take their relationship to the next level, but Charlotte isn't sure if she's ready. Meanwhile, ...
A pair of down-on-their-luck friends in debt to the mob find that a demented mafia hitman is the least of their worries when they attempt to rob a mysterious newcomer to their town in this sexy tale of terror starring scream queen Brinke Stevens and special-effects wizard Tom Savini. Nick and Tony are in deep trouble with the mob, and if they don ...
In this satirical horror-comedy, a gumshoe investigates a combination TV ministry/whorehouse/vampire infestation. After bounty hunter Vincent (Phil Fondacaro) unearths the remains of Lilith, queen of the vampires, he restores the alluring creature to life and lords over her using a magical talisman. Later, rowdy youngster Caleb Verdoux (Corey ...
Ex-Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay plays the thick, musclebound host for the evil spirit of the notorious "Crimson Executioner," a sadistic Italian Baron in whose former castle Hargitay and a collection of sexy models are staging a Gothic-themed photo shoot. Before long, the sweaty brute is hauling the poor lasses into the dungeon to have at them ...
When the puzzle box is solved and the gates of hell are cast open, an old nemesis must prevent the fearsome Cenobites from turning the Earth into a flaming pit of eternal torment in this installment of the long-running Hellraiser series. In his entire demonic history, only Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Lawrence) has ever had the power to defeat the mighty ...
A deranged scientist is attempting to enter the eighth dimension, and in one of his failed experiments, one of his assistants loses his eye. However, that's just the beginning; the eye quickly expands into a huge, lumbering monster with sex on the brain. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Director Jesus Franco's surrealistic reworking of Bram Stoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" has acquired a substantial cult following due to its hallucinatory erotic imagery and a sexy performance by Soledad Miranda as vampiric Princess Nadine Korody. Ewa Stroemberg stars as Lucy Westinghouse, an American working in a Turkish legal firm. Lucy is ...
Spaghetti Western veteran Antonio De Teffe (aka Anthony Steffen) stars in this delightfully tacky supernatural giallo from Italian filmmaker Emilio P. Miraglia. De Teffe plays Alan Cunningham, a titled nobleman who has just been released from a mental institution after a breakdown brought about by the death of his beautiful red-haired wife, Evelyn ...
This surrealistic sequel to Shiryo No Wana (1988) deals with an overweight girl named Aki (Shouko Nakajima) who works as a theater projectionist. In her spare time, she's completely insane and bloodily guts prostitutes with a knife. Simultaneously attracted to and envious of her pretty friend Ami (Rie Kondou), Aki gets involved in a love triangle ...
This parody of horror movies centers upon an impish little genie who was accidentally released from its bowling-trophy home by a lively group of curvaceous coeds after they end up trapped in a shopping mall. To stop the mischievous demon, the girls team up with a few geeky nerds. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Low-budget mini-DV auteur Shane Ryan directs and stars in this pseudo-snuff film in which a young man named Brandon escorts a woman named Stacy (Michiko Jiminez) to a hotel room and subsequently proceeds to brutalize and victimize her before viciously ending her life. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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