Blood Hook – 1987, US, 92m, 111m (extended cut). Director: Jim Mallon. Streaming: Tubi Curse of the Blue Lights – 1988, US, 93m. Director: John Henry Johnson. Streaming: N/A Horror House on Highway Five – 1985, US, 88m. Director: Richard…
Crawlspace – 1986, US, 80m. Director: David Schmoeller. Streaming: Tubi Fear No Evil – 1981, US, 99m. Director: Frank LaLoggia. Streaming: Shudder FleshEater – 1988, US, 89m. Director: S. William Hinzman. Streaming: N/A The Majorettes – 1986, US, 92m. Director:…
Don’t Answer the Phone – 1980, US, 94m. Director: Robert Hammer. Streaming: N/A Don’t Go in the House – 1980, US, 82m, 92m (integral cut). Director: Joseph Ellison. Streaming: Roku Channel, Tubi Don’t Go in the Woods – 1981, US,…
The Curse – 1987, Italy/US, 92m. Director: David Keith. Streaming: Tubi The Dead Pit – 1989, US, 95m. Director: Brett Leonard. Streaming: AMC/Prime, Shudder Ghoulies – 1985, US, 81m. Director: Luca Bercovici. Streaming: Tubi Prom Night – 1980, Canada/US, 92m.…
PARENTS (1989) Committing to neither the horror nor comedy aspects of horror-comedy, Parents is a curious movie that skates the border of its genres by being consistently weird. In the 1950s, a morose kid, Michael (Bryan Madorsky), moves into a…
GHOSTWATCH (1992) Before The Blair Witch Project came this superlative journey into home video horror, in which the crew of a BBC television series airs a live show from a reportedly haunted house in North London. Real-life TV personality, Sarah…
EVIL DEAD RISE (2023) Another Evil Dead reboot to emerge after the 2013 remake failed to reignite the franchise, this appropriately gnarly reimagining of the original 1981 horror classic moves the action to Los Angeles, where the teens of a…
THE POPE’S EXORCIST (2023) Taking a stab at the “based on real case files” scenario The Conjuring made popular ten years earlier, The Pope’s Exorcist delivers a “true” chapter out of Father Gabriel Amorth’s (Russell Crowe) book of paranormal activity.…
DOOM ASYLUM (1988) Friday the 13th by way of John Waters, this garish—but quite funny—comedy-horror centers on young Kiki (future Frankenhooker Patty Mullens) and her quartet of cartoonish friends who take a day trip to an abandoned hospital where the…
NOMADS (1986) An interesting, if not fully successful, tale of a French anthropology professor (Pierce Brosnan) who passes his life force (I think) to a medical doctor (Lesley-Anne Down) right before he dies in an L.A. hospital. Soon after, the…