Creepshow
(1982)
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Starring:
Hal Holbrook,
Adrienne Barbeau
Director:
George A. Romero
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Anthology of Stephen
King stories based on E.C. comic books. Five tales of terror: The first
one is about a dead guy who returns from the grave to get the Father's
Day cake his daughter never gave him. 2nd is about a not-too-bright farmer
(King plays this part) who discovers a meteor that turns everything into
mold. 3rd is about a husband who buries his wife and her lover alive. 4th
one is about an ape-like creature that lives in a crate. And the last one
is about cockroaches. This is one of my favorite movies!
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Creepshow
2
(1987)
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Starring:
Lois Chiles,
George Kennedy
Director: Michael Gornick |
3 more tales of horror.
The first is about a dime store Indian statue that seeks revenge on those
who killed the store owner. The second is about a mass of pond scum that
attacks four teens on a raft. The final tale is about a rich woman who
accidentally kills a hitchhiker while speeding home from an affair with
a male prostitute. I kinda wished they had put more stories in this edition.
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Cat's
Eye
(1985)
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Starring:
Drew Barrymore,
James Woods
Director: Lewis Teague |
Three chilling tales
from Stephen King stories that are linked by a little kitty, there's a
tennis pro who's forced to play a deadly game, when he is caught cheating
with the mobsters wife. A stop smoking clinic that REALLY means
it. And a little girl terrorized by a small monster.
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Deadtime
Stories (1986)
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Starring:
Michael Mesmer,
Brian DePersia
Director: Jeffrey Delman
Also Known As:
Freaky Film Tales (1987) |
Fairy tales get the
gory horror treatment in this spoofy, trilogy of shorts. Tales include
a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about
"Goldi Lox" and the three bears. Really stupid movie.
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Fall
of the House of Usher, The
(1980)
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Starring:
Martin Landau,
Robert Hays
Director:
James L. Conway
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Adapted from Edgar Allen
Poe's classic story about a man who discovers madness and corruption at
his fiance's family estate. It has Martin Landau in it anyway.
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| Gothic
(1986) |
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands
Director: Ken Russell
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A retelling of night
in 1816 when "Frankenstein" and "The Vampyre" were written by Mary Shelley.
Not really scary, but a good goth flic.
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I,
Madman (1989)
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Starring: Jenny Wright, Clayton Rohner
Director: Tibor Takacs
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Low-budget horror tale
has woman reading spooky novel menaced by the book's main character, an
insane doctor.
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| Masque of the Red Death (1989) |
Starring: Adrian Paul,
Clare Hoak
Director: Larry Brand
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Edgar Allan Poe's tale
of a wealthy entrepreneur holds a costume ball that
ends in a brutal gore-fest.
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| Monster Club, The (1985) |
Starring:
Vincent Price,
Donald Pleasence
Director:
Roy Ward Baker
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Three monster stories
set in a freakish Transylvanian disco are told by Price.
Not even close to being
scary. Very disappointing.
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Nightmares
(1983)
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Starring:
Christina Raines,
Emilio Estevez
Director:
Joseph Sargent |
Four nightmarish stories.
In one a woman who leaves
her house late at night to drive to the store encounters some problems
while a killer is loose. In the second an arcade whiz kid's (Estevez) obsession
with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a priest loses his
faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious
black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family has a problem with a
BIG rat. Not that great of a movie.
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Offspring, The (1987)
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Starring: Vincent Price,
Clu Gulager
Director: Jeff Burr |
An undead narrator recounts
a small town's cursed history. Stories include: An elderly man pursues
a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. A man on
the run from creditors is taken in by a backwoods hermit with the secret
to eternal life. A glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking
for love on the outside. Lastly, Civil War soldiers are held captive by
a household of orphans with strange intentions for them. Pretty good movie.
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Twilight
Zone: The Movie (1983)
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Starring:
Dan Aykroyd,
Albert Brooks
Director:
Steven Spielberg
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Four sci-fi/horror tales
attempting to mimic Rod Serling's TV show. Elderly folks in a nursing home
re-live there youth again, a young teacher on the road befriends a homeless
boy whose home is every child's dream, a nervous passenger aboard a plane
in a storm thinks he knows the cause of the plane's engine problems, and
a racist who lost his promotion to a Jewish colleague makes some remarks,
only to find himself on the flip side.
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