Shogun Assassin
For many people of my generation Shogun Assassin (1980) was one of the first Japanese films that we ever saw. Out at the local video store Shogun Assassin awaited us… Read more »
For many people of my generation Shogun Assassin (1980) was one of the first Japanese films that we ever saw. Out at the local video store Shogun Assassin awaited us… Read more »
It’s Halloween. Every year a certain demographic of people feel as nostalgic about Halloween as others do about Christmas. These “spooky” minded people watch horror movies for all of October… Read more »
Jean Rollin’s film La Nuit des Traquées (1980) follows a woman, Elizabeth (Brigitte Lahaie), experiencing total memory loss after accidentally being exposed to a radiation leak at a power plant…. Read more »
There is a scene in Witch From Nepal (1986) where the hero, Joe (Chow Yun-fat), is practicing his new magical, telekinetic powers at a restaurant with his girlfriend Ida (Yammie… Read more »
Night Of The Demons (1988) is a really fun film. Set on Halloween night, Night Of The Demons is great seasonal watch that has become something of an annual tradition… Read more »
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novel of dichotomies wherein each aspect of the book throws its counterparts into stark relief. Although novelist Robert Louis Stevenson’s… Read more »
The eighties were the decade when shopping malls conquered the U.S. and developers made a fortune off of failed farms, old neighborhoods, and tracts of neglected lands. The mall was… Read more »
From the comically gothic text of the opening title card to the Lesley Gore finish, Waxwork (1988) is a veritable cornucopia of horror sub-genres and motifs. Released through Vestron Pictures,… Read more »
Michael J. Murphy’s low budget direct-to-video horror classic Invitation To Hell (1982) follows a young woman named Jacky (Becky Simpson) as she contends with demonic possessions, cursed estates, and treacherous… Read more »
The Running Man (1987) continued a trend in American mainstream media of critiquing late Reagan-era conservatism through the moral decay of commercial public television. Like Robocop (1987) and Frank Miller’s… Read more »