The Midnight Hour
Every Halloween my partner and I watch Hammer Horror films and pass out candy to the neighborhood trick-or-treaters. Halloween is my favorite time of year and while I love passing… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Wacko
On the thirteenth anniversary of a lawnmower massacre a psychotic killer escapes a mental institute. Now a small town is gripped in terror as the lawnmower killer threatens to strike… Read more »
Tilbury
Tilbury (1987) is an Icelandic made for television film set during WWII that deals with the tilberi. A tilberi is a creature of Icelandic folklore that is summoned by women… Read more »
Hex
Hex (1980) is a Shaw Brothers’ production directed by the inimitable Kuei Chih-Hung. What begins as a suspenseful melodrama that owes more than a little to Les Diaboliques (1955) becomes… Read more »
Next Of Kin
Writer and director Tony Williams’ film Next Of Kin (1982) is a film of effortless misdirection and sparing steadicam shots. Stylistically Next Of Kin parcels out information and context with… Read more »
The Lair Of The White Worm
Maverick auteur Ken Russell followed-up his masterful Gothic (1986) with the hilariously bonkers The Lair Of The White Worm (1988). Russell freely adapted Bram Stoker’s source text, subverting the Gothic… Read more »
Bloodstream
Michael J. Murphy’s Bloodstream (1985) is a gory fever dream of violence on Super 8. The film follows a struggling filmmaker who gets screwed over by a producer and goes… Read more »
The Dreaming
The Dreaming (1988) is a folk horror film by the director of Fair Game (1986), Mario Andreacchio. Like the earlier film The Dreaming features a plethora of dolly and tracking… Read more »
Das Gold Der Liebe
By the light of a full moon Patricia (Alexandra Curtis) goes to Vienna for a D.A.F. show. When she arrives at the ticket window she finds that she has no… Read more »
Veneno para las hadas
Veneno para las hadas (1986) was directed by acclaimed Mexican horror filmmaker Carlos Enrique Taboada. The film follows Flavia (Elsa María Gutiérrez) who arrives at a new school and befriends… Read more »
