Saturday, December 17, 2005

Knightriders (1981)

Tagline: The Games...The Romance...The Spirit...Camelot is a state of mind. Plot Summary: A travelling troupe of jousters and performers are slowly cracking under the pressure of hick cops, financial troubles and their failure to live up to their own ideals. The group's leader, King Billy, is increasingly unable to maintain his warrior's rule while the Black Knight is being tempted away to LA and stardom, as they all have to ask why they were here in the first place. Order posters by clicking on the thumbnail:

Friday, December 16, 2005

La Venganza del Sexo (1971)

Plot Summary: This movie is about a doctor who kidnaps people, couples who are having sex. He takes them to his mansion where they are being kept as prisoners. He injects his subjects with a substance to 'enhance' their sexual abilities. The curious doctor then forces the abducted people to have sex. While they are making love he drains a fluid from them. He needs this to prevent himself from being transformed into a monster. He gets his instructions from a talking brain.

Thursday, December 15, 2005

Nightkill (1980)

According to IMDB: Plot Summary: The wife of a wealthy industrialist finds herself caught-up in a web of intrigue & murder which was created by her own deceit. When she tries to escape the results of her actions, she too falls victim to deception.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

My short review of the movie is at my main blog. Order posters by clicking on the thumbnail image below:

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Tagline: In every neighborhood there is one house that adults whisper about and children cross the street to avoid. Plot Outline: Juvenile burglars break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their inbred children. Plot Synopsis: The People Under the Stairs is the story of a young boy (Fool) from the ghetto and takes place on his 13th birthday. In an attempted burglary (along with two others) of the home of his family's evil landlords, he becomes trapped inside their large suburban house and discovers the secret of the "children" that the insane brother and sister have been "rearing" under the stairs. Check out my review at my blog. And order movie posters via the thumbnail image below:

Monday, December 12, 2005

Domino (2005)

From IMDB: Tagline: I Am a Bounty Hunter // Based on a true story - sort of... // Heads You Live... Tails You Die. Plot Outline: A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. Check out my short and a little sour review of the movie at my main site. And, click on the thumbnail image below to order the movie poster.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Troll (1986)

From IMDB: Tagline: Come closer... (more) Plot Summary: An evil troll, Torok, the transformed state of the ex-husband of an old friendly witch named Eunice St. Clair, has chosen her apartment building to be the heart of the restoration of the world he once knew. To do this he uses an Emerald ring, and takes possession of a little girl named Wendy, whose brother Harry immediately suspects something wrong. Torok, often in the form of the little girl, goes into each occupant's apartment, hideously transforming people (beginning with Peter Dickinson, named after the author/protagonist of _The Flight of Dragons_, which explores similar themes) into plant pods. Check out my review here. Order the Troll movie poster by clicking on the thumbnail image on the right:

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Cherry Falls (2000)

Tagline: lose your innocence - or lose your life Plot Outline: A killer is killing off the virgins of a small town high school. Plot Synopsis: A psychotic serial slasher starts a bloodthirsty murder rampage at Cherry Falls high school that only kills the local high school virgins. This leads to the local teenage population organising a sex party in order to lose their virginity and thus no longer be targets...

Friday, December 09, 2005

Aatank (1996)

Plot Summary: Jesu and Peter are childhood friends who live in a coastal village in India and depend on fishing as their livelihood. The community is oppressed by a powerful gangster named Alphonso. Jesu is an orphan, while Peter is brought up by his aunt and uncle, after the passing away of his mom. The community is all thrilled when Phillips finds black pearls off the coast. But then so does Alphonso, who asks his divers to get all the pearls, thus disturbing the ocean. Peter meets with Suzy D'Silva and they fall in love with each other, and get married. While enjoying a quiet swim on the sea-shore, Suzy disappears. A search is carried out, and a number of human body parts are recovered. With shock and horror this community finds that their livelihood is being threatened by a gigantic, virtually undestructible man-eating shark.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

8½ (1963)

Plot Outline: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. Order the poster by clicking on the thumbnail:

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Un Gatto nel cervello [A Cat in the Brain] (1990)

Plot Outline: A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Spawn of the Slithis (1978)

Plot: A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California. Order poster by clicking on the thumbnail:

Monday, December 05, 2005

A Dirty Shame (2004)

Tagline: Threatening the very limits of common decency. Plot Outline: Head injuries and sex-addicts in blue-collar Baltimore Plot Synopsis: Lust is in the air on Harford Road and Sylvia Stickles, a grumpy, repressed middle-aged Baltimorean, doesn't like it. Though Sylvia's handsome husband Vaughn still has marital urges, his wife could not be less interested -- she has more important things to do. Not only does Sylvia run the family's Pinewood Park and Pay convenience store, she's also responsible for watching over her exhibitionist daughter Caprice. A go-go dancer known to her adoring fans as Ursula Udders, Caprice and her stupendously enlarged breasts are currently under house arrest after several nude and disorderly violations. But Sylvia's world is turned upside down one day after suffering a concussion in a freak traffic accident. Sexy tow-truck driver Ray-Ray Perkins rushes to her aid, and the stricken Sylvia realizes he is no ordinary service man; he's a sexual healer who brings Sylvia's hidden cauldron of lust to the boiling point.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Tagline: See it with someone with warm hands! Plot Synopsis: Five diverse people are invited to a 'haunted house' party. They are offered $10,000 each by an eccentric millionaire and his wife to spend the night in a house with a murderous past. Order poster:

Saturday, December 03, 2005

Dracula (1958)

The Horror of Dracula Taglines: The chill of the tomb won't leave your blood for hours... after you come face-to-face with DRACULA! The terrifying lover who died - yet lived! Who Will Be His Bride Tonight? Plot Summary: After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle (apparently somewhere in Germany), the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost. Order the posters:

Friday, December 02, 2005

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)

Tagline: They charge an arm and a leg! Plot Summary: Jack Chandler is a private eye tracking down Samantha the runaway. In his travels, he comes across a gang of chainsaw weilding prostitutes that like to carve people up for their cult.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Hit Man (1972)

Tagline: He aims to please. Plot Outline: A lawyer whose brother was murdered winds up getting involved with gangsters and the world of porno movies. Order this poster from Moviegoods.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Tagline: The lucky ones died first... Plot Outline: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack. Plot Synopsis: A family going to California accidentally goes through an Air Testing range closed to the public. They crash and are stranded in a desert. They are being stalked by a group of people, which have not emerged into modern times.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Corpse Bride (2005)

Tagline: Rising to the occasion Plot Outline: When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her. Plot Synopsis: A man, after butchering his lines at his wedding rehearsal, is sent into the woods to practice his vows. He preforms his vows perfectly and places the ring on a twig on the ground. It turns out the twig was really the hand of the Corpse Bride, who now claims she is his legal wife.