Triskaidekafiles

Triskaidekafiles is a love letter to cheesy cinema from the 80s and 90s, with the occasional dip into other eras.  if you're a fan of MST3K, Elvira, Joe Bob Briggs, or just bad horror movies in general, Trisk is the place for you.

Filtering by Tag: monster

Basket Case (1982)

BASKET CASE

WRITER: Frank Henenlotter

DIRECTOR: Frank Henenlotter

STARRING: Kevin VanHentenryck as Duane Bradley
    Terri Susan Smith as Sharon
    Beverly Bonner as Casey
    Robert Vogel as Hotel Manager
    Diana Browne as Dr. Kutter
    Lloyd Pace as Dr. Needleman
    Bill Freeman as Dr. Lifflanker

QUICK CUT: A young guy heads to the big city to see the sights, fall in love, kill some doctors, and start a new life.  Oh, and also, he has his formerly conjoined brother in a basket he always carries around.

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The Creeps (1997)

THE CREEPS

WRITER: Benjamin Carr

DIRECTOR: Charles Band

STARRING: Rhonda Griffin as Anna Quarrels
    Justin Lauer as David Raleigh
    Bill Moynihan as Winston Berber
    Kristin Norton as Miss Christina
    Jon Simanton as Wolfman
    Joe Smith as Mummy
    Thomas Wellington as Frankenstein's Monster
    Phil Fondacaro as Dracula

QUICK CUT: The classic monsters of our nightmares have been brought to life!  Dracula!  Frankenstein's Monster!  The Mummy!  The Wolfman!!  Our only hope at stopping them is a librarian and a private eye slash DVD store clerk!  Oh, and also, the monsters have been brought to life at one third their actual size.  ...Oi.

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The Boogens (1981)

THE BOOGENS

WRITERS: Story by Tom Chapman & David O'Malley
    Screenplay by David O'Malley & Bob Hunt

DIRECTOR: James Conway

STARRING: Rebecca Balding as Trish Michaels
    Fred McCarren as Mark Kinner
    Anne-Marie Martin as Jessica Ford
    Jeff Harlan as Roger Lowrie
    John Crawford as Brian Deering
    Med Flory as Dan Ostroff
    Jon Lormer as Blanchard

QUICK CUT: Some mining friends and their girlfriends move into a new home in Silver City, Colorado while they work to open a mine.  Oh, and also, while working on that mine, they release rubbery turtle creatures with big nasty pointy teeth.

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Gargoyles (1972)

GARGOYLES

WRITERS: Stephen and Elinor Karpf

DIRECTOR: B.W.L. Norton

STARRING: Cornel Wilde as Mercer Boley
    Jennifer Salt as Diana Boley
    Grayson Hall as Mrs. Parks
    Bernie Casey as The Gargoyle

QUICK CUT: When demons arise for the first time in over 500 years, it falls to a scientist who just happened to stumble upon them to stop their return before it is too late for humanity.  Oh, we are so boned.

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Fiend Without a Face (1958)

FIEND WITHOUT A FACE

WRITER: Screenplay by Herbert J. Leder
    Original story by Amelia Reynolds Long

DIRECTOR: Arthur Crabtree

STARRING: Marshal Thompson as Major Jeff Cummings
    Kynaston Reeves as Professor Walgate
    Kim Parker as Barbara Griselle
    Stanley Maxted as Colonel Butler
    Terence Kilburn as Captain Al Chester
    James Dyrenforth as Mayor
    Robert MacKenzie as Constable Gibbons

QUICK CUT: On the outskirts of tiny Canadian town, a US Air Force base has opened up.  Once people start falling dead, the blame is pointed squarely at the bases nuclear reactor, but the truth is stranger than any of them may think.  Think.  Get it?  Because it's killer brains.

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Snowbeast (1977)

SNOWBEAST

WRITER: Joseph Stefano

DIRECTOR: Herb Wallerstein

STARRING: Bo Svenson as Gar Seberg
    Yvette Mimieux as Helen Seberg
    Robert Logan as Tony Rill
    Clint Walker as Sheriff Paraday
    Sylvia Sidney as Carrie Rill

QUICK CUT: A washed up Olympic star in need of a job and confidence, rolls into a friend's family's Colorado mountain resort.  Oh, and then they run into bigfoot.  Bet he didn't see that coming.

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Troll (1986)

TROLL

WRITER: Ed Naha

DIRECTOR: John Carl Buechler

STARRING: Noah Hathaway as Harry Potter Jr.
    Michael Moriarty as Harry Potter Sr.
    Shelley Hack as Anne Potter
    Jenny Beck as Wendy Potter
    Sonny Bono as Peter Dickinson
    Phil Fondacaro as Malcom Mallory/Troll
    Brad Hall as William Daniels
    Anne Lockhart as Young Eunice
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Jeanette Cooper
    Gary Sandy as Barry Tabor
    June Lockhart as Eunice St. Clair

QUICK CUT: At long last, we turn our eyes towards a classic bad movie, in which Harry Potter stumbles into a magical world filled with trolls, wizards, witches, and dangers galore as...hey waitasec!

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The Thing From Another World (1951)

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

WRITER: Charles Lederer

DIRECTOR: Christian Nyby

STARRING: Margaret Sheridan as Nikki
    Kenneth Tobey as Captain Patrick Hendry
    Robert Cornthwaite as Dr. Carrington
    Douglas Spencer as Scotty
    James Arness as The Thing

QUICK CUT: A typical boring night at a military base in the middle of nowhere Alaska becomes increasingly less boring when they stumble upon an alien spacecraft.  Sadly, less boring means more killy.

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