The Astral Factor (1976)

THE ASTRAL FACTOR

WRITERS: Screenplay by Arthur C. Pearce
    Story by Arthur C. Pearce & Earle Lyon

DIRECTOR: John Florea

STARRING: Robert Foxworth as Lt. Charles Barrett
    Stefanie Powers as Candy Barrett
    Sue Lyon as Darlene DeLong
    Mark Slade as Detective Holt
    Alex Dreier as Dr. Ulmer
    Frank Ashmore as Roger Sands

QUICK CUT: A convicted criminal discovers the ability to become invisible through meditation, using it to escape prison and continue his killing spree

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Final Exam (1981)

FINAL EXAM

WRITER: Jimmy Huston

DIRECTOR: Jimmy Huston

STARRING: Cecile Bagdadi as Courtney
    Joel S. Rice as Radish
    Ralph Brown as Wildman
    Deanna Robbins as Lisa
    John Fallon as Mark
    Timothy L. Raynor as The Killer

QUICK CUT: As the school year draws to a close, a crazed killer decides to audit a few students and give them failing grades.

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Mother's Day (1980)

MOTHER'S DAY

WRITERS: Charles Kaufman and Warren Leight

DIRECTOR: Charles Kaufman

STARRING: Holden McGuire as Ike
    Billy Ray McQuade as Addley
    Rose Ross as Mother
    Nancy Hendrickson as Abbey
    Deborah Luce as Jackie
    Tiana Pierce as Trina

QUICK CUT: A pair of backwoods mischief makers kidnap three girls on a getaway weekend and torment them to make their mom happy.

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Embryo (1974)

EMBRYO

WRITER: Screenplay by Anita Doohan and Jack W. Thomas
    Script by Jack W. Thomas

DIRECTOR: Ralph Nelson

STARRING: Rock Hudson as Dr. Paul Holliston
    Dianne Ladd as Martha Douglas
    Anne Schedeen as Helen Holliston
    John Elerick as Gordon Holliston
    Jack Colvin as Dr. Jim Winston
    Roddy McDowall as Frank Riley
    Barbara Carrera as Victoria    

QUICK CUT: After a scientist saves an unborn puppy with a new medical treatment and rapidly grows it to adulthood, he decides to try it on a human foetus.  What could possibly go wrong??

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Killer's Moon (1978)

KILLER'S MOON

WRITER: Alan Birkinshaw

DIRECTOR: Alan Birkinshaw

STARRING: Anthony Forrest as Pete
    Tom Marshall as Mike
    Nigel Gregory as Mr. Smith
    Jane Hayden as Julie
    Alison Elliot as Sandy
    Georgina Kean as Agatha

QUICK CUT: A bus carrying a girl's school choir group breaks down in the British countryside.  On the plus side, they're not far from a seasonal hotel getting ready to open up.  On the downside, a barbershop quartet of crazed deviants has escaped into those same woods and fields and are closing in.

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The Video Dead (1987)

THE VIDEO DEAD

WRITER: Robert Scott

DIRECTOR: Robert Scott

STARRING: Roxanna Augesen as Zoe Blair
    Rocky Duvall as Jeff Blair
    Vickie Bastel as April Ellison
    Sam David McClelland as Joshua Daniels
    Jennifer Miro as The Woman

QUICK CUT: After buying a new house and finding a cursed television in the attack, Zoe and Jeff run afoul of zombies crawling out of the televisoon.

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Death Ship (1980)

DEATH SHIP

WRITER: Screenplay by John Robins
    Story by Jack Hill and David P. Lewis

DIRECTOR: Alvin Rakoff

STARRING: George Kennedy as Captain Ashland
    Richard Crenna as Trevor Marshall
    Nick Mancuso as Nick
    Sally Ann Homes as Margaret Marshall
    Kate Reid as Sylvia
    Victoria Burgoyne as Lori
    Jennifer McKinney as Robin Marshall
    Danny Highman as Ben Marshall
    Saul Rubinek as Jackie

QUICK CUT: When the final voyage of Captain Ashland's tenure as a cruise ship captain ends with his vessel pulling a Titanic, he and the survivors end up on an abandoned vessel that picks them up from a certain, floaty death.  And then the Nazis appear.

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A Bucket of Blood (1959)

A BUCKET OF BLOOD

WRITER: Charles B. Griffith

DIRECTOR: Roger Corman

STARRING: Dick Miller as Walter Paisley
    Barboura Morris as Carla
    Antony Carbone as Leonard de Santis
    Julian Burton as Maxwell H. Brock
    Ed Nelson as Art Lacroix
    Judy Bamber as Alice
    Myrtle Damerel as Mrs. Swicket
    Burt Convy as Lou Raby
    Lynne Storey as Sylvia

QUICK CUT: A struggling artist struggles no more when he discovers you can make very life-like creations...through murder.

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Deathbed (2002)

DEATHBED

WRITER: John Strysik

DIRECTOR: Danny Draven

STARRING: Tanya Dempsey as Karen
    Brave Matthews as Jerry
    Joe Estevez as Art
    Meagan Magnum as Female ghost
    Dukey Flyswatter as The Strangler ghost.

QUICK CUT: A couple move into a nice little apartment in LA, and slowly discover that their cozy new home has a rather dark past.

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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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