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.

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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

HELLO MARY LOU: PROM NIGHT II

WRITER: Screenplay by Ron Oliver

DIRECTOR: Bruce Pittman

STARRING: Michael Ironside as Bill Nordham
    Wendy Lyon as Vicki Carpenter
    Justin Louis as Craig Nordham
    Richard Monette as Father Cooper
    Lisa Schrage as Mary Lou Maloney
    Terri Hawkes as Kelly Hennenlotter
    Beverley Hendry as Monica Waters
    Brock Simpson as Josh
    Beth Gondek as Jess Browning

QUICK CUT: A charming tale about a young lady seeking to go to prom, but not having enough money for a new dress, until she meets someone who can help her out...

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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH

WRITER: Tommy Lee Wallace

DIRECTOR: Tommy Lee Wallace

STARRING: Tom Atkins as Daniel Challis
    Stacey Nelkin as Ellie Grimbridge
    Dan O'Herlihy as Conal Cochran

QUICK CUT: The story of a loving toy maker who has created the best selling Halloween masks of all time, and is selling them to the kids of the nation!

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Crash and Burn (1990)

CRASH AND BURN

WRITER: Screenplay by J.S. Cardone

DIRECTOR: Charles Band

STARRING: Paul Ganus as Tyson Keen
    Megan Ward as Arren
    Bill Moseley as Quinn
    Eva Larue as Parice
    Jack McGee as Winston Wickett
    Elizabeth MacLellan as Sandra
    Katherine Armstrong as Christie
    Ralph Waite as Lathan Hooks

QUICK CUT: A group of people band together to weather out a storm and make some television, while playing with robot toys.

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Night of the Demons (2009)

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS

WRITERS: Screenplay by Jace Anderson & Adam Giersach

DIRECTOR: Adam Giersach

STARRING: Shannon Elizabeth as Angela
    Monica Keena as Maddie
    Diora Baird as Lily
    Michael Copon as Dex
    Bobbi Sue Luther as Suzanne
    John F. Beach as Jason
    Edward Furlong as Colin

QUICK CUT: Angela, demons, possessed house, you know the drill by now.  Oh, but this time it's in New Orleans.

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The Horror Show (1989)

THE HORROR SHOW

WRITER: Alan Smithee and Leslie Bohem

DIRECTOR: James Isaac

STARRING: Lance Henriksen as Lucas McCarthy
    Brion James as Max Jenke
    Rita Taggart as Donna McCarthy
    Dedee Pfeiffer as Bonnie McCarthy
    Aron Eisenberg as Scott McCarthy
    Thom Bray as Peter Campbell

QUICK CUT: After capturing a brutal serial killer, and watching him be executed, Lucas McCarthy and his family have to deal with Meat Cleaver Max coming back from the dead for revenge.

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Robot Wars (1993)

ROBOT WARS

WRITERS: Based on an original idea by Charles Band
    Screenplay by Jackson Barr

DIRECTOR: Albert Band

STARRING: Don Michael Paul as Drake
    Barbara Crampton as Leda
    James Staley as Stumpy
    Lisa Rinna as Annie
    Danny Kamekona as Wa-Lee
    Yuji Okumoto as Chou-Sing
    Peter Haskell as Rooney

QUICK CUT: In another future that is vaguely similar to Robot Jox, but NOT THE SAME AT ALL, the last remaining mega robot is all that stands between the North Hemi nation being taken over by the Centros and the Eastern Alliance.  Brace yourselves for a lot of futurey sounding locations!

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Friday the 13th: The Orphan (1979)

FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE ORPHAN

WRITER: John Ballard

DIRECTOR: John Ballard

STARRING: Peggy Feury as Aunt Martha
    Mark Owens as David

QUICK CUT: When a young boy's parents die, his aunt comes to care for him.  In order to cope, David starts a new religion of his strange monkey god, and his quest to find toast.

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Horror 102 (2004)

HORROR 102

WRITER: Ana Clavell

DIRECTOR: Ana Clavell

STARRING: Jeremy Aldridge as Raymond Gerry
    Shasa Dabner as Bebe Hillerman
    Melissa Frederick as Maddie Engel
    Christopher Hawkins as P.J. Lansing
    Joshua Allen Heck as George Becker
    Lukas Langer as Taffy
    Anna Lerbom as Heid Leifdotter
    Michael Moon as Owen
    Simon Zonatto as Paul Barron

QUICK CUT: A group of students gather in an abandoned building to go on a field trip, until they start dropping off one by one in strange circumstances.

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Curse of the Puppet Master (1998)

CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER

WRITER: Benjamin Carr

DIRECTOR: David Decoteau, by way of Victoria Sloan

STARRING: George Peck as Dr. Magrew
    Emily Harrison as Jane
    Josh Green as Robert

QUICK CUT: Those puppets you just can't keep down are back again, and this time they're hanging out in cages while their new puppet master with no connection to any previous movie tries to get a dimwitted fella with a gift for carving to make a new puppet.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991)

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5: THE TOY MAKER

WRITERS: Martin Kitrosser and Brian Yuzna

DIRECTOR: Martin Kitrosser

STARRING: Jane Higginson as Sarah Quinn
    Tracy Fraim as Noah Adams
    Brian Bremer as Pino
    William Thorne as Derek
    Neith Hunter as Kim
    Amy L. Taylor as Merideth
    Eric Welch as Buck
    Van Quattro as Tom Quinn
    Clint Howard as Ricky
    Conan Yuzna as Lonnie
    Mickey Rooney as Joe Petto

QUICK CUT: After her husband is killed by a mysterious Christmas present that no one feels like investigating, Sarah and her son keep getting visited by people fom the last movie, and a strange toy maker and his son.  And then things get really, really weird.

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Curse 2: The Bite (1988)

CURSE 2: THE BITE

WRITERS: Susan Zelouf & Federico Prosperi

DIRECTOR: Fred Goodwin

STARRING: Jill Schoelen as Lisa Snipes
   J. Eddie Peck as Clark Newman
   Jamie Farr as Harry Morton
   Bo Svenson as The Sheriff

QUICK CUT: The aftermath of the events at the Gardner farm come home to roost, as the space goo infects more water and more people...wait, what?  This has nothing to do with the first movie?  At all?  Then what's this about?  A radioactive snake bites a guy and turns his arm into a snake?  What does that have to do with a meteor from space poisoning the water supply??  How is this a sequel?  Sigh.

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