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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TRICK OR TREAT
WRITER: Story by Rhet Topham
Screenplay by Michael S. Murphey, Joel Soisson, Rhet Topham
DIRECTOR: Charles Martin Smith
STARRING: Marc Price as Eddie Weinbauer
Tony Fields as Sammi Curr
Lisa Orgolini as Leslie Graham
Doug Savant as Tim Hainey
Elaine Joyce as Angie Weinbauer
Gene Simmons as Nuke
Ozzy Osbourne as Rev. Aaron Gilstrom
QUICK CUT: When heavy metal superstar Sammi Curr dies suddenly, his biggest fan gets ahold of a unique copy of Sammi's final album, triggering a series of events that will lead to his idol's ressurection.
THEY LIVE
WRITER: John Carpenter (As Frank Armitage)
DIRECTOR: John Carpenter
STARRING: Roddy Piper as Nada
Keith David as Frank
Meg Foster as Holly
George "Buck" Flower as Drifter
Peter Jason as Peter Jason
Raymond St. Jaques as The Street Preacher
QUICK CUT: A drifter wanders into town, and wanders into a conspiracy to keep the populace of Earth complacent in the face of an alien invasion. His only hope to save us is a pair of magic sunglasses and a bag full of one-liners.
THE STUFF
WRITER: Larry Cohen
DIRECTOR: Larry Cohen
STARRING: Michael Moriarty as David "Mo" Rutheford
Andrea Marcovicci as Nicole
Garrett Morris as "Chococlate Chip" Charlie
Paul Sorvino as Colonel Spears
Danny Aiello as Vickers
Patrick O'Neal as Fletcher
Scott Bloom as Jason
QUICK CUT: The new taste sensation sweeping across the nation is The Stuff! Everyone loves it, everyone wants it, and no one can have just one bite! The only downside is it eats you back from the inside out, and takes over your body for its own nefarious purposes. Whatever that might be.
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!
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.
HOME SWEET HOME
WRITER: Thomas Bush
DIRECTOR: Nettie Pena
STARRING: Jake Steinfeld as Jay/The Killer
Vinessa Shaw as Angel
Peter De Paula as Mistake
Don Edmunds as Bradley
Charles Hoyes as Wayne
David Mielke as Scott
Leira Naron as Gail
Lisa Rodriguez as Maria
Colette Trygg as Jennifer
Salee Young as Linda
SYNOPSIS: Guess who's coming to Thanksgiving dinner? A crazed, escaped mental patient homicidal maniac high on PCP!
DEMONS OF LUDLOW
WRITERS: William Arthur & Alan Ross
DIRECTOR: Bill Rebane
STARRING: Paul Van Hausen as the Preacher
Stephanie Cushna as Debra
James R. Robinson as Winifred
Carol Perry as Ann Schultz
C. Dave Davis as Mayor Sam Donaldson
Debra Dulman as Sybill
Angailica as Ludlow's daughter
QUICK CUT: The New England town of Ludlow is celebrating its bicentenial, and as part of the celebration, the descendant of the town's founder has sent an antique ivory piano as a gift. Oh, and the piano contains murderous pilgrim demons. Murderous. Pilgrim. Demons.
THE RIPPER
WRITER: Bill Groves
DIRECTOR: Christopher Lewis
STARRING: Tom Schreier as Richard Harwell
Mona Van Pernis as Carol
Wade Tower as Steve
Tom Savini as The Ripper
Andrea Adams as Cindy
QUICK CUT: A college professor specialising in famous crimes in cinema coincidentally stumbles upon the lost ring of Jack the Ripper. A ring which just so happens to contain the spirit of Jack, which is let loose upon the world once more. Wackiness ensues.
HORROR HIGH
WRITER: Jack Fowler
DIRECTOR: Larry N. Stouffer
STARRING: Pat Cardi as Vernon Potts
Austin Stoker as Lieutenant Bozeman
Rosie Holotik as Robin Jones
John Niland as Coach McCall
Joy Hash as Miss Grindstaff
Mike McHenry as Roger Davis
Jeff Alexander as Mister Griggs
QUICK CUT: Take the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, then transplant it to a high school in Texas with a nerdy kid killing his oppresors, and you get Horror High.
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.
THE CURSE 1
WRITER: David Chaskin
DIRECTOR: David Keith
STARRING: Wil Wheaton as Zack
Claude Akins as Nathan
Malcolm Danare as Cyrus
Cooper Huckabee as Forbes
John Schneider as Willis
Amy Wheaton as Alice
Steve Carlisle as Davidson
Kathleen Jordan Gregory as Frances
QUICK CUT: A young farmboy living with a cruel, religious father wishes he could escape into the stars aboard the Enterprise. Instead, the stars come to him and makes Zack long for the days when his stepfather just backhanded him daily.
SSSSSSS (1972)
WRITEN BY: Screenplay by Hal Dresner
Story by Matt Striepeke
DIRECTED BY: Bernard L. Kowalski
STARRING:
Strother Martin as Dr. Carl Stoner
Dirk Benedict as David Blake
Heather Menzies as Kristine Stoner
Richard B. Shul as Dr. Daniels
Tim O. Connor as Kogen
Jack Ging as Sheriff
Kathleen King as Kitty
Reb Brown as Steve Rogers...er, Randall
QUICK CUT: When Dr. Stoner needs a new research assistant for his herpetological research, he recruits David Blake from the local college. Oh, and he turns him into a snake for shits and giggles.
SPECIES
WRITTEN BY: Dennis Feldman
DIRECTED BY: Roger Donaldson
STARRING: Ben Kingsley as Xavier Fitch
Michael Madsen as Preston Lennox
Alfred Molina as Stephen Arden
Forest Whitaker as Dan Smithson
Marg Helgenberger as Dr. Laura Baker
Michelle Williams as Young Sil
Natasha Henstridge as Sil
Quick Cut: After receiving the code for alien DNA in a response to our SETI experiments, scientists create a human/alien hybrid creature. Once she escapes and feels the biological imperative to breed, a ragtag team of scientists and a mercenary try to track her down before she makes the human race irrelevant.
BLOOD FREAK (1972)
Writer: Steve Hawks & Brad Grinter
Director: Steve Hawks & Brad Grinter
Starring:
Steve Hawks as Herschel
And a bunch of other people
Synopsis: An upright young man named Herschel falls into the wild world of drugs and turkey testing. After a bad reaction to a combination of illicit substances and bioengineered turkey, Herschel transforms into a strange half man, half turkey abomination with a taste that can only be slaked by draining the blood from addicts.
I couldn't make this up if I tried.
