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.
REVENGE
WRITERS: Story by James Vance
Written by Christopher Lewis
DIRECTOR: Christopher Lewis
STARRING: Patrick Wayne as Michael Hogan
John Carradine as Senator Bradford
Bennie Lee McGowan as Gracie Moore
Josef Hardy as Doctor White
QUICK CUT: The blood cult is back! Joel's brother comes to pay his disrespect, and gets sucked into the unanswered mysteries circling around this Oklahoman town.
THE BRAIN MACHINE
WRITERS: Thomas Hal Phillips, Christian Garrison & Joy N. Houck, Jr.
DIRECTOR: Joy N. Houck, Jr.
STARRING: James Best as Reverend Emory Neill
Barbara Burgess as Dr. Portland
Gil Peterson as Dr. Morris
Gerald McRaney as Willie
Marcus J. Grapes as Judd
Anne Latham as Minnie Lee
Doug Collins as Dr. Roth
Thomas Phillips as the General
QUICK CUT: An EPA project to determine the effects of our predicted ruination of the planet upon the populace is taken over by a military faction more interested into turning it into the latest radical interrogation technique. I think. And it makes even less sense as time goes on.
THE KILLER EYE
WRITERS: Benjamin Carr, Matthew Jason Walsh, & Rolfe Kanefsky
DIRECTOR: Richard Chasen
STARRING: Jaqueline Lovell as Rita
Jonathan Norman as Dr. Jordan Grady
Nanette Bianchi as Jane
Costas Koromilas as Morton
Dave Oren Ward as Tom
Blake Bailey as Creepy Bill
Roland Martinez as Joe
QUICK CUT: After experimenting with interdimensional viewing, something escapes from the eighth dimension and wreaks havoc upon an apartment complex. And all it wants is a little love.
THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE
WRITER: Rolfe Kanefsky
DIRECTOR: Rolfe Kanefsky
STARRING: Craig Peck as Mike
Wendy Bednarz as Doreen
Mark Collver as Jim
Bonnie Bowers as Stacy
John Carhart III as Nick
Claudia Flores as Janet
Jeff Dachis as David
Lisa Grant as Sally
QUICK CUT: What's your favourite scary movie? A group of teens get hunted down by a gruesome killer while being very aware of the rules of horror movies, and that they may well be in one at this very moment. And no, this is not Scream.
RIPPER 2: LETTER FROM WITHIN
WRITERS: Screenplay by Jonas Quastel & John Sheppard
Additional screenplay by Pat Bermel
Story by Evan Tylor & Jonas Quastel
DIRECTORS: Lloyd A. Simandl & Jonas Quastel
STARRING: Erin Karpluk as Molly Keller
Nicholas Irons as Erich Goeth
Jane Peachey as Lara Svetlana
Mhairi Steenbock as Juliette Dureau
Colin Lawrence as Roberto Edwards
Myfanwy Waring as Sally Trigg
Daniel Cooman as Grant Jessup
Richard Bremmer as Dr. Weisser
QUICK CUT: Molly Keller is still crazy, may or may not be Jack the Ripper's descendant, and still trying to get help. This time, she's subjected to a highly experimental virtual reality treatment to cure her sociopathic tendencies, and it works a little too well.
RIPPER: LETTER FROM HELL
WRITER: Story by John Curtis and Evan Tylor
Screenplay by Pat Bermel
DIRECTOR: John E. Eyres
STARRING: A.J. Cook as Molly Keller
Bruce Payne as Marshall Kane
Claire Keim as Chantal Etienne
Ryan Northcott as Jason Korda
Derek Hamilton as Eddie Sackman
Courtenay J. Stevens as Aaron Kroeker
Emmanuelle Vaugier as Andy Carter
Daniella Evangellista as Mary-Anne Nordstrom
Kelly Brook as Marisa Tavares
Jurgen Prochnow as Detective Kelso
QUICK CUT: Five years after a massacre, sole survivor Molly Keller is off to college, and another string of murders begins amongst her classmates. Oh, and there's some Jack the Ripper stuff involved, maybe.
PUPPET MASTER 4
WRITERS: Screenplay by Todd Henschell, Steven E. Carr, Jo Duffy, and Doug Aarniokoski & Keith Payson.
DIRECTOR: Jeff Burr
STARRING: Gordon Currie as Rick Myers
Chandra West as Susie
Jason Adams as Cameron
Teresa Hill as Lauren
Felton Perry as Dr. Carl Baker
Stacie Randall as Dr. Leslie Piper
Guy Rolfe as Andre Toulon
QUICK CUT: Toulon's puppets are back AGAIN, and this time their history is arguably delved into as the source of their magic life-giving elixir shows up to stop the secrets of it from being discovered. Meanwhile, a tech geek is trying to create artificial life while playing with robots.
COLONY OF THE DARK
WRITER: Robert Gursha
DIRECTOR: Thomas Berna
STARRING: Joan Dinco as Jenny Dole
David Rommel as Jim Matthews
Anna Zizzo as Meredith Weaver
Susan Cane as Suzanne Dole
Steven F.L. Dompike as Security Guard
QUICK CUT: Married womanizing scientist Jim Matthews is discovered by his wife and fellow scientist. In a fit of anger she throws an experimental serum in his face and this makes his limbs fall off and kill people.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
WRITERS: John Saxton, Peter Jobin, Timothy Bond
DIRECTOR: J. Lee Thompson
STARRING: Melissa Sue Anderson as Virginia
Glenn Ford as Dr. Faraday
Lawrence Dane as Hal Wainwright
Sharon Acker as Estelle
Tracy Bregman as Ann
Jack Blum as Alfred
Matt Craven as Steve
Lenore Zann as Maggie
David Eisner as Rudi
Michel Rene Labelle as Etienne
Richard Rebiere as Greg
Lesleh Donaldson as Bernadette
Lisa Langlois as Amelia
QUICK CUT: As Virginia's birthday draws near, memories from the accident that took her mother away from her begin to resurface, just in time for her friends to start dropping like flies.
BLOOD CULT
WRITER: Stuart Rosenthal and additional dialogue by James Vance
DIRECTOR: Christopher Lewis
STARRING: Julie Andelman as Tina
Charles Ellis as Ron
Josef Hardt as Doc White
James Vance as Joel
David Brent Stice as Deputy
QUICK CUT: When a local sheriff is gearing up for his big reelection campaign, the worst happens and a slasher begins picking off college co-eds in Oklahoma. What connection do these incidents have to an ancient order of witches, and will Sheriff Ron Labois find out before it's too late?
DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS
WRITER: Derek Ford & Al McGoohan
DIRECTOR: Edmund Purdom
STARRING: Edmund Purdom as Inspector Harris
Caroline Munro as Herself
Alan Lake as Giles
Belinda Mayne as Kate
Gerry Sundquist as Cliff Boyd
Mark Jones as Detective Sergeant Powell
QUICK CUT: Santa Claus is coming to town...and the morgue! A rash of Santa Claus murders is clogging up the streets of London, and some Scotland Yard inspectors look into things. Until the lead wanders off the set.
JACK FROST 2
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Michael Cooney
STARRING: Christopher Allport as Sam Tiler
Eileen Seeley as Anne Tiler
Chip Heller as Joe
Marsha Clark as Marla
Ray Cooney as the Colonel
David Allen Brooks as Agent Manners
Sean Patrick Murphy as Captain Fun
Tai Bennet as Bobby
Jennifer Lyons as Rose
Shonda Farr as Ashlea
Granger Green as Paisley
Ian Abercrombie as Doctor
Scott MacDonald as the voice of Jack Frost
QUICK CUT: After suffering a nervous breakdown following the events of the first Jack Frost movie, Sheriff Sam Tiler tries to get away from Snowmonton for the holidays, but while vacationing in the tropics for Christmas he learns the hard way that you can't escape the wrath of Jack Frost.
MANIAC
WRITER: Screenplay by C.A. Rosenberg and Joe Spinell
Story by Joe Spinell
DIRECTOR: William Lustig
STARRING: Joe Spinell as Frank Zito
Caroline Munro as Anna D'Antoni
Gail Lawrence as Rita
Kelly Pipper as Nurse
Rita Montone as Hooker
Tom Savini as Disco Boy
Hyla Marrow as Disco Girl
James Brewster as Beach Boy
QUICK CUT: Frank Zito wasn't happy with how Jay carved up Trisk's Thanksgiving turkey, so decided to swing by and show him how a slasher movie should be done.
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!
PUPPET MASTER 3
WRITER: C. Courtney Joyner
DIRECTOR: David DeCoteau
STARRING: Guy Rolfe as Andre Toulon
Sarah Douglas as Elsa Toulon
Walter Gotell as General Mueller
Ian Abercrombie as Dr. Hess
Kristofer Logan as Lt. Eric Stein
Aron Eisenberg as Peter Hertz
Matthew Faison as Papa Hertz
Richard Lynch as Major Kraus
QUICK CUT: Before Toulon's puppets were bloodthirsty killers, they lived simple lives as living puppet performers in his show. But World War II changed all that, and changed Toulon, and things would never be the same again.
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.
SPECIES 2
WRITER: Chris Brancato
DIRECTOR: Peter Medak
STARRING: Michael Madsen as Preston Lennox
Natasha Henstridge as Eve
Marg Helgenberger as Laura Baker
Mykelti Williamson as Gamble
George Dzundza as Colonel Burgess
James Cromwell as Senator Ross
Myriam Cyr as Anne Sampras
Sarah Wynter as Melissa
Baxter Harris as Dr. Orinsky
Justin Lazard as Patrick Ross
QUICK CUT: Sil's back, but this time she's Eve. But not evil. She's on our side, and fighting to stop a new strain of her alien parental DNA strand when it's brought back to Earth during our first manned mission to Mars. Even though that's not how we got the strand in the first place. More sex, violence, and plot holes in the Species tradition ensues.
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.
LURKING FEAR
WRITERS: Short story by H.P. Lovecraft
Movie by C. Courtney Joyner
DIRECTOR: C. Courtney Joyner
STARRING: John Finch as Bennett
Blake Bailey as John Martense
Ashley Lauren as Cathryn Farrell
Jeffrey Combs as Doctor Haggis
Allison Mackie as Ms. Marlowe
Paul Mantee as Father Poole
Joe Leavengood as Pierce
Vincent Schiavellia as Knaggs
QUICK CUT: A Lovecraft story about creatures living underneath a town and eating the residents gets run over by a noir story about criminals seeking a buried fortune. Hilarity 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.