Species 3 (2004)

SPECIES 3

WRITER: Ben Ripley

DIRECTOR: Brad Turner

STARRING: Robin Dunne as Dean
    Robert Knepper as Dr. Abbot
    Amelia Cooke as Amelia
    J.P. Pitoc as Hastings
    Michael Warren as Agent Wasach
    Christopher Neame as Dr. Nicholas Turner
    Patricia Bethune as Colleen
    Joel Stoffer as Portus
    James Leo Ryan as Yosef
    Savanna Fields as Young Sara
    Natasha Henstridge as Eve
    Sunny Mabrey as Sara

QUICK CUT: The hybrid aliens are back for more killing and screwing, but this time Eve is out of the picture, and we focus on a new generation of alien sex machines.  Which is the name of my Nickleback cover band.

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The Faculty (1998)

THE FACULTY

WRITER: Screenplay by Kevin Williamson
    Story by David Wechter & Bruce Kimmel

DIRECTOR: Robert Rodriguez

STARRING: Jordana Brewster as Delilah
    Clea DuVall as Stokely
    Laura Harris as Marybeth
    Josh Hartnett as Zeke
    Shawn Hatosy as Stan
    Salma Hayek as Nurse Harper
    Famke Janssen as Miss Burke
    Piper Laurie as Mrs. Olson
    Bebe Neuwirth as Principal Drake
    Robert Patrick as Coach Willis
    Jon Stewart as Mr. Furlong
    Elijah Wood as Casey

QUICK CUT: Aliens decide to take over the world, and start with a school in the middle of nowhere.  Because that's a good place for a takeover.

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Puppet Master 5 (1994)

PUPPET MASTER 5

WRITERS: Screenplay by Steven E. Carr, Jo Duffy, Todd Henschell, and Doug Aarniokoski & Keith Payson

DIRECTOR: Jeff Burr

STARRING: Gordon Currie as Rick Meyers
    Chandra West as Susie
    Ian Ogilvy as Jennings
    Teresa Hill as Lauren
    Nicholas Guest as Hendy
    Willard Pugh as Jason
    Duane Whitaker as Scott
    Guy Rolfe as Andre Toulon

QUICK CUT: More puppets, more demon puppets, more stabby action.  You get the drill by now, right?  This picks up shortly after Puppet Master 4, and finishes up the half baked, half finished plot of that movie.  Just like Harry Potter!

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Oblivion (1994)

OBLIVION

WRITERS: Based on an original story idea by Charles Band
    Story by John Rheaume and Greg Suddeth & Mark Goldstein
    Screenplay by Peter David

DIRECTOR: Sam Irvin

STARRING: Richard Joseph Paul as Zack Stone
    Jackie Swanson as Mattie Chase
    Andrew Divoff as Redeye
    Meg Foster as Stell Barr
    Isaac Hayes as Buster
    Julie Newmar as Miss Kitty
    Carel Struycken as Gaunt
    George Takei as Doc Valentine
    Musetta Vander as Lash
    Jimmie F. Skaggs as Buteo
    Irwin Keyes as Bork
    Mike Genovese as Marshall Stone
    Frank Roman as Wormhole
    Jeff Moldovan as Spanner

QUICK CUT: On the distant planet of Oblivion in the year 3031, the wild west meets the final frontier, when an outlaw lizard known as Redeye comes to town and kills the local marshall and decides to take over.

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Sleepwalkers (1992)

SLEEPWALKERS

WRITER: Stephen King

DIRECTOR: Mick Garris

STARRING: Brian Krause as Charles Brady
    Madchen Amick as Tanya Robertson
    Alice Krige as Mary Brady
    Jim Haynie as Sheriff Ira
    Dan Martin as Deputy Andy Simpson
    Glenn Shadix as Mr. Fallows

QUICK CUT: A young girl falls in love with the new guy in town, who also happens to be a half-cat supernatural creature that feeds on virginal life force.  Sucks to be her.

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Sweet Sixteen (1983)

SWEET SIXTEEN

WRITER: Erwin Goldman

DIRECTOR: Jim Sotos

STARRING: Bo Hopkins as Sheriff Dan Burke
    Susan Strasberg as Joanne Morgan
    Aleisa Shirley as Melissa Morgan
    Dana Kimmell as Marci Burke
    Don Stroud as Billy T.
    Patrick MacNee as Dr. Morgan
    Steve Antin as Hank Burke
    Don Shanks as Jason Longshadow
    Logan Clarke as Jimmy
    Michael Pataki as George Martin
    Sharon Farrell as Kathy
    Henry Wilcoxon as Greyfeather
    Larry Storch as Earl
    Glenn Withrow as Johnny

QUICK CUT: Melissa just moved to a small rural town from the big city, and as all the boys take a hearty interest in the new girl, they each develop a nasty case of dead.

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Sledgehammer (1983)

SLEDGEHAMMER

WRITER: David A. Prior

DIRECTOR: David A. Prior

STARRING: Ted Prior as Chuck
    Linda McGill as Joni
    John Eastman as John
    Jeanine Scheer as Mary
    Tim Aguilar as Jimmy
    Sandy Brooke as Carol
    Steve Wright as Joey
    Michael Shanahan as Lover
    Maria Mendez as Mother
    Doug Matley as Killer
    Ray Lawrence as The Driver
    Justin Greer as The Boy

QUICK CUT: A group of teens, or college students, or whatever, head out to the middle of nowhere to spend some time in a remote farmhouse.  Why are they there?  Besides getting drunk and getting killed?  Who knows!

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Revenge (1986)

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.

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The Brain Machine (1977)

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.

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The Killer Eye (1999)

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.

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There's Nothing Out There (1992)

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.

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Ripper 2: Letter From Within (2004)

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.

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Ripper: Letter From Hell (2000)

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.

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Puppet Master 4 (1993)

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.

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Colony of the Dark (1995)

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.

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Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

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.

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Blood Cult (1985)

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?

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Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)

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.

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Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000)

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.

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Maniac (1980)

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.

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