Snowbeast (1977)

SNOWBEAST

WRITER: Joseph Stefano

DIRECTOR: Herb Wallerstein

STARRING: Bo Svenson as Gar Seberg
    Yvette Mimieux as Helen Seberg
    Robert Logan as Tony Rill
    Clint Walker as Sheriff Paraday
    Sylvia Sidney as Carrie Rill

QUICK CUT: A washed up Olympic star in need of a job and confidence, rolls into a friend's family's Colorado mountain resort.  Oh, and then they run into bigfoot.  Bet he didn't see that coming.

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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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Frightmare (1974)

FRIGHTMARE

WRITER: Screenplay by David McGillivray
    Original story by Pete Walker

DIRECTOR: Pete Walker

STARRING: Rupert Davies as Edmund Yates
    Sheila Keith as Dorothy Yates
    Deborah Fairfax as Jackie
    Paul Greenwood as Graham
    Kim Butcher as Debbie
    Fiona Curzon as Merle
    Noel Johnson as The Judge
    Jon Yule as Robin
    Michael Sharvell-Martin as The Barman

QUICK CUT: When a couple gets released from a mental institution and are reunited with their children, can the body count be far behind?

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Frightmare (1983)

FRIGHTMARE

WRITER: Norman Thaddeus Vane

DIRECTOR: Norman Thaddeus Vane

STARRING: Ferdinand Mayne as Conrad
    Luca Bercovici as Saint
    Nita Talbot as Mrs. Rohmer
    Leon Askin as Wolfgang
    Jennifer Starrett as Meg
    Barbara Pilavin as Etta
    Carlene Olson as Eve
    Scott Thomson as Bobo
    Donna McDaniel as Donna
    Jeffrey Combs as Stu

QUICK CUT: When horror icon Conrad Radzoff finally dies, he gets corpse-napped by a film society.  Things go from bad to worse when Conrad's angry spirit takes over his body and wreaks havoc upon the hapless film society.

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Disturbing Behavior (1998)

DISTURBING BEHAVIOR

WRITER: Scott Rosenberg

DIRECTOR: David Nutter

STARRING: James Marsden as Steve Clark
    Katie Holmes as Rachel Wagner
    Nick Stahl as Gavin Strick
    Steve Railsback as Officer Cox
    Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Caldicott
    William Sadler as Dorian Newberry

QUICK CUT: New student in town, Steve Clark, tries desperately to fit in amongst his new classmates, but the more he tries to fit in, the more he discoveres that Things Are Not Right in Cradle Bay.

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Things (1989)

THINGS

WRITERS: Andrew Jordan and Barry J. Gillis

DIRECTOR: Andrew Jordan

STARRING: Barry J. Gillis as Don Drake
    Amber Lynn as Herself
    Doug Bunston as Doug Drake
    Bruce Roach as Fred Horton
    Patricia Sadler as Susan Drake
    Jan W. Pachul as Dr. Lucas

QUICK CUT: A trio of Canadians hang out in the kitchen drinking beer and eating sandwiches, while in the next room a bunch of spider creatures that want to eat them in the face part of their faces and devour the rules of cinema are lurking.

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They Live (1988)

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.

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Someone's Watching Me! (1978)

SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME!

WRITER: John Carpenter

DIRECTOR: John Carpenter

STARRING: Lauren Hutton as Leigh
    David Birney as Paul
    Adrienne Barbeau as Sophie

QUICK CUT: Upon moving into a new apartment after leaving NYC, Leigh becomes the latest subject of a stalker.  As the threat becomes more and more real, time begins to run out for Leigh.  Happy Valentine's Day!

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Bloody Birthday (1980)

BLOODY BIRTHDAY

WRITERS: Screenplay by Ed Hunt and Barry Pearson

DIRECTOR: Ed Hunt

STARRING: Lori Lethin as Joyce Russel
    Julie Brown as Beverly Brody
    Bert Kramer as Sherriff James Brody
    K.C. Martel as Timmy Russel
    Elizabeth Hoy as Debbie Brody
    Billy Jacoby as Curtis Taylor
    Andy Freeman as Steven Seton
    Susan Strasberg as Miss Davis
    Jose Ferrer as The Doctor

QUICK CUT: After a freak eclipse during the birth of several children, they grow up into the creepiest, most sociopathic ten year olds ever, and terrorise anyone who gets in their way.

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The Revenge of Doctor X (1970)

THE REVENGE OF DOCTOR X

WRITER: Edward D. Wood, Jr.

DIRECTOR: Unknown!

STARRING: James Craig as Dr. Bragan
    Atsuko Rome as Noriko Hanamura
    James Yagi as Dr. Paul Nakamura

QUICK CUT: After getting stressed out at his high pressure job at NASA, Dr. Bragan takes a vacation in Japan and spends time making a man monster out of a Venus Flytrap...because that's what one does on vacation.

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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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Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation (1990)

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 4: INITIATION

WRITERS: Story by S.J. Smith, Arthur H. Gorson, and Brian Yuzna
    Screenplay by Woody Keith

DIRECTOR: Brian Yuzna

STARRING: Maud Adams as Fima
    Tommy Hinkley as Hank
    Allyce Beasley as Janice
    Clint Howard as Ricky
    Neith Hunter as Kim
    Marjean Holden as Jane
    Jeanne Bates as Katherine
    Laurel Lockhart as Ann
    Ben Slack as Gus
    Conan Yuzna as Lonnie

QUICK CUT: Forget everything you ever knew about the Silent Night, Deadly Night series, folks!  Because this movies starts fresh!  So fresh it has nothing to do with Christmas!  Or Santas!  But it has plenty of a vindictive coven setting people on fire, and infecting people with worms!  Wait, what?!

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Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989)

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT!

WRITERS: Screenplay by Carlos Laszlo
    From a story by C. Laszlo, M. Hellman, and A. H. Gorson

DIRECTOR: Monte Hellman

STARRING: Richard Beymer as Dr. Newbury
    Bill Moseley as Ricky
    Samantha Scully as Laura
    Eric Da Re as Chris
    Laura Herring as Jerri
    Elizabeth Hoffman as Granny
    Robert Culp as Lt. Connelly

QUICK CUT: The guy that just wouldn't die, Ricky Chapman, or Chambers, or Chuffed If I Know Anymore is still alive, somehow, but with serious brain damage from being in the first two films.  He is reached by a psychic though, and wakes up to kill everyone she knows as a way of saying thanks.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night 2 (1987)

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 2

WRITERS: Story by Lee Harry, Joseph E. Earle, Dennis Patterson, and Lawrence Applebaum
    Screenplay by Lee Harry and Joseph E. Earl

DIRECTOR: Lee Harry

STARRING: Eric Freeman as Ricky Caldwell
    James L. Newman as Dr. Henry Bloom
    Elizabeth Cayton as Jennifer
    Jean Miller as Mother Superior
    Corinne Gelfan as Mrs. Rosenberg
    Michael Combatti as Mr. Rosenberg
    Kenneth Bryan James as Chip
    Frank Novak as Loan Shark
    Randy Baughman as Eddie
    Joanne White as Paula
    Nadya Wynd as Sister Mary
    J. Aubrey Island as Orderly
    Randy Post as Loudmouth in Theater

QUICK CUT: Crazy Billy's little brother is now all grown up, and thanks to his brother being shot to death at his feet, he's just as screwed up, and we get to hear all the gory details of his past craziness, as he sits in an interogation room and tells his tale to a psychiatrist.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT

WRITERS: Based on a story by Paul Cami
    Written by Michael Hickey

DIRECTOR: Charles E. Sellier, Jr

STARRING: Lilyan Chauvin as Mother Superior
    Gilmer McCormick as Sister Margaret
    Toni Nero as Pamela
    Robert Brian Wilson as Billy
    Linnea Quigley as Denise
    Randy Stumpf as Andy
    Britt Leach as Mr. Sims
    Tara Buckman as Mother
    Will Hare as Grandpa
    Leo Geter as Tommy
    Jeff Hansen as Father
    H.E.D. Redford as Captain Richards
    Amy Stuyvesant as Cindy
    Max Robinson as Officer Barnes

QUICK CUT: After a childhood trauma, a young boy grows up with an intense fear of Santa Claus, a belief in punishment for being naughty, and then he ends up working as a toy store Santa.  It's "What Could Possibly Go Wrong: The Movie"!

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The Stuff (1985)

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.

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Troll (1986)

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!

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Jack-o (1995)

JACK-O

WRITERS: Screenplay by Patrick Moran
    Based on a story by Fred Olen Ray & Brad Linaweaver

DIRECTOR: Steve Latshaw

STARRING:  Linnea Quigley as Carolyn Miller
    Rebecca Wicks as Linda Kelly
    Gary Doles as David Kelly
    Ryan Latshaw as Sean/Andrew Kelly
    Catherine Walsh as Vivian Machen
    Rachel Carter as Julie Miller
    Tom Ferda as Jim
    Bill Cross as Richard Watson
    Helen Keeling as Amanda Watson
    John Carradine as Walter Machen
    Cameron Mitchell as Dr. Cadaver
    Brinke Stevens as Witch
    Dawn Wildsmith as Sorceress

QUICK CUT: In the quiet, peaceful town of Oakmoor Crossing, a secret lies long buried.  A wizard, on his deathbed, vowed vengeance upon the town, and summoned forth evil forces to do his bidding and get revenge on everyone who killed...hey wait, didn't I review this last year when it was called Demons of Ludlow?!

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The Thing From Another World (1951)

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.

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The Hazing (2004)

THE HAZING

WRITER: Rolfe Kanefsky

DIRECTOR: Rolfe Kanefsky

STARRING: Philip Andrew as Doug
    Charmaine Degrate as Justine
    Jeremy Maxwell as Roy
    Nectar Rose as Delia
    Parry Shen as Tim
    Tiffany Shepis as Marsha
    David Tom as Jacob
    Brooke Burke as Jill
    Brad Dourif as Professor Kapps

QUICK CUT: On the night of their initiation, a bunch of college students get trapped in a house where the haunts become all too real, and they get tormented by Brad Dourif.

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