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.
THE VIDEO DEAD
WRITER: Robert Scott
DIRECTOR: Robert Scott
STARRING: Roxanna Augesen as Zoe Blair
Rocky Duvall as Jeff Blair
Vickie Bastel as April Ellison
Sam David McClelland as Joshua Daniels
Jennifer Miro as The Woman
QUICK CUT: After buying a new house and finding a cursed television in the attack, Zoe and Jeff run afoul of zombies crawling out of the televisoon.
DEATH SHIP
WRITER: Screenplay by John Robins
Story by Jack Hill and David P. Lewis
DIRECTOR: Alvin Rakoff
STARRING: George Kennedy as Captain Ashland
Richard Crenna as Trevor Marshall
Nick Mancuso as Nick
Sally Ann Homes as Margaret Marshall
Kate Reid as Sylvia
Victoria Burgoyne as Lori
Jennifer McKinney as Robin Marshall
Danny Highman as Ben Marshall
Saul Rubinek as Jackie
QUICK CUT: When the final voyage of Captain Ashland's tenure as a cruise ship captain ends with his vessel pulling a Titanic, he and the survivors end up on an abandoned vessel that picks them up from a certain, floaty death. And then the Nazis appear.
A BUCKET OF BLOOD
WRITER: Charles B. Griffith
DIRECTOR: Roger Corman
STARRING: Dick Miller as Walter Paisley
Barboura Morris as Carla
Antony Carbone as Leonard de Santis
Julian Burton as Maxwell H. Brock
Ed Nelson as Art Lacroix
Judy Bamber as Alice
Myrtle Damerel as Mrs. Swicket
Burt Convy as Lou Raby
Lynne Storey as Sylvia
QUICK CUT: A struggling artist struggles no more when he discovers you can make very life-like creations...through murder.
DEATHBED
WRITER: John Strysik
DIRECTOR: Danny Draven
STARRING: Tanya Dempsey as Karen
Brave Matthews as Jerry
Joe Estevez as Art
Meagan Magnum as Female ghost
Dukey Flyswatter as The Strangler ghost.
QUICK CUT: A couple move into a nice little apartment in LA, and slowly discover that their cozy new home has a rather dark past.
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE
WRITER: Screenplay by Herbert J. Leder
Original story by Amelia Reynolds Long
DIRECTOR: Arthur Crabtree
STARRING: Marshal Thompson as Major Jeff Cummings
Kynaston Reeves as Professor Walgate
Kim Parker as Barbara Griselle
Stanley Maxted as Colonel Butler
Terence Kilburn as Captain Al Chester
James Dyrenforth as Mayor
Robert MacKenzie as Constable Gibbons
QUICK CUT: On the outskirts of tiny Canadian town, a US Air Force base has opened up. Once people start falling dead, the blame is pointed squarely at the bases nuclear reactor, but the truth is stranger than any of them may think. Think. Get it? Because it's killer brains.
BLOODY NEW YEAR
WRITER: Screenplay by Frazer Pearce
DIRECTOR: Norman J. Warren
STARRING: Suzy Aitchison as Lesley
Nikki Brooks as Janet
Colin Heywood as Spud
Mark Powley as Rick
Catherine Roman as Carol
Julian Ronnie as Tom
QUICK CUT: A group of young adults run away from some self-caused mischief, and end up on a remote island with an empty resort, despite the place being decorated for a New Year's party. And then things get weird.
TREES 2: THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
WRITERS: Michael V. Pleckaitis
Jim Lawter
DIRECTOR: Michael V. Pleckaitis
STARRING: Kevin McCauley as Ranger Mark Cody
Philip Gardiner as Max Cooper
Mary Ann Nilan as Helen Cody
Brandi Lynn Coppock as Agent Bentley
Ron Palillo as Dougie Styles
Lorne Lakin as Deputy Dusty
Trish Dunn as Darla Styles
Raymond Michaud as Mayor Jim Swindell
Brian Reid as Agent Royce
Peter Randazzo as Squint
QUICK CUT: Just when you thought it was safe to watch a bad movie, Trees barfs up a sequel about Ranger Cody still being tormented by living, killer trees as a large group of them rampage through Hazelville, Vermont.
TREES
WRITER: Michael Pleckaitis
DIRECTOR: Michael Pleckaitis
STARRING: Kevin McCauley as Mark Cody
Peter Randazzo as Squint
Philip Gardiner as Max Cooper
Mary Ann Nilan as Helen
Raymond Michaud as Swindell
QUICK CUT: Did you ever think Jaws was just an okay movie, but what it really needed was to be about killer pine trees? Too bad, because that's what you're watching.
SAVAGE WEEKEND
WRITER: David Paulsen
DIRECTOR: David Paulsen
STARRING: Christopher Allport as Nicky
James Doerr as Robert Fathwood
David Gale as Mac Macauley
Devin Goldenberg as Jay Alsop
Marilyn Hamlin as Marie Sales Petis
Kathleen Heaney as Shirley Sales
Jeffrey David Pomerantz as Greg Petis
Willian Sanderson as Otis
QUICK CUT: A group of people head off on a vacation weekend in the woods for no particularly good reason, other than getting them isolated and killable.
TROLL 2
WRITER: Drake Floyd
DIRECTOR: Drake Floyd
STARRING: Michael Stephenson as Joshua
George Hardy as Michael
Margo Prey as Diana
Connie McFarland as Holly
Robert Ormsby as Seth
Deborah Reed as Creedence
Jason Wright as Elliott
Darren Ewing as Arnold
Jason Steadman as Drew
David McConnell as Brent
QUICK CUT: A family goes on a little vacation by way of a house swap with another family in the country. Once they're there, they get tormented by trolls, a crazy witch, and a dead grandfather. And then it gets weird.
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.
HORROR 101
WRITER: Daniel Miller, Valorie Conally, and Jenny McPhee
DIRECTOR: James Dudelson
STARRING: Brigitta Dau as Tiffany
Lisa Gordon as Allison
Josh Holland as Mark
Paityn James as Lisa
Michael Moon as Jake
Scott Rinker as Carl
Justin Urich as Brian
Jason Wolk as Floyd
Bo Derek as Miss James
QUICK CUT: A group of college students get caught up in a killing spree by a missing killer on the eve of their final exam. OR DO THEY?
BIRDEMIC
WRITER: James Nguyen
DIRECTOR: James Nguyen
STARRING: Alan Bagh as Rod
Whitney Moore as Natalie
Janae Caster as Susan
Colton Osborne as Tony
Damien Carter as Nightclub Singer
QUICK CUT: A software engineer meets a model, and they have an overly long, overly boring, overly wodden lack of chemistry together. And then birds explode.
ROBOT JOX
WRITERS: Story by Stuart Gordon
Screenplay by Joe Haldeman
DIRECTOR: Stuart Gordon
STARRING: Gary Graham as Achilles
Anne-Marie Johnson as Athena
Paul Koslo as Alexander
Robert Sampson as Commissioner Jameson
Danny Kamekona as Dr. Matsumoto
Hilary Mason as Professor LaPlace
Michael Alldredge as Tex
QUICK CUT: In the near future, after the world has beend devastated by nuclear war, conflicts are resolved by one on one gladiatorial combat. With uh, giant piloted robots. Because that's a thing.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
WRITER: Joss Whedon
DIRECTOR: Fran Rubel Kuzui
STARRING: Kristy Swanson as Buffy
Donald Sutherland as Merrick
Paul Reubens as Amilyn
Rutger Hauer as Lothos
Luke Perry as Pike
David Arquette as Benny
QUICK CUT: Seriously? I gotta tell you what this is about? Fine. A totally typical California girl discovers she is the chosen one, destined to slay the vampires, and look good doing it.
Deadly Friend
Writer: Screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Matthew Laborteaux as Paul
Kristy Swanson as Samantha
Michael Sharrett as Tom
Anne Twomey as Jeannie
Anne Ramsey as Elvira
Richard Marcus as Harry
Quick Cut: It's just another quiet day in a quiet town, until an artificially intelligent robot moves in next door, gets blown up, and has his CPU implanted into a girl.
ARCADE
WRITER: Screenplay by David S. Goyer
DIRECTOR: Albert Pyun
STARRING: Megan Ward as Alex Manning
Peter Billingsley as Nick
John DeLancie as Difford
Sharon Farrell as Alex's mom
Seth Green as Stilts
A.J. Langer as Laurie
Norbert Weisser as Albert
QUICK CUT: When Dante's Inferno gets a preview of the hot new video game Arcade, no one suspects that it is secretly alive and killing people.
KNIGHT CHILLS
WRITER: Jeffrey Kennedy, Juanita Kennedy, and DJ Perry
DIRECTOR: Katherine Hicks
STARRING: Tim Jeffrey as Jack Nixon
DJ Perry as Zac
Michael Wayne Walton as John
Laura Tidwell as Brooke
Sarah Klein as Nancy
Nathan L. Thomas as Hanee
Dave Borowicz as Russell
Sevy Martin as Sir Kallio
QUICK CUT: After one of their gaming group commits suicide, the other members begin to encounter a mysterious knight with a mysterious agenda of slaying them all.
SPECIES: THE AWAKENING
WRITER: Ben Ripley
DIRECTOR: Nick Lyon
STARRING: Ben Cross as Tom
Helena Mattsson as Miranda
Dominic Keating as Forbes
Marlene Favela as Azura
QUICK CUT: The Species series carries on and heads to Mexico when a young woman discovers she's an alien human hybrid and has a higher than usual desire to mate with men.
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE
WRITER: Stephen King
DIRECTOR: Stephen King
STARRING: Emilio Estevez as Bill Robinson
Pat Hingle as Hendershot
Laura Harrington as Brett
Yeardley Smith as Connie
John Short as Curt
Ellen McElduff as Wanda June
Holter Graham as Deke
QUICK CUT: As the Earth passes through the tail of a comet, all our electronics spring to life, or maybe just our trucks, and attack humanity. And by humanity, I mean a tiny truck stop in the middle of nowhere.