976-EVIL 2: THE ASTRAL FACTOR
WRITER: Screenplay by Eric Anjou
From a story by Rick Glassman
DIRECTOR: Jim Wynorski
STARRING: Patrick O'Bryan as Spike
Rene Assa as Mr. Grubeck
Paul Coufos as Stone
Leslie Ryan as Paula
Debbie James as Robin
QUICK CUT: Hey! Remember that movie I reviewed five years ago? It's baaa-ack! In an almost totally unrealted story, that has at least some tennuous ties, like an evil horoscope phone line that seduces people to do evil deeds.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2
WRITER: Ron Kurz
DIRECTOR: Steve Miner
STARRING: Amy Steel as Ginny
John Furey as Paul
Adrienne King as Alice
Kirsten Baker as Terry
Stu Charno as Ted
Warrington Gillette as Jason
Walt Gorney as Crazy Ralph
Marta Kober as Sandra
Tom McBride as Mark
Bill Randolph as Jeff
Lauren-Marie Taylor as Vickie
Russell Todd as Scott
QUICK CUT: Aaand we are back to not quite Crystal Lake. We are Crystal Lake adjacent. This time out, another camp has opened up for the summer, and the counselors have awoken Jason, bringing him to their camp for the summer.
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FROZEN SCREAM
WRITERS: Screenplay by Doug Ferrin, Michael Soney & Celeste Hammond
Story by Renee Harmon & Doug Ferrin
DIRECTOR: Frank Roach
STARRING: Renee Harmon as Lil Stanjope
Lynne Kocol as Ann Girard
Thomas Gowen as Kevin McGuire
Wolf Muser as Tom Girard
Bob Rochelle as Kirk Richard
Lee James as Sven Johnson
Sunny Bartholomew as Cathrin
Wayne Liebman as Father O'Brien
QUICK CUT: When one man dies, a cop reunites with his lost love, and the pair of them try to get to the heart of the mystery behind a strange group of cloaked figures, and frozen zombies. Yeeeah, this is a weird one.
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DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT
WRITER: Tim Pope
DIRECTOR: S.F. Brownrigg
STARRING: William Bill McGhee as Sam
Jessie Lee Fulton as Jane St. Claire
Robert Dracup as Ray Daniels
Harryette Warren as Jennifer
Michael Harvey as Dr. Stephens
Jessie Kirby as Danny
Hugh Feagin as Sergeant Jaffee
Betty Chandler as Allyson
Camilla Carr as Harriet
Gene Ross as Judge Oliver W. Cameron
Anne MacAdams as Dr. Geraldine S. Masters
Rosie Holotik as Nurse Charlotte Beale
Rhea MacAdams as Mrs. Callingham
QUICK CUT: A new nurse arrives at a psychiatric hospital, but she soon discovers that things are not as they seem. The dead bodies were kind of a clue.
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CHRISTMAS EVIL
WRITER: Lewis Jackson
DIRECTOR: Lewis Jackson
STARRING: Brandon Maggart as Harry Stadling
Jeffrey DeMunn as Philip Stadling
Dianne Hull as Jackie Stadling
Joe Jamrog as Frank Stoller
QUICK CUT: A disturbed man slowly, very slowly succumbs to the holidays and gives into his obsession with Santa Claus, eventually becoming the crimson clad spreader of Christmas cheer and punishment.
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DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW
WRITERS: Teleplay by J.D. Feigelson
Story by J.D. Feigelson and Butler Handcock
DIRECTOR: Frank De Felitta
STARRING: Charles Durning as Otis P. Hazelrigg
Robert F. Lyons as Skeeter Norris
Claude Earl Jones as Philby
Lane Smith as Harless Hocker
Tonya Crowe as Marylee Williams
Larry Drake as Bubba Ritter
Jocelyn Brando as Mrs. Ritter
QUICK CUT: After a man is wrongly killed, he returns from the dead to put the wrong things right, and get vengeance upon those who killed him.
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NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW
WRITERS: Reed Steiner & Dan Mazur
DIRECTOR: Jeff Burr
STARRING: Elizabeth Barondes as Claire
John Mese as Dillon
Stephen Root as Frank
Bruce Glover as Thaddeus
Dirk Blocker as George
Howard Swain as The Scarecrow
Gary Lockwood as William
QUICK CUT: A drunken construction accident releases an ancient evil that comes seeking revenge on a small rural community.
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HALLOWEEN
WRITERS: Screenplay by John Carpenter and Debra Hill
DIRECTOR: John Carpenter
STARRING:
Donald Pleasence as Loomis
Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie
Nancy Loomis as Annie
PJ Soles as Lynda
Charles Cyphers as Bracken
Kyle Richards as Lindsey
Brian Andrews as Tommy
QUICK CUT: What starts out as an average Halloween night for babysitter Laurie Strode ends in horror when a masked killer stalks through the small, Midwestern town she lives in.
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MUSEUM OF THE DEAD
WRITER: Screenplay by Jason Rainwater
DIRECTOR: James Dudelson
STARRING: Nathaniel Arcand as McCloud
Tanya Vidal as Jewel
Vivian Lucas as Lisa
Pepe Pena as Midas
Ryan Barreras as Tolec
Jason Rainwater as Law
Dawn Kain as Russo
Ines Glenn as Bobin
QUICK CUT: With nothing else to do on Halloween, far too many people go and check out the maze-like corridor of the Museum of the Dead and encounter zombies.
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DEVIL TIMES FIVE
WRITER: Screenplay by John Durren
Story by Dylan Jones
DIRECTOR: Sean MacGregor
STARRING: Sorrell Booke as Harvey Beckman
Gene Evans as Papa Doc
Taylor Lacher as Rick
Shelley Morrison as Ruth
Carolyn Steller as Lovely
Joan McCall as Julie
Leif Garrett as David
Dawn Lyn as Moe
Tierre Turner as Brian
Tia Thompson as Susan
Gail Smale as Sister Hannah
John Durren as Ralph
QUICK CUT: After a bus tumbles down a mountain road, five plucky little kids wade through the cold and the snow until they find a home being occupied by some adults on a working vacation. Oh, and the kids are a bit murderous.
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THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN
WRITER: Screenplay by Earl E. Smith
DIRECTOR: Charles B. Pierce
STARRING: Ben Johnson as Captain J.D. Morales
Andrew Prine as Deputy Norman Ramsey
Charles B. Pierce as Patrolman A.C. Benson
Dawn Wells as Helen Reed
QUICK CUT: Very loosely based on a true story, when the small town of Texarkana is terrorised by one of the first serial killers in this country, people give in to fear, while the cops stumble around trying to solve the case before things get even worse.
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DARK DEALER
WRITERS: Screenplay by Tom Alexander and Wynn Winberg
DIRECTOR: Tom Alexander
STARRING: Richard Hull Jr. as Ray
Kim Frazier as Denise
Jeff English as Cracker
Rocky Patterson as Pete
Vincent Gaskins as Samson Burke
Gordon Fox as Nickodemus
Kevin Walker as Phillip Barton
Deborah Nunez as Anne Taylor
Mark Fickert as The Dealer
QUICK CUT: Running from a glowing orb of doom leads a guy into a blackjack game from hell, and the ante is his soul!
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CURTAINS
WRITER: Screenplay by Robert Guza Jr
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Stryker by way of Richard Ciupka
STARRING: John Vernon as Jonathan Stryker
Linda Thorson as Brooke Parsons
Samantha Eggar as Samantha Sherwood
Anne Ditchburn as Laurian Summers
Lynne Griffin as Patti O'Connor
Sandra Warren as Tara Demillo
Lesleh Donaldson as Christie Burns
Deborah Burgess as Amanda Reuther
Michael Wincott as Matthew
QUICK CUT: A director drags six actresses to his remote home in the middle of nowhere Canada to try and pick one for a coveted role in his next movie. And then the women start to be literally cut from the competition.
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SLAUGHTER HIGH
WRITERS: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten
DIRECTORS: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra, Peter Litten
STARRING: Caroline Munro as Carol
Simon Scuddamore as Marty
Kelly Baker as Nancy
Sally Cross as Susan
Billy Hartman as Frank
Carmine Iannaccone as Skip
Gary Martin as Joe
Michael Saffran as Ted
Josephine Scandi as Shirley
John Segal as Carl
Donna Yaeger as Stella
QUICK CUT: After an April Fool's prank goes horribly wrong, ten years pass, and revenge finally comes after the kids responsible.
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TICKS
WRITER: Brent V. Friedman
DIRECTOR: Tony Randel
STARRING: Rosalind Allen as Holly Lambert
Ami Dolenz as Dee Dee Davenport
Seth Green as Tyler Burns
Virginya Keehne as Melissa Danson
Ray Oriel as Rome Hernandez
Alfonso Ribiero as Darell 'Panic' Lumley
Peter Scolari as Charles Danson
Dina Dayrit as Kelly Mishimoto
Michael Medeiros as Jerry
Barry Lynch as Sir
Clint Howard as Jarvis Tanner
Rance Howard as Sheriff Parker
Judy Jean Berns as Dr. Kates
QUICK CUT: A bunch of trouble kids from the city are shipped out to the woods to get down with nature, and instead run smack dab into an infestation of mutated ticks. Yeah, that'll make them run right back to the city.
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DOGS
WRITER: O'Brian Tomalin
DIRECTOR: Burt Brinckerhoff
STARRING: David McCallum as Harlan Thompson
George Wyner as Michael Fitzgerald
Eric Server as Jimmy Goodman
Linda Gray as Miss Engle
Barry Greenberg as Howard Kaplan
Sterling Swanson as Dr. Morton Koppleman
Sandra McCabe as Caroline Donoghue
QUICK CUT: The grounds of a California college are terrorised when every dog in the area begins to pack together and increase their groupthink like they're a bunch of insects. Only a pair of scientists have any chance of figuring out what's going on.
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SCANNERS
WRITER: David Cronenberg
DIRECTOR: David Cronenberg
STARRING: Jennifer O'Neill as Kim Obrist
Stephen Lack as Cameron Vale
Patrick McGoohan as Dr. Paul Ruth
Lawrence Dane as Braedon Keller
Michael Ironside as Darryl Revok
Robert Silverman as Benjamin Pierce
QUICK CUT: The next evolution of humanity has been hiding in plain sight, but a war amongst them is growing. What secrets do they hold, and how many heads will explode along the way?
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METAMORPHOSIS: THE ASTRAL FACTOR
WRITER: Story and Screenplay by Glenn Takakjian
Additional story material by Ted A. Bohus
DIRECTOR: Glenn Takakjian
STARRING: Tara Leigh as Sherry Griffen
Tony Gigante as Mitchell
Dianna Flaherty as Kim Griffen
Katherine Romaine as Nancy Kane
George Gerard as Michael Foster
Allen Lewis Rickman as Dr. Elliot Stein
Patrick Barnes as Brian
Greg Sullivan as Jarrett
Marcus Powell as Dr. Viallini
QUICK CUT: A scientist's work is threatened when he is bitten by an alien creature he's experimenting on, and once he begins to transform, the experimentation is turned on himself. What could possibly go...wait...
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METAMORPHOSIS
Writer: Story by G.L. Eastman
Director: G.L. Eastman
Starring: Gene Le Brock as Peter Houseman
Catherine Baranov as Sally Donnelly
Harry Cason as Mike
David Wicker as Willy
Stephen Brown as Professor Lloyd
Jason Arnold as Tommy
QUICK CUT: A scientist's work is threatened by budget cuts, so he does what any normal person would do, pulling a Bruce Banner and rushes the experiments forward on himself. What could possibly go wrong?
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THE BURNING
WRITERS: Original story by Harvey Weinstein, Tony Maylam, Brad Grey
Screenplay by Peter Lawrence and Bob Weinstein
DIRECTOR: Tony Maylam
STARRING: Brian Matthews as Todd
Leah Ayres as Michelle
Brian Backer as Alfie
Larry Joshua as Glazer
Jason Alexander as Dave
Ned Eisenberg as Eddy
Carrick Glenn as Sally
Carolyn Houlihan as Karen
Fisher Stevens as Woodstock
Lou David as Cropsy
QUICK CUT: Hey, a bunch of kids at summer camp! What could possibly go wrong? Look! A guy with a sharp weapon!
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