Maniac Horror Movies - Page 3 of 6

WAS IT A SEX-KILLER? OR SOMETHING WORSE? RITUAL FOR LOVE He promises them his love, then kills without mercy. Each seduction ends in death--each victim, murdered in bed. Detective Jack Cordesman has vowed to unravel the demented mystery, to enter the heart of a maniac’s temptation...where desire demands the ultimate price. PASSION FOR EVIL The stranger beckons--the man of her dreams...or of her worst nightmares. Veronica Polk longs for love, but it isn’t love that awaits in the strange,…

Experience the gruesome beginnings of Mr. Smith and his hotel of horrors in this terrifying prequel to Vacancy, starring Agnes Bruckner (Murder by Numbers). Suspecting only a night of hard beds and tacky décor, Caleb, his sexy new fiancée Jessica and his sarcastic best friend Tanner, check into the Meadow View Inn. They have no idea that it is not just another lonely motel, but a horrific trap where guests are brutally tortured and murdered while the sadistic maniac Mr. Smith and his…

When The Butcher Goes Berserk...After slaughterhouse worker Marcos (Vicente Parra of SOFT SKIN ON BLACK SILK) accidentally kills a man during a fight, he begins to lose his grip on sanity. As his brutal crimes escalate and the body count grows, the killer must find a way to dispose of his victims. The solution is simple but shocking: You are what he eats!Co-written and directed by Eloy de la Iglesia (BULGARIAN LOVERS), CANNIBAL MAN is reminiscent of such classics as REPULSION, MANIAC and HENRY:…

Merv Doody (James Heathcoate) is the ultimate horror movie geek until the day a notvery- dangerous escaped mental patient lands on his doorstep. With the help of his ambitious buddy Onkey (co-writer/producer Dan Palmer), the two decide to groom this feeble nutcase into a legendary slasher-movie maniac. But when the masked wacko develops a taste for bloodshed, he becomes a walking, stalking killing machine that only Merv and Onkey can stop. Gratuitous nudity, gross-out gore, foul language, arse piranhas,…

From the co-creator of the horror classic Night of the Living Dead comes a seasonal tale of terror, madness, eroticism and murder that will chill you to the bone. B-Movie Scream Queen Raven Quinn won't be having the happiest of holidays this year. Her marriage is falling apart, and Wayne - a quiet next-door neighbor - has developed a macabre obsession for her that has reached the point of insanity. As Wayne's delusions grow even more dangerous and bizarre, he transforms into the most frightening…

The Stunning Debut By Dario Argento The Italian Master Of Terror In his first film as writer/director, Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA, DEEP RED, TWO EVIL EYES) single-handedly created the giallo genre and instantly emerged as the filmmaker critics worldwide hailed as 'The Italian Hitchcock'. Tony Musante (TRAFFIC, OZ) and Suzy Kendall (CIRCUS OF FEAR, TORSO) star in this pulse-pounding suspense thriller about an American writer in Rome who witnesses - and is helpless to stop - a brutal assault,…

(1963) (English Speaking Version) Christopher Lee, George Riviere, Rossana Podesta, directed by Antonio Margheriti. A wonderful, atmospheric horror film. A beautiful lady finds herself completely terrified inside her hubby's creepy, crumbling castle. There's a monster afoot! It seems the ghost of a medieval torture maniac called "The Punisher" is on the loose and killing off people in a variety of grisly ways. The "rat-eating-the-girls-face" scene is a real eye-opening…

Beautiful Jenna Bates (Bond-girl Caroline Munro) is stalked at the Cannes Film Festival by a Fanatic cabdriver dreaming of being a major Hollywood producer! The crazed cabbie does and is sure that she could become an actress. Unfortunately, before he can help her, he must first get her attention. In his obsessive quest for her ultimate performance, the hack embarks on a string of grisly murders culminating in a shocking twist ending! Much of the story was shot on location at the 1981 Cannes Film…

Do you love Argento(but of course) Do you love Bava(uh! huh!) How about old school Fulchi and D'Amato(YESSSSSS!)Well than my friend here is a MAJOR influence Harold Reindl's STRANGLER of BLACKMOOR CASTLE...A hooded knife murderer stalks the dank corridors of a English lord's castle in this EERIE movie. This movie has a masked maniac chopping off heads,flashing knives,and threatening to pierce the eye's of a woman with a pair of Diamond Drills(don't ya just love it)This German…

Witness the birth of evil. This eerie, very intense (New York) thriller from writer-director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) first introduced the world to the cunning, unforgettable serial killer named Hannibal. Joan Allen and Stephen Lang co-star in this dark locomotive ofa film (Los Angeles Times) that promises to keep viewers riveted (Time)!Former FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen, CSI ) reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as the 'tooth Fairy.…

After Hours Cinema is extremely proud to be able to present this special DVD edition of a true classic. Since the time of its theatrical release, Forced Entry has become something of a grindhouse legend. Part slasher film and part adult cinema, it certainly must have shocked contemporary audiences and still continues to pack a powerful punch today. Recently released from duty, a deranged Vietnam vet - Harry Reems of Deep Throat) - brings the carnage home with him and declares war on New York City…

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of…Dean Koontz's Prodigal SonEvery city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives…

T. C. Boyle's seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is hilarious. It is the dawn of the twentieth century when the beautiful, budding feminist Katherine Dexter falls in love with Stanley McCormick, son of a millionaire inventor. The two wed, but before the marriage is consummated, Stanley experiences a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed as a schizophrenic sex maniac. Locked up for the rest…

.....with a PITCHFORK! When a lonely G.I. at the end of WW2 receives a Dear John letter from his faithless sweetheart back home."I'm young and I want to have fun" -he replies by impaling the new couple together with a pitchfork. 35 years later the small town of Avalon Bay is about to have the first graduation dance since the murder, the sheriff receives word that a maniac from the next town over has stabbed someone and removed their heart.What's a sheriff gonna do? This one goes…

Fiend of Dope Island (1961, 76 min.) - Former screen Tarzan Bruce Bennett is the Fiend of Dope Island, a sadistic maniac named Charlie Davis who lords over a tiny Caribbean isle with his trusty bullwhip. Not content with smuggling guns and growing marijuana, Charlie also hires sexy dancer Glory La Verne to "entertain him" at his flea-shack of a cantina. Instead, Glory zeroes in on Charlie's main man, Davey, and the two lead a native uprising against Charlie who retaliates by going...…