Maniac Horror Movies - Page 5 of 6

This G.I.-zombie tale, smartly scripted by exploitation auteur Larry Cohen (It's Alive, God Told Me To) and directed by William Lustig (Maniac, Vigilante), straddles the line between antiwar satire and slasher-movie silliness. American soldier Uncle Sam, as he's known to his hero-worshipping young nephew, is a bullying homicidal misfit too ornery to die. His bloodied and burned corpse, sent home from Kuwait for burial, crawls out of his casket and declares war on punks, crooked politicians,…

I had gotten this at Movie Exchange just a week before thanksgiving. I saw this along with another movie, Hyperspace. I paid only $1.70 for both films....and in terms of Cybernator, I still think I paid WAY too much for this travesty. It's horrible, boring, and completely stupid and unoriginal. Cybernator takes place in the year 2010, where the Earth has become a world where the economy has collapsed, the government has fallen, and all power has fallen under military control as military trained…

Monkey-Loving Women! That's the jaw-dropping gimmick at the core of Forbidden Adventure, one of the most outrageous exploitation films ever unleashed. Supposedly based on a 1912 expedition to Cambodia, two explorers lead a safari of topless native women (who, allegedly, were recruited from a Los Angeles [**]house!) to the lost city of Angkor and find it jealously guarded by apes. Amazingly, the "monkey domination" that destroyed Angkor centuries ago begins to affect the women of the…

Italian horror maestro Dario Argento made his name by turning homicide into modern art with a cinematic flourish, but with Phenomena he takes his stylish mayhem in new directions. The film opens with the dreamy grace of a fairy tale: a young girl wandering the green meadows of Switzerland and discovering a gingerbread house, wherein lives a monster more modern than mythic, a psychopathic maniac who plunges the picture into a lush nightmare. Jennifer (Jennifer Connelly in her first starring role),…

"My secret admirer" is based on the story of a 16 year old girl named Jenny. Her and her parents move to a place called Rimrocks, a small village. Both her parents leave for business they will be gone for a few days. She meets her neighbour Sally. Sally is the same age as Jenny. Sally introduces Jenny to all the other teens. They all go on an anual scavenger hunt, Jenny pairs up with a boy, David. They hit it off from the moment they meet. They climb the Rimrocks looking for an empty bird…

"My secret admirer" is based on the story of a 16 year old girl named Jenny. Her and her parents move to a place called Rimrocks, a small village. Both her parents leave for business they will be gone for a few days. She meets her neighbour Sally. Sally is the same age as Jenny. Sally introduces Jenny to all the other teens. They all go on an anual scavenger hunt, Jenny pairs up with a boy, David. They hit it off from the moment they meet. They climb the Rimrocks looking for an empty bird…

"My secret admirer" is based on the story of a 16 year old girl named Jenny. Her and her parents move to a place called Rimrocks, a small village. Both her parents leave for business they will be gone for a few days. She meets her neighbour Sally. Sally is the same age as Jenny. Sally introduces Jenny to all the other teens. They all go on an anual scavenger hunt, Jenny pairs up with a boy, David. They hit it off from the moment they meet. They climb the Rimrocks looking for an empty bird…

Five college students who live many miles apart but who share a terrifying childhood secret each receive a mysterious message: "Dear survivor, please return." It's a request they have been dreading, but knew must one day come. Seven years earlier a dark force of powerful evil had preyed on the seventh-grade class of Seven Oaks middle school. Now someone has summoned the survivors, someone who needs their special help, their knowledge and skills, in order to defeat the evil again.…

Enter the Bizarre World of the Psycho-Sexual! Eager for a career in modeling, naive-and-not-very-bright Karen Anderson signs with a creepy brother and sister team whose Rent-a-Girl agency actually procures women for a rich and kinky clientele. Starting with posing for pictures in the nude, Karen soon graduates to being The Guest of Honor at a Special Party thrown by wealthy Harriet Grant, "a disgusting lady who enjoys whipping little girls 18 to 22." Full of sick eccentrics, the party's…

A Double Dose of Terror from the Directors of DAWN OF THE DEAD and SUSPIRIAThe masters of modern horror - George Romero and Dario Argento - bring you an unprecedented pair of shockers inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In Romero's "The Facts In The Case Of Mr. Valdemar," a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau of THE FOG) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave. Then in Argento's…

Platform:  DVD MOVIE Publisher:  ALPHA VIDEO Packaging:  DVD STYLE BOX In the year 1880 Paris is reeling from a series of fiendish murders... the work of a deranged maniac known as "The Wolf." Meanwhile Lucien Cartier a bank clerk who hopes to marry the owner's daughter finds himself the lone suspect when the bank is robbed. The evil and lascivious millionaire Chevalier Lucio del Gardo frames the innocent Lucien and accuses him of being the mad killer terrorizing Paris. Forced into hiding…

>I tried hard to take this psuedo-scary flick seriously but alas, it is so far/fetched and campy-that I finally was doing little more than half smiling at it's tackinous; asking myself the age-old question,"Why did they ever make movies like this?"!!! It could've been a lot better with {just} a tad bit more budget allowing for an upgrade of props, improved lighting and a cast with less put on accents of foreign nature; with an ameliorated script containing more punch. >It's as though many…

Nearly 25 years after its original release, Combat Shock returns from the cult underground to reclaim its title as perhaps the most shocking independent film of the '80s. Writer/director/producer Buddy Giovinazzo made his indelible debut with this nihilistic saga of a Vietnam vet's desperate pursuit to save his family from the horrors of poverty and urban squalor. Culminating in one of the most brutal climaxes ever committed to celluloid, this unforgiving masterwork remains as controversial…

Nearly 25 years after its original release, Combat Shock returns from the cult underground to reclaim its title as perhaps the most shocking independent film of the '80s. Writer/director/producer Buddy Giovinazzo made his indelible debut with this nihilistic saga of a Vietnam vet's desperate pursuit to save his family from the horrors of poverty and urban squalor. Culminating in one of the most brutal climaxes ever committed to celluloid, this unforgiving masterwork remains as controversial…

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers. For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston’s Crispin Museum. Now its sudden rediscovery by museum staff is both a major coup and an attention-grabbing…