The Butterfly Room (2012)
The Butterfly Room is about Ann, an reclusive older woman with an affinity for butterflies. Some time in the past, Ann is befriended a charming, yet eerie young girl named Alice. The two of them establish a bizarre mother-daughter relationship, but Ann soon discovers that she is not the only woman vying for Alice’s affections. […]
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Murder Mansion (1972)
AKA: La Mansión De La NieblaAKA: Maniac Mansion During a night of thick fog, six people get lost on the same deserted road and take refuge at the only building nearby, a rundown house situated next to an abandoned cemetery. The owner of the house lives in the nearby village, but since the weather makes […]
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Seed People (1992)
Oh, the joys of VHS hunting at the thrift stores. Just look at that cover. “Root of all Evil…” Pfffft. Seed People starts in a hospital with geologist, Tom Baines. Tom is rushed into a room with a head injury, spouting about some unknown entity that has to be stopped. From there, Tom narrates the […]
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Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
NYPD detectives Powell and Shepard have two very strange cases on their hands. The first involves a bizarre series of ritualistic murders where living victims are either filleted alive or have their hearts cut out of their chests. The second case involves a strange string of disappearances that all seem to be followed up by sightings of an unusually large bird seen flying around Manhattan. Meanwhile, while the two detectives try to figure out what to make of all these strange occurances, two-bit crook Jimmy Quinn, on the run from some not so friendly ‘associates,’ stumbles upon a corpse and an egg in a ridiculously large nest hidden at the top of the Chrysler Building. So what’s a skeevy little opportunist like Jimmy to do? Try to make a quick buck of course.
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The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)
Unnamable II picks up immediately after the events of the first movie. The police and paramedics take off with what remains of the Miskatonic students who were unfortunate enough to get trapped in the abandoned house. The only one left to their own devices is Randolph Carter, the student who managed to trap the demon […]
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Night Tide (1961)
One night while cruising around with little to do, young, naive sailor Johnny Drake meets a mysterious woman at a local jazz club. Her name is Mora, and she makes her living by appearing as a mermaid in a nearby sideshow attraction. Johnny is immediately smitten with the soft spoken woman who loves the ocean […]
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The Unnamable (1988)
The Unnamable is the story of a group of college students. When Carter tells two of his friends about an very old town legend of some ‘unnamable’ creature lurking in a nearby home, his friend Joel doesn’t believe him. To prove his friends’ superstitious beliefs wrong, Joel decides to spend a night in the old […]
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Hands of the Ripper (1971)
The very young daughter of Jack the Ripper witnesses her father kill her mother. Fifteen years later, after being abandoned at an orphanage, the young girl’s trauma continues as she’s forced to work for a woman who not only conducts fake seances for desperate, grieving loved ones and forces her to participate, but also has […]
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The Super Cops (1974)
TCM has a pattern where they show a bunch of re-runs for a couple of months during its Underground timeslot, before they start showing some new stuff again. I’m honestly partial to the cheesy horror movies they tend to show, myself, but I do enjoy it when they mix it up a little, something they […]
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Scream of the Wolf (1974)
Local author and hunting expert John Wetherby has been called in by the police to help with a baffling case. A tourist has been brutally killed on a deserted road outside the city. The police are sure it’s the work of some kind of animal, but the tracks the creature left behind has left them […]
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