It’s prom night at Kennedy High and all the kids are excited for the big night. But a small group of them have a deep, dark secret they’ve been hiding for the past six years, and tonight that secret is about to come back and bite them in the ass. And sadly, I’m not referring […]
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Witchcraft (1988)
Psst…Not to witch-splain or anything, but I think your pentagram is upside down. AKA: Witch and Warlock Grace Churchill just gave birth to a happy and healthy baby boy. Her husband, John, is thrilled, but tells Grace that he won’t be able to spend much time with her and the baby due to work. To […]
Read moreAfter Midnight (1989)
A group of college students take a course on fear with a very unconventional professor. This is merely a convenient plot device to frame a horror anthology as several of the students share urban legends. The first is about a stranded couple who try to seek help from someone in the creepy old house nearby. […]
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The Sid Saga (1985-2003)
The Sid Saga is the personal story of Sid Laverents, an amateur filmmaker who didn’t pick up the hobby until he was 50 years old. He started out by filming everything from his travels, to garden snails, and then experimented with manipulating the sound and picture with in-camera editing techniques.
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Slugs (1988)
The toxic history of a small, rural town comes back to literally bite the current inhabitants when a swarm of large, black slugs mutate due to an improperly secured toxic waste site and develop a ravenous craving for human flesh. Several people die before anyone realizes what’s going on, but all of the city officials […]
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Mystics in Bali (1981)
Cathy, a young American author, has traveled to Bali to do research on the Leák, a cult of black magic practitioners feared by the locals. Her Balinese boyfriend, Mahendra, manages to secure her an introduction with the Leák Queen, and Cathy is taken on as the woman’s apprentice in the dark arts. This involves transfiguration, a suspicious amount of laughing and an inexplicable need to walk like an Egyptian.
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The Stuff (1985)
Ex FBI agent David “Mo” Rutherford had taken up a new calling as corporate saboteur. His new job: Working for a loosely collected ice-cream conglomerate to investigate The Stuff, a new dessert craze that is sweeping the nation. People just can’t seem to be able to get enough of this innocuous looking white ‘dessert.’ The […]
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Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
A couple of collage kids macking out at the local lovers lane stop their smooching when they spot a shooting star in the sky and decide to follow it. After committing an act of trespass, they finally find the object from the sky, but instead of finding an asteroid, instead they find an oddly placed […]
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New Year’s Evil (1980)
So not too long ago I stayed up extra late (or really early depending on how you look at it) to watch one of TCM’s late night/early morning showings. I’ve noticed on Fridays that after the Underground is over they usually show another movie very similar to the first. So after catching the end of […]
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Blood Beat (1982)
Ted and his sister, Dolly, are headed home to spend Christmas at their mother Cathy’s rural farmhouse in Wisconsin. But Ted’s new girlfriend, Sarah, doesn’t seem to be invoking any Christmas cheer in Cathy, and the feelings seem to be mutual. Both women are getting strange vibes from the other. Ted brushes it off and […]
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