Back in the 1400s, a prominent local painter, Erno Sordi, is condemned to burn at the stake because the locals believe him to be a vampire who captures the souls of his subjects onto the portraits he paints. Over five hundred years later his descendant, Antonio Sordi, is part of the local art community where […]
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Puppet Master 5 began its task of trying to win me back over by opening with a scene that I suspect occurs to all horror movie survivors after the credits roll. By that I mean, having the police arrest the main character on suspicion of murder for all of the deaths that occurred in the previous film.
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During a rain-drenched showdown between two Yakuza factions, Akemi, the leader of one faction, inadvertently slices the eyes of an innocent woman trying to protect her relative. She looks down to see a cat lapping up the fallen woman’s blood before the feline attacks her, in an act that Akemi is convinced is the product […]
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Before his death, the patriarch of the Merrye family left the care of his three children, Elizabeth, Virginia and Ralph, in the hands of the family’s ever faithful chauffeur, Bruno. Bruno does the best he can to raise the three children, but his task is made all the harder by a rare and unique familial […]
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You know, I think I’ve seen this before. It certainly seems familiar, but I couldn’t give you a time frame of when I actually viewed it. If I did it was probably on Sci-Fi before SyFy came along and started to suck. Phantasm III picks up immediately after the end of the last installment. Reggie […]
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Phantasm II picks up directly where the first Phantasm leaves off. It then goes through a great big time skip that finds Mike and Reggie hunting down their old nemesis. The Tall Man is up to his old tricks, stealing the dead and raising an undead army with the help of some very swift metal […]
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AKA: The Gate II: (The) Tresspassers AKA: Gate II: Return to the Nightmare The Gate II opens with a much older looking Terry talking about how he’d helped open up the Gate in the previous movie, but then stating that they had gone about it all wrong. At some point since the last film, metal-loving […]
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AKA: Fanatic Vinny Durand has high aspirations. He fancies himself as a great Hollywood director. The only problem is that he’s just a small time taxi driver living in New York City. But Vinny has set his sights high, and by god he’s going to at least make an attempt at reaching his dream. So […]
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The recent removal of a tree in Grant’s back yard unearths a geode and a giant hole. Grant’s friend Terry, clearly on the look for a quick buck, convinces him to dig further into the now covered hole in search of more geodes. The deep cavern gives Grant the heebie-jeebies, but he’s not sure why. […]
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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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