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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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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You Better Watch Out (1980)
(AKA Christmas Evil, AKA Terror in Toyland) The story opens on a young boy named Harry on Christmas Eve. After Harry tells his younger brother about Santa (via a very heart warming ‘memory sequence’), his brother tells him he doesn’t believe in Santa, so Harry goes downstairs (to prove him wrong I guess) and sees […]
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Humanoids from the Deep (1980)
Some very disturbing things are happening in the small fishing town of Noyo, California. A fishing boat blows ups without warning, the town’s dog population mysteriously winds up dead, and several residents seem to up and disappear out of thin air. The timing for all of this couldn’t be worse. They’re just days away from their annual Salmon Festival, and a new, though controversial, canning facility is set to start construction soon, something that’s set to bring more jobs to little Noyo. The canning company, Canco (no really, that’s the name) has even sent some VIPs to the town to drum up support, including one of its own scientists. But as more strange things continue to happen, it’s becoming apparent to some of the locals that Canco may already be more involved in the happenings of this small town than they’re letting on.
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Little Darlings (1980)
Little Darlings is a tale of two girls, Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) and Angel (Kristy McNichol), and their race to see who can loose their virginity first during summer camp.
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