I wanted to start this off with a fun fact: I keep a monster locked in my basement. It mewls and growls, and I appease it by bringing it roadkill or whatever dead animals I can find. I don’t do this out of a desire to keep it prisoner, but rather to show I love […]
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Dark Night of the Scarecrow In a small, rural farming town, 36-year-old developmentally disabled Bubba Ritter is not the town’s favored son. The local postman, Otis Hazelrigg, in particular, seems to have it out for him, and has convinced himself and three other townsfolk that Bubba is dangerous and something needs to be done about […]
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The Babadook (2014)
Single, widowed mother Amelia is having some trouble. Her 6-year-old son, Sam, is becoming angry, violent and increasingly scared about monsters, going so far as to bring a homemade weapon to school. He’s having trouble sleeping and makes her check for monsters under the bed and in the closet every night before his bedtime story. […]
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The Gate (1987)
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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Metamorphosis (1990)
AKA: Reanimator 2 (Spain) AKA: Regenerator (UK) AKA: Lizard – Die totale Mutation (Germany) AKA: DNA formula letale (Italy) Dr. Peter Houseman is a young and brilliant up-and-coming geneticist. His current project: working on a serum that will stop the aging process. But his brash attitude and reluctance to share or publish any kind of […]
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Paperhouse (1988)
Anna is a troubled 11-year-old with a lot going on in her life. She has few friends, is punished for dealing with bullies in school, and her father is mysteriously absent. On top of that, she’s been stricken with a case of glandular fever and has been confined to bed after a number of fainting […]
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The Quacky Slasher (2018)
While still just a boy, Michael Quackers suffered a traumatizing event when he seemingly witnessed the death of his father at the beaks (feathers?) of the local pond ducks. The experience was so upsetting to Michael that it rendered him mute and he found himself in a mental institution. Now, some twenty years later, grown […]
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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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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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