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Movie: Mad Love

[TRAILER] A disturbed surgeon (Peter Lorre) becomes obsessed with actress Yvonne (Frances Drake). When the woman's pianist husband (Colin Clive) has his hands horribly damaged in an accident, Dr. Gogol replaces them with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives... and kill. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 10, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Street Trash

[TRAILER] A group of homeless misfits must fight for survival when they discover a plot to exterminate every homeless person in the city. A requel (sort of a remake/sort of a sequel) to the 1987 cult classic. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 20, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: Hell Hole

[TRAILER] The Adams Family (the real life family who made the excellent Hellbender) steps up from no budget to low budget with a tale of a US-led fracking crew working in Serbia who uncover a centuries-old French soldier alive (but maybe not so well) under the soil. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Sep 7, 2024 - 4 comments

Parasyte: The Grey: Season 1 (all episodes)  Season 1, Ep 0

Parasyte: The Grey is a 2024 South Korean sci-fi horror television series directed and co-written by Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Hellbound). The series is a live-action spin-off of the manga series Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki and depicts a confrontation with unidentified parasitic creatures that live on humans and have the urge to kill humans. The series currently has a 100% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
posted by vverse23 on Apr 10, 2024 - 1 comment

Creepshow: The Hat/Grieving Process  Season 4, Ep 2

A novelist who wants to achieve greatness is gifted the hat of his literary idol, and after a terrible accident, a husband struggles to reconnect with his wife. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 15, 2023 - 0 comments

Movie: Swallowed

Benjamin and Dom have been best friends since they were kids. On their last night together, Dom plans to send Benjamin off with a pocketful of cash. All he has to do is deliver a package over the border for a friend... [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jul 10, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Tetsuo: The Iron Man

A “metal fetishist,” driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 12, 2023 - 5 comments

Movie: Street Trash

[TRAILER] A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking tainted sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 15, 2022 - 3 comments

Movie: The Brood

A mad doctor (Oliver Reed) tries psychoplasmic therapy on a raging woman (Samantha Eggar) soon to be a mother. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 26, 2022 - 4 comments

Movie: Society

A Beverly Hills teen (Billy warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite. A throbbing, goopy, heady, body horror. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 23, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: Shivers

After a scientist living in a posh apartment complex slaughters a teen girl and kills himself, investigators discover that the murderer had been carrying on experiments involving deadly parasites. Roger St. Luc (Paul Hampton), a doctor living in the building, and his aide, Nurse Forsythe (Lynn Lowry), then realize that the parasites are on the loose, attacking fellow tenants. And those who become hosts turn into erotically obsessed maniacs who pass the bugs on through violent sex. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 11, 2022 - 9 comments

Movie: Lifechanger

A shapeshifter sets out to make things right for the woman he loves. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Sep 6, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: Crimes of the Future

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... [more inside]
posted by Weighted Companion Cube on Jun 3, 2022 - 5 comments

Movie: Shapeless

Ivy is a New Orlean lounge singer who struggles with trying to keep symptoms of a mysterious illness in check.
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 9, 2021 - 1 comment

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Conspiracy  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 25

When Picard's dearest friend alerts him to mysterious subversion at the highest levels of Starfleet, the Enterprise is the only thing standing between the Federation and an unstoppable new culinary trend that's perhaps best left vague here. (Warning: appetite spoilers.) [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jun 26, 2020 - 23 comments

Movie: Spring

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret. [more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul on Apr 12, 2020 - 3 comments

Book: The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction writers. Her powerful, unexpected stories shatter morality, gender, and sexuality.-Amazon [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jun 27, 2019 - 2 comments

Movie: Blue My Mind

15-year-old Mia's body is changing in unusual ways. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Apr 24, 2019 - 2 comments

Movie: The Void

Small town cop Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. Daniel takes him to the local hospital, but shit there ain't right: hunted by cultists bearing the symbol of a black triangle, people are undergoing monstrous transformations. [more inside]
posted by fleacircus on Oct 31, 2018 - 8 comments

Movie: Death Becomes Her

When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Sep 12, 2018 - 13 comments

Movie: Scanners

A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Apr 9, 2018 - 3 comments

The Strain: New Horizons  Season 4, Ep 4

We check in on Dutch, Gus, Creem and Eph. [more inside]
posted by mordax on Aug 7, 2017 - 4 comments

The Strain: One Shot  Season 4, Ep 3

The Strain lurches along in its final season. [more inside]
posted by mordax on Jul 31, 2017 - 13 comments

The Strain: The Blood Tax  Season 4, Ep 2

Strigoi love the refreshing taste of B+. [more inside]
posted by mordax on Jul 25, 2017 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Macrocosm  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 12

You see, Starfleet is less a military organization than a scientific one—committed to seeking out and understanding new forms of life, however different they maAAUGH GOD KILL IT WITH FIRE [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Jul 6, 2017 - 21 comments

Star Trek: Voyager: Phage  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 5

This episode starts off with a very sitcommy bit about Neelix's cooking (which will become a recurring bit), but takes a very hard left turn into horror with the introduction of a strong contender for the title of Trek's Nastiest Villains, the Vidiians. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Jan 16, 2017 - 32 comments

Westworld: Chestnut  Season 1, Ep 2

A pair of guests arrive at Westworld with different expectations; Bernard and Theresa Cullen debate about the recent host anomaly; a behavior engineer tweaks the emotions of a madam in Sweetwater's brothel; a cocky programmer pitches a new narrative. [more inside]
posted by Diablevert on Oct 7, 2016 - 104 comments

Movie: The Thing

A research station in the Antarctic is infiltrated by a shape-shifting alien... uh... thing that assumes the appearance of the people it kills. [more inside]
posted by brundlefly on Dec 25, 2015 - 37 comments

MeFi Horror Club: The Thing

The next MeFi Horror Club post will go live on Friday, December the 25th. Christmas Day! In that spirit, we'll be watching John Carpenter's snowy 1982 classic, The Thing. [more inside]
posted by brundlefly on Dec 18, 2015 - 6 comments

Steven Universe: Nightmare Hospital  Season 2, Ep 19

When Dr. Maheswaran confiscates Rose's sword, Connie and Steven go to her hospital to get it back.
posted by Small Dollar on Sep 10, 2015 - 14 comments

Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Puppetmaster  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 8

In the Fire Nation, Katara is surprised to meet another waterbender, an old woman named Hama. Hama tells her how the Southern Water Tribe fought against the Fire Army, then shows her a new form of bending. [more inside]
posted by Katemonkey on Sep 10, 2015 - 18 comments

Angel: Expecting  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 12

Cordelia has a fast-rising bun (or seven) in the oven. Of course it's because of a demon. Phantom Dennis is protective. Wesley starts down the gunpowder road. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Sep 3, 2015 - 4 comments

Steven Universe: Keeping It Together  Season 2, Ep 11

The Crystal Gems find a sinister secret in the Kindergarten.
posted by Small Dollar on Jun 17, 2015 - 20 comments

Movie: Videodrome

A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. (IMDB) Videodrome is a 1983 Canadian postmodernist science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Deborah Harry. Set in Toronto in the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small television station who discovers a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. Layers of deception unfold as he uncovers the signal's source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent hallucinations. (wikipedia) [more inside]
posted by valkane on Jan 25, 2015 - 14 comments

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