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Movie: Demon Seed

A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife. [more inside]
posted by Lemkin on Jan 27, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Get Away

A family's vacation to a remote island to witness a local tradition is greeted with intense hostility by the locals. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jan 23, 2025 - 3 comments

Book: American Rapture by C. J. Leede

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jan 23, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Scream 4

[Trailer] "Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott, who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing, is visited by the Ghostface Killer." [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 23, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Three... Extremes / Sam gang 2

[Trailer] An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 20, 2025 - 7 comments

Movie: Scream 3

[Trailer] While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 20, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: The Stuff

[TRAILER] A dairy conglomerate hires David Rutherford (Michael Moriarty), an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called "The Stuff," a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it's made or what's in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's a delicious flavor to die for in Larry Cohen's wild satire of food industry capitalism. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 16, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: 1922

[Trailer] In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate. -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Jan 11, 2025 - 1 comment

Grotesquerie: Season 1 (Full Season)  Season 1, Ep 1

Detective Lois Tryon must work with Sister Megan, a local nun, to figure out the source of a series of heinous crimes that is affecting both their community and their personal lives. [more inside]
posted by ashbury on Jan 7, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: The First Vampire in China

A skeptical mayor has his beliefs challenged when an ancient emperor rises from the grave and causes chaos. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jan 7, 2025 - 2 comments

Book: Absolution

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, the surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s blockbuster Southern Reach Trilogy. [more inside]
posted by Kybard on Jan 7, 2025 - 12 comments

Movie: Edge of the Knife

[TRAILER] Set in 19th-century Haida Gwaii, it tells the classic Haida story of a traumatized and stranded man transformed into Gaagiixiid, the wildman. The film was created primarily by indigenous people, including the co-directors, a mostly amateur crew, and the Haida cast with a budget of close to $2 million CAD, funded by the Council of the Haida Nation, the Canada Media Fund, and Telefilm Canada with an aim to preserve and teach Haida, an endangered language. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 3, 2025 - 9 comments

Movie: Slumber Party Massacre II

[TRAILER] The sequel to the Rita Mae Brown-penned slasher is... a musical? Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie from the first film, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 2, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Body Snatchers

[TRAILER] Teenager Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) has to move to Alabama with her stepmom Carol (Meg Tilly) and half-brother Andy when her EPA agent dad Steve (Terry Kinney) is assigned to audit the chemical use at a military base. Marti befriends Jean (Christine Elise), daughter of the base's commander, General Platt (R. Lee Ermey). When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by aliens. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 2, 2025 - 2 comments

Book: The Black Guy Dies First

A definitive and surprising exploration of the history of Black horror films, after the rising success of Get Out, Candyman, and Lovecraft Country from creators behind the acclaimed documentary, Horror Noire. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 29, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Revenge

[Trailer] Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. --IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 29, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Kuroneko / Black Cat

In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Werewolves

Two scientists try to stop a mutation that turns people into werewolves after being touched by a super-moon the year before. Frank Grillo delivers some Frank Thrillos as a Frank Brillo super-scientist/buff-action-man who must fight his way through The Purge But With Werewolves. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Dec 28, 2024 - 7 comments

Book: The Apparition Phase

From the Amazon description: Twins Tim and Abi have always been different from their peers, spending their evenings in the attic of their parents' suburban house, poring over reports of the unexplained. Obsessed with photographs of ghostly apparitions, they decide to fake their own, and use it to frighten a girl at school. But what was only supposed to be a harmless prank sets in motion a deadly and terrifying chain of events that neither of them could have predicted...
posted by mittens on Dec 28, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: I'm Dangerous Tonight

[TRAILER] When Amy (Mädchen Amick) turns an ancient Aztec priest's cloak into a dress, she discovers it's cursed and whoever wears it comes under its evil influence. Tobe Hooper adapts a Cornel Woolrich short story into an early 1990's USA Network original film. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: The Kindred

[TRAILER] John's mother asked him on her deathbed to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 27, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Nosferatu

[TRAILER] A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman (Lily Rose Depp) and the terrifying vampire (Bill Skarsgård) infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 26, 2024 - 28 comments

Movie: Carnage for Christmas

[TRAILER] When true-crime podcaster and sleuth Lola (Jeremy Moineau) visits her hometown at Christmas for the first time since running away and transitioning, the vengeful ghost of a historical murderer and urban legend seemingly arises to kill again. The fifth feature film from 20 year-old filmmaker Australian filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 24, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: The Abominable Dr. Phibes

[TRAILER] In a desperate attempt to reach his ill wife, organist Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) is horrifically disfigured in a car accident and presumed dead. When he learns that his wife died during an operation, Phibes blames her surgeons and plots an elaborate revenge to punish them for their incompetence. With the help of a mute assistant (Virginia North), Phibes creates a mask resembling his own face and murders the surgeons one by one using bizarre methods inspired by the biblical plagues. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 23, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: Village of the Damned

[TRAILER] Ten months after the small California town of Midwich was struck by a mysterious event during which everyone in the village fell unconscious at once, 10 local women give birth on the same day. As the unsettlingly calm and unemotional children grow at an abnormally fast rate, it becomes clear that they can read adults' minds and force people to harm themselves. Local doctor Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve) and federal agent Susan Verner (Kirstie Alley) must team up to battle the alien children. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 20, 2024 - 3 comments

The Creep Tapes: Full season  Season 1, Ep 0

The Creep (he of Creep and Creep 2) returns to wreak havoc on unsuspecting strangers who, through a variety of machinations, are enticed (however grudgingly) to film his antics. Is it a disturbing found footage horror miniseries, or is it just the strangest sitcom of all time? Why not...both?
posted by kittens for breakfast on Dec 20, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Brand Upon the Brain!

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 18, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Isle of the Dead

[TRAILER] Gen. Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff) takes leave from the 1912 Balkan War to visit a small island in Greece, where his wife is buried. While there, a plague breaks out -- and along with an American reporter (Marc Cramer) and several other travelers, Pherides is forced to stay when quarantine is declared. Soon, locals and foreigners alike succumb to the influence of Madame Kyra (Helene Thimig), who accuses a nurse (Ellen Drew) of being a vorvolaka, a malevolent vampiric demon. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 17, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Poltergeist II: The Other Side

[TRAILER] The Freelings (JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson) have escaped their haunted house, which is now being studied by paranormal investigators, including shaman Taylor (Will Sampson). When Taylor realizes that the Beast, masquerading as the Rev. Kane (Julian Beck), knows where young Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) now lives, he goes to warn the family that their daughter is in danger again. To protect Carol, her family must plot to take down the Beast. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 12, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: The Walking Dead

[TRAILER] Down-on-his-luck John Ellman (Boris Karloff) is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor (Edmund Gwenn, aka Santa in Miracle on 34th Street) uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is not as expected. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 12, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Curse of the Cat People

[TRAILER] In this ostensible sequel to "Cat People," Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) is married to the lovely Alice Moore (Jane Randolph). The couple has a daughter, Amy (Ann Carter), a withdrawn young girl with a vivid imagination who soon begins talking to visions of her father's deceased former wife, the cursed Irena (Simone Simon). When Amy unintentionally incurs the wrath of a mentally unstable woman (Elizabeth Russell), the girl's relationship with Irena's apparition comes into play. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 11, 2024 - 9 comments

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: Smile 2

About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past, as the public largely stands by and watches with their iPhones up and recording. 86% Rotten Tomatoes [more inside]
posted by edithkeeler on Dec 2, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Warm Bodies

[Trailer] After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 29, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: Southern Comfort

[Trailer] During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals. -- IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 28, 2024 - 2 comments

Movie: Deadly Friend

[TRAILER] When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door (Kristy Swanson), lonely teenage genius Paul (Matthew Labyorteaux) tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 26, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Bedlam

London, 1761. After getting a glimpse of the conditions at the St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum, known as "Bedlam," Nell Bowen (Anna Lee) is concerned that the patients are being mistreated. When she seeks to better the situation, the head of St. Mary's, George Sims (Boris Karloff), uses his political savvy to have Nell committed. Being within St. Mary's does not deter Nell, however, and she starts to turn the patients against Sims in a bid to violently oust him from power. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 25, 2024 - 1 comment

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: Cat People

Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a Serbian-born NYC fashion designer, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). Oliver becomes concerned about Irena's notion that she is cursed and may transform into a large cat in the heat of passion. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 20, 2024 - 9 comments

Movie: To Fire You Come at Last

In rural 17th-century England, a group of men gather to carry a young man's coffin on the long walk to the local graveyard for burial: his father; his father's right-hand man; his best friend; and the town drunk. Much ancient folklore and superstition surround the "corpse road," and several of the party are afraid to walk it after dark. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 15, 2024 - 10 comments

Movie: Vampires

[TRAILER] Jack Crow (James Woods) has a business: putting stakes through bloodsuckers' hearts. With his battle-hardened crew of vampire killers and the assistance of the Catholic Church, Crow roams the New Mexico desert looking for undead lairs to annihilate. But he meets his match when, at a roadside motel, he comes face to face with Jan Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith), a vampire kingpin possessed of incredible powers. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 12, 2024 - 11 comments

Movie: Ghosts of Mars

[TRAILER] In 2176, a Martian police unit (Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier, Jason Statham, Clea Duvall) is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal (Ice Cube) at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal... the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 12, 2024 - 13 comments

Movie: Santa Sangre

[Trailer] A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms". -IMDb [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Nov 9, 2024 - 15 comments

Movie: Black Cab

A young couple finds themselves in danger when a seemingly jovial cab driver turns threatening. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 9, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Body Snatcher

[TRAILER] Dr. Toddy MacFarlane (Henry Daniell) needs cadavers for his medical experiments, ultimately intended to treat a young disabled girl. However, they are not easy to come by, so he enlists the help of taxi driver John Gray (Boris Karloff) and his assistant, Joseph (Bela Lugosi), to unearth bodies from the cemetery. When Donald (Russell Wade), Dr. MacFarlane's assistant, recognizes one of the corpses Gray delivers, the true source of the bodies is called into question. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 9, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Exte: Hair Extensions

An aspiring hair dresser becomes the infatuation of an obsessed man who sells dangerous hair extensions to nearby hair salons. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 8, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: Tomie

A traumatized young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 8, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Black Sunday / the Mask of Satan / La maschera del demonio

[Trailer] Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia. --IMDb
posted by johnofjack on Nov 8, 2024 - 0 comments

Movie: The Seventh Victim

A young woman (Kim Hunter) in search of her missing sister (Jean Brooks) uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 8, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: The Whip and the Body / La frusta e il corpo

[Trailer] Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance. -- Trakt
posted by johnofjack on Nov 5, 2024 - 3 comments

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