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Movie: Poltergeist III

[TRAILER] Psychically attuned youngster Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is sent to live in Chicago with her Uncle Bruce (Tom Skerritt), her Aunt Pat (Nancy Allen), and her cousin Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle). But that doesn't mean that she's escaped the apparitions that have haunted her in the past. When she starts experiencing terrifying visions, her school psychologist believes that they're figments of her imagination. But this becomes hard to believe when ghostly foes start inhabiting the mirrors in her relatives' high-rise apartment. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 25, 2025 - 4 comments

Special Event: Rifftrax Live: BIRDEMIC

MST Club presents! DirtyOldTown has already posted the unriffed version. This is the version with extra added fun in the form of joshes and japes from professional comedy professionals. A guy works at a company selling software. He meets a woman. They hit it off. There's a TV report about something environmental going on. He gets a big bonus from work. He goes on a date with the woman. They get a hotel room. It is about halfway through the movie now. They have sex. As if that were a secret signal, the next morning, BIRDS TRY TO KILL EVERYONE. Not just those two, EVERYONE. Riff originates from 2012. Good luck folks.
posted by JHarris on Mar 20, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Frankie Freako

[TRAILER] Boring normie yuppie Conor is in a rut until one night he catches a bizarre ad for a party hotline hosted by a strange dancing goblin: Frankie Freako. Could this be just the recipe to spice up his humdrum life? The writer/director of Psycho Goreman delivers a throwback to 80's PG puppet horror comedy schlock like Ghoulies or The Garbage Pail Kids Movie. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 19, 2025 - 6 comments

Movie: Demon Wind

[TRAILER] The strange and brutal deaths of Cory's grandparents have haunted him for years. Determined to discover the truth, he has returned to the desolate region where they lived, along with a group of friends, to try and uncover the mystery. Ignoring warnings from the locals that the area is cursed, Cory and his friends soon realize that the legend is true, as the Demon Wind possesses and destroys them, one by one, turning them into monsters from hell. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 18, 2025 - 7 comments

Movie: Wolfkin

Single mother Elaine is disturbed by her son Martin's aggressive behaviour, she visits his late father's estranged family in small-town Luxembourg, which hides a much darker nature. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Mar 16, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: The House

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy. [more inside]
posted by polecat on Mar 16, 2025 - 5 comments

Movie: Lowlifes

[TRAILER] The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 10, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Dead Ringers

[Trailer] Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Mar 9, 2025 - 13 comments

Movie: Io Island

A company hopes to open a spa hotel named after Ieodo, a mythical island inhabited by the souls of drowned sailors. During a boat trip to promote the project, a journalist disappears under mysterious circumstances. One of the developers goes to Ieodo’s neighboring island, populated almost solely by haenyeo, women freedivers who harvest seafood, to investigate. Directed by Kim Ki-young (The Housemaid), this genre-bending bad-trip fairy tale of environmental destruction is among South Korea's most acclaimed films. It features a complex structure of layered flashbacks and a famously audacious ending. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 8, 2025 - 4 comments

Movie: Dark Match

[TRAILER] A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 7, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: The Menu

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
posted by kokaku on Mar 5, 2025 - 12 comments

Movie: Razorback

[TRAILER] In the Australian outback, a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 3, 2025 - 8 comments

Movie: Body Bags

[TRAILER] When Showtime scuttled a TV horror anthology series before it went to air, the three episodes (two by John Carpenter, one by Tobe Hooper) were linked with connecting segments featuring Carpenter as a ghoulish Crypt-Keeper-like host in a morgue to make a feature film. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 3, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: Candyman: Day of the Dead

The Candyman is back, trying to convince his descendent, an artist, to join him.
posted by kokaku on Mar 2, 2025 - 0 comments

Movie: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

The Candyman arrives in New Orleans and sets his sights on a young woman whose family was ruined by the immortal killer years before.
posted by kokaku on Mar 2, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Phantasm Ravager

[TRAILER] Small-town friends Reggie (Reggie Bannister), Mike (A. Michael Baldwin), and Jody (Bill Thornbury) continue in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) and his armada of killer Sentinel Spheres. This time, the fight becomes a multi-dimensional battle across multiple timelines, alien planets and altered realities, where no less than the fate of Earth is on the line. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 28, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Phantasm IV: Oblivion

[TRAILER] Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike (A. Michael Baldwin) travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. Meanwhile, Reggie (Reggie Bannister) battles the spheres and the undead in a quest to find Mike before the Tall Man can complete his transformation. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 26, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead

[TRAILER] The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike (A. Michael Baldwin, returning to the role) and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie (Reggie Bannister). The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 25, 2025 - 3 comments

Movie: Phantasm II

[TRAILER] Mike (this time played by James Le Gros), after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie (Reggie Bannister) to hunt down the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 25, 2025 - 5 comments

Book: Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon by Matt Dinniman

Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked, standalone LitRPG adventure! It had seemed like a dream offer. Paint a mural. $15,000. How could Duke not jump at the chance? But it came with a catch, as these things often do. He had to first see what his client wanted him to paint. A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world’s most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Feb 23, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: No One Gets Out Alive

[Trailer] After being forced to take a room in a boardinghouse, an immigrant in search of the American Dream finds herself in a nightmare she can't escape. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Feb 23, 2025 - 2 comments

Movie: Dario Argento: Master of Horror

A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors and colleagues. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 20, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: Heart Eyes

[TRAILER] Ally (Olivia Holt) and Jay (Mason Gooding) have a meet cute at a coffee shop, then find out they're being paired together for a big ad campaign at work, right at Valentine's Day. He's a romantic and she's been hurt before. Can they meet in the middle to capitalize on their obvious chemistry? Oh yeah, and also, they're being stalked by the Heart Eyes Killer, a masked serial killer who brutally (and I mean brutally) murders happy couples. A cheeky hybrid of romcoms and slasher movies from comedian and director Josh Ruben (Werewolves Within). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 20, 2025 - 5 comments

Movie: Night Killer

A murderous maniac who wears a monstrous rubber mask sews death in a theater, killing two women with seemingly floppy but somehow razor-sharp claws. A young woman hears about the crime on TV, not knowing the murderer is coming for her next. Night Killer was promoted in some territories as if it were the third Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, this despite it sharing no content, cast, continuity or connection of any kind with that franchise. Why? [Italian scumbag movie producer voice]: Because fuck you, that's why. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 4, 2025 - 9 comments

Movie: Companion

Iris (Sophie Thatcher) is hopelessly devoted to her boyfriend Josh (Jack Quaid) but worries his friend Kat (Megan Suri) doesn't like her. A trip to Kat's Russian boyfriend's ritzy remote vacation home seems the perfect opportunity to win over Kat and Josh's other friends (Harvey Guillén, Lukas Gage). Instead, Iris finds herself covered in blood and running for her life. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 3, 2025 - 15 comments

Movie: Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

[TRAILER] Debonair supernatural expert Captain Kronos (Horst Janson) and his hunchbacked assistant, Grost (John Cater), meet their match when they encounter a village where vampires have been stealing the vitality of young women, leaving them elderly and decrepit. Armed with his sword and formidable deductive reasoning, Kronos begins to solve the macabre mystery, with evidence pointing to the aristocratic Lady Durward (Wanda Ventham) and her family as prime suspects. This was intended as the first in a series for Hammer Films. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 3, 2025 - 4 comments

Book: Diavola by Jennifer Thorne

The black sheep of her family, Anna is reluctant to join them on a vacation to a remote villa in Monteperso. The gathering begins with the usual snide jabs and not-so-veiled criticisms, but when strange things begin to happen at the villa, it seems there’s more to fear than the usual family drama. [more inside]
posted by motherofdog on Feb 2, 2025 - 1 comment

Movie: The Dark and the Wicked

[Trailer] "On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family." [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Feb 2, 2025 - 6 comments

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 - 8 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 - 5 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 - 4 comments

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 - 16 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 - 37 comments

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