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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]
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]
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]
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]
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?
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Movie: Southern Comfort
[Trailer] During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals. -- IMDb [more inside]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Movie: Black Cab
A young couple finds themselves in danger when a seemingly jovial cab driver turns threatening. [more inside]
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]
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]
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]
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
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]
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
Teacup: Season One Season 1, Ep 0
[TRAILER] A disparate group of people in rural Georgia must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. A Peacock original horror series based on the book Stinger by Robert R. McCammon. [more inside]
Movie: Beezel
[TRAILER] Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors - an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the souls of the living. [more inside]
Movie: Jethica
[TRAILER] While hiding out in New Mexico after a freak accident, Elena runs into Jessica, an old friend from high school. Jessica’s stalker shows up unexpectedly at their door... very unexpectedly actually, as he is dead. [more inside]
Book: The King In Yellow
Chambers' influential, haunting stories of the play that seems to break down reality for those who read it. [more inside]
Movie: Azrael
[TRAILER] In a world where no one speaks, Azrael (Samara Weaving) flees the cult who intend to sacrifice her to an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness. [more inside]
Special Event: Rifftrax: HALLOWEEN (1978)
MST Club presents! Michael Myers tested positive in a routine soul smear for Pure Evil. He killed his sister as a kid, and as an adult has escaped from his institution and is stalking a babysitter. Fortunately psychiatrist Donald "Blofeld" Pleasence is on the case. I know the reputation is that riffing is for bad movies, but Halloween is effective, and it's always great to see Pleasence. The riff was released in 2006, so 90s-style content warnings apply.
Movie: Never Let Go
[TRAILER] A woman (Halle Berry) raises her two sons in an isolated house in the woods, telling them every day that the world has been ended by an evil force, but that they remain safe as long as they are tethered to the house by ropes. [more inside]
Movie: Trick or Treat (1986)
[Trailer] A bullied teenage boy is devastated after the death of his heavy metal idol, Sammi Curr. But as Halloween night approaches, he discovers that he may be the only one who can stop Sammi from making a Satanic comeback from beyond the grave. --IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Don't Move
A seasoned killer injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight, and hide before her body shuts down. [more inside]
Movie: Hounds of Love
[Trailer] Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: MadS
[TRAILER] Club kid Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer's place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her. It's, um, not a fortuitous choice. A French horror film presented in "one shot" (actually five cleverly interconnected takes). [more inside]
Movie: A Quiet Place: Day One
A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.
Movie: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife. -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Possibly in Michigan
Possibly in Michigan (YT) is a 1983 American shot-on-video surrealist musical horror short film written and directed by Cecelia Condit, with music by Karen Skladany, who starred in the film as Janice. The film follows two women looking for perfumes in a department store being stalked by a cannibalistic murderer wearing a mask. How Cecelia Condit’s Video Art Became a Viral Curse for Teens on TikTok. [more inside]
Movie: The Haunted Palace
[TRAILER] A warlock burned at the stake (Vincent Price) comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him. [more inside]
Movie: Hellmaster
A psychotic college professor uses unwitting students as laboratory rats, injecting them with a drug that mutates them into gory killers. [more inside]
Movie: Black Belly of the Tarantula / La tarantola dal ventre nero
[Trailer] An Italian detective (Giancarlo Giannini) hunts a health-spa killer who uses a knife dipped in venom. -- Rotten Tomatoes [more inside]
Movie: The Stendhal Syndrome
[Trailer] A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession. -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Daddy's Head
[TRAILER] A newly widowed young woman (Julia Brown) and her stepson (RupertTurnbull) fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them. [more inside]
Movie: Fright Night
A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. [more inside]
Book: Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented―notably the slasher movie's "final girls"―as they endure fear and degradation before rising to save themselves. The lesson was not lost on the mainstream industry, which was soon turning out the formula in well-made thrillers. -- publisher