Two features and four faux trailers combine to bring back the feeling of 1970s grind house theaters. In the first feature, Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, a virus transforms people into mutating zombies. Mysterious Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), his ex-girlfriend, go-go dancer Cherry (Rose McGowan), an anesthesia dart-wielding doctor, (Marley Shelton), the sheriff (Michael Biehn), and their
Realtor Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy), his partner and wife Sara (Marsha Thomason), and their kids, stop off to check out the Gracy Mansion. Marooned due to a storm, they meet the overly formal butler, Ramsley (Terence Stamp), the master of the house, Edward Gracey (Nathaniel Parker), and a lot of ghosts. To save his wife,
A group of teens hire a captain (Jürgen Prochnow) to take them on his boat to a rave on a mysterious island. Unfortunately, most of the party-goers have already been killed by zombies. Luckily, the captain has a chest of high caliber pistols, shotguns, machine guns, and hand weapons that they can all use to
A group of 1950s high school students, angry over being sold bad marijuana, inadvertently kill the local dealer, Mussolini, and dump his body in the radioactive lake. The water raises him as a zombie and he looks for revenge. The ’50s monster movie satire is one of the easiest movies to make, and almost impossible
After making fun of a fortuneteller, Jerry is hypnotized by her into carrying out a murder. She has poured acid on previously controlled subjects (and some not controlled) and keeps them in her closet, so Jerry is in much more trouble then he knows. Now that’s a name for a movie. It says, “this movie
With the world infested by zombies, one city survives, sending out scavenging parties. Within the city, Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) and the rich live in a luxury complex while the rest live in slums. Riley (Simon Baker), a retired scavenger, wants only to go off on his own, but is drafted into service, along with a
A beautiful, female, space vampire (Mathilda May) and two lesser males are brought to Earth by a space shuttle that was studying Halley’s Comet. The vampires escape and steal the lifeforce from most of the citizens of London, changing them into zombies. An SAS officers (Peter Firth) and a survivor from the shuttle (Steve Railsback) attempt to
In the late ’50s, alien parasites turn a person into murderous zombie. Over 25 years later, two nerds, Chris Romero and J.C. Hooper (Jason Lively, Steve Marshall), in an attempt to join a fraternity, accidentally free the zombie from a cryogenic chamber, unleashing hordes of parasites and then, hordes of zombies on the hapless college.
Dr. Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff), his wife (Denise Crosby), and their children move to rural Maine where his new neighbor, Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne), tells Louis about the ancient Indian burial ground that brings the dead back to life. Quick Review: Video director Mary Lambert decides the way to go with this Stephen King adaptation
After the computer kills all the members of an underground lab, amnesiac Alice (Milla Jovovich) and a team of special agents must enter the lab to shut down the computer and figure out what happened. Along the way, there are zombies, genetically altered monsters, a virus, and traitors. Quick Review: One in a string of