Foster on Film

A UFO causes a plane to crash in the mountains. The survivors (the abrupt co-pilot, a weak-willed stewardess, a corrupt politician, a ruthless arms dealer, his drunken wife, a young anarchist, an American war widow, an obsessed space scientist, an amoral psychologist, and an assassin) fall upon each other instead of working together.  Things get worse

Sinbad (John Phillip Law) finds himself in possession of a golden tablet, which combined with one held by the Vizier of Marabia, forms two thirds of a map to great riches and magical powers.  The two set out to claim these treasures, along with a beautiful, tattooed slave girl, Margiana (Caroline Munro), and Sinbad’s loyal

A down on his luck private detective (Tommy Lee Jones) is hired by Charlie Rand (Colin Bruce) a rich, nervous husband, to find his wife (Virginia Madsen), and tell her to leave him alone. The catch? Rand claims she’s dead. A good helping of Film Noir, a touch of ghost story, and a bit of surrealism and

A psychologist, Dr. Grey (Halle Berry), finds a bloody, ghostly girl on the road, and after touching her, wakes up as a patient in her own mental hospital.  She is also the suspect in the murder of her husband.  The girl in the road was killed several years earlier and her ghost possessed Dr. Grey

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

An American student (Sarah Michelle Gellar) in Tokyo, working part time as a care worker, is sent to look in on an old woman in a cursed house. A vicious murder occurred there three years ago, and now anyone who enters it, dies. The Grudge is a remake of the Japanese new wave horror film, Ju-On:

Long ago, a Kingdom was split by feuding brothers.  Since then, the two countries have fought.  With one about to lose, their sorcerer (Larry Drake) tricks the king into letting him summon the ancient protector of the land, a gryphon.  With the creature firmly under his control, the sorcerer moves to take over both Kingdoms. 

Years after he killed his sister, the now grown Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and stalks babysitters. I didn’t see Halloween in ’78. Then it was a phenomenon. It was the beginning of a new kind of film (Not really; Bay of Blood was the beginning, but everyone didn’t start copying it till Halloween). By

Starting where Halloween finished, Michael Myers continues his killing spree; his main target, Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis), is now a patient at the local hospital.  Attempting to save her and stop Michael is Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence). By the time 1981 strolled along, any originally in the Slasher sub-genre had been drained away. Dozens of look-a-like, feel-a-like

Doctor Dan Challis (Tom Atkins), suspicious after a man is murdered in the hospital, runs off with the victim’s daughter (Stacey Nelkin) to investigate a Halloween mask company that may hold clues to the killing.  The company’s CEO, Mr. Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy), is in charge of an army of androids, and has evil plans involving 

Michael Myers returns to his hometown to kill his niece, Jamie, and anyone else that gets in his way. Also returning is Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence), who along with the police and Jamie’s foster sister, try to save Jamie and stop Michael. Remember how in Halloween 2, Michael died, getting shot and then burned? Well, funny thing,

Michael Myers, nursed back to health by a hermit, sets out once again to kill his niece, Jamie. Are there a lot of hermits holing up in Illinois? I lived in Illinois, and I don’t recall seeing one. But one finds Michael. So, what does a hermit do when he finds a man with multiple gunshot wounds and