Gil McKenna (Robert Clarke), an alcoholic research scientist, is exposed to a new kind of radiation that causes him to change into a scaled creature whenever he’s struck by sunlight. Ann Russell (Patricia Manning), a colleague with more than a scientific interest in Gil, tries to find a cure. The overly-emotional Gil spends his time drinking and
Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a murderous hitchhiker, John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), on a cross country drive. While he manages to toss him out of the car, the hitchhiker follows him, killing people and pinning it on Halsey. Only Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a roadside waitress, believes him. There’s a reason why short films exist. Sometimes,
An annoying teen (Omri Katz), who dislikes Halloween because the script says so, accidentally resurrects the witchy Sanderson sisters Winifred, Mary, and Sarah (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker). With the aid of his obnoxious little sister (a prepubescent Thora Birch), and a love interest who’s only along for the ride, he must stop
Arrogant scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) injects himself with an invisibility drug. When he can’t reverse the process, his sanity crumbles while his team, which includes his ex (Elisabeth Shue), search for answers An updating of the 1931 classic, The Invisible Man, the new version is as predictable as the first. That’s not a huge
Vampire slayer Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) journeys to Dracula’s castle, pretending to take a job as a librarian. He fails to destroy Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) who kills him, and then takes revenge on his fiancé, Lucy (Carol Marsh), and her family, Arthur and Mina Holmwood (Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling). Only Jonathan’s colleague, Doctor
Young Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) murders his father to inherit a fortune. After running into moral problems at the university, he uses his wealth and title to acquire body parts and make a man (Dave Prowse), which he brings to life. Along the way he dallies with his maid Alys (Kate O’Mara), is courted by
After Meat Cleaver Max (Brion James) is executed in the electric chair, his spirit enters the furnace of the policeman who arrested him, Detective Lucas McCarthy (Lance Henriksen). As Lucas has visions of the dead man, Max kills again and again. Quick Review: Did you see A Nightmare On Elm Street? Would you like to see a hack
Gang-Du is a lazy, dim-wit that works, occasionally, at his father’s riverside snack bar. His younger brother is an angry alcoholic and his sister is a weak-willed archery champion. The one success of the family is Gang-Du’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Hyun-Seo. On a day like any other, a giant mutated fish-salamander rises out of the river,
After an aberrant clown (Sid Haig), who runs a roadside horror attraction/gas station, tells four teens about a local mass murderer, they go off searching for more information and instead find a family of backwoods psychopaths (Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Karen Black). Ignore the hype (and there is a lot of it); Rob Zombie’s creation
At the estate of the wealthy Collins-Staddard family, Willie Loomis (John Karlen), an unstable employee, opens a sealed chest, freeing the vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid). Barnabas takes the identity of a distant cousin from England and turns Carolyn Stoddard (Nancy Barrett) into a vampire. He also meets Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott), who looks
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
Count Dracula (John Carradine) and Larry Talbot, aka: The Wolf Man (Lon Chaney) both seek out the great scientist, Dr. Edelman (Onslow Stevens), in order to be cured of their respective curses. Talbot and Edelman find Frankenstein’s Monster (Glenn Strange), which they bring back to Edelman’s laboratory. With three monsters, in the house it is only a matter