A vampire (Martin Kemp) must get Charlotte (Alyssa Milano), the reincarnation of his lost love, to join him or he will die. But Charlotte is a repressed girl with a boyfriend, Chris (Harrison Pruett) , and the vampire only has three days. A stripped-down version of the standard vampire story, Embrace of the Vampire exists
When the office proofreading drudge (Carol Kane) accidentally electrocutes an unpleasant co-worker and things get better, she starts taking out the rest of her colleagues on purpose. Quick Review: Because Office Killer was directed by famed art photographer Cindy Sherman, there is an urge to look at it as a meaningful statement about post-modern feminism
A severe storm drives first Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, and Melvyn Douglas), and then wealthy Sir William Porterhouse and dancehall girl Gladys Perkins (Charles Laughton and Lilian Bond), to ask for shelter in an old dark house. They are ungraciously greeted by prim Horace Femm (Ernest
Ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) secretly adopts a baby to replace his wife’s (Lee Remick) stillborn child. Five years later, people begin to die around the child and Thorn teams with photographer Keith Jennings (David Warner) to discover who the child really is. It’s been copied in so many ways over the years that it feels
Damien Thorn (Sam Neill), the Antichrist, is a dominant world financial figure as chairman of the Thorn Corporation, and is gaining political power. But there are two threats to Damien: a group of priests who have recovered seven daggers that can kill him, and the second coming of Christ. “With all the power of evil,
A beautiful vampire (Lauren Hutton) must bite a virgin three times before Halloween. In the 1980’s she finds few options until her minions spot a high school student and ice cream truck driver (Jim Carrey) who is being frustrated by his girlfriend (Karen Kopins). Quick Review: A vacuous comedy that screams ’80s, Once Bitten is sitcom
Insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle (Jack Haley), shows up at an old mansion only to find his client-to-be is already dead. The eccentric man’s beneficiaries have gathered in the house for a reading of the will, and mistake Tuttle for a detective who has been hired to watch the body. It seems that the will has
Tumak (a chest-shaven Victor Mature) gets kicked out of the perpetually grumpy Rock tribe by its perpetually grumpy leader (Lon Chaney Jr.) and floats down the river to be found by the ubbermen (and women) of the shell tribe. Loana (Carole Landis), the local hotty who has invented hair care, takes a liking to this
Yumi Nakamura (Kou Shibasaki) and her friends are having a more or less pleasant evening out (that’s as good as it gets for Yumi, who has never completely recovered from her childhood abuse) when one of Yumi’s friends checks her voice mail to find she’s gotten a call from the future—from herself—indicating the time of
Laura (Belén Rueda) returns to the now-abandoned orphanage where she was raised, planning to reopen it for special needs children. The area seems to have an odd effect on her son, Simón, who picks up a lot of imaginary friends, one of whom tells him he’s adopted and HIV positive. When Simón disappears, the police suspect
Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her two children live in a secluded, always darkened house which may be haunted. The arrival of three mysterious servants mark an increase in ghostly activity, and indicate that there is a secret that Grace is not ready to hear. Quick Review: There is no questioning the skill of everyone who worked