A Name For Evil (1973)

A Name For Evil (1973)

John Blake (Robert Culp), discontent with city life, takes his wife (Samantha Eggar) and moves to his great-grandfather’s ruined country mansion.  But it is haunted and something doesn’t want him there. Quick Review: Not so much a completed film, but a series of scenes edited together with no concern for narrative structure, the randomly named

New Nightmare (1994)

New Nightmare (1994)

Now that the Nightmare on Elmstreet films are over and Freddy is dead, the people who made the films, including actress Heather Langenkamp, actor Robert Englund, and director Wes Craven (all playing themselves) are having nightmares of a darker Freddy.  When Heather’s son begins acting strangely and people die, she realizes that Freddy Kreuger is

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Night of the Creeps (1986)

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. 

The Night of the Demon (1957)/Curse of the Demon (1958)

The Night of the Demon (1957)/Curse of the Demon (1958)

A professor investigating cultist Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis), dies when his car hits an electrical pole after he sees a demon. Skeptical psychologist, John Holden (Dana Andrews), takes over the investigation, and finds that he too has been cursed by Karswell. Harrington’s superstitious niece, Joanna Harrington (Peggy Cummins), tries to persuade Holden that he’s in danger

Night Flier (1997)

Night Flier (1997)

Bitter, slimy, tabloid reporter, Richard Dees (Miguel Ferrer), investigates a series of murders at rural airfields. Dees, who has a psychic connection to the killer, begins to suspect that the killer is a real vampire as a new cub reporter tries to take the story away from him. In the improbable world of Night Flier, the police and

Night Train to Terror (1985)

Night Train to Terror (1985)

While a youthful pop band plays continuously in the next train car, God (Himself) and Mr. Satan (Lu Sifer) discuss the fates of three individuals.  The first is Harry Billings (John Phillip Law), who was mixed up in a murder and black-market body parts operation that included psycho corpse-cutter, Otto (Richard Moll).  The second is

Night Watch {Nochnoy Dozor} (2004)

Night Watch {Nochnoy Dozor} (2004)

In ancient times, a war between the forces of light and darkness ended in a truce. The Night Watch was given authority to keep evil in its place (and the Day Watch polices “good”). Anton (Konstantin Khabensky) is an “other,” a person with supernatural powers. After meeting with a witch in order to harm the fetus of his

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

A girl (Heather Langenkamp) discovers her nightmares are being shared by her friends, and that those friends are dying.  She must find a way to stop the killer (Robert Englund) in her dreams before she is murdered too. Quick Review: I remembered this being better than it is.  I saw it when it first came

A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

or The Walsh family move into Nancy’s house—from the first film.  Teenager Jesse Walsh (Mark Patton) begins to have nightmares of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), and people start dying.  Only his new girlfriend, Lisa (Kim Myers), can save him from being taken over by Freddy’s spirit. What the hell happened?  Even with its flaws, A

A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989)

Freddy (Robert Englund) is back (yes, again), this time using the dreams of Alice Johnson’s unborn child to attack her and her friends.  To stop him, Alice must release the ghost of Freddy’s mother. Quick Review: Yup, he came back after he was absolutely and unequivocally dead…again.  It’s hard to get too involved in these

Nine Lives (2002)

Nine Lives (2002)

A wealthy young Scotsman invites eight of his friends (including Paris Hilton) to his estate.  A snowstorm maroons them, but that isn’t a problem until one of them reads from a strange book, freeing an evil ghost to possess and kill. I like the idea of a spirit that leaps bodies whenever its host is

Nomads (1986)

Nomads (1986)

Raving, French anthropologist Jean-Claude Pommier (Pierce Brosnan) is carried into an emergency room where he manages to bite Dr. Eileen Flax (Lesley-Anne Down) before dying. Flax now has Pommier’s memories of the last week. She experiences his arrival in town with his wife, and his discovery of a vicious street gang that turns out to