Foster on Film

At a Spanish medical school, Bárbara (Macarena Gómez), a beautiful and fashion-conscious student, dreams of a future with a plastic surgeon husband, a lovely house, multiple jobs, and two kids. Med school is for husband-shopping. While there, she goes on a joyous murder spree. Most of her victims are scumballs, but she isn’t out to

A snotty, nasty sorority girl (Jessica Rothe), who is obnoxious to her roommate and cruel to every guy she meets, and is sleeping with her married professor and ignoring her father, is murdered by a killer who wears a baby mask. She then wakes up just as she had the day before, and lives the

Forty years after Michael Myers went on his one and only killing spree, a pair of stereotypically douchie podcasters get access in Michael in the asylum he’s been locked up in all this time. Because we know it is a stupid thing to do, they bring with them his mask. Soon after, the bus transferring

In Africa, three bored, wealthy wastrels, Helen Chalmers, Col. Leonard Crecy, and Norman Bellamy (Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh and Berton Churchill) harangue their friend (Ray Milland) to come and play bridge with them, even though there’s a storm, the dam he’s responsible for could burst, and he’d have to fly his biplane to get there.

Kiki Walker’s (Jean Brooks) boyfriend and manager, Jerry Manning (Dennis O’Keefe), brings a tame leopard to a restaurant as a publicity stunt which backfires when fellow performer Clo-Clo (Margo) frightens it with her castanets. Soon after, the leopard kills a girl, and soon after, more. Museum curator James Bell Dr. Galbraith helps in the hunt

Rich Muffy (Deborah Foreman) invites her college-aged friends to her island estate for a weekend of pranks.  But when people start dying, it isn’t clear what is an April Fool’s joke and what is real murder. April Fool’s Day is the result of a major studio meddling in the Slashers sub-genre. It was hardly the first

Wheelchair-bound Countess Donati, the owner of an undeveloped bay, is murdered, and then the murderer is immediately murdered as well. Ruled a suicide, a group of unpleasant people all vie for ownership of the bay. They include an unscrupulous businessman (Chris Avram) and his secretary (Anna Maria Rosati), a daughter (Claudine Auger) and her husband (Luigi Pistilli),

A child, Willy, kills his mother’s abusive boyfriend as his sister, Lacey, watches in a mirror. Years later, Lacey (Suzanna Love), suffering psychological damage from the event, breaks a mirror that releases the spirit of the boyfriend, and the killings begin. Here, in one film, is everything that went wrong with horror in the ’80s. It’s poorly

Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen), a university student working on a paper about urban myths, investigates the legend of the Candyman.  Both a romantic and a horrifying figure, when human, the Candyman (Tony Todd) was brutally murdered due to his race.  If you say his name five times, he will appear. Quick Review: Candyman is poetry

The hook-handed, ghostly Candyman (Tony Todd) is haunting New Orleans and the Tarrant family. He killed Annie Tarrant’s (Kelly Rowan) father and husband, and her brother has been arrested for the crimes. Annie realizes there’s a secret that connects her to the ghost, and sets out to uncover it. Candyman was a frightening and artistic Slasher/Ghost Story,

Mass murderer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif) transfers his soul into a doll before dying of gunshot wounds inflicted by detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon). The evil doll ends up in the hands of the six-year-old son of Karen Barclay (Catherine Hicks), and soon Chucky is up to his old tricks. I was ambiguous about Child’s Play while

The possessed doll Chucky is remade and sets out to find Andy, the child he must killed to become human.  Andy, whose mother is being held in a mental institution because she insists the events in the first film happened, is placed in a foster home and must fight off Chucky with the help of