A deeply dysfunctional family, consisting of an abusive father (Burt Young), an unstable mother (Rutanya Alda), an older brother and sister (Jack Magner, Diane Franklin) who are attracted to each other, and a younger brother and sister who like to play at murdering each other, move into the Amityville house, and demonic activity starts up
John Baxter (Tony Roberts)—who, with his partner, Melanie (Candy Clark), debunks spiritualists—buys the Amityville house with the idea of writing a book. While Baxter offers his daughter, Susan (Lori Loughlin), her choice of rooms, his estranged wife, Nancy (Tess Harper), forbids her to enter the house. With bodies piling up, Susan, urged on by her friend, Lisa
George and Kathy Lutz (James Brolin and Margot Kidder) and their three kids move into a house where there had been a mass murder a year earlier. The house is possessed and affects everyone who enters it. A priest (Rod Steiger) attempts to save the family from the Satanic forces, but is driven away. The Amityville Horror
When Sheriff Andy Taylor is forced by the town Scrooge, Ben Weaver (Will Wright), to hold a moonshiner in jail over Christmas, Andy (Andy Griffith), Barney (Don Knotts), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), Ellie (Elinor Donahue), and Opie (Ronny Howard) move their Christmas celebration to the jail. 25 min. So many Christmas shows try for warmth
With his sister hanging on the Christmas tree, the Angry Kid (voice: Darren Walsh) is filmed giving the Queen’s traditional Christmas address, but he can’t get it right. 2 min. The Angry Kid series of short-shorts have gotten a wide distribution via the Internet. While you can pay for them (a DVD is available), I
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
Detective So-Young (Song Yoon-Ah) and her rookie partner investigate a murder where the autopsy reveals the victim was killed from the inside. The death, and several others, are connected to a drunken brawl ten years ago where a barman died and his girlfriend disappeared. Is the girl’s ghost finally getting revenge or is this a
Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen), an obsessive astronomer who doesn’t pay enough attention to his girlfriend, detects a transmission that he’s sure comes from an alien intelligence. He’s quickly fired, but he won’t give up searching and is soon on to a secret that could mean his life. Quick Review: Directed by David Twohy (Pitch Black,
Orlando (Laurence Olivier), kept from the life he should have as a gentleman by his cruel older brother (John Laurie), leaves town for the forest of Ardenne, where the usurped duke (Henry Ainley) lives with a merry band of exiles. At the same time, the new duke, Frederick (Felix Aylmer), banishes his niece, Rosalind (Elisabeth
Attack of the Blind Dead, aka Return of the Blind Dead (1973) The town of Bouzano is preparing for its celebration of the blinding and burning of a group of satanic knights. Jack Marlowe (Tony Kendall) arrives to set up the fireworks show, and finds his ex-girlfriend, Vivian (Esther Roy), who is now the mafia-like mayor’s
Drunken moonshiner Lem is out for his daily otter poaching run in the swamp when he is attacked by a vicious-looking Hefty bag. No one believes his story, except the Hefty bag, which kills him a few scenes later. Things then switch over to sweaty hillbilly Dave (Bruno VeSota) and his hot, white-trash wife, Liz-Baby
The three, young, beautiful daughters of the pharaoh (Hanna Harper, Nikki Love, and Violet Blue—as Ada Mae Johnson) are murdered and the killer is mummified. In modern times, they are all awakened, and the girls become dancers at a strip club. Unwrapped, they are the only ones who can stop the still bandaged mummy. If your goal