The movie Rob Zombie’s original band was named after. Couple Madeline (Madge Bellamy) and Neil (John Harron) are about to be married in the West Indies. Alas, Madeline’s friend Charles (Robert Frazer) wants her for himself, and enlists the help of Legendre (Bela Lugosi) to make her a zombie. (Not a flesh-eating zombie, but theContinue reading “‘White Zombie’: A Couple of Powerful Scenes and a Mighty Heap of Issues”
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‘Whispering Corridors’: High School is Terrifying
Korean movie directed by Ky-heong Park, AKA Yeogo Goedam. According to its theatrical trailer, this is the movie that started the “Asian horror revolution” (now that’s a movement I can get behind!). Eun-young (Mi-yeon Lee) is a new teacher at the private girls’ school that she once graduated from. She’s haunted by the memory ofContinue reading “‘Whispering Corridors’: High School is Terrifying”
‘When a Stranger Calls Back’: Classy Horror with Genuine Scares
As with When a Stranger Calls, this one concerns a babysitter (Jill Schoelen) menaced by a scary guy (only this one comes to the door, making a liar of the title) (Gene Lythgow) who won’t leave her alone, even returning five years later to hassle her in college. Julia is assisted by Jill (Carol Kane),Continue reading “‘When a Stranger Calls Back’: Classy Horror with Genuine Scares”
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is Twisted and Thrilling
1917: Baby Jane is basically Shirley Temple, a child star singing and dancing her way to fame. She’s extremely spoiled, and mistreats her sister Blanche, who looks more like Wednesday Addams. Flash forward 18 years: Blanche (Joan Crawford) is an established movie star, while Jane (Bette Davis) is pretty much booed out of Hollywood forContinue reading “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is Twisted and Thrilling”
‘Vile’: Earnest, Fascinating, and Absolutely Disgusting
Nine people are drugged and wake up to find themselves in a house with a strange videotaped message. They are told they have to inflict pain on themselves in order to collect enough dopamine, serotonin, and adrenaline to fill up the vials inserted in the back of their necks. As the woman on the recordingContinue reading “‘Vile’: Earnest, Fascinating, and Absolutely Disgusting”
‘Videodrome’: Way Ahead of its Time
In the not-too-distant future, Max (James Woods) is the president of Channel 83, which specializes in showing sex and violence. His interest is piqued by a Malaysian broadcast called Videodrome, which stages rape, torture, and murder. He runs into trouble when he goes looking to buy it for his station, and finds out that notContinue reading “‘Videodrome’: Way Ahead of its Time”
‘The Vault of Horror’: Feast Your Peepers on This, Boils and Ghouls!
Based on the comic book series from the ‘50s (it was like Tales from the Crypt, only hosted by the Vaultkeeper rather than the Cryptkeeper—though both were mined for episodes of the TV show). Done as an anthology, the wraparound story involves five gents meeting and discussing their strange dreams. In “Midnight Mess,” Harold (DanielContinue reading “‘The Vault of Horror’: Feast Your Peepers on This, Boils and Ghouls!”
‘The Vampire Lovers’: Homophobic, but Undeniably Hot
Hammer/American International film. Marcilla (Ingrid Pitt) is a deadly vampire intent on wooing and feasting on virgin daughters, namely Laura (Pippa Steel) and Emma (Madeline Smith). She has a bit too much to eat and her victims’ daddies General von Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) and Morton (George Cole), along with vampire hunter Baron Hartog (Douglas Wilmer),Continue reading “‘The Vampire Lovers’: Homophobic, but Undeniably Hot”
‘Valentine’: Super Original! In That It Manages to Vilify Men and Women Equally and Simultaneously
Due to an incident of snobbery in high school, five friends: Paige the sexy one (Denise Richards), Kate the popular one (Marley Shelton), Shelley the brainy one (Katherine Heigl), Lily the fun one (Jessica Cauffiel), and Dorothy the fat one (Jessica Capshaw) (Dorothy’s adjectives, not mine) are being stalked and killed by a psycho inContinue reading “‘Valentine’: Super Original! In That It Manages to Vilify Men and Women Equally and Simultaneously”
Mary Lambert’s ‘Urban Legends: Bloody Mary’: Pillow Fights, Gore, Plot Holes, and More Gore!
It’s 1969, and unpopular Mary (Lillith Fields) is going to the dance with popular jock Willy (Daniel B. Culmer). Unfortunately it’s all part of a prank, the idea being to drug Mary and two of her friends, then ditch them. Further unfortunately, Willy ends up knocking her out, then stuffing her in a trunk andContinue reading “Mary Lambert’s ‘Urban Legends: Bloody Mary’: Pillow Fights, Gore, Plot Holes, and More Gore!”
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