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The Black Cat (1941) - Albert S. Rogell

Another survival/comedy horror movie that has the Old Dark House motif. It is loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe tale and more closely resembles The Cat and the Canary . To make things complicated. Bela Lugosi stars in a 1934 classic The Black Cat. These two are not related in any way. Aside from Lugosi. It's only saving graces are that the production quality is there and at least its a Universal Picture.  A group of fortune seeking relatives descend on the residence of an old woman that is dying. Henrietta Winslow had lived with her servants and cats for years. Now, after her passing away during the night. The relatives are left to survive thunder claps, the dark and cats. Usual fare for yet another old dark house tale brought to you by Edgar Allen Poe. This movie is really well made and has a fantastic aura. However, it's boring and predictable. The only saving graces are the shallow characters and creepy overtones. Also, it's criminal that Bela Lugo

Blood Surf (2000) - James D.R. Hickox

From the beginning, you will note that Blood Surf is not the classic that the box makes it out to be. The opening font and stock footage opening credits can't hide the meager budget. This movie was straight to video during the twilight of videocassette. It was the last of the dying breed and it followed the stereotypes at every corner.  A group of stupid adrenaline junkies go on a surfing trip to some shark infested island. Of course things go horribly wrong when the surfers get frazzled by the meat-eating sharks that are literally nipping at them as they surf. The group soon learns that it's not the sharks that they have to worry about. It's something much worse. This is a horrible movie. A bad story with a stupid screenplay. At least we get Matthew Borlenghi. That''s a plus. The surfing is also cool. But everything else is just dumb. The effects were laughable. CGI used in the worst way. The movie could be fun to watch with friends. It would even be

Contamination (1980) - Luigi Cozzi

I've been loving the cover art for this Italian Sci-Fi/Horror movie for quite some time. It's really reminiscent  of the old Drive-In Creature Features of the fifties. The gore on the back of the VHS box doesn't hurt it's chances of being watched either. I couldn't wait to get into it. I am watching a US VHS copy of Alien Contamination the tracking is pretty terrible and the sound is a bit off. But that just makes it better right?  A group of doctors boards a ghost ship that is docked in quarantine. They find all sorts of weird stuff along with a group of green pulsing eggs and mutilated bodies. Unluckily for the doctors the eggs explode in their faces and destroy their bodies. It's pretty gruesome. However, some of the eggs are recovered and taken back to a lab for testing. They find out that the eggs are coming from South America. Upon further investigation, they find a one eyed martian that is creating these seeds.  The movie feels like a m

Breeders (1986) - Tom Kincade

This was on my list out of nostalgia. I had seen this movie, late night on some show like MonsterVision or USA Up All Night and have been looking for it ever since. It's garbage. It barely follows a plot. The film is literally nothing but naked girls running around killing people or getting killed. The television version was laughable, but the movie in general is just pathetic.  Something is running around New York, brutally attacking and raping women. Leaving them pregnant with a strange substance that makes them turn into brainless murdering freaks. Two cops start following up on these strange crimes and fall into a bizarre investigation. In the same vein as Slime City and Street Trash, Breeders tends to focus on the more shocking aspects of horror. Namely sleaze. A formula that worked really well in the seventies and eighties to turn a quick dollar. Boobs, Blood and Gore are the resources needed for these flicks and they were churned out a lot.  This isn'

The Terror Within (1989) - Thierry Notz

This has been on my IMDB queue for a year or two now and I had finally gotten around to watching it. George Kennedy had recently passed away and I wanted to watch something relevant to the genre that starred him. Unfortunately the first film that I pulled up was The Terror Within. A low-budget sci-fi/horror flop produced by the Rat-King himself, Roger Corman .  In a post-apocalyptic  world, a small group of human scientists are surviving in an  underground complex. Meanwhile the surface of the planet is plagued by monsters called The Gargoyles . The inhabitants of this underground bunker have lost  radio contact with another group of survivors not far from where they are. Two members go out to see if the other group is okay. They aren't . Everyone outside of the bunker is dead , except for one girl named Karen . And she's having a baby ! A half Gargoyle half Human baby to be exact. One that gets loose and starts terrorizing this underground bunker à la

The Forest (2016) - Jason Zada

For some reason I had a real strong desire to see this movie. It just seemed like it would be something interesting and entertaining. However, I couldn't figure out why. The promotion and presentation isn't that amazing. In fact it looks cheap. But something just peaks my interest. Perhaps it's the whole haunted forest thing.  The film is about Sara, a girl that travels to Japan to save her identical twin sister Jess. Jess apparently had some issues and wandered into the famous  Aokigahara forest. Otherwise known as The Suicide Forest. Sara knows that Jess is still alive. She just seems to know it. She meets Aiden, an American that is living in Tokyo. He is actually going into the forest to write about it. Aiden says he is pretty familiar but still doesn't go without a guide. Sara manages to tag along and they all trek into the haunted forest together. It doesn't take long for things to degrade. The terror starts almost instantly as they enter the forest. W