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Written by Larry Clow
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 |
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Columbia Pictures, 1982
starring: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Toni Kalem and Brian Libby
directed by: Michael Miller
the plot: The quiet of a
small Texas town is disrupted when deranged veteran John Kirby (Libby)
goes nuts and decides to hack a family to death with an axe. Sheriff
Dan Stevens (Norris) and his deputies stop Kirby with a hail of
gunfire, and that should be the end of the horror—but it’s not. Kirby’s
body is transported to the local hospital, which, incidentally, is also
a testing ground for a new serum designed to make humans stronger,
faster and heal more quickly. Despite the objections of Kirby’s
psychiatrist, Dr. Halman (Silver), the killer’s body is dosed with the
serum, and soon he is back from the dead and pissed off. That’s bad
news for Halman and his sister, Alison (Kalem), who not only works at
the hospital but has also rekindled a romance with the sheriff.
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Written by Larry Clow
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
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Alta Vista Productions, 1959
starring: Dick Miller, Barboura Morris, Antony Carbone and Julian Burton
directed by: Roger Corman
the plot: Walter Paisley
(Miller) works as a busboy at the Yellow Door, a chic bohemian café
frequented by beatniks, wannabes, stoners, loners, whackos and
weirdoes. Walter daydreams about being an artist and hanging out with
Maxwell Brock (Burton), the pompous poet who spends his nights in the
café reading poems and chatting with his adoring fans. When Walter
accidentally kills his landlady’s cat and uses some clay to turn the
feline corpse into a sculpture, the regulars at the café hail the
nebbish busboy as a true artist. Walter finally catches the eye of
Clara (Morris), but the café’s owner, Mr. de Santis (Carbone) has some
suspicions about Walter’s talent.
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Written by Larry Clow
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
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Universal Pictures, 1983
starring: Adam Baldwin, Max Gail, Mr. T and Charlie Barnett
written and directed by: Joel Schumacher
the plot:
Young Albert Hockenberry (Baldwin) journeys to Washington, D.C., to
finally meet his uncle Harold (Gail), his father’s Vietnam buddy and
owner of D.C. Cab, the capital’s grungiest, most incompetent hack
company. Albert quickly befriends the wacky cabbies, including Samson
(Mr. T), who drives a cab so he can help the neighborhood children, and
Tyrone (Barnett), who dreams of one day driving pop singer Irene
“Flashdance” Cara. But all is not well in the nation’s capital. An
overzealous local bureaucrat wants to shut D.C. Cab down, and drivers
with the rival Emerald Cab crew do all they can to sabotage Albert and
his hapless friends.
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Written by Larry Clow
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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Morgan Creek Productions, 1990
starring: Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg and Doug Bradley
written and directed by: Clive Barker
the plot: Aaron
Boone (Sheffer) is plagued by strange, often terrifying dreams of
violent murders and monstrous people living in a hidden city called
Midian. The dreams are troubling enough that Boone shares them with his
psychiatrist, Dr. Decker (Cronenberg). During a routine visit, Decker
tells Boone that the murder dreams he has described during their
sessions match a series of violent serial killings in the area. Worried
that he might be the killer, Boone goes on the run and stumbles upon
Midian, a real city located below an abandoned cemetery. The denizens
of Midian are known as the Nightbreed, the remnants of a number of
races of shape-shifters, mutants and other super-human species hunted
down and killed by zealous homo sapiens. Led by the mysterious
Lylesberg (Bradley), the Nightbreed only want to live in peace away
from regular humans.
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Written by Larry Clow
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd., 1974
starring: Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith, Deborah Fairfax and Kim Butcher
directed by: Pete Walker
the plot: In London, Jackie
(Fairfax) struggles to raise her kid sister, Debbie (Butcher), a
rebellious teen who hangs with the wrong crowd and can’t control her
impulses. Complicating matters are Jackie’s parents, Edmund (Davies)
and Dorothy (Keith), who live in the countryside and demand constant
attention from their daughter. That’s because Dorothy has recently been
released from an insane asylum, where she was committed for nearly a
decade after authorities discovered her penchant for murder and
cannibalism. Debbie doesn’t know of her parents’ murderous past, and
Jackie wants to keep it that way.
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