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Video Vault
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Written by Larry Clow
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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Ministry of Film, 1995
starring: Martin Kemp, Alyssa Milano, Harold Pruett and Rachel True
directed by: Anne Goursaud
the plot: In her first year
at college, Charlotte (Milano) is finding it difficult to reconcile her
strict Catholic upbringing with all the freedoms that life away from
home entails. Her boyfriend, Chris (Pruett), is pressuring her to have
sex for the first time, but Charlotte, just three days away from her
18th birthday, is reluctant. It doesn’t help that she’s plagued by
visions of a handsome vampire (Kemp) who is attempting to seduce her.
As the visions occur more often, Charlotte turns to her friend Nicole
(True) for support. Nicole drags Charlotte to a party where they meet a
pair of guys who follow them to an abandoned building on campus. When
one of the guys tries to force himself on Charlotte, her mysterious
vampire intervenes. He explains that Charlotte is the reincarnation of
his one true love, and that she must submit to his advances within the
next three days or he will be cursed forever. He begins working behind
the scenes, planting seeds of doubt in the minds of both Charlotte and
Chris.
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Coral Productions, 1994
starring: Edward Furlong, Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves and T. Ryder Smith
directed by: John Flynn
the plot: Michael Bower
(Furlong) is a nerdy teen, still reeling from the effects of a car
accident that killed his mother. He spends much of his time hanging out
in his room, watching gory horror flicks, playing computer games and
surreptitiously videotaping Kimberly (Hargreaves), his longtime crush.
When his best friend and fellow horror fanatic tells him about a new
videogame called “Brainscan,” Michael has to try it. The game promises
to put players in the mind of a killer and, during his first time
playing, Michael slaughters what he thinks is a video game victim. But
the next day, Michael sees a news report about a grisly murder—and
recognizes the victim as the man from the game.
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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American International Pictures, 1972
starring: Ray Milland, Sam Elliot, Joan Van Ark and Adam Roarke
directed by: George McCowan
the plot: Nature
photographer Pickett Smith (Sam Elliott) is on assignment in Florida,
shooting a feature on how pollution is affecting local wildlife. While
canoeing through a placid lake, Smith meets up with Clint Crockett
(Roarke) and his sister, Karen (Van Ark). The siblings invite Smith
back to their family’s nearby island estate for lunch, where cranky
family patriarch Jason Crockett (Ray Milland) asks for Smith’s advice
about the sudden, inexplicable boom in the island’s frog population.
Smith agrees to investigate and, during a walk around the island,
discovers the family’s groundskeeper dead in a swamp, covered with
amphibians. Meanwhile, Clint, his wife and the rest of the family drink
and argue incessantly, all while Jason Crockett glowers from his
wheelchair. As the number of frogs, snakes, gila monsters, alligators,
turtles and other lizards and amphibians begin to appear en masse
throughout the estate, Smith becomes convinced that industrial
pollution is the cause of the invasion.
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
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a.k.a ‘The Horrible House on the Hill’
Barrister Productions, Inc., 1974
starring: Gene Evans, Taylor Lacher, John Durren and Leif Garrett
directed by: Sean MacGregor
the plot: Three couples
gather for a business vacation in a remote mountain town. The rich and
cantankerous Papa Doc (Evans), owner of a number of hospitals and
sanitariums, is about to bequeath his newest facility to his
son-in-law, Rick (Lacher), even though Papa Doc can barely disguise his
contempt for Rick. Apart from some petty squabbles, the vacation is
relatively calm—that is, until a bedraggled group of five children
suddenly appear at the house. Led by a boy named David (Garrett), the
children explain that they were on their way to a new parochial school
when their bus crashed, killing everyone onboard but them. Papa Doc and
the rest take in the children, unaware that they are actually malicious
killers who were being transported to a psychiatric hospital.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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20th Century Fox, 1986
starring: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun and James Hong
directed by: John Carpenter
the plot: After completing
a haul, truck driver Jack Burton (Russell) is looking forward to
kicking back in Chinatown and doing a little gambling. Jack wins a hunk
of cash from his friend Wang (Dun), but before Wang can pay, he must go
to the airport to pick up his bride-to-be. Jack follows and, at the
airport, meets Gracie Law (Cattrall), a local lawyer who’s at the
airport to pick up a friend. But the Lords of Death street gang
interrupts everyone’s plans by kidnapping Wang’s fiancé and spiriting
her off to Chinatown. Jack and Wang give chase, but their pursuit leads
them directly into the middle of a vicious gang war. Watching over the
dueling gangs is the dreaded Lo Pan (Hong), a powerful sorcerer and the
unofficial ruler of Chinatown.
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