March 2009
** = Monthly Favourites
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER (2007)
Shane Ryan (Amateur Porn Star Killer 2, 3, 3D)
The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps & kills 3 girls is told through the tale of his last victim. The girl is shy, unnerved, & yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. Shane Ryan himself is the killer, a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. What unravels is a story far darker, unsettling, and downright mesmerizing than what originally presents itself in the first few minutes of the story
AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 2 (2008)
Shane Ryan (Amateur Porn Star Killer series)
Much the same set-up as the original, Amateur Porn Star Killer, but quite a different film due to the absence of the 'little girl' element and the introduction of a more knowing and initially complicit 'victim'. Difficult to watch but hypnotic nevertheless with its crazy editing and beguiling images
AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 3 (2009)
Shane Ryan (Amateur Porn Star Killer series)
Brandon attacks one last time in this final installment of the APSK Trilogy. Real-life Porn Star Regan Reese portrays an up-and-coming actress picked up off the streets by the young serial killer. What starts off as a Good Samaritan act quickly turns into a game of cat in mouse in the late night empty fields of a small town where the victim has nobody to turn to except the killer himself
DRAINIAC (2000)
Brett Piper (Screaming Dead, Bacterium)
Hysterically bad b-movie. Terrible acting between completely dysfunctional characters & super cheesy special effects. Includes excessive use of slow motion, out of sync dialogue, a man having his genitals ripped off by a rubber tentacle & a toy car sinking in the mud where a real car had been
**SISTER STREET FIGHTER (1974)
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (Sister Street Fighter 2 & 3)
This kung-fu outing was a spin-off of martial arts star Sonny Chiba's popular Street Fighter series. Like those films, it combines high-kicking martial arts with comic-book plotting and a dollop of B-movie sleaziness
SHADOW PUPPETS (2007)
Michael Winnick
A group of people awake in a facility not knowing how or why they are there. As they try escape the monster it becomes clear that one of the group knows more than they are letting on
SCAR (2007)
Jed Weintrob
Joan returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she’d killed years ago; after he’d kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend. Oodles of icky gore!
**ANTHROPOPHAGUS (1980)
Joe D’Amato (Beyond the Darkness, Absurd, Erotic Nights of the Living Dead)
Infamous video nasty complete with fetus ripping & gut munching scenes. A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents
DARK REEL (2008)
Josh Eisenstadt
A long-dormant Hollywood mystery returns with ferocious intensity when an avid movie fan wins a walk-on role in an upcoming horror film and finds himself thrust into the center of a blood-soaked, behind-the-scenes killing spree
**SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983)
Robert Hiltzik (Return to Sleepaway Camp)
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions. Campy horror with an unforgettable ending!
SLEEPAWAY CAMP 2 (1988)
Michael Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 3)
This campy horror sequel is laced with dark humor and blood-spattering special effects. Camp Rolling Hills is losing enrollment as the "bad teens" are being murdered in various gruesome ways
SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3 (1989)
Michael Simpson (Sleepaway Camp 2)
Angela is back, in the form of an angry inner-city camper on the hunt for blood
RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP (2008)
Robert Hiltzik (Sleepaway Camp)
When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing, turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can't shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at CampArawak, where he worked two decades earlier
**REGOREGITATED SACRIFICE (2008)
Lucifer Valentine (Slaughtered Vomit Dolls)
Guided by identical twin demon spirits, the black angels of hell, we see the diabolical depiction of the alternate-parallel dimension of the simultaneous suicide deaths of Kurt Cobain and bulimic porn star Angela Aberdeen; as seen through the mental activity of Angela's journey toward brain death as a result of her self-inflicted death by drowning. Gut churning stuff!
**RE-PENETRATOR (2005)
Doug Sakmann
This short film is a mixture of blood & pornography & most definitely not to everyone’s taste
THE MUTANT CHRONICLES (2008)
Simon Hunter
Humankind wages an explosive last stand against the demonic NecroMutants, who would see the entire human race brutally annihilated. Effects heavy, sci-fi thriller
GROWING OUT (2009)
Graham Ratliff
A struggling songwriter accepts a job as caretaker for a mysterious old home, and discovers a human hand growing out of the basement floor in this independent comedy horror
**THE CHURCH (1989)
Michele Soavi (Cemetery Man, Stage Fright)
Originally intended as the third chapter in producer Dario Argento's Demons trilogy, The Church stands alone as an effective horror film centering on a haunted cathedral with a violent past. Highly visual & haunting horror
**ZOMBIE 4: AFTER DEATH (1988)
Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2, Scalps)
Prepare to experience the ultimate in cinematic terror as a voodoo curse opens the gates of hell. On a remote island, an evil curse raises the dead from their graves to feast on the flesh of the living
ZOMBIE 5: KILLING BIRDS (1987)
Claudio Lattanzi (& Joe D’Amato)
When a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran brutally murders his wife, her lover, his parents, and the pet bird, the terror is only beginning. Years later a team of scientists encounter a malevolent blind man with a flock of vicious, bloodthirsty birds
BABYSITTER WANTED (2008)
Jonas Barnes & Michael Manasseri
Babysitter Wanted runs high on all cylinders. It does everything right from putting together a well written script, casting some fantastic actors and developing a great musical score. This film manages to pull you in with a familiar babysitter story and then delivers a sucker punch with a twist that you will never see coming
**FEAST 3: THE HAPPY FINISH (2009)
John Gulager (Feast, Feast 2)
The Biker Queen, the Bartender, and Lightning the wrestler are fighting for their lives when hope appears in the form of a knife-wielding karate kid and a mysterious stranger with the ability to control the ravenous beasts. But the horror isn't over yet, because these creatures aren't going down without a fight
**AUTOPSY (2008)
Adam Gierasch
Horror about a group of road-tripping college graduates who are spirited to a mysterious hospital after crashing their car on a lonely Louisiana road
PERKINS 14 (2009)
Craig Singer (Dark Ride)
Shocking horror film about a delusional psychopath who creates a unified team of fourteen maniacal killers
GRUDGE 3 (2009)
Toby Wilkins (Splinter)
A young Japanese woman who holds the key to stopping the evil spirit of Kayako, travels to the haunted Chicago apartment from the sequel, to stop the curse once and for all and save a family who are currently being haunted by her malicious spirit
ASIAN LANGUAGE
IRON MONKEY (1993)
Woo-Ping Yuen (Legend of a Fighter, Magnificent Butcher, Drunken Master)
Yuen Woo-Ping and Donnie Yen, in yet another collaboration together, have brought forth one of the greatest kung fu movies in existence. The story involves a Robin Hood-type martial artist named the Iron Monkey teaming up with Wong Kei Ying to battle government corruption. Superb choreography & fight scenes
RED ROOM (1999)
Daisuke Yamanouchi (Red Room 2)
A cruel look at reality TV game shows and what limits people will go to in order to win the prize. All sorts of torture, humiliation and violence make this a rather sickening experience
**UNTOLD STORY aka BUNMAN (1993)
Danny Lee & Herman Yau (Dr Lamb, Ebola Syndrome)
Untold Story is one of the most horribly disturbing horror movies ever made. Anthony Wong plays a lunatic who butchers a restaurant owner and his family in Macau after a gambling argument. He takes over the restaurant and uses the family's bodies to make pork buns!
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**LAST HOUSE IN THE WOODS (2006)
Gabriele Albanesi
A pair of youngsters seeking a little privacy in the woods get more than they bargained for when they are assaulted by a trio of thugs and rescued by a most unusual couple in director this gruesome tribute to the drive-in shockers of yesteryear. Italian gorefest