Dead Alive AKA Braindead
(1992) 104 min.
Rated: R (Extremely Gory)
Country: New Zealand
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★☆
A man’s oppressive mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey and chaos ensues.
Demons A.K.A. “Dèmoni”
(1985) 88 Min.
Rated: Unrated (nudity, gore)
Country: Italy
Director: Lamberto Bava
Starring: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo, Geretta Geretta
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
A group of people are trapped in a movie theater that becomes infected by demons who proceed to kill and posses the humans.
The Awakening
(2011) 107 Min.
Rated: R (implied sex, nude butt, minimal gore)
Country: UK
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Ghost hoax explorer Florence Cathcart visits a boarding school and questions her beliefs in The Awakening.
Little Otik A.K.A. Greedy Guts A.K.A. Otesánek
(2000) 132 Min.
Rated: NR (Nudity, mild gore)
Country: Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
A film based on the folktale “Otesánek” by K.J. Erben
The Fury
(1978) 118 Min.
Rated: R (some gore)
Country: UK
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Two espers, one dad trying to find his son and a one-armed villain in The Fury!
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Night of the Living Dead 3D
(2006) 80 Min.
Rated: R (Sex and gore)
Country: USA
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
Starring: Sid Haig, Brianna Brown, Joshua DesRoches
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
A remake of Night of the Living Dead that didn’t have to be made, and is far worse than the original or even the 1990 remake by Tom Savini.
In The Mouth of Madness
(1994) 95 Min.
Rated: R (slight gore)
Country: USA
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Sam Neill, David Warner, John Glover, Bernie Casey, Julie Carmen, Charlton Heston
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★★
Lovecraftian imagery abounds in this story about a missing horror novelist.
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