Rating

9/10

Video

"The walking dead have taken over the world and time is running out for the living survivors holed up in an underground missile silo. They must find a way to overcome the living dead or they will all die. Food is running low; ammunition and medical supplies are almost gone - the scientific and military teams are at each others throats. Their only hope of survival rests on controlling and domesticating the walking dead or getting them back to the grave - for good."

One of the best. Seriously, if you haven't seen this, you must.

Directed by
George A. Romero

Tagline:
First there was "NIGHT of the LIVING DEAD" then "DAWN of the DEAD" and now the darkest day of horror the world has ever known

Cast Overview

Lori Cardille
Terry Alexander
Joseph Pilato
Jarlath Conroy
Anthony Dileo Jr.
Richard Liberty
Sherman Howard
Gary Howard Klar
Ralph Marrero
John Amplas
Phillip G. Kellams
Taso N. Stavrakis
Gregory Nicotero
Don Brockett
William Cameron

Rating

10/10

Video

"Two girls are given free tickets to a special screening in an isolated cinema. The film, a violent horror movie, exerts a malevolent influence over the cinema patrons who are transformed - one by bloody one - into a horde of crazed demons. Dario Argento's expertise is evident in the film's production design and eclectic musical score featuring songs by Motley Crue, Scorpions and Billy Idol. The film is said to be inspired by a disquieting phrase ascribed to Nostradamus."

One of the best zombie films ever. This was just about the first real horror film I ever saw. Except the Hammer Horror films that is. Writing credits also go to Dario Argento.

Director:
Lamberto Bava

Tagline:
They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.

Cast overview

Urbano Barberini
Natasha Hovey
Karl Zinny
Fiore Argento
Paola Cozzo
Fabiola Toledo
Nicoletta Elmi
Stelio Candelli
Nicole Tessier
Geretta Giancarlo
Bobby Rhodes
Guido Baldi
Bettina Ciampolini
Giuseppe Mauro Cruciano
Sally Day

Rating

5/10

"More action, violence, mayhem and horror unfold in this worthy sequel to the earlier Demons film, which once again teams director Lamberto Bava with producer Dario Argento. This time its the tennants of an urban tower block who find themselves under seige from the demon menace, as the demons re-enter the real world through a TV set in one of the rooms in the building."

The first Demons film was fantastic, still one of the best zombie flicks ever. This film had a lot to live up to.

Rating

9/10

Video

"As the number of the living dead increases a disbelieving society slowly collapses. Martial Law is declared and citizens may no longer occupy private residence and instead are sent to rescue centers, many of which are already becoming overridden by the living dead. Four of the few surviving humans escape the city in a helicopter. Running low on fuel they land on the roof of a shopping mall in search of refuge. Tempted by the supplies they venture into the shops they can see below. Although the living dead are at large they are few in numbers and the four manage to clear the mall and baracade themselves in from the ever increasing number of living dead outside..."

A grim zombie film. Nicely put together.Another George A. Romeros classic.

Directed by
George A. Romero

Tagline:
When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.

Cast overview

David Emge
Ken Foree
Scott H. Reiniger
Gaylen Ross
David Crawford
David Early
Richard France
Howard Smith
Daniel Dietrich
Fred Baker
James A. Baffico
Rod Stouffer
Jesse Del Gre
Clayton McKinnon
John Rice

Rating

7/10

"Ranger Girard is sitting at the deathbed of an indian friend, when he hears the legend of the Ancient Toltel Sorcerers. A thousand years ago these cannibals buried themselves alive and have continued to feed on the living in order to survive. With his dying breath the Indian begs Girard, to take up his place in the battle against these fiendish demons. He pleads with Girard to protect others, against the evil days to come, when the spirits will mount their attack, to conquer the four corners of the earth. Girard sets out to honour his friend's last wish, to fight this terrifying menace. He is called upon, to protect a group of unsuspecting college students, who have rented a secluded house haunted by the murderous spirits."

Murderous spirits, secluded house, bunch of students - a recipe for HORROR!

Directed by
Phil Smoot

Cast overview

Lash La Rue
Cynthia Bailey
Mighty Joe Coltrane
Mary Dalton
Paul Holman
Daniel Selby
Anna Lane Tatum
Jerry Whittington

Rating

8/10

"BOMBED OUT IN SPACE WITH A SPACED OUT BOMB! John Carpenter's irreverent sci-fi parody in which the astronauts are not so much lost in space as hanging loose there. The scoutship DARK STAR roams endlessly through space on a mission to destroy unstable planets in advance of the main fleet. The men have been on this mission for twenty years - neglected by earth, bored with recreational facilities provided by their sexy-voiced computer, irritated by their pet alien, their main occupation is to provoke each other. The excitement, the danger, are things of the past... until their last talking bomb develops a mind of its own and a deep interest in philosophical concepts! With all their lives at stake it's down to Captain Doolitle to save the day, armed only with a working knowledge of Descartes... A cosmically comic, brilliantly inventive debut by the director of HALLOWEEN, co-written by the scriptwriter of ALIEN."

You've really got to be in the right frame of mind to watch this one. When you do - make sure you watch it to the end. An alien that looks like a giant tomato is nothing compared to a guy surfing a nuclear explosion through space.

Directed by
John Carpenter

Tagline:
What would you be like after 20 years aboard DARK STAR the spaced-out spaceship. The ultimate cosmic comedy!

Cast overview

Brian Narelle
Cal Kuniholm
Dre Pahich
Dan O'Bannon
Adam Beckenbaugh
Joe Saunders
Michael Shaw
Alan Sheretz
Miles Watkins

Rating

4/10

"Jack Caine is a Houston Vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His selfappointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene... Along with F.B.I. Agent Laurence Smith, the two investigate a spate of mysterious deaths; normal non-junkies dying of massive heroin overdoses and bearing the same horrific puncture marks on the forehead. This, coupled with Caine's own evidence, indicates an alien force is present on the streets of Houston, killing and gathering stocks of a rare drug found only in the brain... Caine is used to fighting the toughest of criminals, but up to now they've all been human..."

There reaches a point in this film where you have to ask, Why does he keep saying 'I COME IN PEACE' and then promptly killing someone? Well the answer is simple - it's so that the good guy can say 'YOU GO IN PIECES' when he kills the alien. Dolph Lundgren is about 8 foot tall.

Rating

6/10

"In the state mental asylum, the once brilliant Dr Ramzi has gone completely mad, performing fiendish experiments and death rituals. His colleague Dr Swan eventually has to kill Ramzi in order to stop the slaughter. He then seals the DEAD PIT where the bodies of the victims have been thrown, hoping to hide the grisly evidence. Twenty years later in 1989 a beautiful young woman suffering from total amnesia is admitted, a few days later a massive earthquake hits the asylum and the strange and terrifying events start occuring. Ramzi's dying words 'you can't kill me' have come back to haunt Swan with a vengeance. One thing is sure - when the dead start walking, you'd better start running."

Zombie flicks are my fave, and this one lives up to all my expectations. Stupidly slow walking corspes following people who should really be able to escape easily.

Directed by
Brett Leonard

Tagline:
When the dead start to walk you'd better start running...

Cast overview

Jeremy Slate
Cheryl Lawson
Stephen Gregory Foster
Danny Gochnauer
Geha Getz
Joan Bechtel
Mara Everett
Jack A. Sunseri
Frederick Dodge
Nettie Heffner
Luana Speelman

Rating

4/10

"Director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, he creates a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince as he moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century london in search of his long lost love Elisabeta, who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed doctor Van Helsing and Keanu Reeves is Jonathan Harker who is forced to fight the dark forces of Dracula for the love of Mina. Visually stunning, passionately seductive and utterly irresistible, this is Dracula as you've never seen him before - a powerful and poignant vampire whose yearnings for human love ultimately proves his undoing."

A bit too squeaky clean for my collection really. It's the only really big budget film I've got and it shows. Brilliantly made, great plot, but just not quite right. (Winona Ryder gets an 8/10)

Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola

Tagline:
Love Never Dies.

Cast overview

Gary Oldman
Winona Ryder
Anthony Hopkins
Keanu Reeves
Richard E. Grant
Cary Elwes
Bill Campbell
Sadie Frost
Tom Waits
Monica Bellucci
Michaela Bercu
Florina Kendrick
Jay Robinson
I.M. Hobson
Laurie Franks

Rating

7/10

"Murders are disrupting the usual quite (this is not my spelling mistake it actually is spelt like that on the cover.HorrorVault) of Waterbury, Connecticut, and the police are baffled. Against this unsettling background we meet Alicia and her promiscuious twin sister Barbara Ann. Alicia suspects her twin of having designs on her boyfreind mike. Alicia is also pursued by Franklin, a highly-strung but nice young man who she rejects, until she overhears an amorous conversation between Barbara Ann and Mike. She enjoys the date, but afterwards Franklin picks up a young woman at a night club, brings her home to his apartment - where he proceeds to brutally murder her. While police continue to try and track down the killer, Alicia's nerves become increasingly strained, from persistent, disturbing telephone calls featuring eerie sounds. The story has a bizarre twist at the end."

It's right you know. Just when, Poirot like, you have decided that you know who's done what to who - there is a massive twist. You find out that .... Well you'll have to watch it. Great scene where nutter bloke hacks through some womans chest with what looks like a blunt swiss army knife.

Directed by
Gorman Bechard

Tagline:
Is anybody there...

Cast overview

Mark Walker
Carl Koch
Frances Raines

Rating

6/10

"Destiny Turns on the Radio follows escaped convict Julian Goddard who returns to Las Vegas to reclaim his stolen fortune, his cut of the bank heist he and his partner pulled off three years earlier, and his girl, Lucille. Julian's plan is to head for the Mexican border with the loot and Lucille in tow... But lucille is now Tuerto's girl. Tuerto, owns one of the biggest casinos on the strip and is not the kind of man who's going to give lucille up without a fight... and as for the money, it's vanished... There's only one man who can help Julian, Johnny Destiny, a mysterious gambler who knows how to fix the odds."

Not quite sure what to make of this film. Don't get me wrong, it is good. But... I feel with James Belushi, Quentin Tarantino and Nancy Travis it should have been much better.

Directed by
Jack Baran

Tagline:
A Romantic Adventure of Mystical Proportion.

Cast overview

Dylan McDermott
Nancy Travis
James LeGros
Quentin Tarantino
James Belushi
Janet Carroll
David Cross
Richard Edson
Bob Goldthwait
Barry Shabaka Henley
Lisa Jane Persky
Sarah Trigger
Tracey Walter
Allen Garfield
Ralph Brannen

Rating

Unrated

"Donny Kohler is sick. Very sick. He was cruelly abused as a child by his mother. He is 27 years old now and his mother is dead. Her death changes him-a long dormant psychosis is brought to life. He methodically prepares his revenge. His first victim is a beautiful young girl. He burns her alive in a metal room he has built for vengeance. He cannot stop killing once he's committed this first gruesome murder. He keeps the horribly charred corpses in the house with him, dressed in mother's finest gowns. He shares his feelings and thoughts with them in a way he never could with living people, but suddenly a form of conscience begins causing him nightmares and hallucinations. Donny Kohler is lost in the terror of his own life...and the final revenge comes from his victims."

To be honest I can't remember this one at all, I will watch it again soon and give you a brief review. Watch this space.

Directed by
Joseph Ellison

Tagline:
Threshold into terror.

Cast overview

Dan Grimaldi
Robert Osth
Ruth Dardick
Charles Bonet
Bill Ricci
Dennis Hunt
John Hedberg
Johanna Brushay
Darcy Shean
Mary Ann Chin
Lois Verkimeps
Susan Smith
Jim Donnegan
Claudia Folts
Denise Woods

Rating

8/10

"MICHAEL TUCKER is programmed into killing his parents by genetic surgeon DR ARCHER HOWELL and is incarcerated in a psychiatric institution for the crime. Years later MICHAEL and friends travel to an isolated island where HOWELL now runs TRANSCRANIAL APPLICATIONS, experimenting on humans and turning them into mutant killing machines. MICHAEL must have revenge on HOWELL for the death of his parents and also stop him for the sake of mankind..."

Great music to this film, very atmospheric... Double fronted video sleeve helps aswell. The film itself is superb, everything you want in a horror - far fetched initial scene with a 'SOME YEARS ON' type bit which is completely over the top. Go and buy this one now.

Directed by
David Blyth

Tagline:
You have only one life to live...but there are many ways to die...

Cast overview

Michael Hurst
Margaret Umbers
William Upjohn
Norelle Scott
David Letch
Gary Day
David Weatherley
Jonathan Hardy
Nathaniel Lees
Norman Fairley
Judy McIntosh
Geoff Snell

Rating

5/10

"Deathstalker is a powerful warrior with no loyalties or fears, who rules by his mighty sword and strength. He is implored by poor King Tulak to rescue his kingdom, and his beautiful daughter the Princess Codille from the evil wizard Munkar but declines. however, when he finds out from the sage Totolave that Munkar was responsible for the death of his monther and father he changes heart. He now has an awesome mission ahead - to reunite the powers, the stone amulet, the chalice of sight and a secret power only he can find, which together can rule the medieval world with a strength never seen before. The princess Codille has been thrown into Munkar's hareem where nude nubile women frolic. When Deathstalker triumphs over all in a medieval bar-room brawl, Munkar offers him the Princess Codille as a prize - but there is treachery in the air and she is not all she seems! Deathstalker follows his destiny to its terrible end in the rousing showdown between good and evil!!"

Definately not worth two exclamation marks at the end of the description. If you liked Red Sonja, Conan and others of that ilk, you'll like this.

Directed by
John Watson

Tagline:
The Might of the Sword... The Evil of the Sorcerer..

Cast overview

Rick Hill
Barbi Benton
Richard Brooker
Lana Clarkson
Victor Bo
Bernard Erhard
August Larreta
Lillian Ker
Marcos Woinsky
Adrian De Piero
George Sorvic
Boy Olmi
Horace Marassi
Patrick Duggan
Maria Fournery
Bruno Lawrence
Ian Watkin