Released May 14th in the US.
entirely in Japan.
The story: A bunch of years ago, a couple of Japanese lovers are murdered, as they begin to consecrate their relationship in the house of another man.... well, the man happens to be the husband of one of the lovers.
Oh, but I guess you probably shouldn't pay much attention to that aspect, considering none of the rest of the movie does...
But just for the record, after the man kills the lovers - he does himself in as well.
Anyways, the present day.
An American family of three - husband, wife, young daughter - move themselves on into the house where the murders took place.
Oh, they believe its a lovely house, where they can live and grow together while all their hopes and dreams come true.
But, the house is haunted, and it does not want any of the three new dwellers to be happy.
Stars Toshiya Maruyama , Tsuyako Olajima , Tsuiyuki Sasaki , Mako Hattori , Henry Mitowa , Hiroko Takano , Susan George , Edward Albert , Doug McClure , Amy Barrett , Mako Hattori , Shuren Sakurai
Directed by Kevin Connor
Rated R (for really?)
MYSTERY/THRILLER/*YAWN*HORROR
"Knuck, knuck , knuck"
Released June 18th in the US.
Filmed in Canada.
The story: Morgan is a middle-aged star football player....(Ha! yea that's right! :P)
He and his buds go on what they plan as a nice, relaxing camping trip.
Only instead of nice and relaxing, things turn major creepy.
The group is attacked by a swarm of ginormous wasps and hey, that just isn't right!
Especially when one of Morgans' buds dies from the attack.
Morgan returns to the area where the horrible tragedy had taken place but he's not alone.
It seems some other people have gotten word as well about the giant wasps...and any other giant animal in the area. -
Giant animals in the area...yes...O_o!
Stars Marjoe Gortner , John McLiam , Ida Lupino , Ralph Meeker , Pamela Franklin , Belinda Balaski , Tom Stovall , Chuck Courtney , Reg Tunnicliffe
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Rated PG (:) family fun? yeaaa probably not.
SCIFI/HORROR/THRILLER/MYSTERY
Released March 27th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Florida.
The story: Jane Harris is a news reporter who works for the local news.
She lives with her younger sister, who Jane guilts herself on a daily about due to thinking it was her fault that her sister was kidnapped when they were young and as a result is blind and deaf now.
In local news, there have been some brutal attacks/murders on the woman in the area which has everyone in a tizzy.
But Miss Jane is a smarty. She believes she knows who the killer is and that she - single-handedly, can help stop the killer from committing any more senseless crimes.
Stars Alan Lee , Lauren Tewes , Timothy Hawkins , Jennifer Jason Leigh , Peter DuPre , Gwen Lewis , Kitty Lunn , Ted Richert , Toni Crabtree , Stella Rivera , Amy Krug , Tabbetha Tracey
Directed by Ken Wiederhorn
Rated R
THRILLER/MYSTERY
Released October 30th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story: Janis Starling is the big wig at a popular cosmetics company.
She is looking for a new way to attract business as well as some sort of fountain of youth to keep her looking younger.
When Miss Starling gets in contact with a man who claims to have discovered a youth serum taken from queen wasps, she quickly hires him and insists on taking doses of the serum herself.
Miss Starling gets anxious, and she decides a little more than the regular dosage of the serum could only have better quicker results.
But there just may be some nasty side effects no one knows about yet.
Stars Michael Mark , Susan Cabot , Anthony Eisley , Barboura Morris , William Roerick , Frank Gerstle , Bruno VeSota , Roy Gordon
Directed by Roger Corman & Jack Hill
Not Rated
B&W
SCIFI/HORROR/THRILLER
"Oh, women..."
"Men...Whenever you ask them a question, the answers always women."
Released April 13th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story: A group of friends are headed out to the country for what they think will be a very good time.
Besides for an encounter with a creepy gas station attendant, everything seems great.
But what the friends don't realize is that they are in a life or death game, which they happen to be playing along with.
Stars Bradley Whitford , Richard Jenkins , Kristen Connolly , Anna Hutchison , Chris Hemsworth , Fran Kranz , Jesse Williams , Tim De Zarn , Brian White , Amy Acker
Directed by (& story partly written) Drew Goddard
Rated R
HORROR/SCIFI
Made for TV, airing September 19th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story: Elizabeth Sayers is expecting her sister Martha home from college today.
But when she arrives home after a short trip to the market, she finds her sister has committed suicide?
Elizabeth just isn't buying that, she believes Martha was murdered...or at least forced somehow to end her own life.
Elizabeth schemes a plan to get enrolled in the school Martha was attending, playing the role of someone who didn't know her, to see what she can find out.
While Elizabeths' at school, so many weird things continue to happen and people keep dying.
Hopefully, Elizabeth can help stop this non-sense able madness.
Stars Terry Lumley , Bill Quinn , Pamela Franklin , Jo Van Fleet , Roy Thinnes , Lloyd Bochner , Kate Jackson , Cheryl Ladd , Jamie Smith-Jackson , Gwynne Gilford
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Not Rated
MYSTERY/THRLLER
Released September 19th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Canada.
The story: A busy family of four decide its time to leave their hectic lives in the city and relocate to more country-like surroundings.
Almost immediately after they get sort of settled into their new home, they are visited by a strange, scary man who claims basically that the house was his but it's his bad cause he lost it.
One equal half of the family begins to trust the man after he seems pretty helpful to them.
But the other half, yea they just can't wrap their fingers around it but that man is up to something, and it's not good.
Stars Dennis Quaid , Sharon Stone , Kristen Stewart , Ryan Wilson , Juliette Lewis , Stephen Dorff , Dana Eskelson , Christopher Plummer
Directed by Mike Figgis
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER
Released on VHS, March 12th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story: Judith and Matt are a couple of undercover police as well as a romantic couple.
The two are on a dangerous mission this evening - to crack down on a couple of crooked gun dealers.
While the couple waits, Judith surprises Matt with the news that they will soon be parents.
Right after the good news is out, the bust gets botched and people get shot.
One of the gun dealers is hit and in an attempt to escape, he ends up inside an old toy store warehouse.
As the criminal bleeds, his blood awakens some very unfriendly toys all out to kill every human in sight...to complete their evil mission.
Stars Tracy Scoggins , Bentley Mitchum , William Thorne , Jeff Celentano , Peter Schrum , Richard Speight Jr. , Larry Cedar , Barry Lynch , Michael Russo , Ellen Dunning
Directed by Peter Manoogian
Rated R
HORROR/MYSTERY
"Could this be the end of Oopsy Daisy???"
"Who gives a shit!"
Made for TV The Hallmark Channel, released October 26th in the US.
Filming location(s) unknown.
The story: Tim Stoker is a young boy who is into monsters and monster movies.
When his mom takes a job as a home nurse, Tim and his mom find themselves living in the home of the infamous monster movie maker, Dexter Brisbane.
While cleaning out the basement of the house, Tim comes across a horror movie made by Brisbane but never before seen by anyone.
Tim watches the movie on Halloween night, but by watching the film he awakens some things that are far beyond his imagination.
Stars Ingo Neuhaus , Linda Blair , Tim McCallum , George Kennedy , Adam Baldwin , David Henrie , Ashley Edner , Brian Klugman , Tracey Walter , Larry Manetti , Tim Considine , Keith Christensen
Directed by David S. Cass Sr.
Not Rated
FANTASY/COMEDY/SCIFI/FAMILY/HALLOWEEN
Wow...the multiple titles for this is nice and confusing.
In the beginning, there's a little story to set us up for what the movie is about, as if this is based on a true story or that this can possibly happen to you if you are 1. sexually frustrated and 2. alone a lot... Ok.
Released sometime in June of 1982.
Filming location(s) unknown (but its probably on the shores of Southern California, from what I understood, I don't know.)
The story: Lisa is a married woman who longs for the times when her husband was interested and being romantic with her.
Right off the bat, as her husband is neglecting her, she starts being seduced by a demon/ghost....yes, that's right.
At first, Lisa resists, but after a while, she just can't fight it any longer and she becomes more and more distant from her family and friends.
Not until scary stuff starts happening to Lisa's teenage daughter Michelle does anyone think maybe there's something more to Lisas weird distance.
Yea , I'm just as confused as you...
Stars Lana Wood , Don Galloway , Britt Ekland , Sherry Scott , Kabir Bedi , Elise-Anne , John Carradine
Directed by (and story partly written) James Polakof
Not Rated
HORROR (? ...)
Sorry I have to ruin this a bit for ya.
I find that the title implies that in this film there is, in fact, more than one person who is a bat.
Well, I'm here to tell you, this movie should be more specific. How about 'The Bat Person'...? Yea, just a thought.
Released January 30th in the US.
Filmed in California and New Mexico.
The story: Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Beck are at the start of their weekend holiday/long-awaited honeymoon.
In the desert, while trying to enjoy a picnic, the couple finds they are bothered by a bat of all things.
Next, the couple finds themselves on a bat cave tour (brilliant, I know).
The couple has fallen behind the rest of the tour group and while she's attempting to be playful, Mrs. Beck accidentally falls into a pit filled with creepy crawlies.
Mrs. Beck freaks, calling for her husband to rescue her.
Mr. Beck, in an attempt to help his wife, jumps into the pit and soon the couple is attacked by ... - yep, you guessed it, a bat.
Mr. Beck fights the dreaded killer bat out of his wife's' tresses but...is bitten by the bat.
Although Mr. Beck insists he feels fine and it's just a small bite, yea he's just not himself from here on out folks.
Stars Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew, Paul Carr, Robert Berk, Michael Pataki
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Rated PG
HORROR(:X)
Released September 11th in the US.
Filmed in the UK.
The story: Julia is a seemingly happily married woman and mother to a young daughter.
One morning during breakfast, Julias' daughter begins to choke on her breakfast.
There is no way for either parent to help their child and she dies.
... , ...
The first chance she gets, Julia goes into isolation.
Running off from her husband and buying herself a big old house to be alone and at peace with her thoughts and memories.
While living there, she invites some new and old friends over to have a seance'.
The eccentric and a bit creepy woman who performs the seance sees something that tells her Julias house is evil and that she just cannot tell her what it is.
The only thing the woman can tell Julia is that she must get out of that house.
*yawn*
Stars Mia Farrow , Keir Dullea , Jill Bennett , Tom Conti , Arthur Howard , Pauline Jameson , Mary Morris , Edward Hardwicke , Anna Wing , Cathleen Nesbitt , Robin Gammell
Directed by Richard Loncraine
Rated R
MYSTERY
Released April 20th in the US.
Filmed entirely in California.
The story: A bickering, on the verge of a divorce couple, are traveling home after a family party.
Instead of staying on the interstate, the man of the couple decided to take a detour.
While on this detour, the couple discover how very tired they are. Then, they encounter some car troubles.
There seems no other choice when they attempt to get help at a motel and are talked into just staying the night by the quirky motel manager.
But thats' only because the manager has some very eradicating plans for the couple.
Stars Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Ethan Embry, Frank Whaley, Scott G. Anderson, Mark Casella, David Doty
Directed by Nimród Antal
Rated R
HORROR/THRILLER/MYSTERY
"You think they're closed?"
"Since 1957..."
"That's too bad they got some really good gas prices."
Made for TV, released October 9th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Alabama.
The story: When a Louisiana man is found mutilated in the swamps of his home, a medical investigator and a wildlife biologist are sent to the swamps to see what happened.
What they find is more than they can believe or really want to deal with for that matter.
RawR even
Stars Eugene Collier , Tory Kittles , China Chow , K.D. Aubert , Matthew Rauch , Donna Biscoe , Tomas Arana , Reggie Lee , Raoul Trujillo , Noelle Evans , Richard Edson , Muse Watson , Mark Boone Junior
Directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé
Rated R
SCIFI/HORROR
Released in March of 1974 sometime.
Filmed in Texas.
The story: Vernon Potts is a high school student with one thing on his mind, chemistry.
...
He spends every inch of his time, that he's allowed - in the chemistry lab at school.
When he's not allowed in the lab, he's forced to sit through a class he is threatened to fail and relentless bullying by the jocks in his gym class.
But Vernon is working on an experiment.
He's looking to make the meek into the monstrous.
Stars Pat Cardi , Rosie Holotik , Jeff Alexander , Mike McHenry , Nick Felix , Joye Hash , John Niland , Charles Mann , Austin Stoker
Directed by Larry N. Stouffer
Rated PG :P!
HORROR
"I'm gonna tell on you! I'm telling the principle in the morning!"
"Tssss,go ahead...(*quietly chuckles* fucking tattle tale)..."
Released November 14th in the US.
Filmed entirely in the UK.
The story: The senior class at the local high school is a bunch of bratty, wise-ass, know-it-all jerkys.
When they all get together to trick the class nerd whom they all seem to hate more than anything in their world, a horrible accident happens to leave the nerd disfigured and horribly burnt up.
Fast forward ten years.
All the jerkys are now adults, living what they seem to think is the good life.
They are all called together to their old stomping grounds which is now abandoned for a reunion....and what a brutally good time it will be...
Stars Caroline Munro , Simon Scuddamore , Carmine Iannaccone , Donna Yeager , Gary Martin , Billy Hartman , Michael Safran , John Segal , Kelly Baker , Sally Cross , Josephine Scandi , Marc Smith , Dick Randall , Jon Clark
Directed by (& story written) George Dugdale , Mark Ezra & Peter Mackenzie Litten
Not Rated
HORROR
Release date unknown.
Filming location(s)unknown. (probably because this was made by an independent film co. ?)
The story: A bunch of friends are all having a nice evening get together at one of thems home, when all of a sudden, out of nowhere the home-owner dude literally flips his wig.
Not one of his friends has any idea what seriously triggered his bad reaction.
He fries his wig even crispier when he kills a few of his girlfriends, one right after the other and proceeds to beat the pulp out of his other buddy that stuck around to find him and try to calm him down.
The buddy finally gets free of his freak-show friend after the two have a battle of it's him or me and now the buddy is wanted, cause there were witnesses that, of course, think they know everything.
Now the buddy must put all these weird shaped pieces together after what his good friend did and then right after some very recent publicized cases of the same kinds of things happening to others...cause something just isnt right around here.
Stars Zalman King , Deborah Winters , Mark Goddard , Robert Walden , Charles Siebert , Ann Cooper , Ray Young , Alice Ghostley , Stefan Gierasch , Richard Crystal , Bill Adler , Barbara Quinn , Adriana Shaw , Bill Sorrells , Jeffrey Druce , Argentina Brunetti
Directed by (and story written)Jeff Lieberman
Rated R
MYSTERY/THRILLER/SCIFI
"Hahahaha did you see him! He looks like a god-damned cue ball! hahahahha"
Released April 25th in the US.
Filmed in California.
The story: A bunch of people from many different places and walks of life all get stranded at a motel due to a flood that won't allow anyone to travel beyond it.
Soon, people from the group turn up dead and so, you see, someone from the group has got to be doing all the killing, but just who is it? And just why is this happening to these particular people?
Stars John Cusack , John Hawkes , Amanda Peet , Rebecca De Mornay , Pruitt Taylor Vince , John C. McGinley , Alfred Molina , Clea DuVall , Bret Loehr
Directed James Mangold
Rated R
THRILLER/MYSTERY
Released July 28, 2006, in the US.
Filmed in New York City.
The story: Shopsins is a little old, family-owned and run restaurant in New York City's Greenwich Village.
The menu is packed full of quirky titled and equally unique items, all homemade by its owner and his close friend.
We get to hear all about what the business means to the owner and his take on many different issues. We also get to hear from his wife and many kids who can also be seen on a daily at the eatery, eating and/or working.
A couple very important issues the owner touches base on are the fact that he sees himself as a 'fat, old, nasty Jew cooking you meals'....and he really likes killing flies.
Shopsins has just a couple rules, so if you plan on checking this place out first hand...make sure to read the rules before entering and behave yourself if you indeed get in!
Stars Michael Fishman , John A. Papa , Eve Shopsin , Kenny Shopsin , Calvin Trillin
Directed by Matt Mahurin
Rated R
DOCUMENTARY
Released August 7th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Pennsylvania.
The story: A group of college students decide to get together on Halloween day, take a hayride into the woods and hang out for a party.
While it's still in the daylight hours, farmer Tom - the guy who brought the group out their via his wagon finds a tomb on his property, only he thinks its some sort of Halloween prank.
But guess what!? It isn't and after farmer Tom is brutally attacked by the awakened zombie from the original 'Night Of the Living Dead' film, well...no ones safe now.
Thanks, guy, way to bust up a good time...*yawn*
Stars S. William Hinzman , John Mowod , Leslie Ann Wick , Kevin Kindlin , Charis Kirkpatrik Acuff , James J. Rutan , Lisa Smith , Denise Morrone , Mark Strycula , Kathleen Marie Rupnik , Matthew C. Danilko , David A. Sodergren , Tom Madden
Directed by (& story written) S. William Hinzman (ah ohhhh now I get it! the only way to make and star in another film is to make it yourself, craftyyy)
Rated R (for riveting! *raspberry*)
HORROR
