Gacy (2003)

Released May 13th in the US.

Filmed entirely in California.

Based on truths.

The story: Mid 70s' Chicago.

John Wayne Gacy is a married man, with two daughters.

He is a respected citizen in the community that they live in and many people like him.

Although there are also many people as well as neighbors who do not like or trust him.

One thing is for certain though, many people notice and are disgusted by a horrible odor emitting from the crawl space underneath John's home...

John is hiding many dark secrets and after his wife leaves him his actions only get worse.

After kidnapping , attacking, and setting free a young man and then killing another and stealing his car, the police begin watching John, who they believe is responsible for many young men going missing in the area.

Stars Scott Alan Henry, Adam Baldwin, Mark Holton, Joleen Lutz, Edith Jefferson, Jessica Hanamoto, Grace Hanamoto, Tom Waldman, Charlie Webber, Allison Lange, Kenneth Swartz, Matt Farnsworth, Joseph Sikora, Jer Adrianne Lelliott, Oren Skoog, Doran Ray, Joe Roncetti , Eddie Adams

Directed by ( & story written) Clive Saunders

Rated R
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY/HORROR

Let's Kill Uncle (1966)

Released November 16th in the US.

Filmed in California and Bermuda.

The story: Barnaby is a 12-year-old orphan who has a very large inheritance.

He travels, along with a police officer and young Chrissie to go stay with his war hero Uncle who he greatly admires.

Chrissie is to visit her aunt who lives nearby Barnaby's Uncle and as she and Barnaby are the only kids on the island, they have only each other to spend time with.

Shortly after Barnaby is almost in a very serious accident does he realize that his Uncle is trying to kill him off but no one believes this.

Well, none of the adults Barnaby tells believe his story.

Not until Barnaby's Uncle admits to him that he is in fact playing a murderous game with him to kill him off any lucky way he can to claim his inheritance does Barnaby tell Chrissie what is going on.

Plus Uncle has claimed he will also take out Chrissie as well.

Chrissie then comes up with the idea to kill off Uncle before he kills them.

Stars Pat Cardi, Mary Badlam, Robert Pickering, Linda Lawson, Ref Sanchez, Nestor Paiva, Nigel Green

Directed by William Castle

Not Rated

MYSTERY/THRILLER

History of Horror : Monsters ; Eli Roth's (2020)

Made for AMC, airing October 17th in the US.

Season 2. Episode 2.

The story: Many horror movie lovers first came to the genre because of the monsters.

Monsters among other things captured people's imaginations.

In the early days of movies, monsters were distorted versions of humans concealed under incredible makeup.

By the 1950s, the up and coming creation was the full-body monster suit as well as giant creature creations. 

Still, the 1980's seen yet another shift.

New special effects materials let artists upgrade their rubber monster creations with robotic parts.

Monsters from Outer Space.

Creations of magic or science gone wrong, all monsters are representations of human fears.

Movies mentioned and/or seen in this episode ; 

Ridley Scott's Alien (1979)

John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)

Merian C Cooper and Ernest B Schoedsack's King Kong (1933)

Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005)

Andy Muschietti's It Chapter 2 (2019)

Andre Ovredal's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987)

John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)

Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Drew Goddard's Cabin in the Woods (2011)

David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986)

James DeMonaco's The Purge (2013)

John Carpenter's Dark Star (1974)

Byron Haskin's War of the Worlds (1953)

Val Guest's The Quartermass Xperiment (1955)

Nathan Juran's 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)

Irvin S Yeaworth Jr and Russell S Doughten Jr's The Blob (1958)

Roger Corman's It Conquered the World (1956)

William Cameron Menzies' Invaders from Mars (1953)

Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards (2009)

John Guillermin's King Kong (1976)

Ishiro Honda and Tom Montgomery's King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
John Guillermin and Charles McCracken's King Kong Lives (1986)

Jordan Vogt Roberts' Kong : Skull Island (2017)

Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (1954)

Ishiro Honda and Jun Fukuda's Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Ishiro Honda and Terry O Morse's Godzilla: King of the Monsters (1956)

Michael Dougherty's Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Carl Boese and Paul Wegener's The Golum (1920)

James Whale's Frankenstein (1931)

George Waggner's The Wolf Man (1941)

Jack Arnold's Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Roger Corman's Attack of the Crab Monster (1957)

Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987)

Kevin Tenney's Night of the Demons (1988)

John Landis' An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Stan Winston's Pumpkinhead (1988)

Stars Greg Nicotero, Bill Nader, Jack Black, Quentin Tarantino, Joe Dante, Brian Fuller, Max Brooks, Brian Henson, Ryan Tyrek, Leonard Maltin, Neville Page, Dana Gould, Bob Murawski, Rob Zombie, Don Mancini, Edgar Wright, Dan Cundy, Chris Hardwick, Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti 

Directed by ( & story written) Kurt Sayenga

Rated TVMA
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES

"Monsters are a product of their world."

History of Horror: Houses of Hell ; Eli Roth's (2020)

Made for AMC,  airing October 10th in the US.

Season 2. Episode 1.

The story: There is no safer place than your home...

But a house can be a prison, you never can tell by looking at the outside just what's happening inside.

When your home becomes your enemy it's terrifying...

In horror movies, houses have personalities just as powerful as their residents.

What kinds of people live in a house that contains a portal to hell, which is thirsty for blood?

If you think you have problems those problems will only get worse if you move into a haunted house.

Houses can be supernatural, realistic, and also mimic comfort and safety, which is a brutal reminder that life is so very short.

Movies mentioned and/or seen in this episode ; 

Scott Derrickson's Sinister (2012)

Stuart Rosenberg's The Amityville Horror (1979)

John Hough's The Legend of Hell House (1973)

Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Steve Miner's House (1985)

Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Rob Reiner's Misery (1990)

Kevin Kolsch & Dennis Widmyer's Pet Sematary (2019)

James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932)

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960)

Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963)

Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981)
David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997)

Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005)

Nobuhiko Obayashi's Hausu (1977)

Takashi Shimizu's Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981)

Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II (1987)

Eli Roth's Cabin Fever (2002)

Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972)

Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (1960)

Roger Watkin's The Last House on Dead End Street (1973)

Andrew Jones' The Last House on Cemetery Lane (2015)

Francesco Prosper's The Last House on the Beach (1978)

Stars Chris Hardwick, Stephen King, Rob Zombie, Bill Hader, Greg Nicotero, Mick Garris, Eli Roth, Joe Hill, Ryan Turek, Scott Derrickson, Tony Timpone, Bill Moseley, James Brolin, Andrew Douglas, Fran Kranz, Sean Cunningham

Directed by (& story written) Kurt Sayenga

Rated TVMA

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/SERIES

"Watching horror can be a dangerous business."

Tomka and His Friends AKA Tomka dhe shoket e tij (1977)

Not released in the US...

Filmed in Albania.

The story: Tomka is a young boy who loves playing with his friends in the small village where they live.

One day, while out exploring Tomka and friends see German's invading their village.

This doesn't settle well with the boys but they know the partisan will take care of things.

The next day, when the boys return to the field where all the kids in the village gather to play, they find the Germans have set up camp,  invading their playground.

This does not stop the boys but does cause them some trouble with the Germans.

Determined to get rid of the enemies for good, Tomka and his friends work with the local partisan to save their village.

Stars Enea Zhegu , Herion Mustafaraj , Genci Mosho , Flurans Ilia , Artan Puto , Selma Sotillari , Sotiraq Cili , Pavlina Oca , Zehrudin Dokie , Xhelal Tafaj

Directed by Xhanfize Keko

B& W

Albanian W/English subtitles
Not Rated 

DRAMA

"Freedom to the people."

Swallow (2019)

Released June 5, 2020, in the US.

Filmed entirely in New York.

The story: Hunter and Richie are newlyweds but they really don't know much about each other...

Hunter spends her days hanging around their multi-million dollar home while Richie is out, making the money.

Hunter isn't exactly bored but she isn't exactly happy either.

Soon she finds that she is with child and Richie cannot be happier, which makes Hunter happy.

But things become a bit uncomfortable when Hunter is caught eating things that are not meant to eat...

Stars Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, David Rasche, Elizabeth Marvel, Babak Tafti, Laith Nakli, Nicole Kang, Zabryna Guevara, Luna Lauren Velez, Denis O Hare

Directed by ( & story written) Carlo Mirabella Davis

Rated R
DRAMA/MYSTERY

Brain Damage (1988)

Released April 22nd in the US.

Filmed in New York.

The story: Brian is a typical guy.

But one night when he has plans to go to a show with his girlfriend Barbara he takes a quick nap struggles to wake up.
Barbara calls but can't get him out of bed so she shows up.

But Brian isn't feeling well and he just cannot make the show. He tells Barbara to just take his brother in his place.

While they are out Brian wakes to find himself in a bed of blood.

This freaks him out and while trying to figure out what's going on, he realizes he's not alone.

That's when Brian's whole life changes.

Stars Theo Barnes, Lucille Saint Peter, Beverly Bonner, Rick Hearst, Jennifer Lowry, Gordon MacDonald, Vicki Darnell, Kevin Van Hentenryck, (voice) John Zacherle

Directed by Frank Henelotter

Rated R

COMEDY/HORROR

"Things are getting really weird around here..."

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Released October 17, 1945, in the US.

Filmed in California.

The story: A woman returns home and falls asleep.

While she is sleeping she has a wildly vivid dream where she sees the mirrored face of death and then, her own death.

But is it all a dream? Or, has she awakened?

Stars Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid

B&W

Not Rated

MYSTERY/FANTASY

Daisies (1966)

Released October 25, 1967, in the US.

Filmed entirely in Prague.

The story: Marie I and Marie II are two young women who are bored in what they believe is a spoiled world...

They also believe they are spoiled and do everything they can to continue on with their spoiled lifestyle.

The girls love to eat and be in the place where something is happening so they spend their time thinking of ways to get free meals and going out of the house for some self-made entertainment.

Stars Ivana Karbanova , Jitka Cerhova , Marie Ceskova , Jirina Myskova , Marcela Brezinova , Julius Albert , Oldrich Hora , Jan Klusak , Vaclav Chochola , Josef Konicek , Jaromir Vomacka

Directed by Vera Chytilova

Not Rated

Czech W/English subtitles

COMEDY

"This film is dedicated to those who get upset only over a stomped upon bed of lettuce."

Cameraperson (2016)

Released September 9th in the US.

Filmed in Alabama, New York, Bosnia, Nigeria, Washington DC, and Afganistan.

The story: For over 25 years, documentarian/cameraperson Kirsten Johnson has been making films.

Here is a memoir of those 25 years, which shows many moments during shooting.

All outtakes from documentaries Kirsten has made, this is the first time any of these moments have been released for public viewing, which includes some intimate moments with her children and her parents.

Stars Kirsten Johnson, Roger Derrida, Roger Phenix

Directed by Kristen Johnson

Not Rated

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY