Archive for the ‘Horror’ Category
Yes, I know the Drive In has been closed all summer, but we are back and back in a big way.
The stars are right at last and we are here this week to celebrate the 122nd birthday of H. P. Lovecraft who was born on August 20th 1890. The movies this week aren’t based on any specefic Lovecraft story, but all are very “Lovecraftian” in tone and are steeped in the themes that make his works so intriguing. Yes folks, pop some corn and settle in for FOUR films filled with black magic, ancient cults, sea monsters and encroaching evil.
FEATURE 1: BLOOD TIDE
James Earl Jones is an archeologist on a remote Greek island who discovers a an ancient cult that still sacrifices virgins to an immortal sea monster that they worship as a god.
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FEATURE 2: HORROR HOTEL
A college student fascinated with the study of witchcraft travels to a creepy New England town to continue her research. When she doesn’t return, her brother and her boyfriend must try to peace together what happened to her and face the evil that she uncovered.
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FEATURE 3: MESSIAH OF EVIL
A woman travels to a strange coastal town to investigate the strange death of her father who seemed to be going mad before his suicide and discovers an ancient evil is awakening and spreading horror and chaos as its power grows.
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FEATURE 4: NIGHT TIDE
Dennis Hooper is a sailer on shore leave who falls in love with a mysterious woman who believes she is a member of an ancient race of sea creatures.
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Its a new month and time for a new program of b-movie entertainment for all my visitors here. Tonight I offer you a little something extra with your pop-corn and soda. Could I also interest you in a slithering, hissing nightmare and a truly painful death? No, well the folks in this evening’s double feature don’t have the luxury of that choice. Sit back and try to enjoy this double bill of creepy, crawly snake pictures.
RATTLERS
A small desert community is beset by a rash of vicious and deadly rattlesnake attacks An investigating zoologist discovers that the snakes have been effected by some nerve gas that has been dumped into the desert by the military.
STANLEY
A Native American recluse uses a trained rattlesnake to extract revenge on those that he feels have wronged him.
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Were back with another triple threat of Spanish horror with the second part of our Paul Naschy horror fest.
WEREWOLF VS THE VAMPIRE WOMAN
Two female students looking for the grave of an infamous witch team up with a mysterious nobleman who is looking for a silver cross that is supposed to be buried with the long-dead sorceress in hopes that it will free him of his werewolf curse.. The group unwittingly revives the vampire queen by pulling the cross from her chest.
FURY OF THE WOLF MAN
Seeking a cure for his full moon fever, a troubled werewolf hooks up with a female scientist, who turns out to be a sadistic mad woman with plans of her own.
DR. JEKYLL AND THE WEREWOLF
This time out the werewolf ends up turning to the grandson of the original Dr. Jekyll in hopes of freeing himself from his savage alter-ego.
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It has been a few weeks since we’ve add much going on at the old drive in, but we’re back now and bigger than ever. Instead of one streaming movie each week, we’ll be showing a double or triple feature each month. Also, all of the movies will be delivered via download in one large ZIP file. This will, allow for a little better copy of each movie for you to watch.
I couldn’t let the Halloween season pass without kicking this new format off with something big. To that end I will be offering six horror hoots starring Spain’s most famous horror export, Paul Naschy.
Naschy is most known for his 20 or so Werewolf movies. I’ll be getting to three of those next week. This week I bring you three of his non moon beast movies. We’ve got lots of good stuff for you tonight, so let’s get started.
VENGEANCE OF THE ZOMBIES
Naschy is an Indian mystic who uses black magic to bring recently murdered women back from the dead in order to commit revenge killings for him.
HORROR RISES FROM THE TOMB
Paul plays a duel role in this one. He is a mid-evil Satanist who is beheaded for his long laundry list of crimes. He is also the 1970s descendant of the long-dead warlock who mistakenly resurrects the evil wizard, who is now free to commit ritual murder. This one isn’t totally a zombie movie, but there is a REALLY great zombie sequence when several of the Warlock’s victims are raised to shambling life and sent after the survivors.
DEVILS POSSESSED
This time our man is once again using black magic in a mid-evil setting. This time in order to remain in power over an unhappy nation.
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That is it kids, come back next week to see Naschy’s famous werewolf character take on a sadistic female doctor, a vampire witch and Dr. Jekyll himself. See you then.
Tonight I bring you an ultra-low budget slasher from 2007. Six of the worlds most annoying, badly acted college students / stereotype character templates ever to slink their way direct to DVD are heading to spring break, but make the mistake of taking a shortcut across a huge expanse of desert . There car, of course, breaks down and as the sun goes down they start getting picked off by an unkown psycho.
It would be really easy to rip this movie apart. It is, honestly, pretty terrible, but if there was still a huge drive-in market today, this is the type of thing you’d see filling out the bottom of the bill.
The kills, when they finally start, are not too bad. We get slit throats, hatchets to the head, stabbings and a disemboweling. So, you can’t really complain there I guess. Of course there is also the “twist” ending that you can see comming from about 3 minutes in.
Leading up to the kills, however, you have to suffer throught these terrible actors playing terrible characters. You have the “normal girl”, the “level headed black guy”, the “jerk-ass macho prick”, the “slutty, clingly, dumb girl”, the “ulta-man-hating lesbian”and the “socially backward computer nerd”. I don’t know why all these newer low budget horror flicks always have their victims set up as a bunch of unlikable, constantly bickering assholes, but most of them do. Of course some big budget ones do that too. Friday the 13th 2009, I’m looking at you. We have like these people in order for us to care about them, but nobody remembers that these days I guess.
Anyway, this is, honestly, a pretty bad one, but it does have some good kills, especially for their $9000 budget and if you have a taste for straight to video junk, you should like it. By the way, I know these rips aren’t exactly HD, but this one might look a little worse. This is due to the source material. I got the disk for $1, so I guess I can’t complain.
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Well, we took an unexpected week off due to technical issues, but we are back…..from the grave….with another zombie movie for you to sink your teeth into.
This flick, directed by Bob Clark (Black Christmas, Porky’s, A Christmas Story) obviously came out after Romero’s Night of the living dead, but several years before Dawn. This would mike CSPWTD the first color zombie movie that features undead zombies as we know them today.
The plot is pretty simple. A jerk-ass actor takes his theater troop to a spooky, fog shrouded island in the middle of the night to mess with them and dabble in black magic, and possibly worse. He is always treating them like crap, but has the power to expel them from the group, so he is able to force them into doing things they don’t really feel like doing, like robbing a grave and taking its moldering contents home for a little party. Unfortunately for Allen and his friends, but fortunately for us, his ritual to raise the dead eventually works and the group is beset by a horde of flesh hungry corpses.
The move has a great final reel, but a word of warning for any impatient patrons out there, not a lot happens for a good chunk of the movie. The zombies don’t show up until the last 30 minutes or so. Still, the whole movie is full of decent mood and lots and lots of groovy 70s fashions. Allan is a pain in ass and a pain to watch, but he is supposed to be and his fate is all the more satisfying because of it.
So, sit back, settle in and stick it out. The last part of the movie is worth the wait. The zombies are actually better looking than those in Dawn.
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The guys and gal over at Deadpit have just started their annual month-long celebration of all things zombie with their “May of the Dead” broadcasts. They always have great interviews and the show never fails to get me into a zombie watching mood. So, I decided that I was going to put up a month of walking corpse movies for everyone to rip into here at DMD. Deadpit and I completely separate sites and are not in any way working together, I have just been a fan of theirs for years. I would say that any fan of horror that isn’t aware of them should go check them out right away. Their show is completely free, but they do sell fan commentaries for less than $3.00 each and on their latest show they were talking about putting up one for this movie. I haven’t heard this, but I can only imagine The Creepy Kentuckian and Uncle Bill tearing into this one has got to be comedy gold. Now….on with the show.
I give you this week a movie that is considered, by more than a few, to be terrible. However, I can honestly say that is probably my favorite zombie movie…..EVER!. i know that there are several movies that are far better written, better acted, with better effects and better plot. Even in the somewhat low-rent ghetto of the Italian zombie movie, this one is considered to be sub par. Still, it never fails to entertain me.
While Fulci’s Zombie is a better Italian zombie movie in almost every way, it is a little slow at times. Burial Ground, however, has a pre-credits zombie attack and then the actual zombie action gets going about 10 or 12 minutes in and doesn’t stop until the end title card (with a Hilarius misspelling) ends the movie.
The plot is that an eccentric researcher believes he has discovered the secret of raising the dead. He goes into an ancient Etruscan tomb near his property and inadvertently releases its shambling, rotting, maggot-covered occupants into the countryside.
The next day a group of bohemian jet-setters who have been invited to his house for reasons that are never explained, arrive to the estate only to be beset by hordes of flesh hungry corpses.
The zombies are the rotted, maggot-covered style of Fulci’s Zombie, but they are not done quite as well. Still, there are some scenes, especially those at night, that are effective and a little creepy. This is a movie, though, that I think benefited from a bad VHS transfer. When I saw this one on DVD for the first time I noticed that some of the makeup flaws, like noses covered with black paint to simulate empty cavities, showed up a lot more on the better format.
Still, if you want gore, sleaze, midgets, incest, bad dubbing and non-stop zombie action, this is the movie for you. I have been a fan of it for years and I hope that you will enjoy it as well.
Oh, those of you who have seen this one will probably notice that I didn’t mention creepy little Michael, the 10 year old, played by middle-aged litter person Peter Bark, who has the hots for his mother. Well, you can read about that in every review of this movie that you will find online. If you’ve never had the pleasure of seeing this skin-crawling performance, you are in for a treat.
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I know I don’t post a lot of horror movies here on DMD, certainly not as many as come to mind when making my weekly selections. This is mostly because I also put movies on the Cadaverlab site and those are exclusively horror. I don’t want to compete with myself a whole lot if I can help it.
I do have a neat little chiller for you tonight. I first saw this Canadian flick a few years ago and remember really enjoying the feel of the movie, the tone of isolation and impending doom it surrounds its characters with and the great performances by the small cast. As much as I liked it at the time I hadn’t thought about it again for a while. That is until I heard the guys at the Horror,etc podcast discussing it on their recent “backwoods horror” episode. After listening to the Tony and Ted go over it, I wanted to see it again and present it to you here tonight.
I’m not going to go into a detailed plot summary here, the basic plot is pretty simple. The meat of the movie, as I said before, is in the tone and feel it sets up. It is very easy to see yourself in the position of these characters and that makes for an effective movie. Basically, four doctors head off into the middle of a huge patch of Canadian wilderness so remote that they have to charter a plane to fly them in and pick them up. Their plans for a few days of hard-core roughing it are soon interrupted by an all but unseen someone or something in the woods that wants to see them suffer and die. There situations goes from bad to worse to deadly at a pace that never bores and always keeps us wondering what they will have to deal with next. It is pretty good stuff. It may seem like a deliverance cash in, but I honestly found this one to be more effective and it is definitely a more streight-up horror movie than Deliverance.
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You’ve got to love Italian cinema in the 70s and 80s. They never met an American success that they couldn’t rip off and try to one-up. We had Dawn of the Dead, they produced Zombie. We had Alien, they brought forth Contamination. We had The Exorcist and they had movies like Bava’s Lisa and the Devil (AKA House of Exorcism) and, of course, tonight’s little bit of devilish delight.
The movie, like most from the boot shaped nation, has about half a dozen alternate titles. It was called The Tormented, Enter the Devil and even The Sexorcist. Then somebody stateside saw what a big hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show was and came up with a poster that ripped off the the one sheet for RHPS and released the movie here under the name The Eerie Midnight Horror Show. So a movie was made to cash in in one popular flick and marketed to cash in on another. That is pretty impressive.
On to the movie itself. A young art student travels with her instructor to an unconsecrated church, at which the priest and nuns supposedly engaged in wild orgies and black magic. They are there to acquire some abandoned religious statues. One of them, which portrays one of the thieves who was crucified with Christ, really catches our leading ladies eye and seems to have an unusual draw for her.
Later that night she is reluctantly attending a party at her unhappily married parents’ house. She soon catches her mother in a kinky sex act with another party guest who is beating the naked woman with the thorns from a bunch of roses. Disgusted by what she she has seen, our protagonist returns to her workshop where she has a vision of her new statue coming to life and copulating with her. Imagine Madonna’s Like A Prayer video, but taken up a notch or two.
This, however, may not have been just a vision though, because not long after this the young lady starts acting oddly and seems to want to have sex with anything with a penis. Eventually modern psychology gives out and a priest is called in and the exorcism begins.
This is, for the most part, a sleazy little euro-trash cash in with lots of sex, not that this is a bad thing, but there are a few creepy moments to be found here and I had fun with it. If you like euro horror movies, you should probably at least check it out.
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Christmas is here and what more exemplifies the joy of the Holidays than the smiling face of a child and what better way to spend a cozy silent night than to watch a movie about a group of vacationers enjoying a ski weekend who take in a group of stranded children. Touching isn’t it? I did, however, forget to mention that the kids are homicidal killers who have escaped incarceration by brutally murdering their bus driver. Also, the vacationers are a bunch of swingers and their possible crime boss friend. This little party is a recipe for wholesale slaughter and like a good batch of Chex Mix, it all comes together pretty well. Can these unsuspecting adults survive the onslaught of these pint sized psychos? Grab some fruitcake and let’s find out.
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