After Amityville 3-D bombed big at the 1983 box office, the Amityville Horror franchise retreated to network television for the fourth entry, Amityville: The Evil Escapes. Ironically, this first nontheatrical foray at least had the foresight to bring back original screenwriter Sandor Stern, who also stepped into the bound-to-be-thankless job of directing it. Recently widowed, … Continue reading Amityville: The Evil Escapes (1989)
Sixth in the Amityville Horror series, Amityville 1992 is, in my suspect estimation, worth watching at least once for four reasons: 1. Former Miss USA Shawn Weatherly gets naked; 2. Megan Ward strips to her underwear; 3. You have to admire a movie with the balls to use its release date and a pun in … Continue reading Amityville 1992: It’s About Time (1992)
Movie star Lisa Brandon has everything a modern woman could want: a growing reputation as a prima donna, a perfect doctor boyfriend she shuns, a father who only wanted a son, a daughter she gets to see one whole day a week and a burgeoning side hustle as a prostitute. (That’s everything, right?) To borrow … Continue reading Twenty Dollar Star (1990)
Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made is a documentary about — what else? — Antrum, an European horror movie from the 1970s reportedly so cursed and evil, it quite literally claims viewers’ lives. As a result, the movie never made it past festival screenings and into general release before being pulled and lost … until … Continue reading Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018)
Because Sebastian was born with a caul over his face, his brother, Joe (Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, In the Folds of the Flesh) believes that the kid has clairvoyant powers — shades of Stephen King’s The Shining. Joe is correct. Now that their father has passed away, those powers come to the forefront for the teen … Continue reading Stigma (1980)