TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A (1985)
byA fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
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THE INITIATION (1984)
byWhile trying to understand a reoccurring nightmare, a pledge is coaxed into breaking into her father’s department store by her sorority sisters, where a deranged killer targets the girls and their boyfriends.
JAMAICA INN (1939)
byIn Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers she’s living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
MATINEE (1993)
byA small-time film director releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
SATAN’S BLADE (1984)
bySatan’s Blade is indicative of the archetypal quality and budgets of 1980s ‘video nasties’. It’s an inexpensive slasher film mimicking the tried and tested equation…
THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (1971) • THE RED QUEEN KILLS SEVEN TIMES (1972)
byIn his career, director Emilio P. Miraglia only made a handful of films. But before turning his hand to filmmalking he worked behind-the-scenes on scores…
THE ZERO BOYS (1986)
byAt its heart Arrow Films’ latest release, The Zero Boys, is just another straight-to-video slasher movie; of the type that dominated the 1980s home VHS…
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (1990)
byWhat stops me joining the cult of Re-Animator is how reductive the franchise is. Stuart Gordon’s original 1985 movie is a schlocky update of a…
DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS (1971) • DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT (1972)
byAlthough both Death Walks on High Heels (1971) and Death Walks at Midnight (1972) fall under the heading of giallo, they differ decisively from what…
OUT 1 (1971)
byJacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching Arrow’s release of…