Month: October 2014

Shaun vs. The Entity (1981)

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Directed by Sidney J. Furie

Starring Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver and David Labiosa

Supposedly based on a true story, after several brutal attacks by an assailant she cannot see, a woman consults medical professionals and later parapsychologists to find an answer for what’s going on.  Does she have mental problems, like the doctors seem to think. or are the ghostbusters right in thinking that there’s a malevolent spirit doing harm? Continue reading “Shaun vs. The Entity (1981)”

Shaun vs. Dracula (1931)

drac1Directed by Tod Browning

Starring Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler and David Manners

Dracula is dead and loving it!  He decides that he can’t take the Transylvanian townspeople calling him a monster so he buys some property and moves to the big city…London!  He meets and greets (and eats) a few people until he runs into Mina Harker, a married woman but that doesn’t bother the Count, he has three wives.  He tries to make her his fourth but her husband and professor Van Helsing, who knows the ways of the vampire, try to stop him before it’s too late for Mina. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Dracula (1931)”

Shaun vs. Cannibal Holocaust (1979)

can1The next film in my series is a film I’ve avoided watching for years.  Considered one of the more controversial movies ever made, the violence portrayed in the movie came off as so real that the filmmakers were brought to court on charges of murdering their actors for nothing more than a snuff film.  While the actors were just fine, another controversy comes from the killing of real animals on film.  Because of all of this, the filmmakers claimed the movie was banned in over fifty countries.  Most countries have eventually relented and allowed its release but it’s still banned in some countries!  Get ready for a crazy film you probably won’t enjoy with an even crazier backstory that’s fun to tell!

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