I've been a lover/hater of low budget filmmaking from an early age, always amazed by the types of films that got released, either theatrical or more likely direct to video, and I like to shine a spotlight on them for better or worse.
Directed by Michele Soavi
Starring David Brandon, Barbara Cupisti and Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Released July 27, 1987
Rated R
A musical production’s rehearsal is pushed back permanently as a psychopathic killer escapes from the loony bin down the road and sneaks into the theatre to take out the actors and production crew. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Stagefright (1987)”
Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Starring Jay Richardson, Linnea Quigley and Gunnar Hansen
Released March 1998
Rated R
A private eye is hired to find a missing girl who winds up being a part of an ancient Egyptian cult of chainsaw worshippers who are prostitutes who sacrifice their clients to their gods with, you know, chainsaws. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)”
Directed by Robert Resnikoff
Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith and Jeff Kober
Released April 6, 1990
Rated R
A tough as nails cop teams up with a beautiful psychic to stop a serial killer who has returned from the dead to continue killing in the name of Satan.
Directed by John Carpenter
Starring Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen and Charlton Heston
Released February 3, 1995
Rated R
A publishing firm hires a man to look into the disappearance of their best-selling author, a horror novelist whose works can drive people to madness and his latest nobel may actually bring about the end of the world. Continue reading “Shaun vs. In the Mouth of Madness (1995)”
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Starring Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford and Lawrence Dane
Released May 15, 1981
Rated R
A female student who survived a terrible car accident years earlier begins to remember the repressed memories from back then which are triggered when a serial killer starts taking out her nearest friends near her birthday.
Directed by Rob Spera
Starring Katy Woodruff, Tyler Sedustine and Tiffany Shepis
Young Tracy is helping close up camp for the summer but she’s having terrible nightmares involving her brother who was believed to be murdered by the masked serial killer, Trevor Moorehouse who may also be behind the killings of the current crop of camp counsellors. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)”
Directed by John Carl Buechler
Starring Debrah Farentino, Yvonne De Carlo and Jeffrey Combs
An aspiring comic book artist visits the home of the creator of her favourite comic, a horror comic called Cellar Dweller, for inspiration. She repeats the process that killed him thirty years ago by summoning a demon with her drawings. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Cellar Dweller (1988)”
Directed by Sam Raimi
Starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss and Betsy Baker
Five friends looking to party in a cabin in the woods accidentally release ancient demons whose idea of partying is more about possessing their victims and torturing their souls for all eternity. Bummer. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Evil Dead (1981)”
Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
Starring Brooke McCarter, Nevada Caldwell, Joel Wynkoop and Krista Grotte
A game show that penalizes its contestants by faking gruesome dismemberments is investigated by a television reporter who is certain the “fake” deaths aren’t all that fake. Continue reading “Shaun vs. The Uh-Oh Show (2009)”
Directed by Steven R. Monroe
Starring Sarah Butler, Jeff Branson and Andrew Howard
A beautiful writer takes a trip away from the city to a cabin in the woods to write a novel and after an unfortunate encounter with some of the locals, she is raped, beaten and left for dead. She lives, however, and hunts down the good ol’ boys for some old fashioned, bloody revenge. Continue reading “Shaun vs. I Spit on Your Grave (2010)”
Shaun vs. the B-Movies 