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 Joe D’Amoto
Starring Mark Bodin, Bob Larson and Tisa Farrow
A group of travellers find themselves stranded on an island, originally expecting paradise, but find themselves stalked by a crazy man who intends on having them for supper. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Anthropophagus: The Beast (1980)”
Directed by Anders Jacobsson
Starring Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg, Olof Rhodin and Camela Leierth
Poor Ed is a film editor who gets moved to the “splatter and gore” department in order to censor the bloody scenes in a hyper violent film series the studio just picked up for distribution. He doesn’t care for that sort of thing but when threatened with being fired, he continues his work but the violence he sees takes a toll on him and he begins to hallucinate violent images that warp his fragile little mind and he starts losing his shit. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Evil Ed (1995)”
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Starring Robyn Harris, Melissa Moore, Stacia Zhivago and Peter Spellos
Five university gals buy a house and plan on turning it into a new sorority house but they discover they got it so cheap because of a series of brutal murders that happened years earlier. After a seance involving a ouija board doesn’t go as well as planned, the girls start getting killed one by one. Is the creepy neighbour with ties to the earlier killings involved or have the girls really unleashed a demonic spirit? Continue reading “Shaun vs. Sorority House Massacre 2 (1990)”
Directed by Paul Norman
Starring Clint Howard, David Warner and Lee Majors II
A young boy who witnessed the gangland murder of the local ice cream man grows up to be the new ice cream man, however after years of probably the worst psychological therapy you can imagine, the man is deranged and kills his victims and makes them part of his tasty treats. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Ice Cream Man (1995)”
Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Starring Martine Brochard, John Richardson and Ines Pellegrini
A tour bus full of tourists (obviously) are getting picked off one by one on a trip around Europe by a killer whose M.O. is removing their left eye. What could the killer’s motive be and why is this bus still moving after the first murder? I think the trip would be over at that point. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Eyeball (1975)”
Directed by David Prior
Starring Marcia Karr, David James Campbell and Fritz Matthews
There’s a killer on the loose and singling out the hot chicks (and a couple of random dudes) at a gym owned by a woman whose past may be tied to the events happening now. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Aerobicide a.k.a. Killer Workout (1987)”
Directed by Turi Meyer
Starring Jay Underwood, Michael Harris and Ken Foree
A serial killer known as the “Sandman” kills every member of a family other than the youngest son before he’s caught. Years later, in prison, a voodoo priest visits him and places a spell over the killer and after he’s executed for his crimes he comes back as a creature who controls….sand. Well that’s convenient. Armed with his new powers the Sandman hunts down the now grown up boy that he couldn’t get to before. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Sleepstalker (1995)”
Directed by Marino Girolami
Starring Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli and Donald O’Brien
After discovering a small number of corpses in hospitals have been eaten by immigrants from a far off cannibal island, an expedition is led to investigate further into the matter. I was led to believe there were zombies in this film? Continue reading “Shaun vs. Zombi Holocaust (1980)”
Directed by Adam Wingard
Starring Sharni Vinson, A.J. Bowen and Nicholas Tucci
A family gathering is interrupted by a trio of masked killers who systematically take out each member one by one as they make their way through the house. Only the most hardened of the family members have a chance of surviving the bloody onslaught. Continue reading “Shaun vs. You’re Next (2013)”
Directed by Harry Bromley Davenport
Starring Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, and Simon Nash
A man is abducted by aliens and returns three years later to see his wife and son again but while his son is happy to see him, his wife has moved on. Bad British drama and aliens together at last! Continue reading “Shaun vs. Xtro (1982)”
