No one believes him, but a young man is convinced his neighbor is a vampire and looks to a TV personality, whose most famous role was of a vampire hunter, for his help and expertise in vanquishing the bloodsucker. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Fright Night (1985)”
A girl with a unique ability to speak with insects becomes the next target of a brutal killer who has murdered several female students at the school she has just begun attending. What’s a young girl to do? Continue reading “Shaun vs. Phenomena (1985)”
Directed by Terry Lofton
Starring Ron Queen, Beau Leland and Rocky Patterson
Months after a woman is raped, a killer clad in camouflage and a motorcycle helmet emerges to exact revenge on those responsible while brandishing a nail gun.
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Starring Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth and Patrick Stewart
A space crew on a mission to Halley’s comet discover three humanoid life forms asleep on an alien ship. The crew is killed in a fire en route back to Earth although the bodies found miraculously survive then come to life and suck the life force (!) out of their victims. Looks like we have a case of space vampires. Sexy space vampires. Continue reading “Shaun vs. Lifeforce (1985)”
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale and Barbara Crampton
A genius when it comes to the human brain, Dr. Herbert West finds his way to Miskatonic University and convinces a fellow student to aid him in pursuit of his ultimate goal: bringing the dead back to life. Getting kicked out doesn’t stop them either as they break into the school’s morgue and start to re-animate the dead which leads to disastrously funny results.
Directed by David Allen, Charles Band, John Carl Buechler, Steven Ford, Peter Manoogian, Ted Nicolau and Rosemarie Turko
Starring Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll and Leslie Wing
An evil sorcerer transports a computer genius into a magical realm to test his skills with the help of a personal computer against the sorcerer’s various challenges. Continue reading “Shaun vs. The Dungeonmaster a.k.a. Ragewar (1985)”
Directed by Buddy Cooper and John Douglass
Starring Matt Mitler, Bill Hitchcock and Ruth Martinez
When he was a child, Ed Jr. shot his mother while cleaning his father’s gun. His father, Ed Sr., is unable to forgive his son and years after the fact, in a drunken rage, invites Ed to a cottage where he plans to kill him and his friends. Continue reading “Shaun vs. The Mutilator (1985)”
Directed by Lamberto Bava
Starring Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey and Fiore Argento
A theatre full of movie-watchers are shocked to find out that the movie they’re watching is mimicking real life as the story comes alive right in front of them. It’s a shame the movie they wound up seeing is full of demons. Good news for us is that the movie is full of demons!
Directed by Edmund Purmond
Starring Edmund Purmond, Alan Lake and Belinda Mayne
There’s a killer on the loose and he’s targeting anyone dressed like Santa Claus and he dispatches them in increasingly violent ways. I’m sure there’s a story explaining why he does this somewhere in this film…right? Continue reading “Shaun vs. Don’t Open Till Christmas (1985)”
Directed by Dan O’Bannon
Starring Clu Gulager, Thom Mathews, James Karen and Don Calfa
A couple of idiots unleash a horde of the undead when they accidentally break open a canister that leaks a gas that brings dead back to life. A group of punks partying in the nearby graveyard are going to have their party crashed
Continue reading “Shaun vs. Return of the Living Dead (1985)”
