Uncle Mike is trying to put his nephew Brian to bed but the kid won’t go down unless he’s told three increasingly disturbing stories before he goes to sleep. Continue reading
1986
Shaun vs. Truth or Dare: A Critical Madness (1986)
Mike Strauber catches his wife Sharon in bed with his best friend Jerry. He gets mad and takes off to embark on an adventure of murder and self-mutilation in demented games of truth or dare. Continue reading
Shaun vs. Nightmare Weekend (1986)
Directed by Henri Sala
Starring Debbie Laster, Dale Midkiff and Debra Hunter
A professor’s assistant is paid off to speed up a secret experiment for a rival and winds up turning the victims into killer mutants. At least that’s what I hope it’s about. Continue reading
Shaun vs. You’ll Die at Midnight aka Midnight Killer (1986)
Directed by Lamberto Bava
Starring Valeria D’Obici, Paolo Malco and Lara Wendel
A man is killed trying to prove his innocence of murdering his wife who was a victim of a masked serial killer. A friend of his, and criminal psychologist, gets some of her students to help with the case but winds up putting them in the path of a deranged maniac. Continue reading
Shaun vs. Trick or Treat (1986)
Directed by Charles Martin Smith
Starring Marc Price, Tony Fields and Gene Simmons
Eddie Weinbauer is a lonely, loser metal head in high school who is given the only copy of a record (this is set in the 80s after all) that was never released from his rock idol who died in a tragic accident. Eddie discovers the record is actually a portal and his idol is reaching out from the dead. Continue reading
Shaun vs. Deadly Friend (1986)
Directed by Wes Craven
Starring Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson and Michael Sharrett
Paul, a young robotics genius builds his own Johnny-5 robot named “BB” with its own artificial intelligence. After moving in to new house to go to school, Paul is smitten with Samantha, the girl next door, and everything goes alright until BB is destroyed and Sam is killed in an accident after which Paul decides to merge BB’s computer brain with Sam’s with dangerous consequences. Continue reading
Shaun vs. Demons 2 (1986)
Directed by Lamberto Bava
Starring David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
An apartment building is overrun with demons that came out of a TV showing a horror movie about, you guessed it, demons. Continue reading
Shaun vs. From Beyond (1986)
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree
A pair of scientists create a device that stimulates a gland in the brain that allows people to perceive beyond what they can see with just their eyes, but what they perceive are disgusting creatures beyond our dimension. Continue reading
Shaun vs. Brain Damage (1986)
Directed by Frank Henenlotter
Starring Rick Hearst, Gordon MacDonald and Jennifer Lowry
A brain eating parasite named Aylmer escapes his elderly captives and finds a new host in Brian. Aylmer secretes a hallucinogen straight into Brian’s brain and gets him hooked, all Aylmer wants in return is human brains to feed on.
Shaun vs. Night of the Creeps (1986)
A classic from the mid 80’s, a young man falls for a young woman at university and the only things that get in their way are her jock boyfriend and, even more deadly than that, alien brain slugs that turn their hosts into zombies while incubating more brain slugs to take over the world.
