Mya (Anessa Ramsey) is having an affair with Ben (Justin Welborn). Ben gives Mya a mix cd that she listens to on her way home from Ben’s.
Unbeknownst to Mya, a signal is being transmitted over TV, radio and cellphones. The signal has infected everyone who hears it driving them crazy. Acting crazy, paranoid and extrremely violent. Mya’s husband Lewis (AJ Bowen) has heard the signal and has gone crazy. He threatens Mya and murders one of his friends as Mya flees and hides in another apartment.
This excellent low budget horror movie is told in three parts and each part is directed by one of three directors David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry.
Freddy (Thom Mathews) is working his new job at a medical supply warehouse. His co-worker Frank (James Karen) shows him some cannisters in the basement that have bodies in them.
The bodies have been infected by a gas that turned them into zombies back in the 1960s. The government had stopped and covered up the incident but the containers got lost and ended up at the warehouse.
Frank accidentally cracks one of the containers and both Freddy and Frank are gassed. A cavader comes back to life and destroying the brain doesn’t kill them.
Frank calls his boss Burt (Clu Gulager) and Burt helps clean up and takes the cadaver over to his friend Ernie’s (Don Calfa) crematorium.
Frank and Freddy are sick and getting worse. They burn the reanimated cadaver and the burning releases the gas into the atmosphere causing it to rain and the rain soaks the local cemetery and reanimates all the dead.
Meanwhile Freddy’s girlfriend and their friends have been hanging out in the cemetery and the zombies chase them into the warehouse.
Writer/producer John Russo helped co-write and produce George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead. Russo and Romero parted ways soon after and each retained partial rights to future sequels. Romero went and made Dawn of the Dead. Russo wrote his own sequel in 1977 called The Return of the Living Dead which was published as a book. Russo went to make it into a movie and had hired Tobe Hooper to direct. Hooper left the film and screenwriter Dan O’Bannon was given the directing job. O’Bannon rewrote the entire script not want to rip off Romero and made the film less serious and more of a black comedy.
The movie introduced the running zombies as well as the concept that zombies eat brains.
A vineyard in France is spraying a new pesticide. One of the workers complains that its making him sick. His boss tells him it’s nothing and go back to work.
Elizabeth (Marie-Georges Pascal) is traveling by train to go live with her fiance. The vineyard worker gets on the train and has an oozing ulcer on his neck. He attacks Elizabeth who flees the train and runs to a near by town.
Elizabeth runs to a house for help but finds the residents disfigured and murderous. Soon the whole town has become zombies as Elizabeth tries to find help.
The villagers are infected from the pesticide in the wine that they drank at the wine festival.French director Jean Rollin did his take on the zombie genre with pretty good results.
Teenage sisters Ginger (Katherine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins) are obessessed with death. They live in a surban neighbourhood where something has been killing people’s pets.
One night Ginger and Brigitte are out and Ginger has her first period. The blood attracts the creature who has been attacking the neighbourhood which is a werewolf.
The werewolf attacks Ginger but she survives and flees with Brigitte. The werewolf is killed by a passing van. Ginger starts undergoing changes. She starts growing a tail, hair, fangs and claw-like finger nails.
Ginger has sex with a boy from her class and passes on the werewolf disease. He starts going through the same changes.
Brigitte searches for a cure for her sister as the full moon looms on the horizon.
This Canadian horror does a different take on the werewolf lore. Silver has no effect. In fact anything can kill a werewolf. And it can be transmitted by a bite or sexually transmitted.
In what is one of the most thrilling openings to Hammer Horror movie, Count Mitterhaus (Robert Tayman) has been plaguing a small village for some time. After taking his latest victim with the help of Anna Müller (Domini Blythe), the townspeople rise up and attack the castle. Villagers fall and are wounded in the fight with the Count but they succeed in killing him. Before he dies he tells Anna to seek out his cousin Emil and he curses the town.
Fifteen years later the town is suffering from a deadly plague. The town is quarantined. The locals believe the plague is from the curse.
Somehow a circus comes to town, managing to get thorough the blockade. The leader of the circus is Emil (Anthony Higgins) the count’s cousin. He’s there to resurrect the count. The twin acrobats are also vampires. They soon start feeding on the town while plotting revenge.
This is an excellent late Hammer Horror movie. The fast pace works and it’s better than the last couple of Dracula movies that Hammer put out.
A parasitic fungus has caused a virus outbreak. People infected become zombie like and are called hungries.
Children of infectef are born and they manage to maintain their intelligence while still craving flesh. The army has taken several of these children are experimenting on them.
Helen Justineau (Gemma Arterton) is tasked with teaching the children. One of the brightest is Melanie (Sennia Nanua). Scientist Caroline Caldwell (Glenn Close) wants to dissect Melanie hoping that the find a cure in her.
The hungries attack the compound and Melanie escapes with Helen and Caldwell along with some other soldiers. They travel to London.
Based on a book by Mike Carey who wrote the screenplay simultaneously as he wrote the book, this is an excellent movie
Out in the woods, a homeless man finds that his dog has caught a terrible skin disease and he contracts it.
A group of college students, Paul (Rider Strong), Karen (Jordan Ladd), Bert (James DeBello), Marcy (Cerina Vincent) and Jeff (Joey Kern) all decide to spend the springbreak in a cabin in the woods.
They run into the infected homeless man and accidentally kill him. Soon after the group discovers that some of them are infected.
They start fighting amongst themselves and Jeff tries to make a run for it while Bert and Karen are infected and isolated. Things get nastier when some locals find out.
This was director Eli Roth’s first film and it’s fun, nasty and very gory horror movie.
A masked man is handing out movie tickets to a special screening in a reopened movie theatre in Berlin.
Cheryl (Natasha Hovey) and her friend go to theatre where several other people are coming to see the film. In the lobby there are several props from the film including a mask. A woman tries it on and scratches her face.
As the movie plays the woman goes to the bathroom where the scratch has infected her and turns her into a demon that causes her to attack people turning them into demons too.
Cheryl and some the other people try to fight the demons and escape the theatre. One demon does escape the theatre.
Mario Bava’s son Lamberto directed this with Dario Argento producing. The movie was successful enough that a sequel also directed by Bava was made.
A vampire bat causes a plague in 2009 that results in turning most of the Earth’s population into vampires.
In 2019 the world’s supply of blood has almost run dry as humans have been harvested to the point of extinction. Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke) has been working on a blood substitute for his boss Charles Bromley (Sam Neill). Vampires who don’t eat slowly become wild vampires called subsiders that then need to be executed.
Edward stumbles across some humans and helps them escape from getting captured. Human Audrey Bennett (Claudia Karvan) leads Edward to Elvis (William Dafoe), a vampire who managed to turn himself human by accident. Edward tries to figure out the cure.
This is pretty entertaining movie. The whole vampires have taken over the world and all the new technologies to help them live their lives, underground tunnels, sun proof cars, etc is pretty neat.
A virus has broken out in New York city called Strikler’s disease. It’s spread by cockroaches and hundreds of children have died from it. The CDC hires entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) who creates a new bug, the judas breed, and releases it into the sewers to infect and kill off the cockroaches. It works.
Three years later, a couple of kids bring an unusual bug to Dr. Taylor. When she examines it she’s shocked to discover that it’s one of her judas bugs. She designed the bugs to be all female and believed that they should have all died out by now. They haven’t.
Meanwhile a large cloaked figure grabs a priest from the subway. Dr. Taylor, her husband, his assistant and an officer go looking for more bugs in the subway tunnels. Dr. Taylor soon discovers that the judas breed have evolved and are now human sized and can mimic their appearances to look human. She needs to kill her creations before things get worse.
This was Guillermo del Toro’s first Hollywood film and it was his worst filmmaking experience in his life. Producer Bob Weinstein hated del Toro and took away control and final cut of the film from him. Del Toro would years later release a director’s cut which wasn’t really his final vision but as close as he could get with what was shot.
