Join us this Tuesday on The Loud Idiots Show as we discuss Troma Pictures plans for their new film “Return To the Class of Nuke ‘Em High” with some of the cast members. Women of Armageddon model Kathryn Wood will also be joining in the festivities. All this, and a new review from The Taffeta  Read more »

The Return of the Living Dead (1985), dir. Dan O’Bannon, Orion Pictures The 1980’s was a strange time for horror films, and the middle of the decade even more so. Small companies were churning out hack and slash films about every other week. With the lowered cost of VHS and VCR’s, the home video market  Read more »

Lady Terminator (1988), dir. Jalil Jackson, 108 Sound Studio/Soraya Intercine Film PT Ludicrous; yeah, that’s about the only word that sums up this film. Any attempts at analysis are doomed from the start, but here’s a run down. Opening in the past, we see the Queen of the South Seas making love to a mustached  Read more »

Squirm (1976), dir. Jeff Lieberman, American International Pictures A thunderstorm ravages the small town of Fly Creek, located deep within the wilds of Georgia. Power lines are knocked down, roads flooded, and generally making everything a mess, including sending thousands of volts into the ground; an effect that seems to have stirred up the local  Read more »

Zombie (1979), dir. Lucio Fulci, Variety Film Production A backlit man shoots a bound figure in the head. A derelict boat sails into New York City. The harbor patrol, upon reaching it, makes a grisly discovery. The ship is abandoned and rotting with spoiled food and severed limbs. One officer makes a horrific discovery in  Read more »

Anguish (1988), dir. Bigas Luna, Luna Films An overweight man (Michael Lerner) is driven to madness by his overbearing mother (Zelda Rubenstein). Acting at her whim, he goes to a movie theater and unleashes his plot. He must have eyes you see, and he isn’t picky on how he gets them. Except that is just  Read more »

Abby (1974), dir. William Girdler, American International Pictures Plagiarism and the movie industry often go hand in hand. “If the film’s budget is under a million, it’s a rip-off; but if it’s over a million? Then it’s a homage” as the saying goes. Whenever you have one film that is successful, you can count on  Read more »

Night of the Creeps (1986), dir. Fred Dekker, Tristar Pictures Fred Dekker’s cult classic Night of the Creeps was a slightly different step from most of the other 80’s horror films. Opening with an alien experiment gone awry, we cut to the black and white era of 1959. A young couple head to the make  Read more »