6/20

A Woman Obsessed (1989, Chuck Vincent, VHS) - 9.5
A man who doesn’t know he was adopted happens upon a painting that seems to be of himself, and it turns out to be a portrait of his biological father, painted by his long-lost mother. He reconnects with her, and goes out to her mansion with his wife Linda Blair. All seems to go well at first, but then it turns out the mother is fucking insane, and is unable to distinguish her son from her late husband, and I don’t want to give too much away, but I’ll say that that plot detail is taken as far as it can possibly go, and I was actually shocked by it. There are some weird moments here, like two extended monologue sequences where the non-speaking actors look really uncomfortable and unsure what to do with themselves, which may be awkward to watch, but I actually found it to be realistic and possibly inspired. For the most part, it’s a brilliant thriller, that delightfully takes things way farther than expected, with an incredible and intense performance from Georgina Spelvin as the mother. I think it’d make a great double feature with Night Warning.
6/21

imps* (The Immoral Minority Picture Show) (1980's/2009, Scott Mansfield, DVD) - 6.0
Lost comedy skit film that was made in the 80’s, but never released until now. It was mostly bad, and not funny, but it wasn’t too painful. There was some ok stuff in it.
6/24

Grotesque (1988, Joe Tornatore, Download) - 8.0
Linda Blair takes her friend to her parents’ cabin in the mountains, and her dad is a special effects guy, and keeps trying to scare them with all his masks, and then a gang of punks breaks in and kills them all, except Linda Blair who escapes, at least for awhile. Some of the punks are then killed by a mutant, who the police assume had done all of the killing, despite Tab Hunter’s insistence that the mutant is innocent, and this all leads up to an aburd, and amazing, ending. Pretty ridiculous movie, but a good one.
6/26

Dead Sleep (1990, Alec Mills, DVD) - 7.5
Linda Blair is a nurse at a hospital, and she becomes suspicious of the main doctor’s methods, and the high death count of his patients who undergo his experimental treatment. It’s not an especially effective thriller, but I don’t know, I liked it.
6/29

Monster Makers (2003, David S. Cass Sr., DVD) - 6.5
A kid who likes horror movies finds a print of an old never-released monster movie, and as he’s watching it on Halloween, there’s a lightning storm, and the monsters end up coming out of the screen to terrorize the town. The plot is surprisingly smart and rarely annoying for a made-for-Hallmark kids movie. There are subtle things, like when the kid and his friend decide to go to the police, he’s like “Ok, but we can’t tell them they’re monsters or they won’t believe us, we have to say that some big guys broke in to the house.” which I thought was clever. I thought it had a lot of potential to be really good, but ultimately, it’s just too fucking innocent.
6/30

The Chilling (1989, Jack A. Sunseri & Deland Nuse, DVD) - 7.0
The power goes out at a cryogenics lab, so security guard Dan Haggerty moves all the bodies outside in the rain to keep them cold, but then the containers get hit by lightning and turns them all into zombies. Linda Blair helps out to fight them off. A bit forgettable, but basically a good movie.
7/1

Gang Boys (1994, Wings Hauser, VHS) - 9.5
Linda Blair's gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back. It's fucking amazing.
7/3

Prey of the Jaguar (1996, David DeCoteau, DVD) - 7.0
Maxwell Caulfield’s family is killed by a man who he had put in prison (or, more specifically, a secret underground prison, or at least I think so, I didn’t really get that part). So Caulfield becomes a superhero, inspired by some drawings his son had made, and seeks revenge. It was a decent, fun story, but not nearly gay enough for a DeCoteau movie.
A Woman Obsessed (1989, Chuck Vincent, VHS) - 9.5
A man who doesn’t know he was adopted happens upon a painting that seems to be of himself, and it turns out to be a portrait of his biological father, painted by his long-lost mother. He reconnects with her, and goes out to her mansion with his wife Linda Blair. All seems to go well at first, but then it turns out the mother is fucking insane, and is unable to distinguish her son from her late husband, and I don’t want to give too much away, but I’ll say that that plot detail is taken as far as it can possibly go, and I was actually shocked by it. There are some weird moments here, like two extended monologue sequences where the non-speaking actors look really uncomfortable and unsure what to do with themselves, which may be awkward to watch, but I actually found it to be realistic and possibly inspired. For the most part, it’s a brilliant thriller, that delightfully takes things way farther than expected, with an incredible and intense performance from Georgina Spelvin as the mother. I think it’d make a great double feature with Night Warning.
6/21
imps* (The Immoral Minority Picture Show) (1980's/2009, Scott Mansfield, DVD) - 6.0
Lost comedy skit film that was made in the 80’s, but never released until now. It was mostly bad, and not funny, but it wasn’t too painful. There was some ok stuff in it.
6/24
Grotesque (1988, Joe Tornatore, Download) - 8.0
Linda Blair takes her friend to her parents’ cabin in the mountains, and her dad is a special effects guy, and keeps trying to scare them with all his masks, and then a gang of punks breaks in and kills them all, except Linda Blair who escapes, at least for awhile. Some of the punks are then killed by a mutant, who the police assume had done all of the killing, despite Tab Hunter’s insistence that the mutant is innocent, and this all leads up to an aburd, and amazing, ending. Pretty ridiculous movie, but a good one.
6/26
Dead Sleep (1990, Alec Mills, DVD) - 7.5
Linda Blair is a nurse at a hospital, and she becomes suspicious of the main doctor’s methods, and the high death count of his patients who undergo his experimental treatment. It’s not an especially effective thriller, but I don’t know, I liked it.
6/29
Monster Makers (2003, David S. Cass Sr., DVD) - 6.5
A kid who likes horror movies finds a print of an old never-released monster movie, and as he’s watching it on Halloween, there’s a lightning storm, and the monsters end up coming out of the screen to terrorize the town. The plot is surprisingly smart and rarely annoying for a made-for-Hallmark kids movie. There are subtle things, like when the kid and his friend decide to go to the police, he’s like “Ok, but we can’t tell them they’re monsters or they won’t believe us, we have to say that some big guys broke in to the house.” which I thought was clever. I thought it had a lot of potential to be really good, but ultimately, it’s just too fucking innocent.
6/30
The Chilling (1989, Jack A. Sunseri & Deland Nuse, DVD) - 7.0
The power goes out at a cryogenics lab, so security guard Dan Haggerty moves all the bodies outside in the rain to keep them cold, but then the containers get hit by lightning and turns them all into zombies. Linda Blair helps out to fight them off. A bit forgettable, but basically a good movie.
7/1
Gang Boys (1994, Wings Hauser, VHS) - 9.5
Linda Blair's gay son gets raped by Nazis, so she tracks down the father, played by Wings Hauser, and helps him deal with his alcoholism, and eventually they kind of fight back. It's fucking amazing.
7/3
Prey of the Jaguar (1996, David DeCoteau, DVD) - 7.0
Maxwell Caulfield’s family is killed by a man who he had put in prison (or, more specifically, a secret underground prison, or at least I think so, I didn’t really get that part). So Caulfield becomes a superhero, inspired by some drawings his son had made, and seeks revenge. It was a decent, fun story, but not nearly gay enough for a DeCoteau movie.
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