“There’s no room for personal feelings in science, Judith!”

Directed By: Val Guest

The 50’s saw a rise in the age of Sci-fi. Partially this was because of technology and the space race, setting off international interest in exploration that went beyond the four corners of the globe. But hand in hand with that came the creeping paranoia of communism and the Red Scare of the post-WWII years. This stopped being subtext and more or less became literal text with 1956’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers but it had been bubbling under the surface of a lot of other movies from that decade.

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“Oh, alright, something about myself. Um, I wanna work with handicapped children, and my parents are my best friends. Oh, and I start convent school next semester… and I FUCK on the first date. April Fool’s!”

Directed By: Fred Walton

1986 was rather late for slasher movies. They peaked early and burned out quick. Some movies were big enough names to still hold out (Your usual suspects), but by and large they went straight to video where they would largely remain until a brief resurgence in the 90s.

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“What is death that it should be feared so much?”

Directed By: Terence Fisher

So I was probably a bit misled with this one. However you see a movie made by Hammer studios, directed by Terence Fisher (Dracula, The Mummy, The Devil Rides Out) and starring Christopher Lee and you expect some shenanigans.

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“It looks like it’s been raining cats and cats around here.”

Directed By: Albert S. Rogell

This happens sometimes. As we saw with The Mummy, I’ll end up finding another movie with the same name, possibly a remake, and then just go with it. Thankfully this time around a cat features a little more prominently, though it doesn’t reach the delirious heights (casual cat murder) of the previous nights viewing.

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“If you weren’t screaming, and we weren’t screaming – then someone is trying to mind fuck us here.”

Directed By: Tom DeSimone 

It must’ve been hard being Linda Blair. You star in one of the most memorable horror movies of all time and then you make movies like Chained Heat (A ‘women in prison’ movie and all that entails), and somewhere along the way you star in Hell Night.

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“God told me to.”

Directed By: Larry Cohen

In the annals of cult America cinema I’m not sure that Larry Cohen gets his due. Usually mentioned as that guy made movie about ice-cream that kills you (The Stuff, which is fantastic), he had a great run of movies such as Q: The Winged Serpent, Hell Up In Harlem and It’s Alive. 

If nothing else, he was a filmmaker who used great hooks and went from there (Indeed, the later Colin Farrell movie Phone Booth dusted off an old Cohen script). This one is no different: Random New Yorkers are committing spree killings and before they die they’re claiming “God told me to.”

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“Welcome to Potter’s Bluff.”

Directed By: Gary Sherman

Oh my God, we’re back again…

Alright, well now we have that unpleasantness out of the way, why don’t we deal  with tonight’s movie:

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