Horror History: Wednesday, January 30, 1980: To All a Goodnight was released in theaters

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, Santa Claus is stirring, and he’s not bringing gifts. Five young female boarders at the Calvin Finishing School have set their sights on a festive Christmas holiday romp. They have just drugged their housemother and smuggled their boyfriends into the house. But their fun-filled promiscuous frolic will soon turn into a blood-soaked nightmare when a sadistic maniac dressed as Santa Claus arrives to deliver some holiday cheer, or maybe that’s FEAR. The insane Santa Claus starts slashing his way through the house, and the gory body count begins. So you better watch out, as this Santa knows if you ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake! Jennifer Runyon (in her film debut) stars in this 1980 slasher cult-horror favorite, directed by David Hess (Krug in Wes Craven’s Last House On The Left) and written and prodcued by Alex Rebar (The Incredible Melting Man).

Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, January 30, 1980: To All a Goodnight was released in theaters”

Horror History: Friday, January 18, 1980: Silent Scream was released in theaters

What is the deadly secret haunting the Engel’s family? Young co-ed Scotty is unable to find housing on the campus. She finds a vacancy at the Engels’ mansion, now a boarding house for college students. Mrs. Engels and her son seem nice enough, but it becomes clear to Scotty that something is not right at her new residence. When her fellow borders begin dying, two detective must solve the mystery of the Engels’ boarding house before the body count rises.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 18, 1980: Silent Scream was released in theaters”

Horror History: Saturday, August 25, 1979: Zombi was released in Italian theaters

After a deadly zombie attack aboard a missing scientist’s boat off the coast of NYC, journalist Peter West and Ann Bowles travel to a mysterious island to search for her lost father. There they discover that a terrifying disease is turning the locals into horrifying zombies with a taste for human flesh.

Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 25, 1979: Zombi was released in Italian theaters”

Horror History: Friday, July 27, 1979: The Amityville Horror was released in theaters

Supposed true story about George and Kathleen Lutzm whose dream house turns into a nightmare. James Brolin and Margot Kidder are the unsuspecting new tenants of a house whose previous occupants had been murdered in their sleep. The Lutzes and their children are menaced by the lingering evil in this frightening ghost story.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 27, 1979: The Amityville Horror was released in theaters”

Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1979: The Driller Killer was released in theaters

An artist slowly goes insane from struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings and care for his two female roommates. This leads him to the streets of New York after dark where he randomly kills derelicts with a power drill.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1979: The Driller Killer was released in theaters”

Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1979: Prophecy was released in theaters

Prophecy is a contemporary story of stark terror. Robert Foxworth and Talia Shire (Rocky, The Godfather) star as a doctor and his wife, who, at the request of a concerned friend, travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They begin to investigate a succession of mysterious and terrifying events: ecological freaks of nature (including fish that grow many times their normal size), and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths. Veteran suspense director John Frankenheimer manages to present “Prophecy” as a “monster movie” as well as suspenseful tale about the deadly forces which result from the pollution of the environment.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1979: Prophecy was released in theaters”

Horror History: Friday, May 25, 1979: Alien was released in theaters

On their voyage home, the crew of the deepspace tug Nostromo investigate an alien distress signal, inadvertently picking up and bringing aboard an extraterrestrial life form with violent and lethal survival instincts.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 25, 1979: Alien was released in theaters”

Horror History: Friday, March 16, 1979: Tourist Trap was released in theaters

The classic REMASTERED! An eerie, deserted wax museum, Slausen’s Lost Oasis, is the site for terror where four young travelers are lured into a very deadly “Tourist Trap.” Slausen is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid side-show are only the beginning of the murderous mayhem.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 16, 1979: Tourist Trap was released in theaters”

Horror History: Wednesday, January 17, 1979: Nosferatu the Vampyre was released in French theaters

Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, January 17, 1979: Nosferatu the Vampyre was released in French theaters”

Horror History: Friday, December 22, 1978: Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in theaters

San Francisco residents are slowly being replaced by emotionless replicas, and it’s up to a handful of humans to stop the invasion! A chilling remake of the sci-fi classic, with Leonard Nimoy.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 22, 1978: Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in theaters”

Horror History: Wednesday, November 29, 1978: Someone’s Watching Me debuted on television

A woman is slowly stalked to the brink of madness by a man watching her from the opposite tower block.As the police not taking her seriously,leaves no option for her than to track him down.

Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 29, 1978: Someone’s Watching Me debuted on television”

Horror History: Wednesday, November 22, 1978: I Spit on Your Grave was released in theaters

In this cult classic, a New York City writer retires to a secluded cabin in the woods to write her first novel. While there, she is brutally raped by four country boys and left for dead. Surviving the assault, she carefully plots and executes horrific, bloody revenge against her attackers.

Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 22, 1978: I Spit on Your Grave was released in theaters”

Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1978: Halloween was released in theaters

On Halloween night of 1963, 6-year old Michael Myers stabbed his sister to death. After sitting in a mental hospital for 15 years, Myers escapes and returns to Haddonfield to kill.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1978: Halloween was released in theaters”

Horror History: Wednesday, May 10, 1978: Martin was released in US theaters

George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies – an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, who claims to be 84 years old, and who certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburg to stay with his uncle, who promises to save Martin’s soul and destroy him once he is finished, but Martin’s loneliness finds other means of release. …Martin

Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, May 10, 1978: Martin was released in US theaters”

Horror History: Friday, March 3, 1978: The Toolbox Murders was released in theaters

In a quiet apartment complex in Los Angeles, a deranged handyman goes on a killing spree, savagely murdering ‘immoral’ women with the tools of his trade – claw-hammers, screwdrivers, power drills and even a deadly nail gun! But these gruesome massacres are just the beginning of this landmark epic of violence and depravity.

Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 3, 1978: The Toolbox Murders was released in theaters”

Horror History: Monday, October 3, 1977: Salò was released in US theaters

The notorious final film from Pier Paolo Pasolini (Mamma Roma), Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.

Read more “Horror History: Monday, October 3, 1977: Salò was released in US theaters”

Horror History: Friday, July 15, 1977: Shock Waves was released in theaters

In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers – un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the Allies – and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived…

Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 15, 1977: Shock Waves was released in theaters”

Horror History: Wednesday, June 29, 1977: Empire of the Ants was released in theaters

Vacationers on an isolated island find themselves at the mercy of voracious ants that have become giant mutants after feasting on a leaking barrel of radioactive waste. From a story by H.G. Wells.

BUY IT NOW!

Empire Of The Ants / Jaws Of Satan

Empire of the Ants / Tentacles

DVD

WATCH IT NOW!

Amazon Prime