Queen of Black Magic

Queen of Black Magic (1979)
Director: Liliek Sudjio
Starring: Suzzanna, W.D. Mochtar, Alan Nuary, Sofia W.D., Teddy Purba
Rating: 5/5

"The story is set in the exotic countryside of far-off Indonesia. A wedding ceremony goes dreadfully wrong and the groom suspects black magic. He seeks out the woman he believes is responsible and she is hurled to her death over a high cliff. She is rescued from the dark jungle by a strange hermit. He tells her that she must seek revenge. They accused her of black magic--now she must learn to use that magic against them and become Queen of Evil."

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The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer (1979)
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Abel Ferrara
Rating: 2.5/5
"Reno is a struggling artist close to the breaking point. The loud band next door practices 24 hours a day. His debts are mounting. His girlfriend is having an affair with another woman. His troubled mind triggers a violence he cannot contain."

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Eaten Alive

Eaten Alive (1977)
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Marilyn Burns, Carolyn Jones
Rating: 3/5

"Judd is the owner of a dilapidated motel buried deep in the bayou, that caters to strangers passing through. Unfortunately, for the guests, he also caters to his pet alligator's veracious appetite."

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My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Director: George Mihalka
Starring: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck
Rating: 4/5

"Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy, a small town prepares for its annual holiday dance. When a box of candy arrives containing an eerie warning and a blood-soaked heart, the townsfolk realize that this Valentine's Day romance is as good as dead and so are they."

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Count Dracula's Great Love

Count Dracula's Great Love (1972)
Director: Javier Aguirre
Starring: Paul Naschy
Personal Rating: 2/5

"While traveling by wagon, a quartet of beautiful women discuss Dracula mythos on the way through the Carpathian Mountains. After losing a wagon wheel, the four unwavering women are stranded at the sanitarium of the eccentric Dr. Wendell, AKA Count Dracula. One of them will be Dracula's lover."

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Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out)

Christmas Evil (1980)
Director: Lewis Jackson
Starring: Brandon Maggert
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggert) is obsessed with Christmas. In fact he wants to "be" the authentic Santa Claus, with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the “truth” about Santa, he’s tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up a toy maker, Harry is met with naysayers and critics who mock him for his yuletide beliefs… but he wants people to get the presents they deserve, even if that means giving the gift of murder."

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Basket Case

Basket Case (1982)
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Carrying a mysterious wicker basket around with him, Duane Bradley arrives in Manhattan and checks into a sleazy Times Square hotel. What's in the basket, you ask? Why, Duane's hideously misshapen Siamese twin brother, Belial, of course. Originally born attached to Duane's side, the little monster was surgically removed by some quack doctors and rudely left for dead in a plastic garbage bag. But Belial survived, and Duane has hit the Big Apple with his beastly bro to wreak havoc on the surgeons who separated them. Things get complicated, however when Duane gets romantically sidetracked by the sexy, wig-wearing receptionist of one of the doomed doctors, and his jealous telepathic sibling reacts...well, poorly."

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Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried (1981)
Director: Gary Sherman
Starring: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed, then brutally murdered. But even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal, friendly citizens around town. Now the local sheriff (James Farentino) and an eccentric mortician (Jack Albertson) must uncover the horrific secret of a community where some terrifying traditions are alive and well."

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Final Exam

Final Exam (1981)
Director: Jimmy Huston
Starring: Cecile Bagdadi, Joel Rice
Personal Rating: 2/5

"At Lanier College, the semester is almost over. Exam week is coming to a close when some upper classmen play a prank by staging a phony terrorist attack. But the next excitement in the school won't be a prank. It's something a lot more final than an exam. Students are falling prey to the knife-wielding maniac hell bent on making sure that school is out forever."

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Mausoleum

Mausoleum (1983)
Director: Michael Dugan
Starring: Bobbie Bresee, Marjoe Gortner
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"Susan Nomed (Bobbie Bresee) was ten when her mother died. Now thirty, blonde and beautiful, she is heiress to the family fortune. But for the women of the Nomed family there is another legacy that no one wants to remember, an ancient and evil curse. Possessed by powers that overtake her, Susan’s life becomes a nightmare of lust, terror and murder until even her husband finds himself confronting the face of evil. Only one person can help her cast away the evil, but he will have to face the prince of darkness to free Susan from the grip of Satan."

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Demons

Demons (1985)
Director: Lamberto Bava
Starring: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Two girls are given free tickets to a special screening in an isolated movie theater. The film, a violent horror movie, exerts a malevolent influence over the theater patrons, who are transformed--one by bloody one--into a horde of crazed demons."

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Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper

Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper (1980)
Director: Joe D'Amato
Starring: George Eastman, Tisa Farrow
Personal Rating: 3/5

"A group of tourists take a boat ride to a deserted island. Once there, they discover that most of the residents have disappeared and soon find themselves being stalked by a malevolent presence. Nothing could prepare them for what they eventually find."

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Bewitched

Bewitched (1981)
Director: Kuei Chih-Hung
Starring: Ai Fei, Huan Chin-Sang
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"In America, it's the title of a beloved supernatural sitcom. But in Hong Kong, it's the name of a stunning horror film from the director who also helmed the equally riveting Hex. It all starts when a noble police detective starts investigating a child killer's claims of an evil spell, then it doesn't let up until the final, bloated, maggot-ridden cadaver falls."

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Prime Evil

Prime Evil (1988)
Director: Roberta Findlay
Starring: William Beckwith, Christine Moore, Mavis Harris
Personal Rating: 1/5

"A Satanic offshoot of the Catholic church has been operating since the 1500s, led by a renegade priest named Thomas Seaton (William Beckwith). The members can earn immortality if they sacrifice a blood relation every 13 years, and soon it will be time for George Parkman (Max Jacobs) to renew his bond with Lucifer. Parkman's intended victim is his virginal granddaughter Alexandra (Christine Moore), though her fiancé Bill (Tim Gail) is suspicious of the intentions of the old man and his lecherous friend Father Seaton. Oblivious to the danger, Alexandra rejects Bill's concern as jealousy. After her mother dies under suspicious circumstances, Alexandra moves in with her grandfather and falls further under the evil priest's spell, never suspecting that she's being prepared for a Winter Solstice sacrifice to Satan. However, the Catholic church is aware of the sinister cult's plans and a young nun has infiltrated their ranks in an effort to smash their blasphemies once and for all." -© Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide

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Inferno

Inferno (1980)
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle
Personal Rating: 3/5

"A young woman stumbles upon a mysterious diary that reveals the secrets of "The Three Mothers" and unleashes a nightmare world of demonic evil. As the unstoppable horror spreads from Rome to New York City, this unholy trinity must be stopped before the world is submerged in the blood of the innocent. Written and directed by Dario Argento, Inferno is considered to be the sequel to his classic Suspiria."

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The Dead Pit

The Dead Pit (1989)
Director: Brett Leonard
Starring: Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson
Personal Rating: 2/5
"Zombies rise up from a terrifying pit beneath a notorious mental asylum to do the bidding of the evil Dr. Ramzi, the crazed doctor who twenty years before was walled up alive in the crazy house after someone discovered his horrific experiments involving formaldehyde and illegal lobotomies. Following each experiment, the doctor would casually toss the dead victims into the pit. While his captor slowly bricks him up, Ramzi swears that he will have revenge. When enigmatic Jane Doe is admitted into the asylum for severe amnesia and she turns out to have amazing subconscious psychic power that wakens Ramzi from his hellish sleep, he gets his revenge. Jane and Ramzi seem to be psychically linked and he draws his power from her as he begins to resurrect his former victims. He then sends his small zombie army out into the hospital to find new recruits. Gory, creative killing occurs, for Ramzi's zombies are not only quick, they are also semi-intelligent. Now only Jane, the doctor who originally killed Ramzi, a psychotic demolitions expert and a lunatic zombified nun can stop them."-© Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1981)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"The townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible 'accidents,' and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate. But when suspicion falls on a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead, the grisly deaths take on a sinister twist. Is a deranged murderer on the loose, or is an even more shocking evil silently stalking in the night?"

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Black Sunday

Black Sunday (1960)
Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson
Personal Rating: 4/5
"Generally considered to be the foremost example of Italian Gothic horror, this darkly atmospheric black-and-white chiller put director Mario Bava on the international map and made the bewitching Barbara Steele a star. Steele plays Princess Asa, a high priestess of Satan who is gruesomely executed in 1600s Moldavia by having a spiked mask hammered into her face. Before she dies, Asa vows revenge on the family who killed her and returns from the grave two centuries later to keep her promise. In a striking resurrection scene replete with bats, scorpions and fog, Asa rises from the tomb to claim her bloody vengeance. With vampires, bubbling flesh, dank crypts, undead servants and torch-bearing mobs, the plot is a little ripe, but the visuals are Bava's primary consideration. The atmosphere is so heavy and the imagery so dense that the film becomes nearly too rich in texture, but the sheer, ghastly beauty of it all is entrancing. Although this was only the second of Bava's twenty-six films as director, it is undoubtedly his best and the one upon which most of his considerable reputation rests." -© Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

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Human Lanterns

Human Lanterns (1982)
Director: Sun Chung
Starring: Liu Yung, Chen Kuan_Tai, Lo Lieh
Personal Rating: 3/5

"Chao Chun-fang (Lo Lieh), a mentally unbalanced lantern maker gets a chance to avenge his mistreatment by two rich and powerful men when one of the men (who are enemies, in fact) asks him to make special lanterns for an approaching festival. Chao then methodically kills three female family members of the two wealthy men and peels off their skin to use as a covering for the lanterns."-© Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Evilspeak

Evilspeak (1981)
Director: Eric Weston
Starring: Clint Howard
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Professional weirdo Clint Howard plays one of his more interesting oppressed-geek roles in this occult revenge thriller about a tormented military-school nerd whose personal computer provides the only solace from the endless taunts and pranks of his fellow cadets. He also has an intense fascination with the occult, leading him to investigate an arcane tome secreted within an ancient, crumbling chapel. In an attempt to decipher the text, he feeds it into the computer, which translates the writings into actual working spells. As Clint's mind reels with the possibilities of sweet revenge against his cruel classmates and teachers, the demonic forces once trapped within the book begin to exert control over his mind and body. Before long, he is able to summon an army of snarling devil-pigs to do his evil bidding. Though this is essentially a gender-bent rip-off of Carrie, there is enough in the way of spooky atmosphere and well-staged shocks to keep less discriminating horror fans interested."-© Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

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