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Director: Fred Olen Ray    More Info
Starring: Mike Bonavia, John Leinier, Buster Crabbe, Raymond Roberts, Linda Lewis, George Kelsey, Dennis Underwood, Rich Vogan, Martin Nicholas, Norman Riggins

 Meteor showers in the Florida swamps bring aliens, which, in turn, turn people on a houseboat into zombies that feast on alligators and locals. Low, low budget that features 72-year-old Buster Crabbe–in his final film role–as the sheriff.

Director: Paul Schrader    More Info
Starring: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, K Callan, Macdonald Carey, Bill Duke, Brian Davies, Carole Cook, David Cryer

 Male hooker Julian Kay (Richard Gere) provides his services among the Beverly Hills matrons. When an ex-client is murdered, Julian is in big trouble. He is framed for the murder and becomes the prime suspect. The one person who can help is Michelle (Lauren Hutton) with whom he is enjoying an intense relationship, but she is married to Senator Charles Stratton (Brian Davies). Will Michelle's love for Julian be the answer to his problems?

Director: Mike Newell    More Info
Starring: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury, Bruce Myers, Nadim Sawalha, Ian McDiarmid, Miriam Margolyes, Ahmed Osman

 Matthew Corbeck (Charlton Heston) is an archeologist whose baby daughter is "blessed" with the evil spirit of an ancient Egyptian queen. Based on Bram Stoker's "Jewel of the Seven Stars" and previously filmed as "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" (1971).

Director: Herb Freed    More Info
Starring: John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante, David Opatoshu, Mario Milano, Anne Marisse, Zitto Kazann, Janice Lynde, Edward Ansara, Beverly Dixon

 Newlyweds Barbara (Lynda Day George) and Larry (John Saxon) move into an island mansion that has been vacant for 100 years. The last occupant, black-magic practitioner Alma (Janice Lynde), had made a pact with the devil and, after being murdered by her husband, came back to deal with him. Now, Alma continues her evil by possessing an occupant of the house.

Director: Ulli Lommel    More Info
Starring: Suzanna Love, Ron James, John Carradine, Nicholas Love, Raymond Boyden, Felicite Morgan, Bill Rayburn, Llewelyn Thomas, Jay Wright, Natasha Schiano

 Twenty years ago, young Lacey (Natasha Schiano) watched through the reflection in a mirror as her brother (Jay Wright) murdered their mother's lover (Howard Grant). Now, Lacy (Suzanna Love) returns to the crime scene, sees the lover's reflection in the same mirror, smashes the mirror, and releases an evil force that will terrorize through acts of murder.

Director: Antonio Margheriti    More Info
Starring: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis, Tony King, Wallace Wilkinson, Ramiro Oliveros, John Geroson, May Heatherly, Ronnie Sanders

 Green Beret Captain Norman Hopper (John Saxon) rescues two of his men who are POWs in Vietnam and finds them eating human flesh. Years later, Charlie (Giovanni Lombardo Radice), one of the POWs, breaks out of the mental hospital and causes a commotion when he bites a woman. It turns out that he had contracted a virus in Vietnam, and now his cannibalism is spreading throughout the community. Norman, who was bitten when he made the rescue, is also in trouble. Typical of Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti's work.

Director: Murray Mintz    More Info
Starring: Garry Goodrow, Mike Chan, Max Gail, Susan O'Connell, Ray Reinhardt, Robert Behling, Joe Bellan

 A murderer is on the loose and the citizens of San Francisco are frightened. As the police become baffled by the case, the city's only hope is an unconventional sleuth played by Garry Goodrow.

Director: Phillip Marshak    More Info
Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Richard Moll, Marc Lawrence, Robert Bristol, Faith Clift, Robyn Russell, Klint Stevenson, Christie Wagner, Norma Clift, Maurice Grandmaison

 An old man, Olivier (Robert Bristol), is a Nazi hunter and is certain that he sees (on TV) a Nazi who killed people in a concentration camp. The problem is that the Nazi does not appear to have aged, and investigation results in death for the old man. Now, policemen begin their own investigation that leads to monsters and an Antichrist.

Director: William Friedkin    More Info
Starring: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell, Barton Heyman, Gene Davis, Allan Miller, Ed O'Neill

 Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is an officer for the NYPD who goes undercover by dressing in leather and chains in the S & M subculture to catch a sadistic homosexual killer. In the process, Burns becomes obsessed with the man (Richard Cox) he is trailing.

Director: Alvin Rakoff    More Info
Starring: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes, Kate Reid, Saul Rubinek

 A haunted ship, once used for Nazi torture, prowls the seas taking on innocent sailors who quickly become victims of the ship's grizzly mission.

Director: Brian De Palma    More Info
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon, Dennis Franz, David Margulies, Ken Baker, Brandon Maggart, Susanna Clemm, Mary Davenport

 Kate Miller (Angie Dickinson) tells her psychiatrist (Michael Caine) that her sexual life with her husband is pathetic, and that afternoon she has sex with a stranger that results in her being slashed to death by a blonde woman. A prostitute, Liz Blake (Nancy Allen), witnesses the murder, but the police suspect that she is guilty of the act. Now, Liz is the next intended victim of the murderess, and she joins forces with Kate's son, Peter (Keith Gordon), to catch the killer.

Director: Vernon Zimmerman    More Info
Starring: Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Linda Kerridge, Morgan Paull, Mickey Rourke, Peter Horton

 Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher) is one movie fan who gets a LITTLE carried away–he dresses up as action heroes and exacts revenge on his enemies.

Director: Brian G. Hutton    More Info
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, Martin Gabel, Anthony Zerbe, George Coe, Joe Spinell, Bruce Willis

 Police detective Edward Delaney (Frank Sinatra) is nearing retirement, and his wife Barbara (Faye Dunaway) is dying and looking for a miracle to save herself. Meanwhile, Edward is stalking a psychotic killer (David Dukes) in this chilling drama.

Director: Mike Hodges    More Info
Starring: Sam J. Jones, Topol, Max von Sydow, Timothy Dalton, Melody Anderson, Ornella Muti, Brian Blessed, Peter Wyngarde, Mariangela Melato, Richard O'Brien

 Emperor Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) rules the planet Mongo and is plotting to destroy the Earth because he believes it is a threat to his realm. Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones) teams up with his companion Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) to come to the rescue, and along the way is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's (Topol) spaceship. Now, Flash Gordon's efforts will require more daring as they are drawn to the planet Mongo where Ming plans to take Dale as his concubine.

Director: John Carpenter    More Info
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, Hal Holbrook, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Houseman, Tom Atkins, Nancy Kyes, Charles Cyphers, George "Buck" Flower, Jim Haynie

 Residents of a California seaside town, Antonio Bay, are terrorized when an ominous fog carries in ghosts from a shipwreck. The residents–Councilwoman Kathy Williams (Janet Leigh), young Nick (Tom Atkins), teenager Elizabeth (Jamie Lee Curtis), and priest Fr. Malone (Hal Holbrook)–hear the news from local newscaster Stevie Wayne (Adrienne Barbeau) and piece together clues that reveal the ghosts have arrived because of what the city fathers did to them 100 years ago when they murdered a group of lepers and sent their bodies adrift in the ocean. Now, the ghosts have arrived in the middle of a dense fog to seek revenge.

Director: Sean S. Cunningham    More Info
Starring: Betsy Palmer, Harry Crosby, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Peter Brouwer, Ari Lehman, Robbi Morgan

 New Jersey's Crystal Lake summer camp is not quite as peaceful as the brochures indicated when, one-by-one, the counselors who re-opened it under the leadership of Steve Christy (Peter Brouwer) are hacked to death by the masked killer Jason (Ari Lehman). The camp had been reopened after 20 years following its closure because of mysterious murders at the camp. Fun for fans of horror shows.

Director: Armand Mastroianni    More Info
Starring: Don Scardino, Caitlin O'Heaney, Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Kemp, Tom Rolfing, Patsy Pease, Dana Barron, Paul Gleason, Lewis Arlt, James Rebhorn

 A serial killer is targeting brides-to-be in this slasher film. The movie is notable because it features Tom Hanks in his film debut.

Director: George Bowers    More Info
Starring: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton, Med Flory, Donald Petrie, Perry Lang, Nicholas Shields, Christopher McDonald, Allison Balson

 Jane (Trish Van Devere) is a young teacher who inherits a mansion from her aunt. She moves in and doesn't understand why her neighbors do not like her until she learns that they believe her aunt was possessed by the devil, and she looks like her aunt. Jane is frightened–especially when she becomes the potential object of destruction by a hearse and its eerie driver that keep appearing at her door.

Director: Barbara Peeters    More Info
Starring: Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, Cindy Weintraub, Anthony Penya, Denise Galik, Frank Arnold, Hoke Howell

 Salmon monsters, spawned from pollution, rise from the water to murder men and rape women in the nearby beach town.

Director: Buzz Kulik    More Info
Starring: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson, Richard Venture, Tracey Walter, Thomas Rosales Jr., Teddy Wilson, Ray Bickel

 Ralph "Papa" Thorson (Steve McQueen) is a bounty hunter who searches for bail jumpers. The story involves his bringing criminals to jail and his relationship with his pregnant wife Dotty (Kathryn Harrold). While on the trail of fugitives in Illinois, Nebraska, and Texas, Thorson himself is pursued by a psychotic killer seeking revenge after Thorson apprehended him. This was Steve McQueen's last movie.

Director: Tom Kotani    More Info
Starring: Jack Palance, Steven Keats, Cindy Pickett, Earle Hyman, Derek Partridge

 An ape, used as sideshow entertainment, escapes and threatens human lives.

Director: George Mendeluk    More Info
Starring: William Shatner, Hal Holbrook, Van Johnson, Ava Gardner, Maury Chaykin, Miguel Fernandes, Michael Kane, Jackie Burroughs, Cindy Girling, Elizabeth Shepard

 While on a campaign stop in Toronto, the President of the U.S., Adam Scott (Hal Holbrook), is kidnapped by South American terrorist Roberto Assanti (Miguel Fernandes) and his partner Linda Steiner (Cindy Girling). Assanti handcuffs himself to Scott and then claims that he is wired with explosives ready to detonate if demands are not met. Secret Service agent Jerry O'Connor (William Shatner) heads up the rescue team. Van Johnson and Ava Gardner play Vice-President Ethan Richards and his wife Beth.

Director: William Lustig    More Info
Starring: Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Gail Lawrence, Rita Montone, Tom Savini, Kelly Piper, Hyla Marrow, James Brewster, Linda Lee Walter, Tracie Evans

 Disturbed loner Frank Zito (Joe Spinell) is still bitter over his mother's death in a car accident years before. He satisfies his grief by scalping young, beautiful women and displaying their hair on mannequins in his apartment. Extremely gory and perverse.

Director: Guy Hamilton    More Info
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, Nigel Stock, Pierce Brosnan, Margaret Courtenay

 In this Agatha Christie mystery, an American movie company is making a film in an old English village. One of the actresses, Marina Rudd (Elizabeth Taylor), had suffered a mental breakdown but is now trying to make a comeback. Unfortunately, she is still plagued by her past and has been receiving death threats. When a pair of murders takes place, Scotland Yard Inspector Craddock (Edward Fox), arrives on the scene with his aunt, Miss Marple (Angela Lansbury), to investigate. Everyone thinks that Marina was the intended victim, but Miss Marple and Craddock look into others involved with the movie set including Marina's husband who is the film's director Jason Rudd (Rock Hudson). Also on the list of suspects are film producer Marty Fenn and his wife Lola Brewster (Tony Curtis and Kim Novak). Determination pays off as Craddock and Miss Marple finally uncover the evidence that identifies the guilty party.

Director: Roy Ward Baker    More Info
Starring: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Donald Pleasence, Stuart Whitman, Warren Saire, Richard Johnson, Britt Ekland, Simon Ward, Patrick Magee, Anthony Steel

 During an interview with a Transylvanian vampire (Vincent Price), three horror stories are related that are programmed to put the mind at "unease." Not as good as would be hoped for with the good cast.