Night Of The Demons (1988)
ANGELA IS HAVING A PARTY, JASON AND FREDDY ARE TOO SCARED TO COME. BUT YOU’LL HAVE A HELL OF A TIME.
While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Grotesque (1988)
THERE IS A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH
A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family’s vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them…
Scarecrows (1988)
TRESPASSERS WILL BE VIOLATED
Five men heist the Camp Pendleton payroll and kidnap a pilot and his daughter, who are forced to fly them to Mexico. Enroute a double cross has one of the thieves parachute with the loot into an abandoned graveyard surrounded by strange scarecrows. The rest of the team jump after their loot and their former partner. Everything happens during the course of one very dark night.
Robert Clive
Robert Clive (1725-1774), also known as ‘Clive of India’ and Baron Clive of Plassey, masterminded the expansion of the East India Company in India. Best known for his victory at Plassey in Bengal in 1757, Clive’s reputation suffered in his own lifetime from charges of corruption and subsequently as one of the main architects of British imperialism in India.
The East India Company
Robert Clive was born into a country gentry family at the ancestral home of Styche Hall in Shropshire, England, on 29 September 1725. His father was Richard Clive and his mother Rebecca Gaskell. He studied at Merchant Taylor’s school in London from 1737 and then accounting in a specialist school in Hemel Hempstead. At just 17, Clive joined the East India Company (EIC) as a humble ‘writer’ or clerk in December 1742. He arrived in India in 1744 after an unusually long 15-month voyage since his ship had run aground on the coast of Brazil. It was here in India that he would fulfil his ambiguous destiny as both champion of the British Empire and utterly ruthless colonialist. The historian S. Mansingh gives the following summary of Clive’s character: “sturdy, violent, self-centred, emotional, generous, courageous, and brilliant in adversity” (101).
