“The Fear” from 1995 and its 1999 sequel “The Fear 2: Halloween Night” (aka “The Fear: Resurrection”).

A psychology student named Richard has reoccurring nightmares of hooded figures in Black Pete masks burying a woman, and an approaching wooden figure. 

For his thesis in facing ones fears, he takes a group of friend’s to his family’s cabin where they meet his uncle, who runs a nearby Christmas themed amusement park, and Morty, a wooden mannikin that was built for Richard’s father by a local Indian shaman. Morty was used in the father’s shop but is now used as part of the fear therapy, because each of the subjects can tell Morty their worst fears and he won’t judge them. But what they don’t know is that Morty is no inanimate wooden figure… And he won’t judge them for their fears… he’ll use their fears against them!

Features a cameo appearance by Wes Craven and a soundtrack with Esham, Insane Clown Posse and The Gravediggazs.

Esham - The Fear (Morty’s Theme)

From the soundtrack of the 1995 film “The Fear”

Tell Morty your deepest fear…

PROJECT: METALBEAST

One of my all time favorite werewolf movies!!!

Why no DVD release for this low budget classic?!

“They wanted a soldier as hard as steel… They created a creature that could not be destroyed!”

Buried deep in the vaults of the CIA’s laboratories, sealed in a frozen cryonic chamber is a secret that’s been dying to be reborn for over 20 years.

With the discovery that government agents have perfected a way to create living “metal” skin, warped scientist Pete Miller seizes his chance to reactivate a forgotten experiment that died with his partner years before…

Now he has the perfect test patient waiting on ice… But this is no ordinary corpse, it’s a beast immortalized by three silver bullets!

“Project Metalbeast” aka “Metalbeast”

Starring Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick and Kane Hodder as the Metalbeast.

One of my all time favorite werewolf movies and a real gem that needs to be rediscovered. It has never been officially released on DVD in North America, though there are plenty of bootlegs made from VHS copies. A French release was made, but it has French only audio and is hard to obtain. Hopefully it will get picked up. I hope to bring some attention to this long neglected movie.

The film is starts with the Army sending two agents into the Carpathian Mountains of Hungary to obtain werewolf blood to create werewolf shock troops with. With the use of silver bullets and the loss of an agent, the blood is secured. The surviving agent, Butler, uses it on himself. He goes on a rampage and is shot with silver bullets. His body is frozen on the orders of Col. Miller.

Twenty years later, Miller is funding a project to create artificial, metal based skin. He give the research team Butler’s “corpse” as a test cadaver. During the operation, the silver bullets are discovered and removed, causing Butler to come out of hibernation and regenerate. Butler’s werewolf ability to regenerate not only allows him to survive the skin graft but also to grow it at an accelerated rate.

Now, a werewolf is on the loose. A werewolf with bulletproof skin, sharp spines on its back, and armor piercing claws and fangs! The ultimate killing machine! An out of control shock trooper with a lust for death and destruction!