Troma VHS advertising posters.
“Superstition” 1982
A family moves into a lakeside mansion haunted by the malevolent spirit of a witch who was drowned in the lake 400 years before!
“Scalps” 1983
Rarely seen but excellent 1983 horror film from Fred Olen Ray. A group of archaeology students go to dig up a Native American burial ground and battlefield. An elderly Apache warns them that the land is cursed by the souls of those who died there and now rest in it. They ignore his warnings and strange things begin to happen that culminate when one of the group is possessed by an Indian spirit called Black Claw and begins to murder the others in very gruesome ways.
Although it may at first seem like one of the many films of the slasher cycle of the early 80s, it is more unique in that it also adds heavy elements of the supernatural to the slasher formula, in the vein of films like “The Evil Dead” and “Superstition”.
This film is loaded with creepy atmosphere as the students trek farther and farther into the California desert. The sense of isolation gives one the impression that they might as well be on the moon they are so isolated. Combined with an unsettling score by Drew Neumann ( who composed music for “Aeon Flux” and “Rugrats”), gruesome gore effects and tight direction by Fred Olen Ray you get a very scary movie that makes even the vast deserts of the south west seem claustrophobic.
One of the great tragedies of this film is that the original negative has been lost. Its not known if it has been destroyed, but hopefully it has been simply misplaced and awaiting rediscovery. When released on DVD, Ray describes in the commentary that he had to reconstruct the film from several different sources, including VHS sources. The film was censored in one way or another all over the world, so many film elements had to be used.
Hopefully the original negative will be rediscovered and the film can be restored to its original uncut and pristine picture as it played in theaters in 1983
“The Slayer” (1982)
An almost forgotten horror classic from the early 80s. An abstract artist that receives her inspiration from dreams begins to have terrible nightmares of a shadowy creature. Her doctor husband, her brother and her sister-in-law decide to go on vacation to a secluded mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia. A sudden storm strands them there. Something else is there with them, killing them one by one. Is it some human killer?
Or is it the nightmare creature… The Slayer…
Hauntingly beautiful score by Robert Folk from the 1982 horror film “The Slayer”.
“It did terrible things! And the more I dreamed it, the more real it became! I’ve created it! And I’ll keep on doing it until it no longer needs me to give it life!”
“The Crazies”
Another photo collection of George A. Romero’s “The Crazies”.
“It’s a biological civil war!”
“Spookies” 1986
This movie used to come on tv a lot when I was little. Its really creepy and really weird. A group of “twenty-somethings” try to find a place to party and pick an abandoned mansion next to a grave yard. The place is infested with monsters and its owner is going to sacrifice them to bring his love back to life.
If it seems disjointed and incoherent, that is because its kind of two movies in one. The scenes with the party goers were filmed then the production got shut down and then the scenes with the sorcerer and the boy were filmed and added later.
look at all these fossils, nature is truly amazing
When I think about all the “mom & pop” community video stores that Blockbuster and Hollywood Video destroyed, I can’t help but laugh at these fuckers! Doesn’t feel good does it?
“Project Metalbeast” VHS box art from the UK. It was released there simply as “Metalbeast”.
Part of a previous photo set but I thought that it was so cool it deserved its own post.
Awesome werewolf movie about a secret project to create werewolf shock troops. That project is combined with another designed to create a metal based skin and the resulting monster is impervious to harm. Especially to silver bullets.
Desperately needs a DVD release.
