GRAND GUIGNOL
This not-very-funny comedy from France pays tribute to Paris’s fabled Grand Guignol Theatre
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
The legendary Grand Guignol Theatre provided the source material for this silent drama from 1929
NOMADS
Another movie with a hyperbolic tagline–“If you’ve never been frightened by anything, you’ll be frightened by this!”–that wasn’t justified by the film it adorns
U.F.O. ABDUCTION
This SOV mini-epic was one of the first-ever found footage horror films
AIR CREW
Often described as the first Soviet disaster film, AIR CREW (EKIPAZH; 1980) borrows heavily from EARTHQUAKE, AIRPORT, WHEN TIME RAN OUT and just about every other disaster movie released in the 1970s
TO BE TWENTY
This Italian oddity is among the most notorious grindhouse productions due solely to its final ten minutes
BLOOD RAGE
Eighties splatter cheese, of note because it’s a rare example of Thanksgiving themed horror
THE SPIRIT GALLERY
A 1995 feature that was apparently conceived as “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY in reverse,” which fails to convey the sheer bizarrie of this sustained hallucination of a movie
DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW
This is certainly one of the most famous TV movies of the 1980s, if not of all time
THE BURNING HELL
This hour long atrocity dramatizes the fire and brimstone preachings of Estus W. Pirkle, a Baptist minister, by the veteran sleazemeister Ron Ormond