Horror Movie Mash-Ups

The genesis of the following piece occurred upon seeing PREDATOR for the first time. That was back in 1987, and I, naïve though I was back then, couldn’t help but flash back to two then-recent hits: RAMBO from 1985 and the following year’s ALIENS

COLONY

An ultra-low budget exercise in bodily mutation horror that should please cult movie fans…provided they’re in a very forgiving mood!

CLASS OF 1999

Q: What do you get when you pair Malcolm McDowell as the principal of a school, with Stacey Keach and Pam Grier as android teachers on a killing rampage? A: Lots of ultra-violent fun!

CHICKEN PARK

An Italian take-off on JURASSIC PARK—and my God, what a piece of shit!

CHERRY FALLS

A vindictive psycho is stalking virgin teens in 1999’s CHERRY FALLS, one of the best late-nineties SCREAM wannabes

CEMETERY MAN

An interesting item from director Dario Argento disciple Michele Soavi, who seems to have at last come into his own

CASTLE FREAK

In early 1995 CASTLE FREAK was the most anticipated horror movie on the scene. Did it deliver? In a word: no

CAPE FEAR (1991)

Back in 1991 this Martin Scorsese film seemed an anomaly: an unabashedly commercial thriller, and a remake to boot. The film has many good things, but just as many not-so-good ones

CANDYMAN

This racially tinged gorefest is a standout horror film of the 1990s, and one of the best Clive Barker adaptations to date