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Horror Films (with horrific red text...)


I'm a bit of a horror fan, I've seen loads but can only remember the names of this lot at present. So if you want a good horror, then you should have a look at this page before you go down the store. This list will be expanded as I take more notice of what I watch....


Armies of Darkness

Evil Dead III. Well sort of. Its getting nearer a comedy Indiana Jones verses Skeletons type affair. Its quite amusing though and must have cost a packet. The hero of the first two Evil Dead films, Ash (Bruce Campbell), finds himself stuck in a medieval hell hole. Armed with his trusty sawn off shotgun and chainsaw, Ash first has to convince the local population to help him to get back to his own time. This involves Ash retrieving the Necronomicon, the book that got him into this mess in the first place. Ash then has to battle his own selfishness when he cocks it up (as usual) and accidentily releases an Army of Undead upon the poor locals. If it had been more frightening this film would have been brilliant, but never mind.

Bad Taste

Directed by Peter Jackson

Hilarious film. Immensely gory low budget flick. Don't be put off, you haven't lived to you've seen this film. Aliens have landed in small town New Zealand (not Australia as I did say, sorry as I was corrected by **) and its up to a group of stereo typical New Zealanders to wipe them out in the most gory ways possible.

Body Snatchers (Invasion of)(The original)

Classic Black and white original picture that inspired two follow ups. Its a typical American invasion from outer space stylee, with the characters in a small town once again being taken over by these weird pods. It's a bit less threatening than it's follow ups, with a 'happy' ending, and it's a lot less bleak. Still very worrying though and very claustraphobic. Highlight of the film is where the pods are caught copying the hero's in a green house. They split open and the main actors covered in paint fairy liquid pop out. Ah those were the days...

Body Snatchers (The older)

1970's bleak horror, a load of alien pods are everywhere and the entire population of the world is being enslaved by them. Whenever a person sleeps these pods suck the life out them (literally) and replace them with a emotionless clone. The cast of the film gradually get less and less as they give in to sleep, whether forced by the pod clones or just because they've run out amphetemines. The ending is particularly bleak. But never mind eh...

Body Snatchers (The younger)

90's update of the film. This time a army base is the subject of attack. Not really as good as the older versions, though the special effects are better and in some places quite disgusting. The ending is slightly more upbeat however. Slightly.

Braindead

Directed by Peter Jackson

This film breaks new boundaries in gore and even exceeds Bad Taste, the directors (Peter Jackson) previous film in terms of just how unpleasant gore can be. Certainly not for the squemish; but they should watch it all the same because its all enourmous fun. Probably one of my favourite horror films. Based around a infectious disease that turns it victims into Flesh eating zombies, Lionel Cosgrove knows he's in trouble when his mum gets bitten. It goes downhill (in terms of taste not fun) from there.

Candyman

Truely terrifying and bleak 90's horror. A re-incarnated slave reaps havok throughout New York when the investigations of a lecturer stir him up. Muttering nonsense about him being the 'whisper in the schoolyard' and with a nasty habit of stalking another man's wife while gutting any friends she happens to spend more than five seconds in a room with. Really manners these days.

Candyman 2

Definitely not as frightening as the first, this average horror film reveals more of the beginnings of the Candyman story, with few shocks along the way.

Candyman: Day of the Dead

Supposedly another final chapter in the Candyman saga, but has sadly replaced the normal strong female character with a silly blond tart, who although interesting to look at fails to display any emotion throughout the film. Its alright though, but the plotline fails to surprise...

Carnival of Souls

Standard Stephen King nonsense with a young woman haunted by the ghost of a clown/ pervert who killed her mother. More pyscological than frightening (though not really that impressive on that front either). Not terrible, but hardly outstanding.

Children of the Night

Sort of a mix of Bad Taste's acting, Evil Dead's camera work and plotline and Demon's not quite holding together plot line. Its good fun all the same, although the first half of the film is slightly disjointed. Two young ladies go swimming in a Church's crypt (as you do!) knowing full well there are likely to be dead bodies floating around. They find more than that however when they awaken a Vampire submerged in the water who was inprisoned there by the town's people many decades before hand. Before they can do anything the whole town becomes infected and turn into Vampires. The Vampires are pretty useless really, very much in the style of Bad Taste's hopeless aliens. Some classic moments are hidden in the film though along with the standard Vampire nonsense. One nomination for best line is when an Old drunk and an Ex-Priest, the stars, get ready to go and fight the big baddy. Priest: "I think you best stop drinking now...." Drunk (in pissed voice): "Don't worry, about it I'm just loosening myself up for a spot of Vampire killing". It gets a bit dodgy when the priest starts to fancy a 15 year old girl, but fortunately this isn't taken any further...

Creepshow

A collection of horror stories in one film. They vary in style and quality. One stars Leslie Neilson and Ted Danson (Though this probably the poorest). Another involves a strange alien plant that grows all over anything. A thick yokel american farmer gets some on his hands and face and toungue and so on. It grows very fast. Yet another story involves a were wolf type creature under the stairs at a university in a box from the 1900's. You get the picture. Grows on you the second time round.

Day of the Dead

Hideously overated Romereo zombie film. Pales next to Zombie flesh eaters and of course Night of the Living Dead. Plot, erm. a virus has brought the dead to life and they quite like eating the living, cue lots of running away and scientific research on the zombies. Moronically slow plot that takes ages to do anything. Desperately trying to be another Night of .... but failing.

Demons

The plots interesting with a group of people being trapped in a cinema with a bunch of Demons. The film doesn't quite work possibly because the direction is so poor. The effects are gory enough, but this is definitely at the poorer end of the eighties spectrum. The extremely hammy acting doesn't help either. Probably better to opt for the sequel at least.

Demons 2

Sequel to the above (suprisingly). The Demons are unleashed through a television show documenting their last attack and run riot in a tower block, much like the perverted "The Shivers". Although the beginning is crappy waffle much like the original and the way the Demons escape into the real world is via a dreadful effect, this is a much better and more watchable effort than the original. The Demons are still very low budget and there's another completely unrelated "punks in a car then dying scene" like the first episode. There are some good scenes however. A dog Demon is very unpleasant, and the Demon's teeth growing sequences are quite good. It's still not great but it's much better than the first and almost completely watchable...

Demons : Angela's Revenge

Classic eighties horror. I'm not quite sure how this relates to the Demons films if in fact it does but never mind. Some students go up to the local haunted house and accidentily allow the resident Demon, Angela to escape on their person. The resulting carnage is some of the most entertaining you'll see in a horror film.

Dusk till Dawn

Pretty funny horror starring George Clooney and Harvey Keital. A couple of gangsters (Clooney, Tarantino) kidnap a ex- priest (Keital) and his daughter and head over the border into Mexico. They arrive at a distinctly dodgy bar, aptly titled the Titty Twister, with a wide variety of attractive women and rock hard punters who all turn out to be vampires. The action and effects are brilliant.

Dusk till Dawn 2

An incredibly less famous group of robbers, this time led by the bloke who plays the T2000 in Terminator 2 try to rob a bank little knowing that one by one the members are being turned into Vampires. More women of low morale and rock hard people abound. The film like the original takes a while to get going but the end is ultimately rewarding. Also features a cameo appearence by Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame...

Dust Devil

Weird australian horror, the physical embodiment of a devil reaks havoc on people by snapping their knecks while he makes love to them. Quite atmosheperic.

Evil Dead

Corker of a film this one, nice mix of frights and gore. Bruce Campbell/ aka Ash and his twenty something buddies go to stay in a old creaking cabin, unaware that the previous resident, an archaeologist has accidently set loose Demons from another dimension. Must be seen.

Evil Dead II

The sequel of the Evil Dead, even better than the original. More gory, hilarious antics in the Cabin, including a marvelous scene were Bruce Campbell/ Ash is trapped in the cellar with a monster. Again must be seen.

Evil Ed

Low budget and slightly strange flick about a video tape censor who watches to much horror and goes mad. There's very little gore (with the exception of Ed's death, which is a right treat!) the acting is slightly wolly, it makes Bad Taste's look like its being performed by the Royal Shakespeare company... Its entertaining enough though. No relation to the Evil Dead, though the poster is in the background quite a few times.

Fright Night

80's Vampire Flick. A young chap suspects his neighbour of being a vampire, and works out that the dissapearing prostitutes are directly related to him. The Vampire bloke understandably gets a little miffed at the teenagers poking about and decides he's going to finish him off. After chasing him about a bit he decides to nick his girlfriend and turn the local school freak into a vampire too. The young chap turns to the presenter of the late night Fright Night TV show that he watches religiously. The presenter "Peter Vincent" turns out to be every bit as rubbish at killing vampires as you'd expect...

Fright Night 2

Much the same as the first Fright Night. This time the Vampires a lady, who's related to the first vampire. Needless to say she's slightly annoyed that the young chap killed her kin and sets out to do him in (so to speak). Peter Vincents back and rubbish as ever...

Ghoulies

Chirpy little horror about a young man who inherits a mansion with a satanic past. After doing a seance he is turned the dark side and summons the ghoulies, who are a sort of nasty Gremlin type creatures. His friends are drugged and then slaughtered. Also the evil master of the house is ressurected, and he turns nasty. The young man has to destroy him and ressurect his buddies. Pretty entertaining but I seem to remember the Ghoulies 2 being more fun and Malicious.

Ghost Town

A sort of cross between the Quick and the Dead and Armies of Darkness, though considerably inferior to both films. A modern day sheriff stumbles on a town with a Western time warp problem, under the control of a evil bandit. Not only does he have to rescue a lady who's been take from the present, but he also has to free the towns people from their curse. Vaguely entertaining.

Halloween

The best slasher spook film, showing up the pathetic ' Scream' and ' I know what you did last summer' for the nonsense they are. Loads of brilliant camera work sees physcho Michael Myers (not the Austin Power's star) hunt Jamie lee Curtis around small town America, dispatching her friends as he goes. Jolly good clean fun.

Halloween 2

Sequal to the above, Curtis finds herself taken to hospital with Myers still on the lose, unfortuantly he follows her there and proceeds to kill the hospital staff in his attempts to get to her. Not quite as clever as the first one, but the death scenes are more graphic...

Halloween H20

Curtis is back, magically resurected after her off film (they couldn't afford her) car crash in one of the crappy eighties sequels (Halloween 4 methinks). Unfortuantly the film seems to have taken far to many leaves out of Scream's book. It's probably more watchable than the aforementioned, and it is surprisingly short, but I don't believe Myers is truelly dead at the end....

Hell Raiser

Classic Horror. The bloke with the pins in his head and his mates cause some nastiness when they are unleashed from their music box, by an equally unpleasant man.

Hellraiser 2: Hellbound

Highly entertaining follow up to Hellraiser, the bird from the original being dragged straight into the hell of that Pinhead bloke and his friends along with a nutty doctor and a mute child. Slighty let down by a over sentimental ending.

Hell Raiser 3

The Pin headed bloke is back, fighting with the other half of his sole, a first world war victim. Meanwhile he decides to butcher a whole nightclub full of people as he searches for a girl. Not as good as the original by a long way, but worth a look.

House III

Mediocre horror, though the uninitiated might find it scary enough. A detective (The android bloke out of Aliens) watches the murderer of two of his collegues and a little girl, being fried on the chair (In pleasant detail). This isn't the end though as the Murderer comes back as a form of electrical energys and decides to get his revenge on the detective through his family.

House on Haunted Hill

Another remake of an old classic from the same year as the remake of "The Haunting". This is generally better stuff, helped along by the bizarre plotline. A millionaire Theme park owner, who delights in scaring people, invites some people to an old mental asylum for his wife's party. The wrong people are 'accidentily' invited. The invitee's instead turn out to be relations of the original staff who were present when the mental patients rioted and the asylum was burn't during the 1920's. The house (which seems to have a mind of its own) then proceeds to kill off the people one by one. Some of the film is actually quite disturbing and although the final evil thing is as dissapointing as the one in "The Haunting" (please, gases aren't frightening!), it fails to ruin an otherwise merry jaunt.

Horror Express

One of the more gorey Hammer horrors, quite long winded but ultimately rewarding. A alien is discovered in the Siberian wastes and it proceeds to wreak havoc on the occupants of a train (including Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee) in its attempts to escape. Good stuff.

Killer Clowns from Outer Space

Crap though the title may be, this is a amusing Horror with good elements of dark comedy thrown in. Killer Clowns go beserk in another American small town and turn all the inhabitants into gory candy floss. I'm actually suprised there are any people in America who still want to live in a small town, with all these nasty things happening. Well worth a rent.

Near Dark

Vampire Flick where a young redneck is bitten by a girl he shows quite a reproductive interest in. He then gets grabbed by some of her friends and is forced to go along with their Vampiry habits. Fairly famous cast with Bill Paxton and 'Bishop' from Aliens/ House 3. Watchable but distinctly unexciting.

Nightmare on Elm Street

Everyones seen this one. Classic Freddy action.

Nightmare ... Freddy's Dead

Not many have seen this one. Shite Freddy action. Stop him now please. Otherwise I will. You what? Yeh You Krueger! I'm talking to you! Come on I'll take ya! (And so on) (You really can tell which parts of this site I write late at night....).

Night of the Living Dead

Classic black and white horror. Pinnacle of all zombie films. The dead are alive and they've chased a few survivors of a small town to a old house. As the group cower from destruction, they bicker and fight with each other. The zombies start coming through the walls. Say no more.

Pin

Disturbing story about a kid and a medical reference dummy. The boy's father throws his voice to the dummy allowing it to speak and needless to say the poor kid grows up 'slightly' disturbed believing the dummy is alive. He kills his mother's sister and attempts to kill his sisters boyfriend, not to mention driving eveybody, especially his sister, crazy. He does this by insisting "Pin", as the doll is called, be introduced to all the visitors that come to the house and allowing the dummy to sit at the dinner table. Generally weird though quite compelling. The highlight, sort of, coming when the kid witnesses a rather sex starved Nurse in his fathers practice, "getting it on" with Pin. Dear oh Dear.

Pyscho

Classic Slasher movie, Scream etc look silly in comparison. The remake of this film does it no real justice.

One Wedding and Lots of Funerals

Terrible horror starring that small chap out of Willow. A Lepricaun decides he will marry the descendent of on of his slaves and follows her to America. There he dispatches most of her friends and family before spiriting her off to his tree den. The one decent scene is where the one of the girls more, um how shall I put this, "physical", suitors, is tricked by the Lepricaun into believing that a Lawn mower is in fact this girl naked. He goes to um, get friendly with her, um, "dirty pillows" and gets his face torn off. Ho Ho Ho good clean fun. Unlike the rest of the film

Rawhead Rex

Fun if low budget 80's action where a bunch of farmers release Rex on a small community after they pull up the standing stone which holds him in the ground. The rest of the film is standard avoid, run away then finally try and defeat stuff, if nicely done none the less. The highlight of the film is when a vicars assistant who has abandoned god and taken up worship of Rex is caught by the vicar when Rex is relieving his bladder in his face! (Well everyone's got to go haven't they!). The most outrageous part of the film are Rex's eyes which look like red Christmas lights!!!

Shock em Dead

Absolutely crap horror with terrible eighties music. A young geek is having a bad day until he is approached by a weird Voodoo woman. He sells his spirit to the devil and is rewarded by becoming a Rock star, the only catch being the only way he can survive is by eating human flesh. Lots of women with scant control of their dirty pillows but not a lot else. Avoid. Unless bad eighties music and dirty pillows galore are your idea of heaven.....

Shrunken Heads

Never trust a video store attendant, this is the worst horror film I've seen, absolute crap. Even worse then One Wedding and Lots of Funerals. I'm not going to bother with the plot because the writing is so bad I couldn't work out what was going on.

Snow White, a tale of terror

Sigourney Weaver just about saves this from naffness. Fairly boring tale of a young girl lost in the woods after her step-mother (Weaver) goes nuts after losing her own child during child birth (thus causing, as it would any sane person, to keep the decomposing child with her and start having conversation's with the demon that resides in her mirror. Sam Neil plays her long suffering husband. Quite what the connection with the Walt Disney type Snow White tale is I don't know. Overall the film looks like it could quite happily be made for television, and is boringly average.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Shockingly brutal film about a group of teenagers who while visiting a relations house get drawn to a nearby house in which lives the most disfunctional and pyschopathic family on the planet. There's Gran and Grandad who although not looking any more than corpses still have rather to much life in them. Then theres older brother who runs the local gas station (and as a hobby likes torchering and killing people), younger brother who likes stealing bits of corpses and cutting himself (and other people when he can) and Chainsaw/ Mallot brother who is obviously mentally ill (unlike the others, who are just sick and inbred) who dispatches most of the cast. The violence is brutal as you like. Great film though which is still as shocking today as when it was made.

The Blair Witch Project

Hailed as the most frightening film ever it needed a lot to live up to such a reputation and while its good enough, and even intriguing in its plot line, it's not that great. I don't know if any of you rember Ghost Watch, a one off BBC special on Halloween, way back in the early nineties, that caused uproar because it gave some lady a heart attack. Well this much the same thing except without the cheesy celebes and strangely less scarey, because unlike the BBC version you know its a fake...

The Catacombs

The caverns beneath a monastry have held a demon for centuries, that is till an unbelieving group of monks unwittingly set him free. No- one seems to take the deaths that follow seriously. Acts a bit dated, and theres not much blood, bearible though.

The Church

Weird foreign horror film whereby quite a few people are caught in a Church when someone unleashes some demons. Lots of butchery and Demons bonking women follow. Erm its alright honest. Just a bit strange.

The Club

Slightly strange but good horror where a group of teenagers are caught, during a school dance, in time and are invited by a cool demon (with a nasty streak) to confront their fears or die. Needless to say most of them do. Die that is.

The Enternal

Another bizarre one. A couple with a slight (erhmm!) drink problem go to visit their uncle (Christopher Walken) and mentally ill grandmother in Ireland to go 'cold turkey'. Their Uncle has in the mean-time gone mad and is keeping the bog body of a Iron Age Witch in the basement. Needless to say the Uncle has been dabbling too much in the black arts (mainly due to the fact he quite fancies the witch) and manages to bring her back, hungry for the body of the young female to possess. Its all very odd stuff with little dialogue. Its tense and shocking enough though and is worth a look.

The Exorcist

Hideously overated seventies horror. Decidely boring for the most part, saved only by about twenty minutes of the film, all of which are special effects based ones, and the ever great Max Von Sydow. All the other actors look like they been hired straight from Blake's 7 and act accordingly. Worth watching to say you have and to see the twenty good minutes...

The Fog

One of the best horrors I've seen and a right treat. A nasty fog rolls in from the sea bringing with it a Ghost ship and its deadly occupants who proceed to try and claim the lives of 6 small town Americans as vengeance for the treachery that led to their deaths 100 years previously. John Carpenter directs, and Jamie Lee Curtis once again stars.

The Haunting

The original version. Frightening and tense with camera work that clearly inspired the Evil Dead. One of the best 'horror' films ever made, and well worth experiencing.

The Haunting

The remake. Not really a patch on the original. The ghosts actually make a physical appearance this time and there is a slightly paedophilious nature to the plot. Its not that awful though, things certainly get tense in places. It lacks the direction of the original.

The Prophecy

Christopher Walken is the angel Gabriel who has become a bit jacked off with God's methods after he helped him defeat Satan. He's after an evil soul residing in the body of a human and will literally stop at nothing to get it. Only a school teacher (the lady from Candyman) and a cop can stop him (with a little help from Satan). Gets a bit biblical at times (unsurprisingly) but this doesn't stop an intriguing and fascinating story line. There some weird bits though, Gabriel has to get a lost soul to drive him round (for some reason unlike all the other angels he can't fly) Great stuff.

The Return of the Living Dead

Would be unofficial sequel/ remake of the Night of ... Fairly watchable if generally unthrilling film, though the chopped in half living pickled science puppy thing made me wince...

The Shivers

Extremely suspect film showing that David Cronenberg (The bloke behind Crash) really is fucking twisted (Pardon my French). Basically a scientist creates a slug type thing that makes people who get infected by it want to shag like crazy. The revolting slugs attack everyone and once infected they attack other people (basically raping them) The film revolves around a doctor trying to escape the tower block where this is happening with his girlfriend. He doesn't. Very dodgy.

The Spookies

My personnal favourite. No happy ending and a sometimes appalling sense of humour. A kid runs away from home when his parents forget his birthday. He turns up at an old mansion surrounded by a graveyard and owned by a pyschopathical witch doctor with a nasty over zealous vein on his forward. He is promptly buried alive by a werewolf. At the same time a group of party go-ers show up intent of getting pissed and trashing the place. Little do they realise that they are all part of a game by the witch doctor that will culminate in using their enslaved soles to awaken his love, who's been asleep for 70 years in a coffin (as you do). They all meet various nasty deaths. There are some terrible bits. The witch doctors voice over is a appalling. As is a lot of the acting. The special effects are good though, for the most part.

The Thing

Entertaining Alien horror with Kurt Russell. An Alien monster which can mould itself into exact cellular copies of living organisms ends up in an American antartic camp. All sorts of tentacle fun ensues while the inhabitants try to work out which of them are alien clones.

The Unholy

Poor for most of the film, though a more upbeat ending saves it from crapness. A vicar survives a fall from a block of apartments (about six storeys in case you were wondering) and is then sent to a church where the previous two vicars have been butchered. Once their he meets several weird characters. The relationships he has with them don't make sense at all. They eventually get killed at the end (Not wanting to spoil it: But you guessed that anyway). The vicar finds out that the killings were done by a demon called, suprisingly, the Unholy, who returns to the church once a year to attempt to get pure people such as vicars or virgins ( OOOh er!) to give into sins so that he can claim their soles for the Devil. A lot of sole searching is involved at the climax, as you'd expect. Slightly unconvincing....

The Un-nameable

A group of people dare each other to spend the night in a haunted house, little knowing that a hideous creature has been released from its century's old prison. They gradually get picked off one by one in the twisty corridors of the house until two nerds come to rescue them. Quite scary, and definitely better than the sequel.

The Un-nameable Returns

Sequel to the Un-nameble, carries directly on from the other film's aftermath. The couple of Nerds, the survivors from the original, believe the beast is not killed so they, as any stupid trying to get yourself killed actor would go down into its below the cemetry style catacombes. There they find the creature and manage to split its original human part from the creature. The rest of the film generally involves the scientist who escaped the graveyard tunnels running about with the butt naked human ( female) part of the monster, while the seperated monster trys to track them down to be re-united. While this is going on the sole survivor and a load of local cops are trying to find both of them. Not bad but not brilliant either.

The Vineyard

Old man drinks the blood of people to stay young, however his "guests" find his victims don't stay dead. Sub plot about a Samurai's wife. Didn't quite get that bit. Quite cheap. Quite cheesy.

The Warlock 3

Pretty good eighties style horror, only spoiled by the Warlock in question having a completely eighties obsession with leather. Some of the scenes are grisely and the way the characters fall away and betray the main star (Ashley Laurence from Hellraiser) is quite clever. Its entertaining and watchable, though not brilliant.

The Wish Master

Stylish and expensive budgeted horror about a genie with a distinctly nasty streak. He's been unleashed from his jewel prison by a young woman, who he then pursues round town trying to get her to make three wishes. The aim of this is to allow him to release his demon counterparts from hell (or somewhere not too nice). Along the way his general unpleasantness leads him to grant wishes for anyone who asks for anything in his presence, even if they didn't want the wishes to come true. Once he has granted the wish he steals the unfortunates sole. Best recent horror flick I've seen, partly because of the particularly evil voice (and stupid smile) of the Wishmaster.

The Wish Master 2

The Djinn (genie) is back after a robber releases him from his crystal prison. She then has to face the same horrors as the first lady. This time the Wishmaster needs 1001 soles before he can get her to make her three wishes. Unfortuantly he gets thrown in jail, where there are plenty of soles waiting to be captured. The Wish Master is as cool as ever, taking the prospect of a week in solitary without the slightest flicker of worry. He comes out smiling (as usual) much to the prison guard's disgust. Plenty of gore but the Wish Master seems to have mellowed slightly after his last defeat and lets far to many people get off too easily. The final confrontation comes in a casino where the robber and her brother (a priest), who worryingly she has just made love to (the film takes this all its stride) must defeat the Djinn (Though I may have misunderstood the back of the video here, I hope that it was just bad grammar). Still pretty good stuff, which is suprising for a sequel.

They Live

Another Carpenter directed horror (though this is once again border line), and once again an excellent, if cheesey, watch. Aliens are apparently present on the planet at this moment infesting our TV and controlling us through our subconcious. A muscular chap with a bad eighties hair style decides to intervene after finding a dodgy pair of X-Ray glasses that allows him to see the aliens. Lots of shooting and fighting, coupled with an imfamous ending scene that is both bizarre and shocking at the same time.

Vampires

Very Dusk till Dawn inspired, but not in the same league of coolness as aforementioned. Reasonably watchable but it trys much to hard. The director, John Carpenter should stay away from cool and just stick to Halloween nastiness.

Wax Works

Brilliant horror, where a bunch of teenagers are lured into a waxwork museum where the various horror exhibits have a habit of pulling you into them. Its all part of the devious owners plot to release the stars of the exhibits into this dimension. Well worth a rent.

Zombie Flesh Eaters

The film follows the title. A group of people are stranded on an island where a mysterious virus has turned the people in to Zombies. Quality slaughter follows. Banned on release, but now available, this one is reknowned for a certain eye-ball meets sharp object scene...