Directed by William A. Levey and starring Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott and Carel Trichardt, Hellgate is nonsense, utter nonsense. It has a horribly confused plot and an utterly insane final third. Normally this might make the movie entertaining but that’s not the case with Hellgate.
Parents is a horror/comedy that follows 10 year old Michael. He’s just moved with his parents Nick and Lily from Massachusetts to a new neighbourhood in 1958 suburbia. Michael is socially awkward and has strange dreams due to his overly active imagination. He begins to suspect that his parents may be cannibalistic killers.
The Chilling is a 1989 sort of zombie horror directed by the Deland Nuse and Jack A. Sunseri, the latter of who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Linda Blair, Dan Haggerty and Troy Donahue.
A psychological horror/thriller directed by Umberto Lenzi. Hitcher in the Dark stars Joe Balogh as Mark Glazer. A very disturbed young man who picks up female hitchhikers to fulfil his twisted desires.
Released in 1989 and directed by Jeff Kwitny, Amok Train is one of the most insane horrors we’ve seen. Utterly baffling, hilariously bad and the most perfect encapsulation of what 80s horror is. Wild and untethered imagination that is so very entertaining even if it’s a bit rubbish.
Leviathan is a science fiction horror film directed by George P. Cosmatos, it released in 1989. It follows a crew of underwater geologists who encounter a highly infectious, DNA altering disease. This particular affliction causes those affected to be transformed and consumed by a hideous mutant creature.
A horror comedy, sort of. In that it doesn’t have much in the way of horror or comedy. Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator is one of the most confusingly titled movies ever.
On the one hand The Terror Within in is an unashamed Alien clone/wannabe but on the other it’s a hilariously campy 80’s mutant horror that is down-right shocking in regards to how gory it is. Whichever side you fall on both can agree that as far as entertainment goes, The Terror Within delivers!
