As a child, Harry Stadling, sees his mom being groped by Santa Claus scarring him for life and for some reason making him obsessed with Christmas. One night when he's an adult he decides to be the REAL Santa and goes out rewarding good little kids and killing and mutilating those who he believes are naughty.
First appearance: the Brain that Wouldn't Die (1962)
I'm sure you've heard the story a million times before. A surgeon and his wife having a car accident. Surgeon takes wife's severed head and reanimates it in a pan in his private laboratory. Surgeon goes to strip clubs looking for a fancy new body for decapitated wife. Wife becomes psychically linked to weird conehead with a saggy butt created by surgeon husband. Wife becomes seriously depressed.
I've always found this movie entertaining. Its like the 70s version of Arnold Schwartzenegger classic The Running Man only slightly less silly. Even though Frankenstein is the coolest looking racer, I think Joe Viturbo (Sylvester Stallone) is more fun. Why they haven't made a videogame that follows the rules of this movie is beyond me. Also why did they decide to make the remake less awesome?
A woman who wants to be an actress works in a used book store, dates a stereotypical detective and really gets into the pulp horror novels she reads gets menaced by a mutilated maniacal mutilator straight out of the book she's currently reading. Is he real? Is she actually killing off all the annoying people in her life? Is it the insane author of the novels who died in the 50s? Who cares! Surprisingly good flick. I also just found out that it was made by the same guy who made one of my favorite movies, THE GATE. It would make a half decent double feature with In the Mouth of Madness.
The movie was originally going to be called HARDCOVER, good thing it wasn't. I never would have bothered trying to find Hardcover.
Five friends have a lousy time at a cabin in the woods. Miserable time can be blamed on a book (The Evil Dead). The next night something horrible takes over our hero (Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn) making even more people miserable. In the end everything turns out OK when Ash gets sucked back in time by a giant vortex and is revealed to be the Chosen One.
The geek in me is always annoyed by "fans" who don't seem to know there's a difference between Evil Ash and Bad Ash. Evil ash is the guy Ash turns into after the evil got into his hand. Bad Ash is what happened when one of the mini-Ashes got inside Ash and grew up, eventually getting killed and then coming back from the grave. Evil Ash is possessed Ash, Bad Ash is a magical evil clone. Note Evil Ash's missing hand and the fact Bad Ash has two hands. Yeah I know "Nerd".
Another weird slasher flick from the '80s. I've only ever managed to watch the first Maniac Cop flick. It was about a cop who goes around killing people. The police arrest the wrong guy, who is also a cop, who then spends the rest of the movie trying to prove his innocence. Its got Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell and Robert Z'Dar in it, is directed by the guy who made Maniac, and written by the guy who wrote It's Alive! That's all I really know about it. Maybe one day I'll get around to seeing the sequels.
