Monster Squad (1987)

For my return after a 3-year absence from blogging, I decided to select this year's movies by dice roll. 2 24 sided dice were thrown to choose a Style of Horror-movie, and a "scare" type. This is adapted from an idea shamelessly stolen from Random Number Generator Horror Podcast Number 9.

For today's movie, I threw a 5 for PG/PG-13, and a 2 for Werewolf

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For one day every 100 years, a long-forgotten and usually indestructible amulet, capable of banishing Evil from the world, becomes venerable.

That day is fast approaching, and Dracula has put together a band of monsters (Himself, The Mummy, The Wolfman, Gillman, and Frankenstein's Creature) to seek and destroy The Amulet.

Unfortunately for the monsters, a group of horror-movie loving kids have just got hold of Van Helsing's diary, and learned of the amulet themselves... and now find themselves standing against the forces of evil.      

 

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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)

A young girl is sent to live with her father and his girlfriend in the mansion they are renovating for a client. In the basement, locked in an old ash pit, the girl finds a group of small creatures.

Setting them free was a mistake...

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Manborg (2011)

Years after the last battle of the Hell Wars, in which the armies of earth fell against the nazi-cyborg-demon armies of Hell, a fallen human soldier wakes as a cyborg. 
Captured by the demons, he and the gang of resistance fighters he is imprisoned with may together be one last hope for humanity... if they can survive futuristic gladiatorial combat in the arena know as The Terrorocticon. 

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Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Speedy Gonzalez, and Sylvester and Tweety Pie, have run-ins with Witch Hazel, Haunted Hotels, and a certain Dr. Jykle and his famous potion.

Savage (2009)

A forest fire is raging in Bear Valley national park, driving animals out of the depths of the forest. Including a beast most think to be a legend.

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2-Headed Shark Attack (2012)

A group of students studying at sea for a semester end up stranded on a sinking island when their boat is attacked by a giant 2-headed shark.

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Monster (2008)

In 2003 Tokyo suffered an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, killing more than 7,000 people. The incident was captured on film by two American film makers.But it wasn't an earquake...

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The Terror Within (1989)

On post apocalyptic earth, supplies are running low for a group of survivors living deep underground in a military research bunker. Trips to the surface are fraught with danger thanks to "Gargoyles" - monstrous humanoid creatures which now roams the earth.
When the team rescue the sole survivor of a camp of humans who have somehow until recently survived above ground, they unwittingly let a Gargoyle into their bunker.

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The Cave. (2005)

When archeologists discover a complex cave and river system under the ruins of an abbey, a team of underwater caving experts are brought in to explore.
It isn't long before something living in the shadows starts to pick off the team.

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El Chupacabra (2003)

A captured chupacabra destined for a research lab is accidentally released in Los Angeles, and a hired good is sent to recapture it.

Meanwhile, a skeptical animal control officer investigating a series of animal mutilations is approached by an author and cryptozoologist who claims the culprit can only be a chupacabra, and a pair of police detectives investigate a grizzly murder, in which they believe the victim was mutilated by a psychopath with a modified garden rake.

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The Tingler (1959)

Pathologist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) notices that in subjects terrified at the moment of death, the lower vertebrae are often shattered, he discovers that the tingling at the base of the spine during moment of fear is caused by a parasite... one which can only be dispelled by screaming.
Eventually, a Tingler escapes into a movie theatre; During the initial cinema run, it escaped into the theatre that you were in, thanks to William Castle's innovative 'process', Percepto!

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Splinter (2008)

A couple onan anniversary camping trip are kidnapped and held hostage by a couple on the run.
Stopping for fuel they are attacked by a strange creature; seemingly make out of splinters, it will slowly infect and take over any living creature that it injures, turning their tissue into more of the strange spines it is made of; they find themselves hauled up in the filling station, working together to survive the night.

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Frankenfish (2004)

A biologist is sent to investigate the death of a fisherman in the swamps of Louisiana; it soon transpired that the cause of death was attack from a hitherto unknown species of fish.
After meeting with the fisherman's wife, they find themselves hauled up in a local resident's house boat, while the fish is on the attack...

Based (loosely) on a real event.

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Frankenweenie (2012)

Victror is a child science-wizz and amatur film-maker; when his best freind, his dog Sparky, is run over, Victor digs him up, and brings him back to life.
With the school science fair coming up, it isn't long before the other kids are trying to reanimate animals using Victor's technology... Unfortunately, Sparky's return is a bit of a fluke, and the other animals all come back as monsters.

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Smiley (2012)

An internet-legend claims that if you visit a random video-chat site, and type "I did it for the lulz" three times, "Smiley", a killer with an emoticon carved into his otherwise featureless face, is supposed to appear behind your chat partner... And kill them.
Not wanting to move into the dorms, college freshman, Ashley, moves into a house-share with a stranger, fellow freshman, "Proxy", a keen user of 4chan's /b/ image board (home of Anonymous).
Proxy takes Ashley to a party organised by her fellow /b/tards, where she learns about, the myth of Smiley, and witnesses it for her self when a boy that the party invokes him on a chat-roulette style website.
Later, to prove to themselves that it was a prank, Proxy convinces Ashley to try it for herself... And it works.
When the boy who tried it at the party turns up dead, it seems that the legend of smiley isn't told in full; after killing the victim, Smiley comes after the person who summoned him; And it looks like Ashley is next...

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Night of the Lepus (1972)

THIS REVIEW IS ALSO POSTED AT THE BLOG I CONTRIBUTE TO YEAR-ROUND.

Head to HorrorMovieAWeek.co.uk to see what my freind Lisa thinks about this film, and the rest of the 52 movies we review each and every year.

WARNING:
Although this movie has been tagged as "Recommended" I am not claiming it is a "good" film. It is not. 

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A cattle farmer in the American South West calls in experimental biologists to help rid him of his rabbit-infestation, a rabbit injected win an experimental serum is inadvertently released into the wild, the infestation of rabbits rapidly becomes an infestation of giant, killer rabbits.
It's up to the farmer, and the scientists who created the monsters, to find a way to stop them before they reach a nearby town and destroy it.

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Monster Brawl.

For the first time ever, 8 monsters are brought together to wrestle to the death, and determine the undisputed 'Monster Brawl Heavyweight Champion'.

Wrestling! Monsters! Jimmy 'The Mouth of the South' Heart... As himself!

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Cabin in the Woods

Partial synopsis (explanation as to why only partial, after the synopsis):

A group of 5 college kids (A Jock, his slightly dippy girlfriend, her book-smart "good-girl" freind, a stoner, and the Jock's friend who's new to the area) go off to a remote cabin in the woods for a weekend of partying and hanging out. After ignoring the thinly veiled warnings of a creepy old local they meet at the near-abandoned gas station, they arrive to find the cabin is run down and spooky, but they stay anyway.
Bad things happen.
Sound familiar? It should!
Think you know the story? You don't!

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One Eyed Monster

The opening of the movie tell us that:

"In February 2007, ten people went to the remote mountains of Northern California to shoot an adult movie. What happened next was something no one expected, but everyone saw coming."

Which is a coy/funny way of saying

Ron Jeremy (playing himself) gets hit by something from space; at first he seems fine, but then his penis becomes detached, and goes on a killing spree.

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The Descent: Part 2 (aka "The De2cent")

Note: For the first time this year, I'm going to give a very quick one-line review BEFORE the synopsis; this is because the synopsis has big spoilers for the excellent 1st movie.

One line review: Enjoyable enough, but lacking all the elements that made the first film excellent, The Descent 2 feels like less of a sequel, and more like a Platinum Dunes remake of the first one.

SPOILERS FOR "THE DESCENT"  (But not "The Descent: part 2") FOLLOW:

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