31 Horror Movies

  Subspecies (1991) The Plot: 3 college students travel to Transylvania to conduct research in folklore when they run into the local vampires who are feuding amongst each other Talk about your bad luck. When you are doing your senior thesis on Romanian folklore and you travel to Transylvania at a time that just so happens to be the the same time an ancient Vampire power struggle between the 2 sides of vampirism, one the career minded rule over the world type and the misunderstood, handsome vampire who needs to feast on the blood of others but does it in a more humane way. But hey! them's the breaks! At first you may think you have a journalistic scoop but then they biting begins. Has anyone seen my nail clippers? Radu represents the dark side of vampirism. He is unkempt, likes dark tombs, attacks innocent women for their blood, drinks from the ancient bloodstone of power, has a miniature army of demons at his beckon call and a severe drooling problem. This could be why he can never

  Gargoyles (1972) The Plot: Gargoyles arrive in the Southwest desert and start terrorizing the populace Gargoyles are definitely misunderstood. They first pick a desert where they have been dormant for 500 years before waking up in the time of bell bottoms and halter tops, 1972. Needless to say, they were a bit grumpy. I imagine waking up from a 500 year incubation period would produce some stiffness in the bones at least.  Gargoyles just want to look menacingly over your shoulder while you read. Our heroes here are Dr. Boley who is some type of scientist doing research. Could be an archeologist or perhaps geologist. Some kind of -ist I'm sure. He brings along his college age daughter Diana on the desert archeological dig. As one does. She seems excited to do this too. The early 70s was a weird time. They soon run into some gargoyles in the desert. The good doctor survives the first gargoyle encounter but one of the gargoyles was killed when hit by a truck. The good doctor takes t

  The Beyond (1981) The Plot: a woman inherits a hotel in Louisiana that just so happens to host one of the cursed 7 gateways to hell. Liza, our protagonist in The Beyond gets both good news and bad news one day. The good news: She inherited a hotel. The bad news: it has one of the cursed 7 gateways to hell in it. This would seemingly be also bad in general for someone in the hospitality business. First off, the hellishness of the place would guarantee the hotel never achieving 5 star status. I am sure some thrill seeking extreme sports junkies would book a room there for the sheer thrill of living so close to one of the 7 cursed gateways to hell, but the average family of four looking for good accommodations as they drive from New Mexico to Florida for their annual Disneyland trip are going to expect less gateways to hell. They already have spent all day with 2 kids cooped up in a car with the older brother saying "I'm not touching you!"  and coming as close to touching

  Victor Frankenstein (2015) The Plot: A scientist tries to make life from dead bodies Victor Frankenstein is a movie told through the eyes of his once hunchbacked assistant, Igor. Yes, Dr. Frankenstein cures him of his hunchback which naturally endears himself to Igor who was making a living as a freak in a sideshow at the circus. That's probably why Igor goes along with the good doctor's plans to assemble a body from dead parts and bring it to life.  Before assembling a man from dead body parts, its best to smart small with a chimpanzee for example Telling the story from Igor's point of view is for the best in this movie. I mean, first off, there's been many stories from Dr. Frankenstein's point of view so we already know the story of the mad genius. If we told it from the monster's point of view here, he would be dead; no thoughts. Then ZAP! burst of electricity. Open eyes, see that everyone is now trying to kill you so you fight back until you are dead again

  Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) The Plot: A scientist invents a potion to turn himself into a sexy murderess Y am sure Dr. Jekyll had good intentions. He was doing all of this in the name of science, you see. You know he means business too as he has a whole table full of beakers filled with colored liquids bubbling. His goal is to just keep curing the world's most deadly diseases. He of course believes in his ability to do this, perhaps a little too much as he starts bending the meaning of terms such as "medical ethics" wildly. In order to cure these diseases he would need to live longer so the world can be blessed with his superior intellect. He resorts to stealing cadavers. In the name of science, of course.  Dr. Jekyll in sunny London He never does quite find the answers to stop aging. He does however, invent a serum that will change him into a female for a period of time. At first, he does what anyone would do in that situation, he orders an expensive red dress

  Seedpeople (1992) The Plot: Evil alien plant spores crash to earth and start taking over the bodies of the local populace  Seedpeople. The title kind of tells you almost everything you need to know. There are seedpeople here. Alien plants from outer space arrive on earth. They are plants but they spawn what looks like mammals and bird/insects. I'm not totally sure the alien biology makes mush sense at all. There really wasn't much time to study these kind of things in a controlled scientific manner. Fortunately, the town has its crazy, but harmless scientist.  The newest rage in headgear It's the crazy scientist, (a role that would've been awesome if played by Dennis Hopper, but her is played by a lesser Hopper) who does most of the experimenting on finding a way to destroy the alien plant things. He does discover UV light is their weakness and naturally wears UV lights powered by a battery he totes around with him. He wonders why no one believes him. He also guzzlers