Night School Aka Terror Eyes (1981)

Night School Aka Terror Eyes is an American Slasher film directed by Ken Hughes and written by Ruth Avergon. The plot surrounds a series of decapitation of college coeds in Boston. Upon its release, England placed the film under the video nasty category. The film opens up with Anne Barron (Meb Boden) a teacher’s aide at a local daycare center in Boston, waits on a carousel with the last child to be picked up.  Suddenly, a mysterious assailant pulls up in a motorcycle and begins to circle around the carousel pulling out a kukri and decapitates Anne. Detective Judd Austin (Leonard Mann) is assigned to the case and discovers her head in nearby in a bucket of water. He finds out that she had been attending night classes at Wendall College where a series of similar acts of decapitation have been happening to coeds. Detective Austin and his partner Taj (Joseph Sicari) begin to suspect the murders may be linked to Professor Vincent Millett (Drew Snyder) who has a habit of getting too close with his students. Pulse raising chases, a killer wearing a motorcycle helmet and a meat clever and brutal decapitations stream throughout the film, keeping you guessing whether it could be Professor Millet or Eleanor Adjai (Rachel Ward) a foreign exchange student who also has close relationships with the students. Night School is a must see Thriller/Horror Film of the Slasher genre that’s a must see for any fan of the classics. Night School is available for purchase on DVD and available for streaming through Amazon.

The Nesting (1981)

The Nesting directed by Armand Weston stars Robin Groves, John Carradine, and Gloria Grahame in her final role. The Nesting stars Lauren Cochran (Robin Groves), a woman working on a Gothic novel and not only suffering from writer’s block but agoraphobia as well and seeks the assistance of a psychiatrist. She decides to leave the city for an old Victorian era house in the country in an attempt to cure her writers block. Lauren and her friend Mark (Christopher Loomis) drive out to the country and the car breaks down mid-way. Lauren decides to walk a bit to stretch her legs and follows a trail that leads her directly to an abandon Victorian era mansion. She has a strange feeling of déjà vu that she has seen or been in the house before while working on her book. She sees someone in the window but no one comes to the door. Lauren and Mark go into the house when strange occurrences start happening. She hesitantly decides to leave the house and inquires as to the owners of the house. She meets the owner and his grandson, Daniel and inquires about renting the old mansion. But before she leaves, the owner, the elderly grandfather, suffers a stroke after he first looks at Lauren. Mark returns to the city leaving Lauren to finish moving in to the old mansion. Lauren begins to have vivid nightmares. She also starts to believe the mansion is haunted. Her doctor advises her to leave and go back to the city but she refuses. She finds an antique typewriter in a closet, which gives her writers block a fresh start. At night, Lauren hears music playing up in the attic. Inside the old record player she finds clothing and jewelry she was wearing during her first vivid nightmare. Ghostly apparitions start to fly by as she chases after them room by room discovering mysterious passages and pathways throughout the house slowly unraveling the dark and shockingly violent history of the mansion. Soon after the ghost start to physically haunt various characters in the movie intent in harming Lauren, she is awakened in the middle of that night to sounds in the hall. She follows the sounds which appear to be vivid ghosts from the past haunting and reaches out for her to show her what happened to them. The house is clearly haunted and Lauren begins to slowly loose her mind even further. She asks around town about the house and hears a story about the mansion operating as a brothel in the 50’s and a gruesome bloody massacre that occurred there. The Nesting is a lost gem, now newly transferred to Blu-Ray from the original camera negative by Blue Underground, is also known as Massacre Mansion and Phobia as this haunted mansion film is sure to be a classic and haunt also available in its original format in DVD, VHS, and Streaming on Amazon Prime.