Killer Party (1986)

Killer Party is a classic retro 80’s horror film directed by William Fruet. The story begins with three best friends, Vivia (Sherry Willis-Burch), Jennifer (Joanna Johnson), and Phoebe (Elaine Wilkes) as they pledge to a sorority. Vivia previously played a prank on the sorority and she finds out that is why the three were accepted. Now it is April fool’s Day and the sorority throws a party for a fraternity to be held at an old abandon house where Alan, a fraternity pledge, was killed twenty-two years before during a hazing prank. At the party someone or something does not want them in the house and the haunting begins with an unseen figure. Is it the ghost of Allen? Or is it something more demonic? Joining the girls at the fraternity party are Blake (Martin Hewitt) and Martin (Ralph Seymour) when eventually things take a turn for the worse and Jennifer ends up possessed by a demon and hunts down Vivia and Phoebe with a trident. The chase pursues as the film takes a thrilling turn when the demon attempts to possess each of the girls and tries to kill everyone. Killer Party reminds me of the classic Night of the Demons which will definitely be reviewed soon as this too is one not to miss out on. Killer Party is available on DVD and Streaming on Amazon Prime.

Crawlspace (1986)

Crawlspace is a classic claustrophobic journey into the horror realm, featuring two major stars in horror, Talia Balsam (Lori Bancroft) and Klaus Kinski (Karl Guenther), produced by Robert Bessi along side with ex-producer Charles Band of Full Moon Entertainment and written and directed by David Schmoeller. Guenther, is a physician and has a nasty habit of trapping, capturing and torturing young women to death by means of a secret crawlspace designed as air vents in every apartment building that he manages. Lori Bancroft, a single young college student answers an ad about a vacant apartment, oblivious that a few unfortunate incidents occurred there previously. She agrees to rent the apartment and Guenther couldn’t be happier. Guenther writes daily in his journal detailing his addiction in torturing and killing and how it is the only way he can feel “life". He keeps one of his victims as a pet, cutting out her tongue and keeping her in a cage. Guenther enjoys spying on his clients through the air vents in each apartment. He uses the crawlspace throughout the entire apartment building to spy on his tenants and plants various contraptions in the apartments to frighten and manipulate them. Later in the film, between the weirdness of Guenther’s stalking and killing, Josef Steiner (Kenneth Shippy) visits Guenther after years of searching for him. Steiner claims that his brother died at the hands of Guenther, who practiced euthanasia, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Steiner shows Guenther a picture of his father dressed in a World War II SS Nazi uniform along with papers depicting torture devices his father designed for use in the concentration camps. Steiner visits Bancroft and is informed of Guenther’s dark past. Now aware of this new knowledge, Bancroft sets out to find the cause of the strange happenings in her apartment. Bancroft now realizes she is being terrorized by Guenther and enters his apartment where she discovers the crawlspace, which many are booby-trapped while Guenther gives chase. Crawlspace is a must see for any fan of the thriller or horror genre. Released on BluRay, DVD and Amazon Prime by Scream! Factory Crawlspace is a must own.