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.

The Dead Pit (1989)

The Dead Pit is a thrilling horror directed by Brett Leonard. The film starts with a crazed doctor / serial killer Dr. Ramzi (Danny Gochnauer) who performs open brain experiments on his patients, eventually turning them into crazed blood thirsty zombies. Within the confines of the asylum his colleague Dr. Gerald Swan (Jeremy Slate) finds out what he is doing in the cellar with the missing patients and ends up killing him and sealing up the cellar chamber with the patients and him in it, hoping that he can look past the gruesome experiments’ his partner performed within the asylum. Twenty years later the asylum is run by his partner who is a bit more kind on the human psyche, when one day a Jane Doe (Cheryl Lawson) appears complaining that she remembers her memory being removed and nothing else diagnosed with amnesia. Meanwhile during an eruption of earth quakes the seals to the chamber break open releasing the angry spirit of Dr. Ramzi and the zombie patients onto the unsuspecting new patients within the state institute. With Jane Doe’s acquaintance at the hospital Christian Meyers (Stephen Foster) they fight the relentless army of zombies finding their weakness and entombing them back to where they came from. The Dead Pit is a fun Horror/Thriller with many convincing actors and well done effects, this blast from the past is a must see. The Dead Pit is now available on DVD.

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.

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.