Cellar Dweller (1988)

This 1980’s Horror Gem directed by (John Carl Buechler) Cellar Dweller starts off “30 years ago”, when a young comic artist Colin Childress (Jeffery Combs) is working on a piece of horror art work for a comic. He takes his references for his story from a necronomicon. After looking for dark passages and possible séances and saying a few incantations and inscribing his artwork, he introduces “The Beast”. Everything he’s written in his comic has come true. As he keeps writing and drawings the comic he can start or stop something bad from happening. As the beast comes to life, Combs searches for it ending up in the cellar of the house armed with an axe. After a struggle with The Beast the necronomicon gets knocked into a chest and sealed. Combs eventually finds out that he can set the beast on fire, but ends up burning the entire cellar and dying with the beast. Empire pictures presents, Cellar Dwellar. As you write your artwork, drawing, comic, it comes true. And most of the artists have a macabre sense of art. This ensues for an excellent movie. Then 30 years later, a young striving comic artist Mrs. Briggs (YvonneDe Carlo) a huge fan of Colin Childress work, revives the artist’s work again not knowing it caused the first fire and was created with the help from the necronomicon found in the chest. Reviving the beast in his footsteps, joining an artist’s colony of kooky and quirky characters and striving young artists Cellar Dwellar will eat you out of house and home in this retro 80s horror movie released by Scream! Factory and can be purchased on Blu-Ray, DVD & Retro VHS by New Wide Video.

Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf (2015)

A Lifetime drama meets 1981’s The Howling in a comedic, harrowing, werewolf thriller Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf (2015) by director Adrián García Bogliano, Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is a United States Army Vietnam Veteran, an old school lone wolf who takes matters into his own hands, despite being blind and wounded in the Vietnam War. Ambrose accompanied by his son Will (Ethan Embry) moves his father into a retirement community called Crescent Bay Estates. The movie starts off well with great cinematography and undertones of dark comedy. Ambrose doesn’t let him being blind get in the way of anything; even on his first night at Crescent Bay he survives a harrowing werewolf attack. The local cops call off all suspicious activity in his community after surmising that the attack was an unknown animal attack from the nearby wood.   Ambrose’ key sense of smell he acquired after becoming blind, tells him it is more than a simple animal that attacked him. He discovers that animal attacks have been happening in his community once a month for some time now. After losing his guard dog to the beast he takes matters into his own hands to seek and uncover the truth of the death of his beloved guard dog and other strange occurrences that have plagued the small community of Crescent Bay. Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf is a must see for fans of werewolf movies. The wolf transformations are excellent and the fresh plot take on to a new level of thriller, keeping you guessing if it could be someone in the community itself or if Ambrose already knows who it may be. Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the movie with dark humor, mystery, and mysticism. Who is committing these heinous acts on the resident’s animals and fellow residents? Surely Ambrose will get to the bottom of it in this revenge seeking thriller. Late Phases: Night of the Lone Wolf is available for purchase on Blu-ray, DVD and available for rent on Amazon Prime