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Reunion (2020)- Dir. Jake Mahaffy
Feat. Julia Ormond, Emma Draper, John Bach… - Beautifully–lensed NZ horror shot in a grand old mansion in Lower Hutt, following an academic studying black magic (Emma Draper, DAFFODILS) who…
Antiviral (2012)
- Dir. Brandon Cronenberg
Feat. Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith… - Brandon Cronenberg has made an object lesson in intelligent low budget horror. In the near future, our obsession with celebrity will have become so…
Crazies, The (2010)- Dir. Breck Eisner
Feat. Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell - George Romero's low budget classic gets a flashy, though ultimately needless makeover angled at the Iraq war set, with Radha Mitchell and Timothy…
Splice (2009)- Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley - The director of cult hit CUBE ups the ante in hybrid horror with this story of geneticists who, after recombining DNA from different species, give…
Planet Terror (2007)- Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Rose McGowan, Freddy RodrÃguez, Josh Brolin… - Robert Rodriguez's half – and quite possibly, the better half – of the "Grindhouse" double bill (with Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF),…
Black Sheep (2006)- Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney… - A slick splatter–comedy in the Kiwi tradition of BAD TASTE, about a herd of rabid, flesh–eating sheep run amok in rural New…
Subject Two (2006)- Dir. Phillip Chidel
Feat. Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton - Indie 'mad science' thriller in which a doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing and reviving a 'volunteer' med student many…
Godsend (2004)- Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - An age–old horror conceit grafted onto the topical 'genetic cloning' debate, with Kinnear and Romijn–Stamos playing a couple who agree to…
Anatomie (2000)- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Franke Potente - Franke Potente (RUN LOLA RUN) stars as a bright medical student at an elite college who discovers her fellow freshmen and women are turning up as…
Carrie 2: The Rage (1999)- Dir. Katt Shea
Feat. Emily Bergl - The secondary school system gets another dousing in pigs–blood in this less–sequel–more–remake of the Brian DePalma original…
Relic, The (1997)- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore - A dormant microbe mutates and runs amok! ALIEN–in–a–museum is the concept for this well regarded B–picture that spends most…
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda - John Hurt stars as a 21st century scientist who is thrown back to 19th century England, where Frankenstein's creature and other famous Brits run…
Brain Dead (1989)
- Dir. Adam Simon
Feat. Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort - Long unreleased in New Zealand (which possibly explains why Peter Jackson also claimed the title), this arrives a bit of a lost gem from the halcyon…
- Juvenatrix (1988)
- Dir. Brian Thomas Jones
Feat. Vivian Lanko, John Mackay, James Hogue - Aging woman commissions 'youth serum', with horrible side–effects. True 80s schlock.
Monkey Shines (1988)- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Jason Beghe, John Pankow, Kate McNeil - A first–rate thriller about an invalid who loses control over his pet monkey that has been subjected to cerebral experiments. Intelligent…
Fly, The (1986)- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis - Cronenberg's most accessible work is an ingenious re–working of the 1958 film that works as well for its contemporary audience as the original…
From Beyond (1986)- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree - The director of RE–ANIMATOR interprets another great H.P. Lovecraft story as a kinky, effects–laden romp about monsters unleashed from a…
Day of the Dead (1985)- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato - Apocalyptic paranoia looms in an underground shelter for a few survivors in a world overrun with zombies. Conclusion to the 'Dead' trilogy builds a…
Re-Animator (1985)- Dir. Stuart Gordon
Feat. Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton - Essential splatter comedy takes gore levels to a (then) new extreme. Rebel science student Herbert West invents a serum that brings the dead back to…
Stuff, The (1985)- Dir. Larry Cohen
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Garrett Morris - Witty consumerist parable from low–budget maestro Larry Cohen about a new dessert product, which turns out to be lethal. Call it…
Dead Zone, The (1983)- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams… - A dynamite thriller based on one of Stephen King's best stories. Christopher Walken plays a clairvoyant, who after helping police with homicide…
Death Warmed Up (1983)- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Michael Hurst - Hell–bent on exacting revenge on a loony scientist, Michael Hurst leads his friends to a secret island where toxic abominations run riot. This…
Hand, The (1981)- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Michael Caine - Michael Caine stars in this early Oliver Stone mess (still suffering from shell–shock?) as a cartoonist whose severed hand goes about murdering…
Rabid (1977)- Dir. David Cronenberg
Feat. Marilyn Chambers - Early David Cronenberg nasty starring '70s porn queen, Marilyn Chambers, who she develops an insatiable thirst for human blood after a motorcycle…
Squirm (1976)- Dir. Jeff Lieberman
Feat. Don Scardino, Patricia Pearcy - A storm–toppled powerline drives large (and vicious) sandworms out the surrounding swamp–waters, terrifying the local populace in this…
Crazies, The (1975)- Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones - Underrated low–budgeter about germ warfare, a personal favourite of Romero's. Fast–paced editing creates some real excitement.
Asphyx, The (Horror of Death) (1973)- Dir. Peter Newbrook
Feat. Robert Stephens, Robert Powell - Promising 'Victorian' horror set around experiments by a scientist (Stephens) into capturing the 'asphyx' (soul) of a dying person and gaining a…
Sssssss (1973)- Dir. Bernard L. Kowalski
Feat. Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies - Despite the campy name, this is a surprisingly slow–burning, creepy throwback to 50's creature–features concerning a mad scientist who…
Doomwatch (1972)- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ian Bannen, George Sanders - Based on the British TV–series, Ian Bannen investigates the effects of an oil spill on an isolated Cornish community. Ecological themes to the…
Scream and Scream Again (1969)- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee - Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee all turn in for this Hammer mad–doctor–creates–super–being yarn.
Sorcerers, The (1967)- Dir. Michael Reeves
Feat. Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy… - An aging couple conduct secret experiments in vicarious mind–control, living out perverse scenarios through young and unwitting victims.…
Curse of the Fly (1965)- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Burt Kwouk - Second sequel to the original 1958 THE FLY, sans Vincent Price, but with touches of genuine gothic atmosphere and some creepy mutants. The tale of a…
Nightmare Castle (The Faceless Monster, The Night of the Doomed) (1965)- Dir. Mario Caiano
Feat. Barbara Steele, Paul Muller - Atmospheric gothic horror, with below–par Italian stylings and a dual role for cult actress Barbara Steele. Playing a pair of sisters,…
Devil Doll (1964)- Dir. Lindsay Shonteff
Feat. Bryant Halliday, William Sylvester - A hypno–ventriloquist attempts to transfer a woman's soul into a dummy. Ghoulish sleeper is sure to keep fans of low–budget chillers wide…
Twice Told Tales (1963)- Dir. Sidney Salkow
Feat. Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland - Triptych of horrors drawn from the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ham actor extraordinaire Vincent Price is in ripping form here.
Brain, The (1962)- Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Anne Heywood, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Lee… - A well–meaning doctor keeps alive the brain of a sadistic millionaire who gradually compels him to carry out his evil requests. Well directed…
Awful Dr. Awloff, The (1961)- Dir. Jess Franco
Feat. Howard Vernon - Deranged doctor Howard Vernon collects skin–grafts for his disfigured daughter, in a Spanish makeover of Franju's 'Eyes Without A Face'. A…
Wasp Woman, The (1960)- Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. Susan Cabot, Michael Mark - A glamorous but ageing cosmetic executive develops an age–retarding serum, but her lust for youth and wealth is besieged by ugly…
Manster, The (1959)- Dir. George P. Breakson
Feat. Peter Dyneley - An American correspondent in Japan becomes an unwitting human guinea pig while trying to get the scoop on the work of a reclusive scientist. His…
Tingler, The (1959)- Dir. William Castle
Feat. Vincent Price, Darryl Hickman - B–movie classic in which mad doctor Vincent Price conjures the 'physical form of fear itself', and lets the damned thing run amok! With bizzaro…
Fly, The (1958)- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price - Classic B–movie is a hammy horror tale of an obsessed scientist who unwittingly turns himself into a freak of nature.
Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958)- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn… - One of the best in the series of six Frankenstein films made by Hammer, with Peter Cushing reprising one of his signature roles as Baron Frank. …
Indestructible Man (1956)- Dir. Jack Pollexfen
Feat. Lon Jr. Chaney - Homicidal maniac Lon Chaney Jnr is revived, post–execution, by a mad scientist, before going on a revenge–spree. Interesting entry for…
Body Snatcher, The (1945)- Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi - Quietly creepy Val Lewton production with Boris Karloff as a sinister grave robber who provides bodies for medical research and then blackmails the…
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff - Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
Island of Lost Souls (1933)- Dir. Erle C. Kenton
Feat. Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen… - First screen version of H.G. Wells' fascinating novel features the delightfully loony Charles Laughton as Dr. Moreau, the exiled scientist obsessed…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)- Dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Feat. Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins - Lurid and expressionistic 30s version of Stevenson's novel, and still the best, with Fredric March (who won an Oscar) as the idealist Doctor who…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)- Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst… - The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
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