Subgenre Sampler
Monster Mash: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
- Nightmare On Elm Street 4: Dream Master, A (1988)
- Dir. Renny Harlin
Feat. Robert Englund
- The franchise, now in full commercial flight, but bereft of new ideas, resorts to self–parody with Freddy Pizza Face Krueger having a riot…
- Pumpkinhead (1988)
- Dir. Stan Winston
Feat. Lance Henriksen
- Trashy directing debut for f/x expert Winston, with Lance Henrikson summoning up a vengeful demon.
- Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987)
- Dir. Chuck Russell
Feat. Robert Englund, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne…
- Improving on the perfunctory Pt. 2, this ups the ante on the gross–out special effects as Freddy wreaks further havoc on the kids he's helped…
- Critters (1986)
- Dir. Stephen Herek
Feat. M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Zane
- A gang of teeth–knashing alien fur–balls who have escaped from 'space prison' invade smalltown Kansas and terrorize the locals, cutting…
- Rawhead Rex (1986)
- Dir. George Pavlou
Feat. David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Lora Lunny
- Scripted by cult novelist Clive Barker, a demonesque monster runs riot in an Irish village where an American historian is staying with his family.
- Chiller (1985)
- Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Paul Sorvino, Beatrice Straight, Dick O'Neill…
- Wes Craven's follow–up to A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, is a detached thriller about an entrepreneur who requests to be frozen and…
- Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 (1985-1987)
- Dir. Luca Bercovici, Albert Band
Feat. Lisa Pelikan, Jack Nance, Royal Dano
- GREMLINS–inspired comic horrors from the mid–1980s in which a young couple unwittingly let loose half a dozen nasty little critters and…
- Godzilla 1985 (The Return of Godzilla) (1985)
- Feat. Raymond Burr
- The king of monsters reigns supreme in this hokey 'reboot' of the classic Japanese icon. The first in the Heisei Series of Godzilla films, and the…
- Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (1985)
- Dir. Jack Sholder
Feat. Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Clu Gulager…
- More of the same special f/x–assisted mayhem from Freddy Krueger and the helpless adolescent residents of Elm Street. Just ask Mom and Dad to…
- Troll (1985)
- Dir. John Buechler, Drago Floyd
Feat. Michael Moriarty, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack…
- Barrel–scrapingly hilarious, this GREMLINS knock–off sees a hairy troll turning an apartment block into a "garden of ancient evil", by…