NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2
WRITER: Joe Augustyn
DIRECTOR: Brian Trenchard-Smith
STARRING: Christi Harris as Bibi
Darin Heames as Z-Boy
Bobby Jacoby as Perry
Merle Kennedy as Mouse
Amelia Kinkade as Angela
Rod McCary as Father Bob
Johnny Moran as Johnny
Rick Peter as Rick
Jennifer Rhodes as Sister Gloria
Christine Taylor as Terri
Zoe Trilling as Shirley
Ladd York as Kurt
QUICK CUT: Angela is back, and this time she has a sister, and a whole Catholic private school to mess with!
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976-EVIL 2: THE ASTRAL FACTOR
WRITER: Screenplay by Eric Anjou
From a story by Rick Glassman
DIRECTOR: Jim Wynorski
STARRING: Patrick O'Bryan as Spike
Rene Assa as Mr. Grubeck
Paul Coufos as Stone
Leslie Ryan as Paula
Debbie James as Robin
QUICK CUT: Hey! Remember that movie I reviewed five years ago? It's baaa-ack! In an almost totally unrealted story, that has at least some tennuous ties, like an evil horoscope phone line that seduces people to do evil deeds.
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TREES 2: THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
WRITERS: Michael V. Pleckaitis
Jim Lawter
DIRECTOR: Michael V. Pleckaitis
STARRING: Kevin McCauley as Ranger Mark Cody
Philip Gardiner as Max Cooper
Mary Ann Nilan as Helen Cody
Brandi Lynn Coppock as Agent Bentley
Ron Palillo as Dougie Styles
Lorne Lakin as Deputy Dusty
Trish Dunn as Darla Styles
Raymond Michaud as Mayor Jim Swindell
Brian Reid as Agent Royce
Peter Randazzo as Squint
QUICK CUT: Just when you thought it was safe to watch a bad movie, Trees barfs up a sequel about Ranger Cody still being tormented by living, killer trees as a large group of them rampage through Hazelville, Vermont.
TROLL 2
WRITER: Drake Floyd
DIRECTOR: Drake Floyd
STARRING: Michael Stephenson as Joshua
George Hardy as Michael
Margo Prey as Diana
Connie McFarland as Holly
Robert Ormsby as Seth
Deborah Reed as Creedence
Jason Wright as Elliott
Darren Ewing as Arnold
Jason Steadman as Drew
David McConnell as Brent
QUICK CUT: A family goes on a little vacation by way of a house swap with another family in the country. Once they're there, they get tormented by trolls, a crazy witch, and a dead grandfather. And then it gets weird.
HORROR 102
WRITER: Ana Clavell
DIRECTOR: Ana Clavell
STARRING: Jeremy Aldridge as Raymond Gerry
Shasa Dabner as Bebe Hillerman
Melissa Frederick as Maddie Engel
Christopher Hawkins as P.J. Lansing
Joshua Allen Heck as George Becker
Lukas Langer as Taffy
Anna Lerbom as Heid Leifdotter
Michael Moon as Owen
Simon Zonatto as Paul Barron
QUICK CUT: A group of students gather in an abandoned building to go on a field trip, until they start dropping off one by one in strange circumstances.
CURSE OF THE PUPPET MASTER
WRITER: Benjamin Carr
DIRECTOR: David Decoteau, by way of Victoria Sloan
STARRING: George Peck as Dr. Magrew
Emily Harrison as Jane
Josh Green as Robert
QUICK CUT: Those puppets you just can't keep down are back again, and this time they're hanging out in cages while their new puppet master with no connection to any previous movie tries to get a dimwitted fella with a gift for carving to make a new puppet.
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 5: THE TOY MAKER
WRITERS: Martin Kitrosser and Brian Yuzna
DIRECTOR: Martin Kitrosser
STARRING: Jane Higginson as Sarah Quinn
Tracy Fraim as Noah Adams
Brian Bremer as Pino
William Thorne as Derek
Neith Hunter as Kim
Amy L. Taylor as Merideth
Eric Welch as Buck
Van Quattro as Tom Quinn
Clint Howard as Ricky
Conan Yuzna as Lonnie
Mickey Rooney as Joe Petto
QUICK CUT: After her husband is killed by a mysterious Christmas present that no one feels like investigating, Sarah and her son keep getting visited by people fom the last movie, and a strange toy maker and his son. And then things get really, really weird.
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 4: INITIATION
WRITERS: Story by S.J. Smith, Arthur H. Gorson, and Brian Yuzna
Screenplay by Woody Keith
DIRECTOR: Brian Yuzna
STARRING: Maud Adams as Fima
Tommy Hinkley as Hank
Allyce Beasley as Janice
Clint Howard as Ricky
Neith Hunter as Kim
Marjean Holden as Jane
Jeanne Bates as Katherine
Laurel Lockhart as Ann
Ben Slack as Gus
Conan Yuzna as Lonnie
QUICK CUT: Forget everything you ever knew about the Silent Night, Deadly Night series, folks! Because this movies starts fresh! So fresh it has nothing to do with Christmas! Or Santas! But it has plenty of a vindictive coven setting people on fire, and infecting people with worms! Wait, what?!
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT!
WRITERS: Screenplay by Carlos Laszlo
From a story by C. Laszlo, M. Hellman, and A. H. Gorson
DIRECTOR: Monte Hellman
STARRING: Richard Beymer as Dr. Newbury
Bill Moseley as Ricky
Samantha Scully as Laura
Eric Da Re as Chris
Laura Herring as Jerri
Elizabeth Hoffman as Granny
Robert Culp as Lt. Connelly
QUICK CUT: The guy that just wouldn't die, Ricky Chapman, or Chambers, or Chuffed If I Know Anymore is still alive, somehow, but with serious brain damage from being in the first two films. He is reached by a psychic though, and wakes up to kill everyone she knows as a way of saying thanks.
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 2
WRITERS: Story by Lee Harry, Joseph E. Earle, Dennis Patterson, and Lawrence Applebaum
Screenplay by Lee Harry and Joseph E. Earl
DIRECTOR: Lee Harry
STARRING: Eric Freeman as Ricky Caldwell
James L. Newman as Dr. Henry Bloom
Elizabeth Cayton as Jennifer
Jean Miller as Mother Superior
Corinne Gelfan as Mrs. Rosenberg
Michael Combatti as Mr. Rosenberg
Kenneth Bryan James as Chip
Frank Novak as Loan Shark
Randy Baughman as Eddie
Joanne White as Paula
Nadya Wynd as Sister Mary
J. Aubrey Island as Orderly
Randy Post as Loudmouth in Theater
QUICK CUT: Crazy Billy's little brother is now all grown up, and thanks to his brother being shot to death at his feet, he's just as screwed up, and we get to hear all the gory details of his past craziness, as he sits in an interogation room and tells his tale to a psychiatrist.
SPECIES 3
WRITER: Ben Ripley
DIRECTOR: Brad Turner
STARRING: Robin Dunne as Dean
Robert Knepper as Dr. Abbot
Amelia Cooke as Amelia
J.P. Pitoc as Hastings
Michael Warren as Agent Wasach
Christopher Neame as Dr. Nicholas Turner
Patricia Bethune as Colleen
Joel Stoffer as Portus
James Leo Ryan as Yosef
Savanna Fields as Young Sara
Natasha Henstridge as Eve
Sunny Mabrey as Sara
QUICK CUT: The hybrid aliens are back for more killing and screwing, but this time Eve is out of the picture, and we focus on a new generation of alien sex machines. Which is the name of my Nickleback cover band.
PUPPET MASTER 5
WRITERS: Screenplay by Steven E. Carr, Jo Duffy, Todd Henschell, and Doug Aarniokoski & Keith Payson
DIRECTOR: Jeff Burr
STARRING: Gordon Currie as Rick Meyers
Chandra West as Susie
Ian Ogilvy as Jennings
Teresa Hill as Lauren
Nicholas Guest as Hendy
Willard Pugh as Jason
Duane Whitaker as Scott
Guy Rolfe as Andre Toulon
QUICK CUT: More puppets, more demon puppets, more stabby action. You get the drill by now, right? This picks up shortly after Puppet Master 4, and finishes up the half baked, half finished plot of that movie. Just like Harry Potter!
REVENGE
WRITERS: Story by James Vance
Written by Christopher Lewis
DIRECTOR: Christopher Lewis
STARRING: Patrick Wayne as Michael Hogan
John Carradine as Senator Bradford
Bennie Lee McGowan as Gracie Moore
Josef Hardy as Doctor White
QUICK CUT: The blood cult is back! Joel's brother comes to pay his disrespect, and gets sucked into the unanswered mysteries circling around this Oklahoman town.
RIPPER 2: LETTER FROM WITHIN
WRITERS: Screenplay by Jonas Quastel & John Sheppard
Additional screenplay by Pat Bermel
Story by Evan Tylor & Jonas Quastel
DIRECTORS: Lloyd A. Simandl & Jonas Quastel
STARRING: Erin Karpluk as Molly Keller
Nicholas Irons as Erich Goeth
Jane Peachey as Lara Svetlana
Mhairi Steenbock as Juliette Dureau
Colin Lawrence as Roberto Edwards
Myfanwy Waring as Sally Trigg
Daniel Cooman as Grant Jessup
Richard Bremmer as Dr. Weisser
QUICK CUT: Molly Keller is still crazy, may or may not be Jack the Ripper's descendant, and still trying to get help. This time, she's subjected to a highly experimental virtual reality treatment to cure her sociopathic tendencies, and it works a little too well.
PUPPET MASTER 4
WRITERS: Screenplay by Todd Henschell, Steven E. Carr, Jo Duffy, and Doug Aarniokoski & Keith Payson.
DIRECTOR: Jeff Burr
STARRING: Gordon Currie as Rick Myers
Chandra West as Susie
Jason Adams as Cameron
Teresa Hill as Lauren
Felton Perry as Dr. Carl Baker
Stacie Randall as Dr. Leslie Piper
Guy Rolfe as Andre Toulon
QUICK CUT: Toulon's puppets are back AGAIN, and this time their history is arguably delved into as the source of their magic life-giving elixir shows up to stop the secrets of it from being discovered. Meanwhile, a tech geek is trying to create artificial life while playing with robots.
JACK FROST 2
WRITER & DIRECTOR: Michael Cooney
STARRING: Christopher Allport as Sam Tiler
Eileen Seeley as Anne Tiler
Chip Heller as Joe
Marsha Clark as Marla
Ray Cooney as the Colonel
David Allen Brooks as Agent Manners
Sean Patrick Murphy as Captain Fun
Tai Bennet as Bobby
Jennifer Lyons as Rose
Shonda Farr as Ashlea
Granger Green as Paisley
Ian Abercrombie as Doctor
Scott MacDonald as the voice of Jack Frost
QUICK CUT: After suffering a nervous breakdown following the events of the first Jack Frost movie, Sheriff Sam Tiler tries to get away from Snowmonton for the holidays, but while vacationing in the tropics for Christmas he learns the hard way that you can't escape the wrath of Jack Frost.
PUPPET MASTER 3
WRITER: C. Courtney Joyner
DIRECTOR: David DeCoteau
STARRING: Guy Rolfe as Andre Toulon
Sarah Douglas as Elsa Toulon
Walter Gotell as General Mueller
Ian Abercrombie as Dr. Hess
Kristofer Logan as Lt. Eric Stein
Aron Eisenberg as Peter Hertz
Matthew Faison as Papa Hertz
Richard Lynch as Major Kraus
QUICK CUT: Before Toulon's puppets were bloodthirsty killers, they lived simple lives as living puppet performers in his show. But World War II changed all that, and changed Toulon, and things would never be the same again.
CURSE 2: THE BITE
WRITERS: Susan Zelouf & Federico Prosperi
DIRECTOR: Fred Goodwin
STARRING: Jill Schoelen as Lisa Snipes
J. Eddie Peck as Clark Newman
Jamie Farr as Harry Morton
Bo Svenson as The Sheriff
QUICK CUT: The aftermath of the events at the Gardner farm come home to roost, as the space goo infects more water and more people...wait, what? This has nothing to do with the first movie? At all? Then what's this about? A radioactive snake bites a guy and turns his arm into a snake? What does that have to do with a meteor from space poisoning the water supply?? How is this a sequel? Sigh.
PUPPET MASTER 2
WRITERS: Story by Charles Band
Screenplay by David Pablan
DIRECTOR: David Allen
STARRING:
Elizabeth Maclellean as Carolyn Bramwell/Elsa
Collin Bernsen as Michael Kenney
Gregory Webb as Patrick Bramwell
Charlie Spradlin as Wanda
Steve Welles as Andre Toulon
Jeff Weston as Lance
Nita Talbot as Camille Kenney
SYNOPSIS: The puppety ones are back to wreak vengance upon a group of paranormal investigators looking into the death of Alex Whitaker from the original movie. And this time, they've brought their creator.
CORPSE GRINDERS 2
WRITER: Ted V. Mikels
DIRECTOR: Ted V. Mikels
STARRING:
Sean Morelli as Landau
Andy Freeman as Maltby
Chuck Alford as Caleb
Liz Renay as Cleo
Shanti as Felina
Paul MacDonald as Dr Howard Glass
Cara Jo Basso as Angie
Ted V. Mikels as Professor Mikoff
Gene Paul Jones as Borath
SYNOPSIS: The nephews of Landau and Maltby team up to revive their uncles' legacy, in more ways than just making the best darn cat food out there. They also encounter a surprising number of people with exactly the same names and jobs as their uncles met. Oh, and there's cat aliens looking for a little something to eat lurking around.
