Triskaidekafiles

Triskaidekafiles is a love letter to cheesy cinema from the 80s and 90s, with the occasional dip into other eras.  if you're a fan of MST3K, Elvira, Joe Bob Briggs, or just bad horror movies in general, Trisk is the place for you.

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Talisman (1998)

TALISMAN

WRITER: Benjamin Carr

DIRECTOR: David DeCoteau as Victoria Sloan

STARRING: Billy Parish as Elias
    Walter Jones as Jacob
    Jason Adelman as Burke
    Ilinca Goia as Lilia

QUICK CUT: Just an averag boarding school for boys in the middle of nowhere Europe, until it is suddenly besieged by some dude with glowing eyes ripping out hearts.  Well, that's one way to ruin your test scores.

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Robot Wars (1993)

ROBOT WARS

WRITERS: Based on an original idea by Charles Band
    Screenplay by Jackson Barr

DIRECTOR: Albert Band

STARRING: Don Michael Paul as Drake
    Barbara Crampton as Leda
    James Staley as Stumpy
    Lisa Rinna as Annie
    Danny Kamekona as Wa-Lee
    Yuji Okumoto as Chou-Sing
    Peter Haskell as Rooney

QUICK CUT: In another future that is vaguely similar to Robot Jox, but NOT THE SAME AT ALL, the last remaining mega robot is all that stands between the North Hemi nation being taken over by the Centros and the Eastern Alliance.  Brace yourselves for a lot of futurey sounding locations!

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Retro Puppet Master (1999)

RETRO PUPPET MASTER

WRITER: Original story by Charles Band
    Screenplay by Benjamin Carr

DIRECTOR: Joseph Tennent

STARRING: Greg Sestero as Young Toulon
    Brigitta Dau as Ilsa/Elsa
    Jack Donner as Afzel
    Stephan Blackehart as First Servant
    Guy Rolfe as Elder Toulon

QUICK CUT: As we near our 100th review, and on this Friday the 13th, journey back with us to a time beyond time, puppets before puppets, and witness the creation of the Puppet Master, in this final review from the boxed set, and one of the main influences behind Trisk.

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Killjoy (2000)

KILLJOY

WRITER: Carl Washington

DIRECTOR: Craig Ross

STARRING: Angel Vargas as Killjoy
    Vera Yell as Jada
    Lee Marks as Jamal
    "D" Austin as Monique
    Jamal Grimes as Michael
    Corey Hampton as T-Bone
    Rani Goulant as Baby Boy
    Arthur Burghardt as Homeless Man
    William L. Johnson as Lorenzo

QUICK CUT: A young man dies before his time, and a year later, the instrument of his revenge is called forth from beyond the grave, paited in white makeup, and somehow manages to not be Brandon Lee.

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Deathbed (2002)

DEATHBED

WRITER: John Strysik

DIRECTOR: Danny Draven

STARRING: Tanya Dempsey as Karen
    Brave Matthews as Jerry
    Joe Estevez as Art
    Meagan Magnum as Female ghost
    Dukey Flyswatter as The Strangler ghost.

QUICK CUT: A couple move into a nice little apartment in LA, and slowly discover that their cozy new home has a rather dark past.

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Robot Jox (1990)

ROBOT JOX

WRITERS: Story by Stuart Gordon
    Screenplay by Joe Haldeman

DIRECTOR: Stuart Gordon

STARRING: Gary Graham as Achilles
    Anne-Marie Johnson as Athena
    Paul Koslo as Alexander
    Robert Sampson as Commissioner Jameson
    Danny Kamekona as Dr. Matsumoto
    Hilary Mason as Professor LaPlace
    Michael Alldredge as Tex

QUICK CUT: In the near future, after the world has beend devastated by nuclear war, conflicts are resolved by one on one gladiatorial combat.  With uh, giant piloted robots.  Because that's a thing.

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Arcade (1993)

ARCADE

WRITER: Screenplay by David S. Goyer

DIRECTOR: Albert Pyun

STARRING: Megan Ward as Alex Manning
    Peter Billingsley as Nick
    John DeLancie as Difford
    Sharon Farrell as Alex's mom
    Seth Green as Stilts
    A.J. Langer as Laurie
    Norbert Weisser as Albert

QUICK CUT: When Dante's Inferno gets a preview of the hot new video game Arcade, no one suspects that it is secretly alive and killing people.

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Curse of the Puppet Master (1998)

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.

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Puppet Master 5 (1994)

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!

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Oblivion (1994)

OBLIVION

WRITERS: Based on an original story idea by Charles Band
    Story by John Rheaume and Greg Suddeth & Mark Goldstein
    Screenplay by Peter David

DIRECTOR: Sam Irvin

STARRING: Richard Joseph Paul as Zack Stone
    Jackie Swanson as Mattie Chase
    Andrew Divoff as Redeye
    Meg Foster as Stell Barr
    Isaac Hayes as Buster
    Julie Newmar as Miss Kitty
    Carel Struycken as Gaunt
    George Takei as Doc Valentine
    Musetta Vander as Lash
    Jimmie F. Skaggs as Buteo
    Irwin Keyes as Bork
    Mike Genovese as Marshall Stone
    Frank Roman as Wormhole
    Jeff Moldovan as Spanner

QUICK CUT: On the distant planet of Oblivion in the year 3031, the wild west meets the final frontier, when an outlaw lizard known as Redeye comes to town and kills the local marshall and decides to take over.

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The Killer Eye (1999)

THE KILLER EYE

WRITERS: Benjamin Carr, Matthew Jason Walsh, & Rolfe Kanefsky

DIRECTOR: Richard Chasen

STARRING: Jaqueline Lovell as Rita
    Jonathan Norman as Dr. Jordan Grady
    Nanette Bianchi as Jane
    Costas Koromilas as Morton
    Dave Oren Ward as Tom
    Blake Bailey as Creepy Bill
    Roland Martinez as Joe

QUICK CUT: After experimenting with interdimensional viewing, something escapes from the eighth dimension and wreaks havoc upon an apartment complex.  And all it wants is a little love.

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Puppet Master 4 (1993)

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.

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Puppet Master 3 (1991)

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.

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Lurking Fear (1994)

LURKING FEAR

WRITERS: Short story by H.P. Lovecraft
   Movie by C. Courtney Joyner

DIRECTOR: C. Courtney Joyner

STARRING: John Finch as Bennett
   Blake Bailey as John Martense
   Ashley Lauren as Cathryn Farrell
   Jeffrey Combs as Doctor Haggis
   Allison Mackie as Ms. Marlowe
   Paul Mantee as Father Poole
   Joe Leavengood as Pierce
   Vincent Schiavellia as Knaggs

QUICK CUT: A Lovecraft story about creatures living underneath a town and eating the residents gets run over by a noir story about criminals seeking a buried fortune.  Hilarity ensues.

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Sideshow (2000)

SIDESHOW

WRITER: Benjamin Carr

DIRECTOR: Fred Olen Ray

STARRING:
  
Jamie Martz as Bobby
   Michael Amos as Tommy
   Scott Clark as Grant
   Jessica Keenan as Melanie
   Phil Fondacaro as Abbot Graves
   Jeana Blackman as Jeanie
   G. Gordon Baer as Lester
   Curran Sympson as Aelita
   Fred Pierce as Hans the Bug Boy
   Ross Hagen as the Sheriff
   Shyra Deland as Digestina
   Melvin Rossi as Conjoino
   Brinke Stevens as Madame Voloska

SYNOPSIS: A group of students visit a travelling carnival and run afoul of the people running the sideshow.  Once a few of them start disappearing, haven't I done this movie before?

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Puppet Master 2 (1991)

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.

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Dark Angel: The Ascent (1994)

DARK ANGEL: THE ASCENT

WRITER: Matthew Bright

DIRECTOR: L. Hassani

STARRING:
  
Daniel Markel as Dr. Max Barris
   Michael Genovese as Detective Harper
   Charlotte Stewart as Mother Theresa
   Nicholas Worth as Father Helliken
   Michael C. Mahon as Detective Greenberg
   Milton James as Mayor Wharton
   Angela Featherstone as Veronica

SYNOPSIS: A young girl from another land ventures forth into the real world with her animal companion, where her strange ways clash with ours.  As she seeks to find her purpose, she creates new clothes out of fabrics laying around the house.  If there was more singing and less killing, this would be Enchanted.

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PUPPET MASTER (1989)

PUPPET MASTER (1989)

WRITER:
   Story by Charles Band and Kenneth J. Hall
   Screenplay by Joseph G. Collodi

DIRECTOR: David Schmoeller

STARRING:
  
Paul Le Mat as Alex Whitaker
   Irene Miracle as Dana Hadley
   Matt Roe as Frank Forrester
   Kathryn O'Reilly as Carissa Stamford
   Jimmie F. Skaggs as Neil Gallagher
   Introducing Robin Frates as Megan Gallagher
   William Hickey as Andre Toulon

SYNOPSIS: A group of psychic researchers are drawn to a hotel in California where you can check out any time you like, but the killer puppets on the loose may have something different to say about that.

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