House of Horror (Archive)

Author: Chris Neville

  • Demons 3: The Ogre

    Demons 3: The Ogre
    Tagline: What happens when the nightmares of your childhood suddenly become reality?
    Released: 1991
    Starring Virginia Bryant, David Flosi, Patrizio Vinci
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Lamberto Bava, Dardano Sacchetti

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Shriek Show
    Released: August 19, 2003

    Features:
    Trailer
    Interview with Lamberto Bava

    Premise: Cheryl, a best-selling author of horror novels, goes on vacation with her family to an ancient villa in the Italian countryside. Legend has it the villa is said to be cursed, and very soon, Cheryl realizes that the hideous ogre that haunted her dreams as a child is alive and living in the basement of this very house. She becomes obsessed with his presence but fails to convince anyone else that he exists. It’s not until the ogre kills the babysitter and kidnaps Cheryl’s child that it becomes apparent that the stories she writes are becoming reality.

    Plot Breakdown (spoilers): Ever since she was a child, Cheryl has had frequent nightmares of a fiendish ogre dwelling in the basement of a stately European castle. Years after the nightmares, Cheryl has now become a world famous horror author, and lives in Italy with her husband Tom and son Bobby. While on vacation in the Italian countryside, Cheryl and her family take up residence in an old Italian villa… that seems to look all too familiar to Cheryl. Now the nightmares of her childhood are coming true, as the monster in the basement of the villa begins to make its presence known. Cheryl must now find a way to stop the beast before it can harm her family.
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  • Demons

    Demons
    Tagline: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs.
    Released: 1985
    Starring Urbando Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, and Fiore Argento
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, and Dardano Sacchetti

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Anchor Bay
    DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007

    Features:
    Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
    Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Surround 2.0
    Audio Commentary with Director Lamberto Bava, Mechanical and Transformation artist Sergio Stivaletti, and journalist Loris Curci
    Behind the Scenes Footage
    Trailers

    Premise: They will make cemeteries their cathedrals and the cities will be your tombs! In 1985, Italian horror masters Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava unleashed this landmark splatter shocker about a group of strangers invited to a sneak preview at a mysterious movie theater, only to be trapped inside and transformed one-by-one into carnage-crazed monsters. It’s a one-of-a-kind combination of creepy terror and relentless gore-orgy, featuring a pounding soundtrack of ‘80s metal, a throbbing score by Claudio Simonetti (SUSPIRIA), and gut-churning special effects by Sergio Stivaletti (CEMETARY MAN, PHENOMENA). This is DEMONS as you’ve never seen it before, with every blood-drenched frame now fully remastered for the ultimate in ooze-spewing, flesh-flaying, spine-ripping madness!

    Plot Breakdown: When Cheryl and her friend Kathy arrive in a subway station, they come across a mysterious man in a metal mask handing out flyers advertising the opening of a new theater. The two friends decide to visit the theater, where they sit down to a horror film along with a small group of other moviegoers. Meanwhile, a prostitute who cut herself on a metal mask hanging in the lobby goes to the bathroom to inspect her wound. Her cut festers and mutates, turning her into a ravenous demon that is able to transform others into demons with just a scratch. The demon plague spreads rapidly, forcing the desperate moviegoers to fight for their lives against a legion of hell-spawned beasts. With the help of two young men, George and Ken, Cheryl and Kathy must find a way to escape the madness before they too become hideous demons.
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  • Demons 2

    Demons 2
    Tagline: A film by Lamberto Bava
    Released: 1986
    Starring David Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, and Bobby Rhodes
    Directed by Lamberto Bava
    Written by Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Anchor Bay
    DVD Release Date: September 25, 2007

    Features:
    Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
    Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Surround 2.0
    Audio Commentary with Director Lamberto Bava, Mechanical and Transformation artist Sergio Stivaletti, and journalist Loris Curci
    Trailers

    Premise: One year after Demons tore its way through the world’s gore-loving hearts, Italian horror maestros Dario Argento and Lambero Bava returned once again, unleashing a flood of demonic carnage upon the screen. This time, the residents of a luxury high-rise apartment building are transformed into monsters for a gut-spattered siege, complete with acid blood, cannibal kids, zombie dogs, and a birthday party gone horribly wrong. Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (Argento’s Opera), Bobby Rhodes (Demons) and Asia Argento (in her first film role) star in this insane shock from “The Golden Age of ‘80s Italian Splatter,” now fully remastered.

    Plot Breakdown (spoilers): On the night of her birthday party, Sally is watching a horror film on TV about a group of explorers going into the walled-off forbidden zone, where the demons invaded in the first film. The explorers’ curiosity resurrects one of the demons, who then comes out of Sally’s TV to spread its own brand of demonic misery in her high-rise apartment building. Now, the residents in the building must fight for their survival against a swelling wave of blood-thirsty demons.
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  • Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

    Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
    Tagline: Evil has finally found a home.
    Released: 1993
    Starring John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Erin Gray, Allison Smith, Steven Culp, Steven Williams, and Kane Hodder
    Directed by Adam Marcus
    Written by Jay Huguely, Adam Marcus, and Dean Lorey

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by New Line Home Video
    DVD Release Date: October 8, 2002

    Features:
    Unrated and R-Rated versions
    Widescreen presentation
    Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound
    DTS Surround sound
    Stereo Surround sound
    English subtitles and closed captions
    Filmmaker commentary with Director Adam Marcus and Screenwriter Dean Lorey
    TV version alternate scenes
    Scene selection
    Original Theatrical Trailer

    Premise: Jason Voorhees, the living breathing essence of evil, is back for another fierce fling. Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he’s finally dead. But everyone assumes wrong. Jason has been reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. The terrifying truth is he could be anywhere. Or anybody.

    In this shocking, blood soaked installment to Jason’s carnage-ridden reign of terror, the secret of his unstoppable killing instinct is finally revealed. And once you know the chilling facts, you’ll see him your nightmares. And he’ll see you in hell!

    Plot Breakdown (spoilers): In this supposed “final” chapter in the Friday series, Jason is allegedly destroyed after being blown to pieces in an FBI raid. However, Jason lives on by transferring his evil heart from one body to another, taking control of them in the process. The only way that Jason can reclaim his former glory is to possess the body of another Voorhees, leading him on a gory quest for his long-lost relatives. The secrets to bringing Jason down are guarded by bounty hunter Creighton Duke, who must pass these secrets on to Jason’s relatives before Jason can get to them himself.
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  • Hatchet (Unrated Director’s Cut)

    Hatchet (Unrated Director’s Cut)
    Tagline: Old School American Horror
    Released: 2007
    Starring Joel Moore, Deon Richmond, Tamara Feldman, and Kane Hodder
    Directed by Adam Green
    Written by Adam Green

    Format: DVD
    Distributed by Anchor Bay
    DVD Release Date: December 18, 2007

    Features:
    1.78:1 Widescreen Presentation
    Dolby Surround 5.1, Dolby Surround 2.0
    Feature-length audio commentary with director Adama Green, cinematographer Will Barratt, and actors Joel David Moore, Deon Richmond, and Tamara Feldman.
    The Making of Hatchet
    Meeting Victor Crowley
    Guts and Gore
    Anatomy of a Kill
    A Twisted Tale
    Gag Reel
    Theatrical Trailer

    Premise: Get ready for one of the most talked-about, red-blooded American horror movies of the past 20 years: When a group of New Orleans tourists take a cheesy haunted swamp tour, they slam face-first into the local legend of deformed madman Victor Crowley. What follows is a psycho spree of seat-jumping scares, eye- popping nudity, skull-splitting mayhem and beyond. Joel David Moore (DODGEBALL), Deon Richmond (SCREAM 3) and Mercedes McNab (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) star – along with horror icons Tony ‘Candyman’ Todd, Robert ‘Freddy Krueger’ Englund and Kane ‘Jason’ Hodder – in this screamingly funny carnage classic that Fangoria hails as “a no-hold-barred homage to the days when slasher films were at their reddest and wettest!”

    Plot Breakdown (spoilers): Ben and a group of friends are on vacation in New Orleans, enjoying the sights and sounds of Mardi Gras. Ben is in the process of trying to get over his recent breakup with his girlfriend, so he and his friend Marcus decide to go on a haunted swamp tour to get his mind off his troubles. Joining them on the tour are sleazy porn “director” Shapiro and the two girls he’s filming, mysterious loner Marybeth, husband and wife tourists Mr. and Mrs. Permatteo, and shady tour guide Shawn. The theme of their tour centers around the legend of Victory Crowley, a deformed man who suffered an accidental death at the hands of his own father. Their swamp tour is cut short when their boat sinks, stranding them in the middle of the swamp. As it turns, out the legend of Victor Crowley is very real and very dangerous. Now, they must try to escape the woods before Crowley unleashes his bloody vengeance on them all.
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