Alright, another round at horror pics you should check out.


Phantasm II (1988)
"You think you die you go to heaven? You come to us!"

What a quote. I mentioned on my previous journal about the first flick. Now, I decided to include the sequel because this is the best out of the four (soon with five coming out) films.

The Ball is back! Tall Man aint finished yet. He's still got a world to rule with him and his evil dwarf minions and flying balls. Which is why Mike and Reggie are once again reunited to put a stop to him nearly ten years after the first film.

A couple of problems while making the film since Universal had control of the filming. Mike Pearson character originally played by Micheal Baldwin is recasted by James LeGros and Bill Thornberry's Jody character was completely omitted, along with not giving Don Coscarelli a chance to film the dream sequence or ambiguity. Another is the DVD release was on the bottom of Universal's Fucks to Give list up until the bare bones release in 2009 (while I, III and IV were released by Anchor Bay). At last, a special edition was released in 2013 on DVD and Blu-ray by Scream Factory.


Lifeforce (1985)
Vampires are not always crypt lurkers of the night, sleeping in coffins, sucking blood and such. The definition of the said name is varied when it comes to devouring life. In this case, we have aliens that devour the human lifeforce. That's exactly what we get when an abandon space shuttle they found was holding after they lost contact months earlier. Awakening from their suspended animation, they unleash Hell against the English citizens of London.

Directed by Tobe Hooper shortly after Poltergeist (which is still debated that Stephen Speilburg secretly directed), and a very powerful film score by Henry Mancini. The US release was edited down and rescored with a different music. The director's cut would later be put back on video, DVD and Blu-Ray release.

The Strangers (2007)
A very unappreciated horror flick. A Modern Horror that was actually really good. This one had a real Alfred Hitchcock feel to it, involving a young couple being menaced by a trio of masked home invaders toying with them before making their deadly move.

This here finally revealed on why Roger Ebert hated most horror movies (though he loved how Brian Brintino directed it until the very end). For that hits close to home with reality with Ebert for he believes movies are meant to be an escape from the bad stuff and not to be reminded. I guess raising awareness on deadly home invasion, rape and revenge (I Spit on your Grave), pushing back (Strawdogs), and memoirs of a murderer (Maniac) is a no no for him in cinemas.


You're Next (2013)
While Im on the home invasion topic, let's double feat it with this! With a family get-together gets some uninvited guests crashing the party by poaching them off. A Modern horror with a flavor of 80s horror into it is definitely a must.

Alone in the Dark (1982)
Okay, one more home invasion themed flicks. This time, we're going back to the 80s. When a town falls into a blackout, a quartet of Loonies to escape from the mental asylum to give the doctor (and his family) a taste of his own medicine.

Radical Remakes: The Blob (1988)
"Terror has no shape!" the tag warns. The 80s Hollywood decided to give this 1960s classic a new look with superior 80s special effects with even more juicier and gruesome deaths that makes it truly frightening. With an unknown organism crash into a near by town, it grows in gross proportions as it devours the unfortunate. With the teenage rebel and the girl who are the only ones who know what happened yet no one believes them. Can they figure out how to stop them before it grows enough to devour the world?

While I know most love the original The Blob, this one CRUSHES the original.


Hauntingly Obscure: The Ghastly Ones (1968)
How far would you go to claim your family inheritance? This crazy in this flick would go as far as butchering his family members one by one to get to it!

Such sweet, sickening splatter of the sixties is still banned in UK during the Video Nasty times in the 1980s.


~Jäger