USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Unnameable (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Unnameable was on USA Up All Night on October 7, 1989. Based on “The Unnamable” by H.P. Lovecraft, this movie was directed and written by Jean-Paul Ouellette. It begins in the Winthrop house, a place where a female demon is hiding, having already killed the owner. Randolph Carter (Mark Kinsey Stephenson) is a […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Less Than Zero (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Less Than Zero was on USA Up All Night on June 25, 1994. Directed by Marek Kanievska, written by Harley Peyton and based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero exists in that world where five years seem to have passed between high school graduation and Thanksgiving break during the first year […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Iron Eagle (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Iron Eagle was on USA Up All Night on July 28, 1989. The video store and cable era did not believe in “we have that at home.” It believed that if Top Gun was already rented or wasn’t on, we needed something just like it. That something was Iron Eagle, which came out the […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Dr. Alien (1989)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Alien was on USA Up All Night. Does anyone know when? How do I keep going down the rabbit hole of David DeCoteau films? Well, here we go again, with Ms. Xenobia (Judy Landers, Hellhole, Stewardess School) coming from space to teach biology to a bunch of horndog teenagers, including Bad Ronald’s half-brother Bill Jacoby. He’s […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Bachelor Party (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bachelor Party was on USA Up All Night on September 24, 1994; May 12 and November 25, 1995. Directed by Neal Israel, who co-wrote it with Pat Proft, this was a formative movie in my teenage years. Probably yours, as well. I mean, who doesn’t remember Nick the Dick? Rick Gassko (Tom Hanks) has […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Ghoulies II (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ghoulies II was on USA Up All Night on February 2, May 3 and December 7, 1991. Directed and written by Albert Band, this was the last Ghoulies movie to have any involvement from Charles Band, who sold the rights to Vestron Pictures to save Empire Pictures. The ghoulies hit the road in this one, hiding […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Critters 2: The Main Course (1989)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Critters 2: The Main Course was on USA Up All Night on June 9, 1997. The first film Mick Garris directed, Critters 2, brings the evil aliens back to Earth as a hidden number of eggs hatch, bringing Ug (Terence Mann), Lee (Roxanne Kernohan), and Charlie McFadden (Don Keith Opper) back to the planet to stop […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Puppet Master III was on USA Up All Night on May 24, 1996. Directed by David DeCoteau and written by Charles Band, C. Courtney Joyner and David Schmoeller, Puppet Master III is not a sequel but instead a prequel, starring Guy Rolfe as the creator of the many puppets that we’ve come to know, love […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Puppet Master 2 (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Puppet Master II was on USA Up All Night on May 24, 1996. Puppet Master 2 begins in 1990 as André Toulon’s grave is being excavated by Pinhead, who opens the coffin and pours a vial onto his creator’s skeleton while Blade, Jester, Tunneler, and Leech Woman watch. Soon, the skeleton raises his arms, and […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Puppet Master (1989)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Puppet Master was on USA Up All Night on January 30, 1993. Puppet Master may have started with one direct-to-video movie, but since then, there have been ten sequels, a crossover with Demonic Toys and a recent reboot, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. After Empire Pictures went out of business, Charles Band started Full Moon Productions, […]
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