UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2023: Deadly Game (1991)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Made for TV In this USA Network movie, […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 16: Man’s Best Friend (1993)
October 16: A Horror Film That Involves a Killer House Pet John Lafia also made The Blue Iguana and co-wrote Child’s Play and directed the sequel. He also made The Rats, the American made-for-TV movie adaptation of the books of James Herbert. It starts with the death of Judy Sanders (Robin Frates), an employee of the EMAX genetic […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Taxi Hunter (1993)
One of the most infamous movies branded with Hong Kong’s Category III adults only rating, Taxi Hunter is the story of Ah Kin (Anthony Wong), a man who was quiet and kind until he loses his pregnant wife to an unprofessional taxi driver. If you’ve seen Herman Yau’s Ebola Syndrome, you know the levels of craziness […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: The Bikini Carwash Company II (1993)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Bikini Car Wash Company II was on USA Up All Night on February 24, 1996 — with the first movie — as well as July 13, 1996; January 31 and July 20, 1997 — both times with the first film — and March 7, 1998 — again with The Bikini Carwash Company. What […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: The Dead Mother (1993)
Ismael (Karra Elejalde, Timecrimes) breaks into the house of a fine art restorer of religious icons and shoots her dead and a second bullet makes her daughter mentally handicapped. It also leaves Leire (Ana Álvarez) traumatized to the point that she will forever be in an institution. Twenty years later, he’s working in a bar and […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD RELEASE: Carlito’s Way (1993)
Al Pacino was working out at a New York City YMCA when he met New York state supreme court Judge Edwin Torres, the writer of Carlito’s Way and After Hours, the books this movie is based on. He’d tried several times to make a film version — even facing a 1989 lawsuit where he went back on […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Dream A Little Evil (1993)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dream A Little Evil aired on USA Up All Night on August 6, 1993; Febraury 26 and December 9, 1994 and June 24, 1995. Also known as Dream Evil, this has an unsuccessful electronics technician named George (Richard J. Sebastian) building a machine in the home he shares with his brother Mark (Tom Alexander) and sometimes with his […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: South Beach (1993)
Fred Williamson has made more than twenty movies as part of his Po’ Boy production company, often directing or co-directing — like this film, he had help making the movie from Alain Zaloum and a script by Michael Thomas Montgomery — the movies. This is the first and not the last of these movies that […]
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival: The Heroic Trio (1993)
An invisible woman — actually, Invisible Woman as played by Michelle Yeoh — is stealing newborn children who are destined to be world leaders for her boss, the Evil Master. He needs to be stopped but Invisible Woman owes him her life after leaving behind an abusive father. Luckily, she has two other heroes to push […]
Chattanooga Film Festival Red Eye #7: Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993)
H. P. Lovecraft (Jeffrey Combs!) tells his cabby (Brian Yuzna) to wait outside the monastery — he’s got a Necronomicon to find. As he races to find a copy before the monks stop him, he’s locked inside a room where he gets to discover the future through the book. The first story, “The Drowned,” is loosely […]
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