Brinke Stevens Movies
Condensed from the 13-episode series directed by Ted Newsom and hosted by horror movie star Christopher Lee, 100 Years of Horror, the two-hour version, is a celebratory overview of the Hollywood horror genre, rich with film clips from horror movies throughout most of the 20th century. Stars getting screen time here include old masters Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Claude Rains, as well as The Omega Man himself, Charlton Heston, Halloween babysitter Jamie Lee Curtis, and horror dabblers Robert De Niro and Kenneth Branagh. The program includes interviews with directors Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, and Herschell G. Lewis, and with actors (host) Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Claude Rains. Highlights include outtakes from the surprisingly effective Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) and from the 1960 version of The Lost World. ~ Steve Blackburn, All Movie Guide
In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime, but did she do it? ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, (more)
This is a movie about a movie that is entitled Bad Girls from Mars. Mystery develops when the bountifully buxomed leading ladies are murdered one-by-one. All fingers point to a mysterious masked man who is leaving notes around to add to the suspense. Most of the crimes involve some sort of nasty sex scene, making the detective on the case wary of several of the deviant characters involved in the movie production. The viewer must determine who the real culprit is. ~ All Movie Guide
In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked out on him, so he has no place to sleep. His pal offers him the use of his apartment for the evening. The apartment happens to be equipped with a huge picture window and telescope, enabling him to spy on his beautiful neighbor Gloria (Deborah Shelton) while she undresses. He also bears witness to her brutal murder. And then he meets a porn star (Melanie Griffith), who has just taken a job posing as the late Gloria. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, (more)
Tony Todd Tiffany Shepis, Daniel Roebuck, and George Wendt star in this thriller inspired by the true story of a well-known Arizona cult. Small town therapist Jonathan has recently formed a strange fixation on a local cult that worships a mythological figure who was brutally murdered. With every step that Jonathan takes towards understanding the true inner-workings of the dangerous cult, his chances of escaping with his belief system intact diminishes. Perhaps Jonathan was destined to become yet another covert to this warped belief system from the very beginning. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Todd, George Wendt, (more)
A cheerleading squad find themselves stranded in the mountains, while a convicted serial killer is on the loose, rampaging the area in yet another pseudo-sequel to The Slumber Party Massacre. With only their wits and pom poms to guide them, a group of six high school teens are led into the wilderness by their coach Ms. Hendricks (ex- Fear Factor winner Tamie Sheffield) and wise-crackin' bus driver Buzzy (Leonard Johnson) when their van breaks down in the middle of the woods. Meanwhile, the manhunt is on for a crazy driller-killer that's escaped from prison, seeking fresh blood and vengeance for those that wronged him in the past. When our gorgeous group finds shelter in a seemingly abandoned cottage, the temperature goes from cold to hot, as hormones rage while the body count piles up. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tamie Sheffield, Charity Rahmer, (more)
A pair of down-on-their-luck friends in debt to the mob find that a demented mafia hitman is the least of their worries when they attempt to rob a mysterious newcomer to their town in this sexy tale of terror starring scream queen Brinke Stevens and special-effects wizard Tom Savini. Nick and Tony are in deep trouble with the mob, and if they don't pay back the money that they owe in three days, sadistic hitman Eddie "The Goose" Rao will be more than happy to ensure they are never heard from again. When Nick and Troy's desperate attempts to acquire the money all fail miserably, they set their sights on Amanda -- a mesmerizing town newcomer with a strange reputation and an unusual knack for nocturnal outings. Now trapped between the horrors of hell and the cold grip of the mob, Nick and Troy's fight for their lives turns into a struggle for their immortal souls. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Savini, Brinke Stevens, (more)
Sometime in the future, cyborg units are threatening to take over the Earth. After their use is outlawed, four female androids are smuggled onto the planet, and it's up to Jack Ford (Marc Singer) to track them down. His efforts to do so take him on a journey from Phoenix to the underwater city of New Angeles, and finally into the nefarious realm of a megalomaniacal kingpin and his army of thugs. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marc Singer
In spite of some interesting names attached to this low-budget, embarrassing horror film (Rafael Buñuel, son of acclaimed Luis Buñuel is the co-writer and co-producer), the result is anemic. At the core of the story, seven athletes in training for the Olympics at the Falcon Academy of Athletics in Massachusetts are violently slain by a killer with a wicked javelin toss. Most of the women in the film are portrayed as lesbians (apparently a straight woman can do no more than wield a wicked crochet hook), or their gender is indeterminate because of the drugs they imbibe -- a side issue in the film. Clichéd, predictable, and lacking in suspense, Fatal Games was never released theatrically. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sally Kirkland, Lynn Banashek, (more)
Peter Rader directed this horror film about a teen-aged orphan named Lynn (Kim Valentine) who accompanies her young brother David (Eric Foster) to live on their grandparents' farm after their father dies. Before long, it becomes obvious that all is not right on the farm, and that the grandparents (Ida Lee and Len Lesser) are hiding a dark secret. Cult favorite Brinke Stevens stars as the kids' insane mother, whom the grandparents have drugged to control her homicidal impulses, and screenwriter Peter Jensen provides the atmospheric photography. Some chilling moments and a particularly creepy performance by Lesser make this average slasher film worthwhile. Producer Nico Mastorakis had co-written the story for the abominable The Greek Tycoon (1978) before turning to genre filmmaking. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eric Foster, Kim Valentine, (more)
Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray bulldozes Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Premature Burial" in this sleazy direct-to-video thriller. B-movie babe Brinke Stevens stars as an heiress tormented night and day by the ever-present phobia of being buried alive. Thanks to hypnotic past-life regression sessions under the guidance of New Age therapist Karen Black, she learns that she was indeed buried alive in a previous existence. Despite her relief at this discovery, Stevens' money-hungry husband (Jay Richardson) still goes through with his plan to place her in a sealed box while she sleeps, hoping it will cause her to die of fright. Instead, she goes completely berserk, breaking free and coming after him with a knife. Though no cheaper than Roger Corman's early forays into Poe territory, this incoherent and sex-laden mess more closely resembles recent exploitation product from Corman's Concorde-New Horizons direct-to-video outfit, and makes 1962's The Premature Burial seem masterful by comparison. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jan-Michael Vincent, Brinke Stevens, (more)
Prepare to scream and soak at the same time as collection of clips from such slasher flicks as Sorority House Massacre 2, Tower of Terror, Slumber Party Massacre, and Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers are all combined into one brand-new fright fest that doesn't skimp on the skin. Brought together under mysterious circumstances by the legendary Count Orlock, Brinke Stevens, Monique Gabrielle, Kelli Maroney, Michelle Bauer, and Roxanne Kernohan arrive at their destination only to discover that the count is nowhere to be found. In hopes of passing the time before their host arrives, the girls soon retire to the hot tub to discuss the finer points of achieving scream queen status. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
In this cyber-savvy horror opus, several people surfing the internet stumble upon a site called "horrorvision.com". However, this proves to be no average bit of web design -- folks who click into the site don't survive to browse elsewhere, and it takes a internet expert named Dez and a mysterious stranger named Bradbury to uncover the secret of Manifesto, the villain responsible for the killer web page. Horror Vision stars James Black, Maggie Rose Fleck, Josh Covitt, and scream queen Brinke Stevens. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
A handful of people who think they've survived it all are faced with a challenge they never counted on in this futuristic sci-fi story. After much of the Earth is devastated in a nuclear war, a hardy band of survivors -- including scientific and Marine Corps Colonel Paul Hamilton (John Blyth Barrymore), medic Leslie Morgan (Brinke Stevens), computer expert Milo Tyrell (Ted Monte), USMC Sgt. Frank Blaine (Peter Spellos), communications technician Carla Ferguson (J.J. North), and McQueen (Tim Abell), a straggler looking for his lost son -- roam the wastelands in search of food and shelter. Looking for a place to stay, they happen upon an abandoned military facility and break in. However, they soon discover they're not alone; a large and very bloodthirsty creature, created by intelligence agents as a possible weapon, was left behind, and these weary warriors quickly find themselves in the most desperate battle of their lives. Hybrid was directed by B-movie cult hero Fred Olen Ray. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction -- an invisibility potion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dee Wallace, Barry Livingston, (more)
This Florida-lensed slasher silliness (not surprisingly produced by exploitation overlord Fred Olen Ray) is enlivened only slightly by posthumous cameos from John Carradine and Cameron Mitchell, as well as appearances from B-movie "Scream Queens" Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens. The plot is basically a riff on the standard Freddy Krueger-esque supernatural-maniac formula, only here the unstoppable psycho is merely a lumbering ghoul with a big pumpkin for a head, awakened from a cursed sleep on Halloween night by the usual handful of obnoxious teenage morons. Amid confusing flashback sequences and some phony occult blathering (courtesy of the town witch), we're told that Jack-O is the incarnation of a murdered farmer who has returned to avenge himself by taking a scythe to his killers' ancestors, but this particular pumpkinhead's people-reaping spree seems to cover a much broader swath, including a crop of nubile young things -- preferably just out of the shower, or fresh from a randy romp in the local cemetery. Even allowing for a certain camp appeal, there's not an original concept to be found amid the abundant nudity and severed limbs. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Linnea Quigley, Rebecca Wicks, (more)
In this martial arts flick, Los Angeles is once again torn by street gangs, who are still killing each other over the same things, year after year -- drugs, money, power and glory. Young (Jun Chong) is the leader of a gang, but his goal is to return to his homeland where he belongs and leave this the insanity of L. A. behind. Standing in his way is a turf war, a family falling apart at the seams, and a bang-up, knock 'em dead showdown with a powerful drug cartel and its chief hitman, Kruger (Bill Wallace). ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jun Chong, Phillip Rhee, (more)
This lame sex "comedy" is about a virgin named Freddie who has a major complex about his mother and won't let himself become involved with any other woman. Director Bert Gordon made his "reputation" grinding out cheap sci-fi giant-bug movies in the '50s and '60s. He should have stayed with them. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son (Eddie Deezen). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eddie Deezen, Morgan Fairchild, (more)
A boy makes the acquaintence of a 500 pound gorilla, and the two become fast friends. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gil Gerard, Kevin Dobson, (more)


























