Matthew Jason Walsh Movies
A masked killer crashes a lavish masquerade party in director David DeCoteau's modern updating of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale. It's time for the biggest gay party of the year; unfortunately the host has chosen the site of the infamous Ravenswood Massacre to stage his blowout gala. Now, as the guests roll in for a rollicking evening of debauchery and excess, the body count begins to multiply. With each passing hour more victims turn up, leaving the frightened survivors to wonder who will die next. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
John Buechler's horror film Ice Crawlers begins with a team of scientists getting information in the Arctic. Their actions awaken some nasty creatures that have been lying dormant for centuries. Now, they are hunting the scientists down one at a time. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Götz Otto, Alexandra Kamp, (more)
- 2002
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A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story. A handful of high school students have been entertaining themselves on weekends by playing an elaborate role-playing game in which they impersonate witches, warlocks, and other magical beings. One weekend, they decide to up the ante by breaking into the school and using the building's nooks and crannies to make the competition more challenging. One of the teens has brought along a book of magic spells, and they decide to throw some incantations into the games to make things more interesting. What the kids didn't count on is that the spells actually work, and soon the role-players have unleashed an unspeakable and dangerous force. The Brotherhood III: Young Demons stars Eric Roberts, William Gregory Lee, Kristopher Turner, and Elisa Donovan. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Murder mystery games are supposed to have all the fun of a real killing without all the mess and bleakness that comes with an actual death. However, in The Final Stab, someone isn't playing by the rules. From director David DeCoteau (Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge), the film stars Jamie Gannon as one of several young adult pals who converge in a house for a murder-mystery weekend. But when the players really start turning up dead, the fun turns to terror. Melissa Renee Martin also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
The Frightening is a horror film set in a high school. Not long after Corey Patterson (Matt Twining) and his mother (Brinke Stevens) move into a new town, he is involved in a school rivalry between the popular kids and the outsiders. Soon they all have a deeper problem to deal with. Jack Carlisle III, Robert Donavan, and Tanya Dempsey round out the cast of this film that was directed by David DeCoteau (Final Stab, The Brotherhood, Retro Puppet Master). ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Matt Twining
- 2001
Rosemary's Baby meets The Lost Boys in David DeCoteau's follow-up to his 2000 film The Brotherhood, which keeps the same setting as that film, an exclusive private school known as Chandler Academy. In this film, a warlock named Luc (Forrest Cochran) uses his powers to seduce three young students into doing his bidding. The tension builds as the students slowly discover that Luc may be using them as conduits to bring the Devil to life. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 1999
- PG13
A pair of outcast teenagers find their lives changed when they come across a cache of alien weapons. By donning the extraterrestrial armor, they are transformed into mighty warriors; however, they also attract the attention of the original owners, who are not happy at having their ammo dump uncovered. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Witchouse, a quickie horror film from Full Moon Pictures and director Jack Reed, concerns a young woman named Elizabeth LeFey (Ashley McKinney). She invites some of her old school friends to her creepy Dunwich, MA, home for a May Day haunted-house party. The first couple to arrive finds the house decked out with candles, torches, jack-o-lanterns, and so on before being stabbed to death in the basement by a gruesome-looking old hag with glowing eyes. When the other unsuspecting guests arrive, Elizabeth reveals a pentagram on her living room floor, telling them about her ancestor, Lilith, a witch who was burned at the stake on that night 300 years ago. Later, she raises the demonic Lilith (Ariauna Albright), now a fanged monster who zaps people with blue lightning until they die, because all but one are descendants of the original witch hunters who killed her. Many of the dead come back as possessed demons and interrupt the usual teen horror sexathon with some nasty violence. Executive producer Charles Band has a credit for "original story," which one can only assume means that he jotted down some notes while watching 1987's Night of the Demons and 1985's Demoni on late-night cable. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
In this fantasy tale for the whole family, three children discover the home of an elderly clock builder holds an amazing secret -- he possesses a collection of clocks that control the past, present, and future of the entire world. When one of the children is mistakenly transported into the past, it's up to the other two to rescue him and prevent the future from going astray. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
This gruesome and surprisingly well-done indie shocker from Matthew Jason Walsh (who wrote Blonde Heaven and The Sandman) concerns a psychotic woman (Ariauna Albright from Witchouse) who tracks down a famous serial killer and blackmails him into teaching her the tricks of his trade. Their bizarre relationship and some gruesome murders (including a shotgunned infant) make this one not for the faint of heart. The cast list is like a who's who of contemporary indie horror, (Sasha Graham, Tina Krause, Scooter McCrae) and the film is overall a treat for fans of hard-edged splatter. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
When his spaceship crashes on an alien planet, an astronaut finds it to be populated by cowgirls living in the style of the old American West. Since he's the first hombre these buffalo gals have seen in years, there's a veritable stampede to be the first to ride this wild stallion. It's all low-budget erotic fun. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Kaitan, Troy Vincent, (more)
Someone, or something, is knocking off the residents of the Yokum Trailer Park. Late one night a writer who can't get to sleep notices strange goings-on at the trailer next to him and catches a glimpse of a glowing, red-eyed creature. He decides to see what the connection is between the creature and the fact that all his neighbors are being killed off. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
- 1994
- R
Full Moon Pictures presents this softcore horror film, starring cult-favorite Julie Strain in the role of Illyana the leader of a group of vampires masquerading as models. Michelle Bauer plays an innocent and nubile young woman who thinks she's going to work for a modeling agency, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a sexy band of bloodsucking creatures of the night. Martin Sheen's brother Joe Estevez co-stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julie Strain, Michelle Bauer, (more)
- 1993
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The sequel to the 1980 original finds the only survivor of a family of killers (Matthew Jason Welsh) raping and murdering a series of female victims he meets on the street. However, one victim's roommate (Jo Norcia) becomes suspicious and tries to solve the killing with the help of a police detective (Chuck Pierce). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1991
During a drug bust, a narcotics cop comes up against a voodoo priest called Dr. Death. The cop kills Dr. Death as he is chanting a voodoo curse, but Dr. Death manages to kill the cop in the process, damning him to an existence as a zombie. During the night both rise from their graves as members of the living dead -- but the cop enlists the help of his human partners to track down and stop Dr. Death from taking over the world. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide
- 1991
This tiny-budgeted, direct-to-video vampire item from Dead Next Door producer-director J.R. Bookwalter tells the story of young Jeff, an apparently mild-mannered and likable kid who lives with his mother and works the night shift at the neighborhood liquor store, a suitable place of employment for a century-old vampire. Content with keeping a low profile, Jeff is nevertheless forced to reveal his true nature to pretty young Nina in order to protect her from his hideous, homicidal mom, who has a penchant for preying on local children. Owing a lot to George Romero's character-based vampire film Martin, this entry offers little new to the genre, with more emphasis on shocks and creepy visuals than storytelling, but Bookwalter manages to keep things moving at a brisk pace and remains one of the few independent genre filmmakers with enough style to overcome the unavoidably cheap look of shot-on-video projects. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
