Douglas Schulze Movies
Seven horror fans attend an invite-only party on a secluded farm, and awaken to find themselves in the world of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead in director Douglas Schulze's gruesome homage to the classic zombie film. Russell (Taylor Piedmonte) and Duane (Allen Maldonado) are attendees at a horror convention when they cross paths with pretty goth girl Judith (Lauren Mae Shafer) who invites them both to join her at an exclusive after-hours party. Once there, the mood quickly turns menacing. But before they can make a quick getaway, Russell and Duane are knocked out cold. Awakening in different clothes and strangely familiar surroundings, the horror fans find themselves trapped in a remote farmhouse that's under siege by the living dead. Terrified by the fact that they've seen this story before - and everyone dies - the dwindling survivors must use their knowledge of the film to find a way out of the frightening predicament. Meanwhile, anyone brave enough to try and break free from the plot gets a nasty surprise. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
A desperate farming community learns that a bountiful harvest comes at a terrifying price after being cursed by a vengeful shaman. The year was 1866; the rain has stopped falling, and Perseverance was dying. In a moment of desperation, a struggling farmer agreed to make a sacrifice in exchange for the rain that would save his crops. But when the farmer failed to make the human sacrifice demanded by the shaman, the town fell under a curse that spanned generations. Flash forward to present day, when the residents of Perseverance are still paying for the sins of their descendents. A dreadful rain washes over the small town once a year, and now the only way to break the shaman's curse is to spill the blood of the innocent. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
The apocalypse has befallen the planet and only one detective with the power of heaven on his side can save the survivors from the hellish inferno that awaits them in this supernatural thriller from Detroit filmmaker Douglas Schulze. The death of his wife and son had driven Officer Gabriel Goodman to a dark place where the outside world seemed to disappear and only pain and sorrow remained. When Officer Goodman awakens one morning to discover a deserted city void of life and eerily silent, he is drawn to a nearby church where a small band of survivors struggle against the raging demonic forces seeking to possess the last few living souls. As the devil's grip on the forsaken planet tightens, only one man with the power of angels on his side can save mankind from an infernal fate where evil reigns and good withers. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
This regional horror weirdness from Michigan begins on a college campus in the late 60s, where mad professor John Saxon once performed murderous atrocities under the aegis of a secret government eugenics project before being shot dead by one of his associates. Twenty years later, a string of murders seems to indicate the professor's return from the dead. As it turns out, Saxon's experiments produced a drug which transmogrified him into a superhuman being capable of manipulating the will of others. Intending to procure a hidden supply of the "Nietzsche Drug" from the catacombs beneath the campus, the professor gathers a team of zombie slaves to do his bidding. His evil plans are challenged by a young psychic (Amy Raasch), an activist reporter (Dawn of the Dead alum David Emge) and the sole survivor of a previous supernatural attack (Sarah Barkoff). As the zombie hordes amass against our heroes, the psychic takes a dose of Saxon's drug herself in order to level the playing field, and the two square off for a metaphysical battle of attrition. Filmmaker Douglas Schulze's script tries gamely to interweave elements of Timothy Leary-style drug counterculture, social commentary and religious symbolism, but nothing really meshes properly. There are nevertheless some styish touches, and Saxon carries off his difficult role with panache. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
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