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TRAILER TRASH – Ghoulies

Christian Sellers — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:38:33 +0000

Often considered a rip-off of Joe Dante’s 1984 blockbuster Gremlins (as would Stephen Herek’s Critters), Luca Bercovici’s low budget creature feature Ghoulies would see the actor once again collaborate with legendary producer Charles Band for his directorial debut. Boasting special effects from John Carl Buechler’s Mechanical Makeup Imageries Inc (who, incidentally, would direct the third movie in the franchise), the movie became something of a cult on home video and would be followed two years later by Ghoulies II, directed by Band’s father, Albert.

Having inherited a rundown mansion from a mysterious relative, student Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) moves in with his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) and sets about renovating his new home. Aside from an oddball caretaker (Jack Nance), Jonathan is left alone to explore his house and soon unwittingly resurrects a small army of demons that live under his command. But when a group of friends arrive for a housewarming party the monsters cannot help but misbehave, whilst Rebecca grows concerned by her boyfriend’s recent strange behaviour.

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TRAILER TRASH – The Blob

Christian Sellers — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:13:07 +0000

Having worked as a producer on such cult classics as Hell Night and Dreamscape Chuck Russell was finally given the chance to direct with the big budget slasher sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors in 1987. The following year he once again teamed up with screenwriter Frank Darabont (who would later direct the critically acclaimed Stephen King drama The Shawshank Redemption) for a remake of the 1950s B-movie The Blob. Replacing Steve McQueen with Matt Dillon’s younger brother, Kevin, and featuring tongue-in-cheek performances from Paul McCrane (RoboCop), Shawnee Smith (later of Saw fame) and David Lynch regular Jack Nance, The Blob became a cult favourite amongst horror fans when it was released on VHS some time later.

After witnessing a meteor crashing in the woods a homeless man (Billy Beck) is exposed to the extraterrestrial lifeform that lives inside. High school football star Lance Taylor (Donovan Leitch) finally plucks up the courage to ask cheerleader Meg Penny (Smith) out on a date but when the old man runs in front of the car they are forced to take him to the nearby hospital. To complicate matters the man was being chased by local delinquent Brian Flagg (Dillon), who claims he was trying to help the man after discovering that his hand had beene eaten by some kind of corrosive substance. Whilst at the hospital the lifeform bursts its way out of the man’s corpse and kills Taylor and Flagg is arrested as the prime suspect. But soon afterwards a team of sinister government scientists arrive with the army and quarantine the town. Their mission is not to destroy but to capture it, and everything else is expendable.

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TRAILER TRASH – C.H.U.D.

Christian Sellers — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:56:41 +0000

The 1980s saw many filmmaker shake off the nihilistic and excessive tone of the previous decade’s exploitation and instead look back to the older days of fun monster movies. Following the likes of Lewis Teague’s Alligator and Larry Cohen’s Q: The Winged Serpent came C.H.U.D. (meaning Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller). Directed with a tongue firmly in cheek by Douglas Cheek and starring future Home Alone veterans John Heard and Daniel Stern, C.H.U.D. wore its b-movie roots proudly on its sleeve and became an instant cult favourite.

Something is feeding off the homeless population as independent photographer George Cooper (Heard) becomes obsessed with taking pictures of those that live in the sewers, referred to as undergrounders. The Reverend Shepherd (Stern) takes care of many of them at a local shelter but has begun to notice his numbers dwindling as they go missing. This is brought to the attention of cop Bosch (Christopher Curry) who, with the help of Shepherd, tries to warn his superiors about an impending doom. But something is lurking within the bowels of the sewers, something that is ready to come to the surface.

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