Psycho II (1983)
In 1980, the screenwriting team of Gary Travis and Michael January concocted an original horror film idea of a woman buying a house and coming to believe it’s haunted. It’s later revealed that there...
1980s / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
by Vincent Leo · Published February 7, 2013 · Last modified May 17, 2022
In 1980, the screenwriting team of Gary Travis and Michael January concocted an original horror film idea of a woman buying a house and coming to believe it’s haunted. It’s later revealed that there...
The seed for Dressed to Kill was planted in 1974 when filmmaker Brian De Palma adapted Gerald Walker’s 1970 novel, “Cruising”, about an undercover cop searching underground gay clubs for a serial killer. De...
Although credited by many critics as a suspenser in the Hitchcock tradition, Mute Witness owes more to the works of Brian De Palma’s slash-and-gash homages to the Master than to Hitch himself. The film starts off...
by Vincent Leo · Published November 20, 1998 · Last modified February 20, 2019
…and I still don’t care what you did last summer. Julie (Hewitt), one of the survivors from the first film, tries to get herself together but is still having nightmares about her traumatic experience with...
On the campus of an ivy league New England college, someone dressed like Nanook of the North is recreating urban legends and killing everyone on campus in the process. If you’re looking for a...
by Vincent Leo · Published April 17, 1998 · Last modified January 28, 2019
After four teenagers make road-kill of an innocent pedestrian, they are terrorized one year later by a mysterious stalker dressed like the Gorton’s Fisherman. That’s about the extent of the plot. Not much else...
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