Movie House Massacre Movie Review

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Movie House Massacre a.k.a. Blood Theatre is a 1984 horror movie directed by Rick Sloane and starring Mary Woronov, Jenny Cunningham and Rob Roy Fletcher.

The film begins with a movie theatre that is closing. Someone sets fire to it and the theatre clears out. The same person has a knife and he stabs the ticket girl and he sets her alight. There are more people in the theatre who are dead. There is a $25,000 reward to anyone who will open the theatre. A chain called Spotlite Theatres have taken it over. The owner is called Dean Murdock(Fletcher). Adrian(Andrew Cofrin) is the manager.  Murdock and his secretary Miss Blackwell(Woronov) show some people around the theatre. They are going to clean it up and get it working once again. He offers one person a reward for good work. Jennifer(Cunningham) is one of those people working in the theatre. Her pals show up to meet her, but they end up getting killed by an unknown assailant.

An employee called Selina goes into the theatre causing trouble. Miss Blackwell takes her outside.

Adrian and the others find old films. They look at them and see a film from the night of the massacre .

Adrian is alone when he sees a typewriter typing on its own. It says that the theatre could be his. All of the doors close in the theatre. Employees are killed by a strange man lurking in the theatre.  Murdock is beaten up and his movies are snatched. More people die as the killer goes mad. He sees Jennifer. She reminds him of a lost love. He is the owner of the theatre who went crazy years ago and killed some people. He hugs her and she takes the opportunity to stab him. The movie ends with the police being called and Miss. Blackwell deciding to leave her job.

This film wasn't great. I did like the setting of a cinema. The acting wasn't good and it was really cheap.

I did enjoy parts of it, but there were other parts that just weren't very interesting. So, this is worth a look if you are a fan of 1980's slashers but just don't expect too much. I am giving this one a 4/10.

Destroyer Movie Review

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Destroyer is a 1988 horror movie directed by Robert Kirk and starring Lyle Alzado, Deborah Foreman and Anthony Perkins.

Ivan Mosler(Alzado) is a killer on death row. His time has come to die. He is going to the electric chair. As he is being electrocuted, the power goes out. He comes back to life and he kills the priest who is with him and the prison guard. Cut to a writer called David(Clayton Rohner), who is making a movie called Death House Dolls. The director is Robert Edwards(Perkins). Susan(Foreman) is a stuntwoman standing in for Sharon(Lannie Garrett), the star of the movie. There is a film crew and a janitor guy called Russell(Tobias Anderson) who is keeping an eye on the old prison where they are shooting. The old warden of the prison shows up. He is all riled up. He wants to talk to the film crew. Susan finds an old doll with a message on it. 

The warden talks to David about the prison. He isn't too happy about them filming there. David is curious about what happened at the prison. Robert tells him to stop asking questions. The warden ends up getting killed. Russell sees the body. He turns a blind eye. A police officer shows up and he asks Russell about the warden. The prison is the same one that Ivan Mosler was in. He is still there. He is the one who is leaving messages. He has an eye for Susan. Russell leads the cop down to Ivan's lair. Ivan kills him. Sharon decides to quit the film.  She gets drunk and ends up meeting Ivan. He chases her. Russell tries it on with her and she fights him off.  He ends up falling. Ivan kills her. Susan is scared when she sees another message.

David talks to a former inmate of the prison. He tells David about Ivan Mosler and what happened.

He says that Ivan is still half alive. Russell is Mosler's dad. Robert gets fried in the electric chair.

Mosler shows up pretending to be a police officer. Susan realises it and she runs away. Mosler chases her. David looks for her. There is a fight when he runs into Ivan. He gets knocked out. Susan manages to electrocute Ivan but he isn't dead. Susan and David reunite. They try to escape. Mosler comes back yet again. They pour gasoline over him and Susan sets him alight. Russell dies also. Susan wakes up in hospital where she sees Mosler but it is just a bad dream. She survived and so did David.

I watched this film because Anthony Perkins was starring in it. He played his part well and made this better than it was. The film was entertaining in parts but some of the acting was dire. Overall, this is a fun slasher movie, but nothing special. I will give it a 5/10.

Necromancy Movie Review

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Necromancy is a 1972 horror movie directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, Orson Welles and Lee Purcell.

The movie begins with a woman who wakes up in hospital. She is looking for her baby. The woman is called Lori(Franklin), and she is at home now. It turns out that her baby was stillborn. She is married to Frank(Ontkean). He has a new job in a place called Lilith, working in advertising. They move there. His new boss is called Mr. Cato(Welles). He is a bit of an oddball. Lori isn't that happy to be moving to Lilith. They get into a car accident and the other car bursts into flames. The cops come and Lori takes a doll from the scene.  Their car breaks down and Frank has to walk into town to get gas. Lori sees a funeral but when she looks again, it has disappeared. Frank gets the gas and they go to Lilith. They go to Mr. Cato's house for dinner. He is into the occult. Lori is spooked by him.  He gives her a book to read. It is about witchcraft. 

Lori wants to leave Lillith, but Frank doesn't. A woman called Priscilla(Purcell) tells Lori that Cato owns the town and all of the people in it. Lori is disappointed when Frank says that they have one week left before they can leave. She starts to have visions of devil worship and weird things happening. She sees a young boy. She tells the doctor, Jay(Harvey Jason) all about it, but he doesn't seem to believe her. She sees the young boy again and she asks Priscilla about it.  Priscilla doesn't know what she is talking about. Lori goes to visit Cato and informs him that she doesn't have any interest in witchcraft. He tells her that he is into necromancy. He wants to bring his son back from the dead. He knows that she has power and he wants it. Jay asks her and Frank to become members of their group. They practice witchcraft. Lori is not happy and she has horrific visions. 

She looks for Priscilla and they talk but Priscilla and Jay tell her that she won't be able to leave town. Frank disappears, making everything even stranger. Lori burns the doll that she found at the car crash site. She sees herself becoming a witch. Priscilla calls her to meet and says that she will help her leave. She tells her that Frank is a witch. When Lori arrives at Priscilla's, she finds her dead. The weirdness continues. The boy appears once again and he takes her to a field where she sees Cato and his cronies at his son's grave. They are trying to bring him back to life. She gets shoved into the coffin instead. It's another dream. She wakes up at home with Frank. The events of the movie start to replay from the start. Lori is scared and she screams as she realises that everything that happened in Lillith will happen in the future and what she experienced was a premonition.

This was a weird, jumbled up movie. The ending was odd. It was a strange film , to be honest. That doesn't make it a bad film, but it wasn't thrilling, by any means. The cast were decent. It was fun to see Michael Ontkean in this. I will always think of him as Sheriff Truman! Orson Welles somehow ended up in this which strikes me as odd. He must have needed the money, I suppose. Anyway, this was a strange offering, but I think that it will satisfy fans of occult movies. It kept me watching, so I will give it a 5/10.