Be Kind, Rewind Vhs Reviews
The Mutilator (1985)
Doesn’t even have an official DVD in the USA!
The Mutilator (1985)
Directed By: Buddy Cooper
Reviewer: Chuck Conry
The Prologue
There is a long list of films that never got proper DVD releases that we all wish would get a release. There are some that got them and are simply out of print. The Mutilator is an odd situation. The film has a UK release on DVD. I’m not sure if it’s official or not, but it has one. Apparently it was never lucky enough to have a …

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Cry Baby Lane (2000)
“Someone Wants To Meet You.”
Directed by: Peter Lauer (“Strangers with Candy”, “Malcolm in the Middle”)
Starring: Jase Blankfort (“Revolution #9”, “Full-Court Miracle”)
Trey Rogers (“Closing Time”, “Palm County”)
Frank Langella (“Dracula (1979)”, “Superman Returns”, “The Box”)
Review by: Jeff C

Okay, so the story of ‘Cry Baby Lane’ goes like this. Back in 2000, Nickelodeon decided to air a horror flick (that they produced) during their big Halloween weekend. Kids love being scared on Halloween, right? So they got their biggest star at the time,Melissa Joan Hart (or ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’), to introduce …

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The Guardian (1990)
“Tonight, while the world is asleep… an ancient evil is about to awaken.”
Directed by: William Friedkin (“The Exorcist“, “To Live & Die In L.A.”)
Starring: Jenny Seagrove (“Appointment with Death”, “Judge John Deed”)
Dwier Brown (“House”, “Field of Dreams”, “Red Dragon”)
Carey Lowell (“Licence To Kill”, “Sleepless in Seattle”)
Review by: Jeff C
After stealing the baby that she had been hired to look after, for her Druid (tree worshiping) practices, Camilla inquires about babysitting for Kate and Phil’s son, Jake. She eliminates her competition for the …

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Devilfish (1984)
“Sink Your Teeth Into Pure Terror.”
Directed by: Lamberto Bava (“Demons”, “Demons 2″ , “A Blade in the Dark“)
Starring: Michael Sopkiw (“Massacre in Dinosaur Valley”, “Blastfighter”)
Valentine Monnier (“2019: After the Fall of New York”, “The Telephone Bar”)
Review by: Jeff C
Many questions arise when bodies begin to wash ashore along the Florida coast. Since the marks on the corpses don’t lead to any known animal, scientist Dr. Stella Dickens (Valentine Monnier) suspects it’s the work of an unknown life form and strives to catch it alive. …

a.k.a. ‘Attack of the Phantoms’
“Music & Mayhem At Magic Mountain”
Directed by: Gordon Hessler (‘The Golden Voyage of Sinbad’, ‘ Cry of the Banshee’)
Starring: Ace, Paul, Peter and Gene
Review by: Jeff C
The title pretty much gives away the plot of this 1978 NBC Saturday night movie of the week. Fed up with his lack of appreciation at the amusement park that he helped build, Abner Devereaux (Anthony Zerbe, ‘The Dead Zone’) plans to take over the park by turning the members of ‘Kiss’ into some sort of androids during the bands …

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Berserker (1987)
“A Campfire Legend of Flesh-Eating Terror!”
Directed by: Jef Richard (“In Search of a Golden Sky”, “Rigged”)
Starring: George ‘Buck’ Flower (“Back to the Future 1 & 2”, “The Fog”, “Escape from New York“, “Pumpkinhead”)
John Goff (“The Fog”, “They Live”, “Skeeter”, “Alligator”)
Joseph Alan Johnson (“Slumber Party Massacre“, “Iced”, “House of Lost Souls”)
Review by: Jeff C
According to an old Nordic legend, a Berserker was a bloodthirsty warrior who would feast on human flesh, forbidden a restful death and fated to be reincarnated in their blood kin. Six …

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The Dark (1993)

“It Will Consume You.”
 
Directed by: Craig Pryce (“Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter”, “The Good Witch”)
Starring: Stephen McHattie (“Watchmen”, “Pontypool”, “A History of Violence”)
Brion James (“Blade Runner”, “The Fifth Element”)
Neve Campbell (“Scream 1-4″, ”Wild Things”, ”Drowning Mona”)

Review by: Jeff C

A few weeks back on my podcast we reviewed a fairly unknown sci-fi/horror flick from 1979 called ’The Dark’. Well, here’s an even lesser known sci-fi/horror movie called ‘The Dark’. Made 14 years later (and no, it’s not a remake), this Canadian creature feature stars a young Neve Campbell right before her ‘Scream’ & …

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 Cliff Hangers! (TV Series) (1979)
Review by: Jeff C
I thought that this week I would take a break from my usual ‘Be Kind, Rewind’ reviews and give some love to the long-lost NBC series, ‘Cliff Hangers!’. For those of you who have never heard of the show let me fill you in.
‘Cliff Hangers!’ was produced by Kenneth Johnson (‘The Incredible Hulk’, ‘Six Million Dollar Man’, ‘V’) and had a 10 week run on NBC in 1979 from Feb 27th to May 2nd. This terrific shortlived series …

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The Hook Of Woodland Heights (1988)
“Mason Crane….The Perfect Guest For Thanksgiving Dinner, Carving Is His Specialty.”
Directed by: Michael Savino & Mark Veau (“Attack Of The Killer Refrigerator”)
Starring: Robert W. Allen
Christine McNamara
Michael Elyanow
Review by: Jeff C
We begin this late-80′s slasher with a couple of teenagers, Tommy (Michael Elyanow) and Katie (Christine McNamara), who drive off into the woods to make out …well, Tommy’s there to make out. Now we cut to the Woodland Penitentiary, where a mental patient/serial killer named Mason Crane (Robert W. Allen) is …

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Hunter’s Blood (1986)
“Out There, No One Hears You Scream”

Directed by: Robert C. Hughes (“Memorial Valley Massacre”, “Zadar! Cow From Hell”)
Starring: Clu Gulager (“Return Of The Living Dead”, “A Nightmare On Elm Street 2″)
Samuel Bottoms (“Apocalypse Now”, “The Outlaw Josey Wales”)
Kim Delaney (“NYPD Blue”, “Darkman II: The Return of Durant”)
Review by: Jeff C
Our story follows the father/son team of Mason and David Rand (Clu Gulager and Samuel Bottoms) as they head out to the Arkansas wilderness …

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Fright Night – Part 2 (1989)
“The Suckers Are Back.”
Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace (“Halloween III: Season Of The Witch“, “Stephen King’s It”)
Starring: William Ragsdale (“Herman’s Head”, “Mannequin 2: On The Move“)
Traci Lind (“Class Of 1999”, “My Boyfriend’s Back”)
Roddy McDowall (“Planet Of The Apes”, “The Poseidon Adventure”)
Review by: Jeff C
I’ve always been a fan of the original Fright Night. Effectively mixing horror and comedy is pretty hard to do and where as Fright Night might not be laugh-out-loud funny, I think it’s never take yourself …

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Blood Rage (1983)

“Identical Twins With Brutally Different Personalities”

Directed by: John Grissmer (“Scalpel”, “The House That Cried Murder“)
Starring: Louise Lasser (“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”, “Frankenhooker“)
Mark Soper (“Graveyard Shift II”, “Knots Landing”)

Review by: Jeff C
 
I doubt there are too many people that would have this on their list of all-time greatest slashers, but still this forgotten gore flick does have it’s moments. What this 1983 low-budget slasher lacks in overall acting, it more than makes …

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Popcorn (1991)
“Buy A Bag, Go Home In A Box”
Directed by: Mark Herrier (“Billy” from “Porky’s 1,2,3″)
Starring: Jill Schoelen (“The Stepfather”, “Cutting Class”, “The Curse 2″)
Tom Villard (“Parasite”, “One Crazy Summer”)
Dee Wallace-Stone (“E.T.”, “Cujo”, “The Howling”, “The Hills Have Eyes”)
Review by: Jeff C
Maggie (Schoelen) has been having nightmares of a guru-looking man with a
sacrificial knife chasing a little girl named Sarah. She doesn’t seem that disturbed
by the recurring nightmares as she thinks that they are unconscious …

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Bates Motel (1987)
”Under New Management”
Directed by: Richard Rothstein (“The Hitchhiker” TV Series)
Starring: Bud Cort (“Harold and Maude”, “Invaders from Mars”)
Lori Petty (“Point Break”, “Tank Girl”)
Moses Gunn (“Amityville II: The Possession”, “Firestarter”)
Review by: Jeff C
Coming off a pair of fairly successful “Psycho” sequels, Universal and NBC attempted to cash-in on the franchise with a spin-off TV series in 1987. Completely ignoring the storyline from Psycho’s 2 & 3, writer/director Richard Rothstein decided the show’s pilot episode (which premiered as an NBC Movie of the Week) would …

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Appointment With Fear (1985)
“Trapped in a world where death is not the end!”
Directed by: Ramzi Thomas as “Alan Smithee”
Starring: Michele Little (“Apollo 13″, “My Demon Lover”, “Blood Clan”),
Michael Wyle (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High”, “Valley Girl”, “Tuff Turf”),
Kerry Remsen (“A Nightmare on Elm St. 2″, “Pumpkinhead”, “Ghoulies 2″)
Review by: Jeff C
Moustapha Akkad past away in 2005. He will be forever remembered as the executive producer for the original 8 films of the legendary “Halloween” franchise. In 1985, Akkad produced his only other horror film, a …

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Zombie Week Edition
Night Life (1989)
“There’s good reason to be afraid of the dark”
Directed by: David Acomba (“The Frantics: Four on the Floor” T.V. Series)
Starring: Scott Grimes (“Critters”, “Critters 2″, “ER”),
John Astin (“The Addams Family”, “Return of the Killer Tomatoes”),
Cheryl Pollak (“My Best Friend Is a Vampire”, “Pump Up the Volume”)
Review by: Jeff C
This is the story of Archie Melville (Grimes), a down on his luck teenager that’s just trying to catch a break. Forced to work as an assistant mortician for …

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Sawbones (1995)
“The hands of a surgeon… the soul of a madman”
Directed by: Catherine Cyran
Starring: Adam Baldwin (“Full Metal Jacket”, “My Bodyguard”),
Nina Siemaszko (“Lost Angels”, “Airheads”),
Barbara Carrera (“Never Say Never Again”, “Island of Dr. Moreau”)
Review by: Jeff C
Constantly put down by her medical student boyfriend, Brad (Nicholas Sadler, “Sometimes They Come Back”) for being unfocused, hospital admissions secretary Jennie Sloan (Siemaszko) decides to focus her energies on crimesolving after she discovers a mutilated corpse in an alley. The deceased woman is one of a string of …

I’d love to welcome another contributor to the website Jeff C from http://muchofmadnessmoreofsin.blogspot.com/ He will be reviewing rare or out of print movies and movies that havent yet made it to dvd. Enjoy the new section we like to call Be Kind, Rewind.
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Confessions of a Serial Killer (1987)

“Step inside the mind of a killer.”
Directed by: Mark Blair
Starring: Robert A. Burns, Dennis Hill, Berkley Garrett
Review by: Jeff C
This forgotten classic, which was filmed in the mid-80′s, sat around collecting dust for over …