Loft (1985)In an apocalyptic future world, a young upper class couple is visiting an exhibition of surrealistic paintings, presented by a group of young anarchists in their loft flat where they trap and torture their high society guests.
The Tower (1985)A hi-tech computerized building is left on autopilot and decides it needs to eat its employees to maintain its power.
Junior (1985)Les problèmes les plus graves de KC et Jo viennent de Junior, un psycho-red-idiot à l'esprit lent qui obtient le feu vert de sa mère également démente pour tuer les deux femmes.
Kyoto Yokai Map 3: The 800-Year-Old Female College Student Who Lives in Toribenyama (1985)Matsuko, an assistant professor of history, discovers ancient human bones at Toribeyama, and her student, Suzuko, starts to approach her. As Suzuko shows an unusual fascination with the bones, the two eventually become romantically involved. However, Naomi, a fellow assistant professor who harbors a rivalry with Matsuko, hires a journalist to secretly photograph Matsuko’s bedroom…
The Monster (1985)An Iranian villager wants to restore a nearby well in hopes of solving a water sortage, but is haunted by a local legend of a monster that drinks the wells dry.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1985)Ichabod Crane becomes the headmaster at a schoolhouse. He falls for Katrina Van Tassel but she has a lover: Brom Bones. Brom scares him off acting as the Headless Horseman only to meet the real one himself.
Krai Thong 2 (1985)Thai filmmaker Sompote Sands returns with a sequel to "Krai Thong", in which a man can turn himself into a horrific man-eating crocodile.
Twisted (1985)One evening the Collins find their maid Mrs. Murdock at the end of their steps: dead, neck broken. Obviously she had an accident. Consequently they need a new babysitter for an upcoming big party. The sensible Helen meets little Susan Collins at the discount market and likes her, so she offers to do the job. She doesn't know Susan's teenage brother Mark - technically skilled and good in school, but restive and cunning. As soon as the parents have left, he starts psychologically terrorizing Helen and his sister with electronic tricks.
Honeymoon (1985)Une Française de Manhattan, menacée d'expulsion en raison de sa relation avec un toxicomane récemment arrêté, contracte avec un inconnu un mariage de complaisance arrangé par l'intermédiaire d'une agence. Mais même si les deux ne sont même pas censés se rencontrer, son nouveau mari commence à prendre ses faux vœux de mariage trop au sérieux.
Un autre tour d'écrou (1985)Un jeune homme est investi pour s'occuper de deux frères et sœurs orphelins dans un manoir isolé au bord de la mer et se rend vite compte que quelqu'un… ou quelque chose issu du passé en a après les enfants.
Victims! (1985)Four young girls on a camping trip in the woods are stalked by a pair of crazed serial killers.
Song at Midnight (1985)A disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him.
Faust (1985)In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell.
Curse (1985)A young woman named Tu married to a repulsively disgusting, wheel chair confined, old man. There is also a repugnant cousin who takes advantage of the situation and rapes her. But she is really in love with the gardener. When lust-driven cousin murders the gardener, Tu kills herself to join her boyfriend in the afterlife.
Blackout (1985)A police officer suspects that a local husband and father, who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident, is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
The Island (1985)John Shum mène une expédition sur une île supposément déserte, pour découvrir qu'elle est en réalité habitée par un groupe de personnages profondément dérangés, dirigés par Peter Chan Lung. C’est une famille qui reste unie, tue ensemble, et lorsque le plus jeune se voit refuser le mariage avec l’une des jeunes filles de la troupe, ils se transforment en maniaques sauvages.
The Bad Seed (1985)Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she herself is the daughter of a convicted killer, Christine becomes convinced that sweet little Rachel is a "bad seed" - an inherent killer who feels no remorse because she doesn't know any better.
La Proie (1985)Valérie, 18 ans, et sa mère Trudy vivent ensemble dans la campagne d'Oostdijk, un petit village tranquille près d'Amsterdam. En rentrant chez elle un soir, Trudy meurt écrasée par une voiture. L’autopsie révèle qu’elle n’a jamais eu d’enfant. Peu après, d'autres faits étranges commencent à apparaître. Pendant que l'inspecteur de police Mellema traque le conducteur de la voiture, Valérie commence à chercher ses vrais parents...
Pas de couvertureThe Zombie (1984)Someone sends Dr. Montree a birthday gift all the way from Europe. Unfortunately, that gift is a coffin with an embalmed body inside that happens to be a mummy that also happens to turn into a vampire during the next full moon. If you're wondering why then the Thai title translates to 'The Zombie' when this features a mummy vampire, you may want to ask Google Translate. Otherwise, this is a horror comedy with bad gay jokes and a soundtrack of stolen Culture Club music.
Child's Play (1984)A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but everything fails. Then the wife notices a bizarre pattern.
Teenage Ghost Girl (1984)More or less a Thai version of The Exorcist. A couple and their young daughter move into an old, remote house. Bones are found in the attic where strange noises are heard and the creepy voyeuristic caretaker (who spies on the family through hidden passageways) calls for an evil spirit that thrives on virgin's blood. The daughter is finally possessed, speaks with a male voice, develops extreme strength and goes on a rampage.
Mark of the Devil (1984)A desperate gambler in debt with a gangster robs a Chinese tattoo artist, getting stabbed and killing the man in the process. A black spot appears on his chest and begins to spread and turn into a condemning tattoo
The Surgeon (1984)Wong Yan Tung, a doctor with a fear of fire and recurring nightmares of being cremated alive, is dedicated to fighting his colleagues' ignorance about the nature of clinical death. Prostitute Kam Kuk, Wong's childhood friend, attempts suicide several times and they inevitably reconnect during her short hospital stays, while Wong's girlfriend suffers from mysterious and sudden bouts of numbness in her arm.
Pas de couvertureJunior (1984)Ceil and Enis are a happy if wacky female couple until giant baby son Junior (who sports a mustache but fits in his crib just dandy) develops a fondness for hot dogs and other symbols of manliness (along with many things edible, phallic or not) and decides to bust out of his confining crib to raid the fridge and avenge his overly protective mothers.
Trilogy Of Terror (1984)RuPaul teamed up with filmmaker Jon Witherspoon for this short spoof of Karen Black's Trilogy of Terror, which was one of the finest made-for-tv movies ever. From the Funtone USA Video Archives
The Fall of the House of Usher (1984)Animated adaptation of the Edgar Allen Poe 1839 short story The Fall of the House of Usher, a work of Gothic fiction that includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
La Force (1984)Les Aztèques emprisonnèrent la force de leurs démons les plus puissants dans une petite idole en terre cuite et lui donnèrent le nom de Destacatyl. Un jour, un ethnologue américain découvre le secret de la statuette. Il mourra pour avoir violé "La Force". Comme l'idole passe de mains en mains et de générations en générations, sa puissance grandit et devient impossible à contrôler. Bientôt ceux qui ont voulu la posséder deviennent des sujets serviles de "La Force" et les instruments de la mise en péril du futur tout entier...
El rito (1984)A young girl invokes the spirits. "The Rite" introduces us to the mysterious and unknown world of the afterlife.
Frankenstein (1984)Un scientifique obsédé par l'idée de créer la vie y parvient finalement, avec de tragiques conséquences.
Pas de couvertureAnita: Female Snakes (1984)Juwita refuses to be betrothed to a young man of her parent’s choice so she's beaten up and left muzzled in the forest. In her moment of suffering, Juwita experiences a peculiarity: she can transform herself into a female snake and has a daughter with similar capabilities.
Sleepwalker (1984)Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.
The Black Spider (1983)Based on the story by Jeremas Gotthelf, this horror film direct by Mark M. Rissi features the hallucinations of a woman after a drug raid gone.
Pas de couvertureRetribution (1983)This short film supported Friday the 13th Part 3 on its initial UK release – one scene features a brutal knife-killing, played out in silhouette against a whitewashed wall.
Suffer, Little Children (1983)A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.
The House (1983)A young couple moves into an old house. She teaches deaf children, he is a musician, working on his own compositions. Their separate worlds, one silent, the other full of sounds, create a vivid pattern of contrasts, which affect their emotional lives and their living together. From the time they move into the house, they are strangely aware of something odd, especially she, while he concentrates more and more upon his work. A series of incidents adds to her growing uneasiness about the house. Its past seems to creep in on her. She feels as if some tragedy must have befallen the people that lived there before, but when she starts asking around she gets few answers. There is something about the house that seems to be on the verge of overpowering her - something that in an unexpected way is related to her origins and permanently affects her life and destiny.
Trick or Treat (1983)Town miser Gideon Hackles spends Halloween hiding IOU's in his house, which he then rigs as haunted and invites local kids to search for the IOU's so he can scare them. This year, he gets his comeuppance.
La malédiction démoniaque (1983)Au cours d'une expédition une famille ramène une pierre mystérieuse qui produit des visions étrange...
The Lost Tribe (1983)Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
The Witching (1983)This is Gordon's re-edit of his 1972 horror film Necromancy starring Orson Welles and Pamela Franklin. This version features brand new scenes (mostly to up to exploitation factor) filmed in 1983 and added by Gordon himself. It also features a brand new score and other changes and the whole thing differs greatly from the original 82-minute theatrical version.
