Hubrisween 2015 :: G is for Gargoyles (1972)
We kick off with an animated preamble illustrating Lucifer's fall from grace and his banishment to Hell. Undaunted, the Devil himself conspires to regain what was lost by declaring his offspring will...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: H is for Hit and Run (2009)
On October 26, 2001, Chante Mallard, buzzing on a cocktail of marijuana, Ecstasy and alcohol, was driving home from a friend’s apartment after a hard night of clubbing in Fort Worth, Texas. Somewhere...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: I is for The Inhabitants (2015)
Okay. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A young married couple finally achieves their goal of purchasing the perfect home. This dream house is old and has some troubled history, and the person...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: J is for The Jaws of Death (1976)
Somewhere off the coast of Key West, Florida, a chartered fishing trip turns deadly when a rogue scuba diver cuts loose a shark they've got hooked on a line, then boards and proceeds to slaughter the...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: K is for KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
Things are not going well at the Magic Mountain amusement park. The rides are constantly malfunctioning and crowds are dwindling, which hasn’t escaped the notice of park manager, Calvin Richards...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: L is for The Land Unknown (1957)
Open do we in Washington D.C. at a Naval briefing for an impending Antarctic expedition, where several teams of cartographers will use helicopters to map out the frozen continent, hoping to mark and...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: M is for My Science Project (1985)
Sometime back in 1957, president Dwight D. Eisenhower is having a bad day. Seems his golfing retreat has been cut short by a call on the hotline, and he has since been escorted to a remote Air Force...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: N is for Night of the Lepus (1973)
With his ranch ravaged and in near ruin thanks to a plague of rabbits, Cole Hilman (Calhoun) contacts Elgin Clark (Kelley), the president of the local university, of which Hilman is a huge financial...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: O is for Old Dracula (1974)
The year is 1973, and Count Dracula (Niven), feeling both the centuries of mileage and the arthritis in his fangs catching up with him, has really slowed things down and settled into a life off...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: P is for Prom Night (1980)
When a terminally curious Robin Hammond enters an abandoned building to try and join in on a game of 'The Killer is Coming' (a morbid twist on hide and seek) with some of her grade-school classmates,...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: Q is for The Quiet Ones (2014)
Back in 1972 a dubious group of parapsychologists conducted a series of even more dubious séances in Canada under the umbrella of what would come to be known as “The Phillip Experiment”. The plan was...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: R is for The Reptile (1966)
In the thick of it we open as we spy the fate of Charles Spalding (Baron), whose evening walk in the Cornwall countryside takes a fatal detour when the siren call of ethereal music lures him into the...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: S is for Space Master X-7 (1958)
With a copious amount of stock-footage and a narrator we do open, who explains what we're looking at exactly, which is the successful recovery of a space probe after its long round-trip to Mars. This...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: T is for Twisted Nerve (1968)
The problem with triptychs is that while you see three different images these are essentially illusions and you never get to see the whole picture. And that's a good way to describe Martin Durnley...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: U is for Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of...
When aviator Kenneth Arnold spotted a string of disc-shaped craft blowing past Mt. Rainer at unheard of speeds in June of 1947 it sparked a surge of "flying saucer" sightings around the country and...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: V is for Violent Midnight (1963)
We begin rather cryptically with a positively Bergmanesque hunting party sequence in the wilds of southern Connecticut, ambient sounds only, dominated by several shotgun blasts and several grouses...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: W is for Whispering Ghosts (1942)
It was a dark and foggy night. And out on Hurricane Point, as a forlorn foghorn eerily drones, Elizabeth Woods (Joyce) and her fiancé, David Courtland (Shelton), arrive and board The Black Joker, a...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: X is for X-Ray (1981)
Our fright flick feature begins with a flashback, where two children, a brother and sister, receive a Valentine for the latter from the local weirdo. When they laugh this off and call him a freak, this...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: Y is for Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare (1968)
Legends abound of a powerful entity of unbridled evil buried in the ruins of the ancient Babylonian city of Ur. It's been said anyone foolish enough to even enter the blighted pocket of land is never...
View ArticleHubrisween 2015 :: Z is for Zombie Lake (1981)
We open in a small French village shortly after World War II. And if the extreme soft-focus and loopy organ-grinder soundtrack wasn’t a big enough clue, the fact the film quickly focuses and then...
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