Catching Up Pt 15
- The Monster Club (1981)
- High camp! Vincent Price is a vampire who shows writer John Carradine to The Monster Club - a literal disco for monsters. Then there are three little vignettes of light/soft horror. The best part of the movie are the songs that play in between the vignettes, basically horror-based synth rock. Interesting, dumb, but mostly fun.
- Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)
- I hated this movie. I only made it about halfway through before abandoning it. The basic premise is a cheap hood who wants to be a jazz pianist discovers the nest of the Aztec god Quetzelcoatl, who apparently is a giant dinosaur. He then proceeds to sell this information for personal gain. His character (Michael Moriarty) was so repugnant and unlikable it ruined the movie for me - I kept rooting for the monster to eat him, but no dice. Avoid, like the plague.
- Killer Workout (1987)
- This was unexpected fun - although it's strictly by-the-numbers teen slasher horror, it has a really unusual settings: a health club! So we see super buff trainers getting murdered, aerobics instructors hunted and killed, etc. And the movie plays around a bit with who the murderer is, generally with success. A cut above the usual fare.
- Ghostkeeper (1982)
- Canadian cult classic about a ski lodge with a ghost in it. When two ladies and a man get stranded there overnight, a strange old lady and her son see an opportunity... it's atmospheric, but ultimately not very compelling.
- Graduation Day (1981)
- Eh, another strictly cliched teen slasher horror film. This one revolving around a track team. After a girl dies from a heart condition after being pushed too hard by the coach, the whole team begins to die one by one. I predicted the killer long in advance. Not very interesting.
- Deathsport (1978)
- The movie that killed David Carradine's career, or so he says. He's some kind of tracker, a sage survivor who is kidnapped and forced to compete in the Deathsport for the amusement of the elite. Except that he's so good, he turns the tables immediately, and soon it's the elite who are trying to survive. It's awful. The acting is terrible, the action lacks any thrill, and the dialog is incredibly bad. If Carradine says his career never recovered from this, I believe him.
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