Not only am I giving you all an update, but I’m also bringing along two old ones that I forgot to announce here during their proper time! First, the new stuff:

Deadly Games (1989), a precognitive variation on the Home Alone premise in which it’s hard to say who’s scarier, the Santa-suited maniac breaking into the house, or the ruthless and hypercompetent child defending it against him…

The Fall of the House of Usher (1979), in which the folks at Sunn Classic Pictures take a break from “educating” us about Bigfoot and the Shroud of Turin in order to serve up a Poe movie with only the minutest trace amounts of Poe…

The Hammer of God (1970), in which Jimmy Wang Yu makes his directorial debut, and brings both his arms for a change…

Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972), which has all the characteristics of a holiday slasher movie, but arranges them into something more like a Southern Gothic transplanted to the Northeast…

and…

Winterbeast (1992), in which it isn’t winter, and there are a hell of a lot more than one beast.

Meanwhile, here’s all the stuff I forgot to tell you about:

Blood Feast (1963), which may not strictly have started it all, but certainly took it all to extremes that no one ever saw before…

The Bride and the Beast (1958), the first half of my Bridey Murphy Goes to the Drive-In double feature, in which hypnosis reveals why a big-game hunter’s new bride is horny for gorillas…

Cosmic Monsters (1958), which might be Britain’s only 1950’s big-bug movie, but sure does make you wait a while for the payoff…

Doom Asylum (1987), a lame slasher spoof that not even Patty “Frankenhooker” Mullen can help…

Five Fingers of Death (1970), in which American audiences get their first look at Hong Kong martial arts cinema…

Frankenstein (1984), a lame forerunner of prestige cable that even David “Embodiment of Evil” Warner can help only a little…

Men from the Monastery (1974), in which Chang Cheh and Ni Kuang take possibly the weirdest approach to a sequel that I’ve ever seen, not so much continuing Heroes Two as wrapping a larger story around it, while simultaneously contradicting it…

Five Shaolin Masters (1974), in which they do it again by telling us what a totally different bunch of characters were up to while the events of Heroes Two were unfolding…

Shadow of a Doubt (1943), in which it turns out that there are even worse things for your uncle to get into than Fox News…

Shaolin Martial Arts (1974), in which it’s possible to be so good at kung fu that your junk can retract behind your body wall…

The Undead (1957), the second half of Bridey Murphy Goes to the Drive-In, in which the past life itself becomes the focus of the action, as a woman deep in hypnosis inadvertently sets in motion a chain of long-ago events that could prevent her current self from ever existing…

and…

Vampire (1979), an unaccountably slept-on TV movie in which the titular bloodsucker launches an all-out vendetta against the people who busted the art-theft campaign that he’d been running for 800 years.

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