The Masque of the Red Death (1989)
Sep 29, 2022Edgar Allan Poe Slasher Film
Disappointingly, not an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story but more of a Poe-themed slasher film about a masked killer dressed as the Red Death
21st Century Film Corporation
Deceit (1989)
Dec 24, 2002Possibly Alien Kidnapper
Albert Pyun film that takes place entirely in a warehouse where a woman is taken prisoner by a man who may or may not be an alien. As with much of Pyun's output from this period, this is cheap and eventually incoherent
The House of Usher (1989)
May 20, 2014Modernised Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
This makes an interesting attempt to tell a modern-day version of the Edgar Allan Poe story but the film's emphasis on cheap shock effects is a far cry from Poe's masterful mood of despair and desolation
The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Jan 6, 2003Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House/Time Travel
On the back of popularity of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and the Elm Street films, Robert Englund was cast in this version where the emphasis is on the slasher element, which works far better than you might think
The Black Cat (1990)
Jun 6, 2000Witch's Ghost/Italian Horror
This has next-to-nothing to do with Edgar Allan Poe. Instead, Luigi Cozzi makes a giallo thriller that makes claims to be the unofficial third chapter of Dario Argento's at that point unfinished Three Mothers trilogy.
Invader (1992)
Jan 19, 2015Amok Alien-Possessed Military A.I.
A completely ridiculous film that throws in an incomprehensible mix of an amok A.I.'s that takes over a stealth plane, UFOs, mind control and military conspiracy and proves badly made on every single count