The Changeling (1980)
Feb 15, 2002Ghost Story
An old-fashioned ghost story with George C. Scott as a widowed composer who moves into a haunted house. This generates spookiness with quite a reasonable degree of effectiveness
William Gray
Prom Night (1980)
Dec 16, 2005Slasher Film
Entry amid the 1980s slasher fad featuring Jamie Lee Curtis. A fairly dreary effort that comes with much disco dancing footage
Humongous (1982)
Aug 13, 2014Slasher Film/Mad Deformity
Canadian-made slasher film from the director of the original Prom Night. This mixes slasher standard with a variant on the Mad/Deformed Relative in the Attic plot but mostly seems terminally dull
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Jul 2, 2001Time Travel Experiment Amok
Based on a non-fiction, fringe science book that makes claims that the US Navy conducted experiments that turned a ship invisible during WWII, this spins the idea out into a modest time travel story
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Aug 4, 2000Techno-Thriller/Hi-Tech Car Theft
Made from an old John Carpenter script, this is a reasonable action film starring Tommy Lee Jones as a professional thief who is tasked with stealing a hi-tech car