We’re rolling with our 20 Days of Horror selections!

Synopsis: “A New York City police officer and a homeless shelter manager join forces to investigate a series of disappearances, and discover the missing are taken by humanoid monsters that live below the city.”

Review: Exceptionally disappointing except for Daniel Stern’s comically bad acting and hair. Also features a consistently earnest John Heard who even in 1984 had chops. 40 minutes in before we saw anything of the CHUD. Brandon says that if he and his childhood best friend had snuck into a theater in 1984 to watch this they would have been pissed.

Synopsis: “Composer John Russell (George C. Scott) is vacationing with his family when a car accident kills his wife and daughter. Distraught with grief, Russell leaves his home in New York City for a giant, secluded house near Seattle. Soon Russell starts to feel the presence of a ghost, a boy who drowned in the bathtub there.”

Review: Not so bad. We spent a long time discussing how old George C. Scott might have been in this movie – anywhere between 45 and 75.

Synopsis: ““One day the peaceful village of Midwich is cast into a mysterious sleep for several hours, but with no obvious consequences, until soon all the women of child-bearing age turn out to be pregnant. Their children are all born at the same time, and grow quickly into very spooky young people.”

Review: The kids were exceptionally annoying and there aren’t really any famous people in this film, except for one that Brandon recognized. The adult actors were British and there were several scenes in which they dressed for dinner. The best thing this film had going for it was the length. Can we please get back to one hour and seventeen minute run times??