Zach har just flyttat till en ny stad där han möter grannen Hannah. Hennes pappa skriver skräckromaner och håller alla monster instängda i sina böcker, men Zach råkar släppa dem fria…
I den sömniga småstaden Ravens Fair cirkulerar en spökhistoria om Mary Shaw, en buktalare som blev galen. Hon anklagades för mordet på en ung pojke och lynchades av invånarna i staden som även skar ut tungan på henne. De begravde henne tillsammans med hennes "barn", en handgjord samling dockor. Sedan den dagen har Ravens Fair plågats av död och de skrämmande dockorna från Mary Shaws samling har dykt upp här och var genom årtiondena...
Halloween nalkas i detta komediäventyr baserat på R.L. STINEs bästsäljande bokserie. Syskon Quinn upptäcker den slumpartiga dummy SLAPPY. Först försöker han lösa Quinn-familjeproblemen men de inser snart att hans hi-jinks går långt och måste sammanfoga sig för att bli av med honom. Avvisande Slappy bestämmer sig för att bygga sin egen familj genom att föra Halloween till liv och det är upp till barnen att rädda sin stad.
Magikern Corky blir utbuad av publiken på de sunkiga klubbar som hyr in honom. När han finner dockan Fats och använder den för buktalarnummer, vänder hans karriär uppåt. Men när han försöker återuppta kontakten med en gammal tonårskärlek, manifesterar sig en schizofren personlighet och Corky visar sig alltmer instabil.
DEFINITION: 'Celluloid' - Motion picture film, cinema film. 'Bloodbath' - Savage, indiscriminate killing, a massacre. CELLULOID BLOODBATH: MORE PREVUES FROM HELL - the long-awaited sequel to 1987's horror cult classic, MAD RON'S PREVUES FROM HELL. An awesome collection of 61 over-the-top horror movie prevues, from the golden Grindhouse age, spanning the 1960's through the 1980's! Also features commentary from film makers, actors, critics and fans, that make this a true, incredibly entertaining, one-of-a-kind movie-going experience!
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.
Edgar Appletree learns the ins and outs of family feuding courtesy of Charlie McCarthy.
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family. Features tidal wave stock footage from RKO's "Deluge" (1933), q.v.
A phantom-like gunman is murdering the hands at the Circle T Ranch and the Range Busters are recruited by its owner to stop the "phantom". Only, the ranch owner is killed before they can arrive. First film in the Range Buster series.
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Internationally acclaimed ventriloquist Nina Conti takes the bereaved puppets of her mentor and erstwhile lover Ken Campbell on a pilgrimage to "Venthaven" the resting place for puppets of dead ventriloquists. She gets to know her latex and wooden travelling partners along the way, and with them deconstructs herself and her lost love in this ventriloquial docu-mockumentary requiem. Ken Campbell was a hugely respected maverick of the British theatre, an eccentric genius who would snort out forgotten artforms. Nina was his protégé in ventriloquism and has been said to have reinvented the artform. This film is truly unique in genre and style. No one has seen ventriloquism like this before.
Amy thinks her father has bought her the perfect gift: a new ventriloquist's dummy. However, it soon becomes apparent that there is more to this dummy than meets the eye.
Madrid, Spain, 1982. TV director Chicho Ibáñez Serrador asks André, a lousy actor playing a ventriloquist, to work with Charlie, a disturbing dummy.
Charlie and his best friend Jimmy are making a film and dream of becoming big-time Hollywood directors. When Charlie’s father finds an old ventriloquist’s doll named Felix among his late mother’s belongings, Charlie and Jimmy cast the doll as the creepy antagonist. Through a chain of increasingly sinister and disturbing events the family discovers that Felix has a mind of his own and it’s up to Charlie and Jimmy to rid their family of an ominous force.
In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.
Orphanage manager Dr. Bergen tries to get a rich woman to adopt Charlie McCarthy.
Home alone, Becky (Debbie Kopacz) is already on edge from a night of watching scary movies when an anonymous caller takes her terror to the brink by forcing her to trade spooky stories with him in this Jim Haggerty-helmed horror flick. Tales of murderous ventriloquist dummies, housewives ensnared by voodoo and more follow in an agonizing game of one-upmanship that could end up with Becky dead. Cathy St. George and Vic Martino co-star.