Lance Henriksen – Around the World in 80s Movies Podcast

The Horror Show (aka House III) (1989) | James Isaac

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After viciously murdering over 110 people, the serial killer known as ‘Meat Cleaver Max’ Jenke (Brion James) gets the death penalty, sentenced to fry in the electric chair. Max doesn’t go easily, staying alive for nearly ten minutes as they zap him with everything they have before expiring. However, something happens in the process of […]

Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) | James Cameron

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The story for Piranha II doesn’t connect to Piranha save for a reference to fish used as bioweapons for a top-secret U.S. Army experiment. Those experiments continued into cross-breeding piranhas with grunions and flying fish to make them dangerous in both air and water. A ship has sunk and a container of their eggs breaks […]

Aliens (1986) | James Cameron

August 24, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Aliens starts where the first one leaves off, with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in hypersleep drifting in the escape shuttle. What Ripley doesn’t know until after she is rescued is that she has been that way for 57 years. When she gets back, the company that owned her ship is very interested in why she decided […]

Near Dark (1987) | Kathryn Bigelow

July 14, 2019 qwipster Comment is Closed

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Adrian Pasdar stars as Caleb Colton, a young and somewhat passive small-town guy in Oklahoma who has his eye set on a visiting mysterious boyish beauty named Mae (Jenny Wright). Caleb and Mae spend the night talking and flirting, but Mae has to make it home before the sun comes up, for reasons that aren’t […]