The "Ancient" Cult Files

*These are past featured films from before the blog was revamped, they’ll be reposted over time once we get things moving again. More details TBA. For now enjoy!*

PHASE IV (1974)

A skillful use of cinematography, Saul Bass's only feature length directed film about the new dominate race on planet earth; ants. These desert ants have organized themselves into a deadly army that can predict the movements of the people out to stop them. A pair of scientists and a young girl are held hostage by the super intelligent insects and they struggle to find out the true intentions of the creepy-crawly masters.

Full Feature here.

Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

In this Bert I. Gordon classic, an old doll maker/marionette performer is more than a bit eccentric. People that work in his office or visit him frequently seem to disappear, and his new secretary begins getting suspicious after her boyfriend who was working with him vanishes as well. She discovers that he doesn't just make dolls of plastic and glass, but of people, and she's next on the assembly line!

Full Feature here.

The Secret of Moonacre (2008)

One of the only two live-action films ever directed by Gábor Csupó outside his own studio, this children's film concerns the fate of a magical valley whose residents offended Mother Nature with their greed over a sacred gift given to their Moon Princess. After the death of her father, Maria Merryweather returns to her ancestral home of Moonacre valley, a place where fairy-tales and reality coexist. Once there, she begins to unravel the age-old secrets and that the curse put on both households is set to come upon the valley with the next full moon.

Full Feature here.

Prophecy (1979)

John Frankenheimer's red herring monster film, a city doctor and his wife go to a woodland region of Maine to investigate disputes between loggers and the indigenous American Indians, but discover something far more disturbing. Something is brutally murdering those who are out in the woods at night, and both parties are blaming the other for the violence. But, it becomes clear that the true culprit is more terrifying than either could have predicted. They find themselves running through the night, struggling to get back to civilization to tell of what they have discovered, but the monster could be behind any tree.

Full Feature here.

Black Sunday (1960)

Mario Bava's Gothic masterpiece, an ancient curse of a convicted witch brews its evil in the shadows of a crypt which has laid undisturbed for two hundred years. Two travelers passing through the region accidentally release her evil spirit; the malicious immortal sets her revenge in motion by targeting the descendants of those who foiled her wickedness in centuries past and create other slaves of the powers of Satan by seducing them with her otherworldly beauty. Can the hell-sent woman be stopped?

Full Feature here.

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)

Wes Craven's 10th anniversary film for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, this film takes place in our own world. Heather Langenkamp, an actress living with the fame of being a horror star for the popular Freddy Krueger films, but she begins to doubt her sanity when things mysteriously like the film she starred in ten years prior start happening all around her. She contacts her coworkers from the first film, who also seem to be having nightmares about Freddy...but there's something a little more evil about him. She discovers that a real evil being that lives on fear has attached itself to the form of Freddy Krueger, and is trying to claw his way into our reality.

Full Feature here.

Recess: School's Out (2001)

Bored without his friends to spend summer with, T.J. Detweiler begins to noticed that something very strange is happening at his supposedly closed for vacation elementary school. It seems that the building is being guarded and that scientific supplies are being taken into the school. Once he gets a closer glimpse of the activities, he tries to tell the adults in town but no one will believe him. He rallies his friends from their summer camps and they begin to try and discover exactly what these people plan, which could mean the end of summer vacation forever.

Full Feature: Full Feature here.

Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)

A beautiful mountain region in the Swiss-Transylvania is being plagued by a murderer who only leaves pieces of their victims behind, leaving the local authorities in the dark. When Jennifer comes to the Richard Wagner International School for Girls, she becomes entangled in the violent antics of the maniac, and learns that she herself has hidden secrets. Using her new found gift of communication with insects, Jennifer begins to seek out the truth of the evils that lurk in the tranquil mountain valley, but might go in over her head.

Full Feature here.

The Seventh Victim (1943)

Mary Gibson is a doe-eyed young woman who has been sheltered from the real world at boarding school for years. However, her strange and beautiful older sister, Jacqueline, hasn't been in touch with her for six months. She travels to New York in search of her, but grows up fast with the series of events that follows. Not only is her sister married, has sold her business, and has been obsessed with suicide while Mary was away at school, but she's also gotten into deep trouble with a group of Satanists.

Full Feature here.