The best Paul Bartel’s horror movies

Paul Bartel

Paul Bartel

06/08/1938- 13/05/2000
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.4/10
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

Piranha

Piranha
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 03/08/1978
  • Character: Mr. Dumont
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidently released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

White Dog

White Dog
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 07/07/1982
  • Character: Cameraman
A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that’s been raised to kill black people.

Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall
5.6/10
A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the “intruders.” The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.

Munchies

Munchies
3.9/10
Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!

Out of the Dark

Out of the Dark
5.3/10
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.

The Devil's Child

The Devil's Child
4/10
A woman's mother makes a last-minute deal with the Devil to save her daughter's life, not realizing that her daughter's life is her stake. The daughter lives but with no chance of children. 20 years later, she mysteriously becomes pregnant after meeting a dashing stranger. Yet people are dying around her...

Skeletons

Skeletons
5.2/10
A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets, until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the truth comes out about more than just the killing.

Trick or Treats

Trick or Treats
3.8/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 29/10/1982
  • Character: Bum
A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Killer Party

Killer Party
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 09/05/1986
  • Character: Professor Zito
Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfortunately a vengeful spirit decides to take the killer epithet literally. With a special appearance by '80s hair metal titans White Sister!

Private Parts

Private Parts
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/09/1972
  • Character: Man in Park (uncredited)
Teenage runaway Cheryl splits from Ohio and ends up in Los Angeles staying at an old rundown hotel full of weirdos. The weirdest of all is George and he has a crush on Cheryl.

A Bucket of Blood

A Bucket of Blood
4.9/10
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.

Soulmates

Soulmates
3.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1992
  • Character: Boring Professor
A man who is immortal can bring his wife back from the dead temporarily by killing young women. But his latest would-be victim may be a problem.

Not Like Us

Not Like Us
4.4/10
A sexy, horror-filled story featuring two gorgeous aliens who move into a small American town.

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