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IMDB: A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Hosts: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart

IMDB: An investigative reporter must send the newly unbound Pinhead and his legions back to Hell.

Hosts: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, Helen Stewart

IMDB: Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Hosted By: Anne Conley, Ray Richards, Helen Stewart

IMDB: A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Hosted By: Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, Ray Richards

IMDB: In San Francisco, public health inspector Matthew Bennell is intrigued when a co-worker and good friend, Elizabeth Driscoll, tells him that her husband has suddenly changed. He suggests they speak to his friend, psychiatrist David Kibner, who confirms that several of his patients are claiming that their husbands or wives are not who they seem to be. He puts it down to mass hysteria until two other of Matthew's friends, Jack and Nancy Bellicec, discover a partly formed corpse. They soon discover that humans are being replaced with exact copies who are emotionless and are moving forward apparently unstoppable, in their quest to replace everyone.

Hosted By: Ray Richards and Helen Stewart

IMDB: Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. Unfortunately, the drug he used has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance, and several will die in the process.

Hosted By: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, and Ray Richards.

This is our last episode of Hilltop Horror Movie Reviews: Year 1!

IMDB: Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine, once again. Now adults, the childhood friends have long since gone their separate ways. But when people start disappearing, Mike Hanlon calls the others home for one final stand. Damaged by scars from the past, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise -- now more powerful than ever.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, Jimmy Stewart, Patrick Reilly, and introducing Lynn Miller

IMDB: In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, Anne Conley

IMDB: Siblings Jackson and Angela run a profitable ghostbusting racket; swindling the bereaved with fake detection equipment and Angela's paranormal 'visions'. Hired to investigate a haunted old foster home, the team uncover its terrifying past: young girls brutally slaughtered, mouths stitched shut; silenced by a sadistic killer. And Angela's on the edge - sleepless, strung out and losing her mind, no longer certain what's actually real; convinced she hears the girls crying out to her from the darkness... But supernatural terrors are the least of their problems when they discover the very real evil lurking in the isolated house.

Hosted By: Helen Stewart, Ray Richards

IMDB: When a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, Helen Stewart

IMDB: A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

Hosted By: Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, and Ray Richards

IMDB: After the death of his wife in a freak accident, Reverend Graham Hess questions his faith and even leaves the church. Six months later, he discovers a gigantic crop circle in his yard. Similar events happen all over the world. Graham's children think it's aliens, his brother thinks it's pranksters, and Graham doesn't know what to think. However, as more and more strange events occur, he realizes something big is coming, and it's probably not going to be friendly.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: It's 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind...but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time-stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah's terrifying tome.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: Kirsty is brought to an institution after the death of her family, where the occult-obsessive head resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites once again.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart

IMDB: Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Hosted By: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, Ray Richards

IMDB: Two lovable hillbillies are headed to their "fixer-upper" vacation cabin to drink some beer, do some fishin', and have a good time. But when they run into a group of preppy college kids who assume from their looks that they must be in-bred, chainsaw-wielding killers, Tucker & Dale's vacation takes a bloody and hilarious turn for the worse.

Hosted By: Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, and Ray Richards

Music: www.bensound.com

IMDB: A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: After moving to a new town, two brothers discover that the area is a haven for vampires.

Hosted By: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, Ann Conley

IMDB: While trying to spice up their marriage in their remote lake house, Jessie must fight to survive when her husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her handcuffed to their bed frame.

Hosted By: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, Ray Richards

IMDB: Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

Hosted by: Helen Stewart and Ray Richards

IMDB: A man finds he is given more than he bargains for when he solves the puzzle of the Lament Configuration - a doorway to hell. But his ex-lover has found a way of bringing him back, and his niece, Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites, angels to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest pain.

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, Anne Conley

IMDB: A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

Hosted by: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, and Ray Richards

Drink Pairing Music: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Ghost_Dance

IMDB: In 1971, Carolyn and Roger Perron move their family into a dilapidated Rhode Island farm house and soon strange things start happening around it with escalating nightmarish terror. In desperation, Carolyn contacts the noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to examine the house. What the Warrens discover is a whole area steeped in a satanic haunting that is now targeting the Perron family wherever they go. To stop this evil, the Warrens will have to call upon all their skills and spiritual strength to defeat this spectral menace at its source that threatens to destroy everyone involved.

Hosted By: Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, and Ray Richards

Drink Paring Music:

URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Ghost_Dance Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

IMDB: When Sheriff Deputy Carter (Aaron Poole) discovers a blood-soaked man limping down a deserted road, he rushes him to a local hospital with a barebones, night shift staff. As cloaked, cult-like figures surround the building, the patients and staff inside start to turn ravenously insane. Trying to protect the survivors, Carter leads them into the depths of the hospital where they discover a gateway to immense evil.

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, Helen Stewart

Drink Pairing Music Attribution:

URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Ghost_Dance Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

IMDB: "REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams -- which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report.

Hosted by: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, and Ray Richards

Wine Pairing Music Attribution:

URL: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Ghost_Dance Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

IMDB: A maniacal clown terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

Hosted by: Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, and Ray Richards

IMDB: After a bank heist, brothers Richie and Seth Gecko plan to head to Mexico to evade arrest. At a motel, Richie kills their hostage and their journey hits a hard spot, but, just when things could have gotten worse, the Fuller family shows up. Seth takes them hostage and the five successfully cross the border. The five pull to a bar called "The Titty Twister", where Seth will meet his handler in the morning. When moon strikes, the stripper and workers turn into vampires and the survivors must soon fight for their lives.

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, Jimmy Stewart

IMDB: Five medical students decide to embark on a dangerous experiment to pierce the veil between life and death in an attempt to learn more about the afterlife. Under their temporary deaths they experience strange visions, and memories long since forgotten. However, what they hadn't bargained for is that when they pierced the veil of life and death, they'd each bring something back with them, something from their past that will not only haunt them, but is also fully capable of hurting them as well.

Hosted By: Helen Stewart, Ray Richards, Anne Conley

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

Hosts for this episode: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: A man, his son, and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining".

Hosted by: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, and Ray Richards

IMDB: Three odd-ball scientists get kicked out of their cushy positions at a university in New York City where they studied the occult. They decide to set up shop in an old firehouse and become Ghostbusters, trapping pesky ghosts, spirits, haunts, and poltergeists for money. They wise-crack their way through the city, and stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, one which will release untold evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters are called on to save the Big Apple.

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: It's been already twelve months since his last covert operation, and the rugged military, Kane, is still missing in action, presumed dead. With his wife--the successful academic biology professor, Lena--still grieving him, an unprecedented phenomenon in the swamplands of Florida will soon have her following in Kane's footsteps, as a member of a strong all-women team. So many theories try to explain the mysterious ever-expanding iridescent membrane which swallows the area; however, none was able to yield facts. What kind of startling biological transmutations lurk behind this bright and colorful kaleidoscope of horrors? In the end, what did Kane see?

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: The monstrous spirit of a slain janitor seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death. 

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, and Anne Conley

IMDB: In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety...

Hosted by: Anne Conley, Helen Stewart, and Ray Richards

IMDB: The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

When Cyrus Kriticos, a very rich collector of unique things dies, he leaves it all to his nephew and his family. All including his house, his fortune, and his malicious collection of ghosts!

Hosted by: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, and Helen Stewart

IMDB: Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Hosted by: Helen Stewart, Ray Richards, and Anne Conley

IMDB: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again...

Hosted by Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, and Ray Richards

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a new killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Hosts for this episode: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, Anne Conley, and guest Elizabeth Conley

The lone survivor of an onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.

Hosts for this episode: Ray Richards, Helen Stewart, and Anne Conley

When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.

Hosts for this episode: Ray Richards and Helen Stewart

A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.

Hosts this episode: Ray Richards, Anne Conley, Ed Anderthol