Cathy's Curse - a 70s film about a girl being possessed after finding a doll in the house she is going to inhabit with her parents. Her mother, on the brink of a nervous breakdown, and her father, very busy with work at a construction site (actually a wall with a phone with hammering sounds in the background), have no idea that finding the doll has made their daughter a supernatural killer. The doll belonged to her aunt who died in a car crash which you can witness at the start of the film, which is a pretty badly transferred VHS copy btw. There is little to no suspension, special effects are almost absent and there is zero gore: the kills made are lame and uncreative. The ending was probably the lamest, which made me even doubt you can call this a horror. Very bad film, bad moviefans might have fun with the "burn wounds" or the wooden acting.

The Curse Of Bigfoot - a 70s monsterflick which ironically starts out with a class on 50s scifi and monsterfilms and then doesn't do any better than those even though it's been filmed twenty years later. The monster is a guy in a bad looking suit who appears from time to time but doesn't really do anything. The teacher from the class works together with a professor specialized in the phenomenon of bigfoot and they are hunting it down together with some students. The image is pretty ugly and most of the time you are looking at brownish scenes where nothing much happened. A very boring film which caused me to fall asleep while watching it. I'd skip this. This was on the same disc as Cathy's Curse and I'd only buy it if it is supercheap.

P.G. Psycho Goreman - two siblings, Mimi and her brother Luke, are playing in their backyard when they stumble upon a mysterious artefact, which turns out to be the control mechanism for an alien creature who got banished because of excessive violence and murder. Mimi gets to call the shots and after some shenanigans with the alien (letting him do tricks and other kid's stuff), they get to deal with other aliens who found out that this one had broken free. So they send in a Templar (some kind of female version of a Power ranger) to solve the problem. This conflict is nicely parallelled to the marital relationship between the parents of Mimi and Luke and also between Mimi and Luke themselves, nicely done. The endfight is ridiculous, but it kind of fits the film. Film is walking a thin line between campy fun and violent children's film, with plenty of gore and weird effects and childish jokes and lines. I'm a big fan of Steven Kostanski, so I did enjoy it, but I can see why several reviewers state that this is not his best work, So if you are new to Kostanski, try out one of his earlier films (Manborg, Father's Day, The Void), otherwise just slip this ione in. Recommended.

American Gothic - a group of friends is gonna take a trip with a waterplane but when it breaks down they get stranded on a remote island. Searching for help to get the plane repaired they stumble upon a cottage where they find all kinds of old stuff like a recordplayer and old toys. Soon they find out the family who lives there is far from normal: they have large grown up "children" and they have strange hobbies, very dangerous hobbies for "outsiders"... NIce film, not too complicated and I liked the plot and the ending. Acting was OK and effects were pretty OK too. Don't expect much gore, but do expect a great deal of weirdness and you'll be good. I don't really understand the title though, I didn't find anything gothic about this film.