CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1981
The Boogens posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1981 1h 35m USA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

Keep the feeling.

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The Deadly Spawn poster 01

Movie / 1983 / Drama / Horror / Science Fiction

The Deadly Spawn

Why this pick

Like The Boogens, this is a scrappy, creature-forward early-’80s horror film that builds dread through confined spaces, practical monsters, and an ordinary group suddenly trapped with a subterranean threat.

The Nest poster 02

Movie / 1988 / Thriller / Science Fiction / Horror

The Nest

Why this pick

It shares The Boogens’ small-town isolation, blue-collar ensemble, and tactile creature-feature pleasures, escalating from an unnerving local problem into messy, practical-effects horror.

C.H.U.D. poster 03

Movie / 1984 / Horror / Science Fiction

C.H.U.D.

Why this pick

This pairs urban infrastructure with lurking underground creatures, using workaday characters, dark tunnels, and steadily mounting menace in the same unpretentious B-movie spirit.

The Unseen poster 04

Movie / 1980 / Horror

The Unseen

Why this pick

For the same early-’80s exploitation-horror texture, it turns an apparently safe remote lodging into a claustrophobic trap, with a gradual, grimy reveal rather than polished spectacle.

The Bone Snatcher poster 05

Movie / 2003 / Science Fiction / Horror

The Bone Snatcher

Why this pick

A remote mining operation awakens a hidden creature, making this a particularly close structural companion: isolated workers, harsh terrain, a buried threat, and escalating survival horror.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A small construction team of four men work to reopen an abandoned silver mine, 100 years after a mysterious massacre forced the military to shut it down. What they don't know is that their excavating has inadvertently freed some reptilian creatures lurking deep within the mine shafts.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Rebecca Balding

Trish Michaels

Fred McCarren

Mark Kinner

Jeff Harlan

Roger Lowrie

Peggy Stewart

Peggy Stewart

Victoria Tusker

Scott Wilkinson

Deputy Blanchard

Anne-Marie Martin

Anne-Marie Martin

Jessica Ford

John Crawford

John Crawford

Brian Deering

Med Flory

Med Flory

Dan Ostroff