I actually managed to see two films this past week and am even having time to start this thread, a major accomplishment.

Last night I watched the Dementia 13 remake. It's not great but had much better production values than the original. I really liked the location and wish it could've been put to better use. There are a few axe murders and it is set at a castle and there is a death of a little girl years earlier, but nothing else from the original is the same here. This ends up being mainly a home invasion story with a ghost thrown in for, well, I really don't know what for. What I mainly liked was the house itself and the production values, and the one girl who gets killed right away had a fantastic body.

The other movie I saw was Massarati and the Brain. Not horror, but a TV movie I missed back in the day because it aired shortly after my grandmother had a stroke in '82 and I was too busy to see much of anything on TV that summer. I've wanted to see this one ever since and to my knowledge it was never shown again. I found it on YouTube the other day by accident. It had Dutch subs so that reinforces my thought that it's a rare film and probably didn't get a USA release even on VHS. Anyway, it has Christopher Lee, Markie Post (from Night Court and The Fall Guy), Camilla Sparv (from MacKenna's Gold, Downhill Racer, Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round and a slew of other big budget late 60s films where she usually played a sexy foreigner), Christopher Hewett (from the TV sitcom version of Mr. Belvedere) and Peter Billingsley (the kid from Christmas Story and Death Valley). Billingsley plays a genius kid, nicknamed The Brain, who is staying with his uncle, who is some sort of international spy/James Bond type character. The kid makes all sorts of electronic tracking devices and weapons for his uncle to use to catch crooks. The Uncle is played by Daniel Pilon, who was in Island of the Dead (the killer fly movie with Talisa Soto and Mos Def that everyone hated because the title led them to believe it was about zombies). Lee is a Nazi war criminal out to retrieve a cache of priceless ancient coins from the bottom of the sea so he can sell them and use the cash to fund the rebuilding of the Third Reich. I'd have loved this if I'd seen it back in '82. I still enjoyed it but it was clearly aimed at younger people. It felt like a pilot for a series that never got off the ground. Too bad - it would've made a fun series.