empire pictures

Catacombs (1988)

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Curse 4: The ultimate sacrifice

It was the end of an empire. David (Puppet Master) Schmoeller’s Catacombs (1988) was the last officially completed Empire Picture before the company was seized and folded into Epic. It’s this same financial snafu that left other Charles Band productions like Arena and Robot Jox in release purgatory. Cacacombs was eventually slapped with the Curse … Read more

Cellar Dweller (1988)

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Box Cover art for Cellar Dweller 1988

Bargain Bins, Box Art, and B-Movie Gold “Cellar Dweller (1988) is one of those classic rental titles that seemed to fall through the floorboards for almost 20 years. After the Empire collapse, and later the New World implosion, the only copies you could find were the bargain-bin dwelling low quality EP ‘Starmaker’ re-issues from ‘91. … Read more