'Retribution' (1987) – Guy Magar.

One of the many cult VHS-era horror classics to have slipped unfairly into the blackened vault of obscurity is maestro Guy Magar's nightmarishly vivid trip into the relentlessly macabre realm of metempsychosis. After greatly troubled artist George Miller's (Dennis Lipscome) failed attempt at suicide, the recuperating artist is persistently, and most  disturbingly plagued with horrifically fractured visions that seem far more familiar to him than he would like, feeling as though he were fitfully experiencing the shockingly gruesome death throes of another equally tortured soul! With bold, neon-hued shades of Elm Street, and Andrew Fleming's 'Bad Dreams', the increasingly distressed George lives in abject terror of the night, as when in fitful sleep, he nightly experiences the vengeful violence of some murderously dislocated spirit, these shrill, bloody night terrors prove so uncommonly vivid, poor beleaguered George begins to fear that these grisly events might be shockingly real! 

Guy Magar's visually striking, skull-rattlingly intense 'Retribution' works splendidly as a blood-splattered, melon-twisting terror-flick, and the earnest, emotionally raw performance by colourful character actor Dennis Lipscomb gives the grisly satanic shocker a dramatic pathos uncommon in many higher visibility splatter epics of the same era. With an eerily evocative score by frequent John Carpenter collaborator, and all-round electronica wizard Alan Howarth, a disarmingly perky performance from super-svelte, brightly coiffed scream queen Suzanne Snyder as Angel, some gleefully gory practical FX by maestro Kevin Yagher has the vertiginous effect of elevating Guy Magyar's grossly underrated supernatural shocker to that of a bona fide, brain-bogglingly bizarre, soul-searingly sinister B-Movie classic!