One of the grittiest, most violent fantasy RPG modules of the 1970s hits the silver screen in the 1980s! Great idea, right? Audiences and critics certainly didn't think so. A commercial and critical dud, In the Vault of the Mecha Lich was essentially dead-on-arrival when in landed in theaters in May of 1987.  While the module, part of the classic "Against the Liches" series of adventures published by Skillful Games Inc. in 1978, is still highly-regarded in gaming circles, the lackluster PG-13 action/adventure film based loosely on it is decidedly less-so. In fact, it's hardly regarded at all! As the last film released by Quasi Films before the company folded in the wake of a mysterious kerosene fire in their production offices, the film has been shockingly hard to find in the years since its initial release, even in the "everything available always" world we live in now; this is partially due to the fact that only one version of the movie ever saw release on the home video market, an unauthorized beta edition issued by Postoyannyye Fil'm in 1991 (which featured scenes from a Soviet-era documentary about methods of organizing agricultural labor gratuitously edited into the film to pad its run time). Fortunately, the music inspired by and used in the film, composed and performed by 80s horror synth stalwarts Doctor Labyrinth, faced a much better fate; reissued here is a DL classic from said soundtrack, Investigations in the TechnoCrypt. Presumably, this is in direct reference to a scene in the film, although we can't be sure. Maybe someday the film will resurface...

Investigations in the TechnoCrypt - from the In the Vault of the Mecha Lich soundtrack

The main theme from the 1985 scifi/action cult film The Eradicator. When a cyborg assassin is sent forward in time to 2029 to eradicate several cyborg assassins who are themselves about to be sent back in time to commit several assassinations that would nullify the existence of The Eradicator before she can be sent forward in the first place, all hell breaks loose.

The Eradicator - Music from the Motion Picture

Theme from The Eradicator

The main theme from the soundtrack to Prisoner of Vampires, a slice of PG-13 cheese from 1986 featuring Dracula, dusty libraries, term papers, funeral parlors, and an outbreak of the flu! With a screenplay based on the novel by Nancy Garden, the film is notable for its cast, which included master British thespian Griffin Cote, as well as several members of the infamous "Whippersnapper Crew" of young actors, including Britt DePlace, Cass Samson and Yakov Vibius, in their last group effort before the excesses of their drug-fueled lifestyles caught up with them.

Prisoner of Vampires - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

True Accounts of Vampirism (Main Theme from 'Prisoner of Vampires')

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