The first Carry On film in the popular series concerns a new platoon of soldiers entering National Service. If Sergeant Grimshaw treats them nicely rather than with hostility, will they all turn out as perfect recruits? He has £50 riding on it. For a first film, Carry On Sergeant is very self-assured and very funny. …
Continue reading What A Carry On!- Day 1- Carry On Sergeant (1958)
This entry into the taboo 'killer kid' horror sub-genre involves 9 year old Mikey. The first scene shows him slaughtering his entire adoptive family (yes, really) in one fell swoop. Whats more, hes videotaped the whole thing for his later entertainment. Mikey is found hiding in a closet by the police officers investigating who could …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 18- Mikey (1992)
This is an article I wrote about this film rather than an actual review. Its amazing when a TV programme or a film conveys a message that is so powerful that it faces strong and vicious opposition from the higher echelons of the day who seek to suppress it. Play For Today was a BBC1 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 17- Scum (1979)
Terry Hawkins comes out of prison after serving a sentence on dr*gs charges. He’s embittered from his time inside and far from rehabilitated. He decides to…make a sn*ff movie now that he’s free (seems a very niche career path he’s chosen). There’s loads of meta references here with this movie about making a movie. This …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 16- Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
I feel like I've grown up with this film. This was one film that I remember seeing on the shelves of video stores when I was a child but didn't get round to seeing before it mysteriously disappeared. Absence made the heart grown fonder and I knew I must see this forbidden fruit. But when …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 15- The Exorcist (1973)
This third film in the Child’s Play franchise finds the Good Guys factory restarting up production of the Chucky doll with Chucky coming back to life (again!) and tracking Andy down to a military academy. And the result is…OK. Not great, but passable. The change of setting is a welcome change, Andy as played by …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 14- Child’s Play 3 (1991)
Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of ‘ultra-violent’ youths who carry out beatings, r*pes and murders. When the other members of his gang turn against him, he’s caught red-handed after they have brutally attacked a woman who lives on her own. After she dies because of Alex’s actions, he is convicted of murder. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 13- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
From IMDB- ‘Mitchell, a police detective investigating the death of a victim of a German concentration camp, discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.’ There really nothing to see here. Poorly acted, terribly directed, photography which is heavy on soft focus, rubbish kills, terrible special effects that really …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 12- Cataclysm (1980)
Three psychopaths are aboard a sleeper train travelling across Europe. Mayhem and violence ensue. The comparisons with Late Night Trains here is blatantly obvious. But here the premise is more fleshed out. We are presented with a whole range of characters who are also travelling on the train which includes a prost*tute and a cop …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 11- Terror Express (1980)
A couple move to a coastal town where the locals are very aloof and not very friendly. This is probably because they hide a secret- every seven years they sacrifice seven women for seven nights. This is all for the Knights Templar who return to town. I first saw this intriguingly named film in Film …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 10- Night of the Seagulls (1975)
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