I remember having a poster of Leatherface which came free with an issue of Gorezone. I asked my teacher if I could put it on my school common room wall which got a muted reaction to say the least. Here, a couple who are travelling through Texas take a wrong turn and…you can guess the …
The first time I found out that there was a sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was when I was going through the racks of records in Track Records in York, where I grew up (York, not the record store, although I spent a lot of time there). I pored over the artwork and …
I first saw this classic when I was a late teen, studying for my A-levels at college in 1994. My friend taped this for me on the same tape as Last House on the Left. With it being copied from a copy, the picture and audio were crappy, but somehow this added to the experience …
Continue reading The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Reviewed- Day 1- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Another found footage Amityville entry. This has two stories taking place in two separate time periods. This bears all of the components for Amityville franchise entries of this era- namely it’s boring, has a mercifully short running time and is a good cure for insomnia. Again, this is terrible. And what makes it worse is …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 17- Amityville: No Escape (2016)
From IMDB- ‘When a new family moves to an old house in Amityville, they are tormented and tortured by an evil spirit living in the home while trapped by the malicious townspeople who want to keep them there.’ So, this doesn’t look like it was shot on a phone, feels like an actual film and …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 16- The Amityville Terror (2016)
A sinister toy monkey from the Amityville house finds its way to a Nebraska household (!) and possesses a father just in time for a family reunion. This cinematic non-entity also goes by the title Amityville Toybox. Please ignore both. Another dreadful shot on video affair that has only one saving grace- it’s just over …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 15- The Amityville Legacy (2016)
Residents of a boarding house suspect supernatural forces at play when their friend dies in mysterious circumstances. I guessed the type of film this would be within a few seconds of the start of this opus. This is yet another shot-on-video effort, with no suspense, no likeable characters you can actually root for, and no …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 14- Amityville: Vanishing Point (2016)
A recently orphaned young woman finds she's been left an old theatre in…Amityville. Strange shit starts to go down. Another cool premise, another missed opportunity. This time around the filmmakers steal the ‘six must die’ premise from John Carpenter’s The Fog. Don't be fooled- this isn't even a thousandth as entertaining as the 1980 masterpiece. …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 13- Amityville Playhouse (2015)
From IMDB- ‘A young woman and her friends returning from helping with hurricane relief efforts in Florida stop in the town of Amityville to check in on her sickly grandmother. There they find all is not well as an ancient witch's spirit permeates the whole place. This evil curse threatens to destroy the descendants of …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 12- Amityville Death House (2015)
A young woman starts a job as a night-shift custodian at the High Hopes Psychiatric Hospital. The ward she is to look after houses murderers, sadists and cannibals. But it's the seemingly supernatural activities that alarm her the most and cause her to look into the history of the hospital. It's a cool premise but, …
Continue reading Amityville Reviewed- Day 11- The Amityville Asylum (2013)
Meathook Cinema 