I first remember hearing about the film Scanners when home video first appeared on the scene here in the UK. A lot of the businesses with a selection of rentable videos in the early days weren't exclusively video shops. There was a shop near my school called Clockmakers (which is weird as it was a …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Scanners (1981)
aka Predator Goes To The City. Things I liked about Predator 2- - It looks great. A fantastic comic book style and a vibrant colour palate. The framing is very comic book-like also. - The cast. No, we don't get Arnie again but we do get Danny Glover, Bill Paxton and Gary Busey. But the …
I love it when sequels include the ending of the previous film as a recap for the audience. It's very considerate. I had forgotten nearly all of what happened in this film but it all came flooding back as I started to watch it. The last time I watched Rocky 2 was on VHS in …
I have a confession to make. I might be the only person on the planet who HATED Mad Max: Fury Road. It felt like riding a really fast 2-hour fairground ride after having a roast dinner. A very uncomfortable experience. But whilst I detested this Tom Hardy film, another released the same year made up …
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law are still cleaning windows (see the previous film) but somehow blag their way into the world of pop management. The band they start to manage are called Bloater which Timmy's brother in law then renames Kipper (it's classier). When Kipper's drummer is unable to play a gig, Timmy steps in. …
Continue reading Review- Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
I love the low-budget horror curios that I stumble across. Drive-In Massacre, Spawn of the Slithis and The Incredible Melting Man are three such examples of this sub-genre. I watched The Demon (aka Midnight Caller) from 1979 last night and can add it to this category. I actually thought the film was based in California …
This 1958 film adaptation was noteworthy as it was the first film based around the character which was made by the legendary studio Hammer Films. This adaptation has been pared down and changed to help the film's narrative flow (an example of this is that Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to purposely destroy Dracula. This …
Max Bialystock is a producer on the skids. Now that his more successful days are over, he's had to resort to swindling rich old ladies out of their dosh. They think they're investing in a new play he is producing but there is no play. Max's accountant Leo Bloom notices that it's more profitable to …
First Blood is another film I remember from the golden age of home video, an era that holds so many great memories for me. I didn't actually see First Blood from start to finish in the early 80's even though my brothers had rented the film on many occasions. I think I possibly thought of …
A Jaws/Piranha rip-off called Killer Fish starring Lee Majors and Karen Black, you say?! I am soo fricking there! You know the kind of film to expect when you see that this is a Sir Lew Grade Production. I love his '70s exploitation films set in exotic locales with all-star casts. They are part Whickers …
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