Beware- there are spoilers ahead. A woman finds that she’s being stalked by her murderous twin sister who has escaped from her psychiatric hospital. This is just before their joint birthday. The opening scene of Madhouse is a shocker with one sister rocking the other in a rocking chair and then out of nowhere, bashing …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 30- Madhouse (1981)
Two female army agents go undercover in a Nazi concentration camp to gain information- WITH HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES!!! (Just kidding). Lee Frost's Love Camp 7 is the first of the so-called Naziploitation genre (a dubious honour) and whilst it may have been controversial for the time, it's pretty tame when compared to the other genre entries …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 29- Love Camp 7 (1969)
Two teenage girls venture into the big bad city to go to a concert. They try to score some pot but quickly discover that the gang they are trying to score from are, in fact, a gang of psychopaths. As expected, things go from bad to worse for the girls as they are humiliated, tortured …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 28- Last House on the Left (1972)
You know those films that are so predictable that they have you saying 'I knew that was going to happen'? Island of Death is the exact opposite of those kind of movies. A British couple arrive on the island of Mykonos with only one thing in mind- seducing the locals then dispatching of them whilst one …
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New York writer Jennifer Hills relocates temporarily to a lakeside idyll in Connecticut to write her first novel. A local gang of four men attack, humiliate and r*pe her. They then order one of the gang to go back and kill her. He lies to them and says he has but they then learn that …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 26- I Spit on Your Grave (1976)
A mechanic and his friend invite themselves to a get-together in New Jersey. Unfortunately for the guests, their new acquaintances are psychopaths (!) Theres lots to love about The House on the Edge of the Park. The opening night-time New York scenes, the sleazy score by Riz Ortolani, the fact that the two psycho leads …
The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 24- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
Conrad von Starke is going to meet a female friend. But this isn't any meeting. The woman, Lise Cohen, he is going to meet was a female inmate at the concentration camp von Starke was in command of. We get to see what happened in this camp through Lise's flashbacks and how she and von …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 23- Gestapo’s Last Orgy (1977)
Forest of Fear (aka Toxic Zombies, Bloodeaters, Bloodeaters: Butchers of the Damned and The Dromax Derangement) is about a huge outdoor marijuana crop that is dusted with a substance which transforms some boring hippies into something much more interesting- flash-eating zombies. Forest of Fear is very low-budget, with a gritty(and ultra simplistic) synth score and …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 22- Forest of Fear (1980)
This Andy Warhol (Paul Morrissey) adaptation of Mary Shelley’s morality tale involves Udo Kier’s Baron Frankenstein making a male and female creature who he wants to procreate and make a master race. As with a lot of his other films, Warhol’s involvement as minimal with just the most perfunctory visits to set so that he …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 21- Flesh For Frankenstein (1973)
Meathook Cinema 