The film starts in Vietnam with a soldier, Hooper finding two colleagues in a pit waiting to be freed. However, on trying to accomplish this he sees that they are eating human flesh as they are infected with a virus that turns people into cannibals. As if this wasn't bad enough, he is then bitten …
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Cropsey, a summer camp caretaker is burnt alive as an unfortunate consequence of a prank that goes horribly wrong. After five years he returns to the summer camp with vengeance in mind. This is the slasher movie that helped form Miramax Films and gave a young Harvey Weinstein a career as a film producer. The movie was …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 9- The Burning (1981)
Reviewing the Video Nasties is like travelling down a long and winding road with stops at unexpected destinations on the way. I hadn't seen Bloody Moon before and was wondering what kind of horror film it would be. It turns out that it's a slasher film. This Jesus Franco film concerns Miguel, who has a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 8- Bloody Moon (1981)
Three sets of women and their husbands are asked to spend three days in their late father's house in a secluded location before his will is read. But the people there to look after them seem very odd indeed, especially a very creepy man called Colin who the audience has seen kill two people earlier …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 7- Blood Rites (1968)
A curfew has been placed on all women in Miami Beach due to a killer being on the loose. Could it be the work of a random serial killer or the local Egyptian caterer who is sacrificing young women to an ancient god? I first heard of Hershell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast through reading Incredibly Strange …
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Female SS officer and twisted doctor, SS Kratsch (what a great name for an evil character) has developed a genetically engineered half-man, half-maniac (think a cross between Ralphus from Bloodsucking Freaks and the real-life serial killer Fred West) who is fed a diet of 'mega-aphrodisiacs' which meets that his libido is through the roof and …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 5- The Beast In Heat (1977)
Spoiler alert This review reveals vital details about the plot or should that be, the device used for the film. A strange series of murders occurs around a bay. This is one of Mario Bava's best known films and also one of his most violent. I first learn of it whilst studying film at university. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 4- Bay of Blood (1971)
A trio of murderous mobsters take refuge in a farmhouse that houses a young girl, Lisa and her wheelchair-bound grandfather. There must have been something in the water when Axe was made as I see a lot of similarities between it and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. Both are gritty, low-budget to the …
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A group of tourists explore the Greek Islands. Unfortunately, someone or something starts bumping them off. There's so much to love about Joe D'Amato's Anthropophagus The Beast. Firstly, it delivers. The film's reputation is one of extreme gore and about it being utterly disgusting. And, thankfully, it is, which is perfect for horror fans. How …
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Absurd opens with lead character, Nikos Tanoupoulos, being pursued by a priest. Nikos tries to climb over a wrought iron fence but accidentally impales himself on the spikes on top of the fence and is rushed to hospital. As he seems to get over his surgery and injuries in record time, it is established that, …
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