A teenaged girl who is abused by her father, murders him. She is committed in a mental hospital because of this but then escapes. She seeks work from a pig farmer. She doesn’t yet know that the farmer has his own secrets and that his pigs have acquired a taste for human flesh. Well, there’s …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 60- Pigs (1973)
I first heard of Phantasm when its sequel came out. Barry Norman reviewed it and admitted that he hadn’t even heard of the first film. Neither had I. Fortunately, my sister in law had a friend who had closed down their video business, and so gave her a lot of the videos he used to …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 59- Phantasm (1979)
It’s 1992 and America is now a post-apocalyptic and dystopian society (!) which is run by a criminal organisation who have set loose a deadly parasite on the population. Brave survivors try and eradicate it. Parasite feels like an overlong episode of a TV series that wasn’t commissioned for a second season. It’s like something …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 58- Parasite (1982)
There’s Nazi gold hidden in a desert oasis. Unfortunately, it’s being guarded by zombies. Jesus Franco directs this remake of Zombie Lake which was made the previous year (fastest remake EVER!) with Jean Rollin at the helm when Franco couldn’t direct due to other commitments. God this film is dull. Shots which are obviously too …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 57- Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
A military plane is exposed to nuclear radiation. This means that everyone onboard disembarks after being turned into zombies who are thirsty for blood. What’s more, they are armed to the back teeth. A reporter and his doctor wife try to not become zombie nosh. I had such high hopes for this Umberto Lenzi movie …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 56- Nightmare City (1980)
A mysterious radiation thought to have been brought back to Earth after a space probe to Venus, is bringing the dead back to life to feast on the living. A young woman named Barbara is visiting her dead father's grave with her brother Johnny when... This film has so much of a great reputation amongst …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 55- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
An alien spacecraft is hit by an asteroid and forced to crash land on Earth, and in Maryland, of all places! It’s soon established that the occupant of the vessel doesn’t come in peace! 1982 was a big year when it came to alien movies. There were friendly extra terrestrials (erm, E.T.) who were a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 54- Nightbeast (1982)
This West German film provides an ‘erotic’ spin on the tales of Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. It’s also titled Grimm’s Fairy Tales For Adults in some countries. These are filmed adaptations of the fairy tales but made for adults and with added nudity (this was made as an adult film) and imagery suitable …
Lauren, a novelist who suffers from agoraphobia, rents a house that used to be a brothel in the 1940’s. The house is haunted by the spirits of prostitutes that were previously murdered there. The Nesting is basically a haunted house movie that you might enjoy if you came across it whilst flicking through channels looking …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 52- The Nesting (1981)
Martial arts instructor Susanne Carter (Jillian Kesner) travels to Asia to find her sister, a journalist, who has gone missing. Could the local mafia be involved? This is a New World Pictures production which is, of course, Roger Corman’s company. And the result is…OK but nothing to really write home about. The film’s original title …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 51- Naked Fist (1981)
Meathook Cinema 