This Italian film was made before the trademark of the better-known Alien film was registered. After the success of Ridley Scott's movie, it was duly released as Alien 2. It may have been cheekily named as if it was a sequel to this film, but it wasn't. Cave explorers find more than they bargained for- …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 1- Alien Terror (1980)
A small French town finds it now has to fend off Nazi zombies that the residents had killed twenty years earlier and then thrown into a local lake. I wanted to really like Zombie Lake. The poster for it is great with a very skeletal looking zombie wearing an SS helmet looking utterly menacing. But …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 82- Zombie Lake (1981)
Strange incidents at a New York morgue (body parts are being removed from corpses. Then a nurse is found trying to bite into a heart from one of the deceased) leads a group of scientists to an Indonesian island where they encounter a doctor who performs messed up experiments on both the living and the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 81- Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Another film I remember seeing on the shelves of video shops in the 80’s that I somehow didn’t watch was Xtro from 1982. I finally got to see it for the first time earlier. Wow. Just wow. Xtro is out there! A man is abducted by aliens. Three years later an alien impregnates a woman …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 80- Xtro (1982)
Two young women are driving home when their car breaks down. A group of hillbillies cross paths with them and **** them. They escape but then encounter a death cult who also plan to **** them and then kill them. However, the parents of one of the young women has called the police as their …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 79- Wrong Way (1972)
Daniella has been having nightmares involving herself being a female werewolf and being hunted by angry villagers. This is after she learnt that a female relative from generations before and who she resembles was actually executed for being a werewolf. She starts to become more and more like her ancestor. And I was expecting Werewolf …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 78- Werewolf Woman (1976)
Ralph and Donna are on their way to visit ‘Uncle’ who is throwing a very special kind of party for his guests. Section 3 takes a sharp left into the soft-focus world of the soft-core p*rno genre here, known in cult film parlance as ‘s*xploitation’. We get to see the gift Ralph bought Donna years …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 77- The Toy Box (1971)
A mad scientist, Dr Lorca, is making murderous human/plant hybrids on an island using the blood of the local inhabitants. Tomb of the Living Dead is actually Mad Doctor of Blood Island after it was retitled to try and cash in on all things zombie. It’s the third film in a four film Filipino series …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 76- Tomb of the Living Dead (1969)
In 1982, American audiences wanted only one alien. He wasn’t the shape-shifting evil alien in John Carpenter’s The Thing; he was the cute alien who wanted to ‘phone home’ in Steven Spielberg’s E.T. A dog who is being shot at by the crew of a helicopter flying overhead is taken in by an American compound …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 75- The Thing (1982)
I first saw this classic when I was a late teen and studying for my A-levels in 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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 74- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Meathook Cinema 