From IMDB- ‘Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting anti-war propaganda spoken by an American woman to American troops.’ An Italian Namsploitation film, you say? I’m there! This film is terrific. It moves at …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 43- The Last Hunter (1980)
The Last Horror Film aka Fanatic was a film that I was always intrigued by but was one of those horror films I just hadn’t gotten around to seeing for reasons unknown. That was until yesterday. I found the film on a cheap DVD in a charity shop and so thought 'What the hell' and …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 42- The Last Horror Film (1982)
An artist finds she can psychically see how a killer is murdering people and can draw pictures of the scenes of his crimes as they’re happening. She works with the police to try and find the killer. This is the film Armand Mastroianni made after He Knows You’re Alone (my favourite Tom Hanks movie) two …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 41- The Killing Hour (1982)
Druids invade a small town, looking for a rare blood type to resurrect their leader. Invasion of the Blood Farmers is a freaky, almost psychedelic early 70’s film that has the garish colour palates of the clothing of the era. I loved the depiction of something out of the ordinary infiltrating the humdrum life of …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 40- Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
I had heard so many great things about this movie, the risque British Alien rip-off that stood on it's own as a great piece of cult filmmaking. I was expecting a Galaxy of Terror type film. Boy, was I wrong! Inseminoid smacks of a quick buck being made on the back of Alien with the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 39- Inseminoid (1981)
A small hotel has just opened on Love Island (!) that is specifically aimed at newly weds and couples madly in love. But guests are going missing and are being found butchered. How is this happening? Oh boy. Another dull as dishwater slasher movie with characters who are only one step away from cardboard cutouts, …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 38- Honeymoon Horror (1982)
A PCP-addicted bodybuilder escapes from an asylum that he was placed in after he butchered his parents years before. He descends on a ranch in which a group of friends are celebrating Thanksgiving and terrorises them. Sometimes I know that I’m going to hate a film with a passion within the first couple of minutes. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 37- Home Sweet Home (1981)
In the 80s I was obsessed with A Nightmare on Elm Street. Because of the popularity of this film, an earlier Wes Craven film was re-released on video in the UK. That film was 1977's The Hills Have Eyes. I first saw the video for this release on a video store’s shelves whilst on holiday …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 36- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
You know the drill- women in prison who are badly treated and then plan to overthrow their captors. This is pretty generic stuff- nudity, humiliation, cat fights, degradation… The overall tone is pretty grim but I’m yet to see a Women In Prison film that has an optimistic outlook on life. This film was denied …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 35- Hell Prison (1980)
An artist, Arthur, is robbing a woman’s apartment. She is asleep on her bed but the noise he’s making wakes her up. All she can find to defend herself is a spoon (!) which she uses to gouge one of his eyes out with. With now only one eye, Arthur becomes obsessed with gouging out …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 34- Headless Eyes (1971)
Meathook Cinema 