Jack Hill's film concerns three inhabitants of a huge house who suffer from a condition which makes them regress into a childlike state. Their butler tries to hide them from the world as they also have murderous impulses (witnessed in the first scene involving the postman who ventures onto their property) and as a promise …
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 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 17- Alien 2: On Earth (1980)
An American author wants to research Bali's black magic. She meets with a witch who promises to teach her. Mystics In Bali is, apparently, one of the influences of Wes Craven on his movie, A Nightmare on Elm Street. It's also batsh*t crazy! Wanna see a flying head with its spinal column still attached? Wanna …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 16- Mystics in Bali (1981)
An ex-telephone worker with a serious chip on his shoulder is murdering people by playing deadly frequencies down the phone to anyone who answers. This results in them bleeding from their eyes, nose, mouth and ears and then being blasted backwards with such force that it kills them. But don't worry- Richard Chamberlain is on …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 15- Bells (1981)
Simone is so obsessed with her favourite pop star (the mysteriously named 'R') that she can't eat or concentrate in school anymore. She waits for his reply to the letter she wrote, but nothing arrives. She goes to the TV studio where he is due to appear on a music programme, he sees her, likes …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 14- Der Fan (1982)
Rituals is a Canadian horror film about five doctors who decide to go camping in the wilderness. What could possibly go wrong? The obvious reference point for this film is Deliverance. I think of Rituals as 'Sufferance' instead. A great cast (Hal Holbrook would go on to star in John Carpenter's masterpiece The Fog, Lawrence …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 13- Rituals (1977)
This sequel to Demons was made mere months after the first film. The action is switched from the cinema of the original and takes place in a very modern and very secure (a bit too secure, as viewers will find out) apartment block. The demons are back and as messy, toothy and angry as ever. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 12- Demons 2 (1986)
Jennifer is the only scholarship girl in a very select and very posh school called Green View. She has fallen foul of the bitchy in-crowd led by the ultra-vile Sandy, whose father is a senator. Jennifer's father is stanchly religious, and they live on their own above the pet shop that he owns. Jennifer once …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 11- Jennifer (1978)
The first time I found out that there was a sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was when I was going through the racks of records in Track Records in York, where I grew up (York, not the record store, although I spent a lot of time there). I pored over the artwork and …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 10- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
I remember in late 90's/early 00's I used to order DVD's from a website that specialised in rare titles that hadn't been officially released. One was Rat Man and the stills from the movie looked really extreme! People are being eaten alive on an idyllic island. Could the culprit be a genetically engineered mutant half-rat, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 9- Rat Man (1988)
