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)
Stop me if you've heard this one before...a group of teens go camping but find that they are being preyed upon by a killer. Body Count was a movie that I saw on the shelves of the many video shops in my area but never got around to seeing. I don't know why because the …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 8- Body Count (1986)
X-Ray starts with a prelude in 1961 with a boy called Harold leaving a Valentine's Day card for a girl he fancies called Susan. He watches through her front window to see what her reaction to his card is. She laughs about it with her brother and screws it up. In a rage, Harold breaks …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 7- X-Ray (1981)
Members of Rhonda's Workout gym are being bumped off. But who is the killer? Killer Workout was released on video in the UK as Aerobicide. This is, as you would expect, a slasher movie set around a gym/beauty spa. Hence, we get the whodunnit aspect of the narrative, red herrings as to who the killer …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 6- Killer Workout (1987)
Prince Prospero sees that local villagers are suffering from the Red Death, but rather than help them, he demands that the village is burnt down, but not before he has taken a local young woman as his own. Her father and her husband seek revenge and want to save her from Prospero's clutches. The Masque …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 5- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 2- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
A mysterious death in a Carpathian village prompts a coroner and a medical student to try and investigate what is behind it. Meanwhile, a ghostly little girl haunts the village as some kind of portent of impending doom. This 1966 Mario Bava film is fantastic and very important. Firstly, as a film, it's beautiful to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 1- Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
Gail Osborne is a 16 year old who starts dating Steve Pastorinis who goes to the same school as her. It's also around this time that she starts to receive abusive notes stuck in the grills of her school locker and also abusive telephone calls. For a film, let alone a TV movie to deal …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 31- Are You In The House Alone? (1978)
I remember I actually had the poster for Halloween 4 which I seem to remember came free with either Fangoria or Gorezone which I used to buy religiously back in the day. This was way before the film would actually be released here in the UK. The poster looked so cool and I was intrigued …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 30- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
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