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 …
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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)
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 …
Night of the Bloody Apes ia a 1969 Mexican horror film directed by Rene Cardona and Jerald Intrator. A doctor transplants a gorilla's heart into his son's body to try and cure his lukemia. This turns the son into a murderous and very nubile half-man, half-ape type hybrid who wreaks havoc. Night of the Bloody …
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Two female army agents go undercover in a Nazi concentration camp to gain information- WITH HILARIOUS CONSEQUENCES!!! (Just kidding). Lee Frost's Love Camp 7 is the first of the so-called Naziploitation genre (a dubious honour) and whilst it may have been controversial for the time, it's pretty tame when compared to the other genre entries …
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Three sets of women and their husbands are asked to spend three days in their late father's house in a secluded location before his will is read. But the people there to look after them seem very odd indeed, especially a very creepy man called Colin who the audience has seen kill two people earlier …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 7- Blood Rites (1968)
A curfew has been placed on all women in Miami Beach due to a killer being on the loose. Could it be the work of a random serial killer or the local Egyptian caterer who is sacrificing young women to an ancient god? I first heard of Hershell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast through reading Incredibly Strange …
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This 1963 Mario Bava film is a horror anthology. The episodes that make up the film are- 'The Drop of Water' which concerns how the theft of a ring from a corpse starts a string of supernatural occurances directed towards the thief, 'The Telephone' which is about a woman who is targetted by the malcious …
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Elizabeth is left a large mansion by her deceased uncle. A friend tries to convince her to sell it but she is hesitant. Strange events start to happen to her whilst there. Could the place be haunted or is there another explanation? Strong on style, mood and atmosphere but short on plot, The Doll of …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 23- The Doll of Satan (1969)
A young man, Peter, visiting Austria for the first time, learns that his great-grandfather was a sadistic killer who killed over 100 locals. He asks to visit the castle where his relative lived, and then he and a friend decide to read an incantation that, when read at midnight, could resurrect him from the dead. …
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