This is an article I wrote about this film rather than an actual review. Its amazing when a TV programme or a film conveys a message that is so powerful that it faces strong and vicious opposition from the higher echelons of the day who seek to suppress it. Play For Today was a BBC1 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 17- Scum (1979)
Terry Hawkins comes out of prison after serving a sentence on dr*gs charges. He’s embittered from his time inside and far from rehabilitated. He decides to…make a sn*ff movie now that he’s free (seems a very niche career path he’s chosen). There’s loads of meta references here with this movie about making a movie. This …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 16- Last House on Dead End Street (1977)
I feel like I've grown up with this film. This was one film that I remember seeing on the shelves of video stores when I was a child but didn't get round to seeing before it mysteriously disappeared. Absence made the heart grown fonder and I knew I must see this forbidden fruit. But when …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 15- The Exorcist (1973)
Alex DeLarge is the leader of a gang of ‘ultra-violent’ youths who carry out beatings, r*pes and murders. When the other members of his gang turn against him, he’s caught red-handed after they have brutally attacked a woman who lives on her own. After she dies because of Alex’s actions, he is convicted of murder. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 13- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A couple move to a coastal town where the locals are very aloof and not very friendly. This is probably because they hide a secret- every seven years they sacrifice seven women for seven nights. This is all for the Knights Templar who return to town. I first saw this intriguingly named film in Film …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 10- Night of the Seagulls (1975)
Count Dracula is ill as he needs v*rgin blood but can’t find any. He decides to travel to Italy where he learns of a family which includes four daughters. The family is broke and so they think a Count might bring them a few quid if he marries into the family and so the arrangement …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 6- Blood For Dracula (1974)
In The Realm of the Senses concerns the s*xual relationship between a hotel manager (Kichizo) and a maid (Sada). Trigger warning- this film is an arthouse film and hence, not my usual fare. There are no chainsaws, zombies or apocalyptic dystopias. But there is smut. In fact, the film was massively controversial on its original …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Anomalies- Day 2- In The Realm of the Senses (1976)
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)
Meathook Cinema 