After a horrific motorcycle accident, Rose Miller awakens from a coma in the mysterious Keloid Clinic that specialises in plastic surgery. She now has an insatiable thirst for blood and a 'stinger' in her armpit that she uses to 'feed' off the blood of other humans. This, in turn, transforms them into rabid zombies. Rabid …
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A shape-shifting alien, Kator, lands on Earth. His mission is to evaluate if earthlings are a worthy source for food for his race. After he kills an amorous couple in a car, he assumes the identity of the male and then crosses paths with a lesbian couple who live in isolation in the countryside. Wow. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 61- Prey (1977)
A teenaged girl who is abused by her father, murders him. She is committed in a mental hospital because of this but then escapes. She seeks work from a pig farmer. She doesn’t yet know that the farmer has his own secrets and that his pigs have acquired a taste for human flesh. Well, there’s …
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I first heard of Phantasm when its sequel came out. Barry Norman reviewed it and admitted that he hadn’t even heard of the first film. Neither had I. Fortunately, my sister in law had a friend who had closed down their video business, and so gave her a lot of the videos he used to …
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Massacre Mansion aka Mansion of the Doomed concerns a surgeon who is determined to save his daughter’s eyesight lost in a car accident by transplanting someone else’s. He starts his experiments by inviting hapless victims to his mansion, drugging them and then performing the transplant. Things don’t go to plan and so the procedure has …
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Martin is by filmmaker George A Romero and was his favourite film from his oeuvre. Martin is a young man who we see travelling by train to Braddock in Pittsburgh to live with his elderly cousin, Tata Cuda who seems convinced that Martin is the latest in a long line of vampires ('the family curse'). …
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Count Christian von Meruh, an apprentice witch-finder to his superior, Lord Cumberland, arrives at an Austrian village ahead of his superior. He gets to see how a sadistic rogue witch-finder, Albino acts which makes him question his profession and the brutality involved. He also falls in love with a young woman there who is accused …
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Women are being killed with gardening implements. Could the suspect be Caleb, the goofy, odd looking gardener who suffers from multiple personalities and regularly adopts the identity of his much better looking brother, Lester who died previously? The Love Butcher is batshit crazy and great fun because if it. There’s a rich vein of zaniness …
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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 …
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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 …
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Meathook Cinema 