A company, Interzod, run by an astrologer, prepares themselves for the second coming of Christ or conversely, the Anti-Christ. They know this because of their analysis of zodiac signs and dates of birth. As you may have gathered by this synopsis, this isn’t your average exploitation film. This is a student film by James Glickenhaus …
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Sadistic killer Nanni Vitali escapes from prison with three accomplices. They embark on an orgy of murder, kidnapping, r*pe and violence. However, police inspector Giulio Santini is hot on their heels. Street Killers aka The Mad Dog Killer is a Eurocrime film that is very violent indeed (an indcation why it features on the Section …
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From IMDB- ‘’Three students, Tommy, Rita, and Robert, and their guides head into the jungle to study primitive tribes separated from civilization. However, the students say the one tribe they visit isn't primitive enough, and they want to find some really savages, and to locate the legendary cannibal tribe supposedly living in the area. The …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 65- Savage Terror (1978)
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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 46- Mark of the Devil (1970)
Meathook Cinema 