A leather-gloved serial killer is on the loose in Rome, but David Hemming's pianist and Daria Nicolodi's journalist are on the trail to try and find out who it is. Dario Argento's Deep Red is one of his best and features several signature elements that are now synonymous with his films- the innovative direction, the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 18- Deep Red (1975)
Harry is on his way to a country holiday home with his new ex-model girlfriend, Diane when they cross paths with a rowdy car-full of drunken yahoos who try to intimidate them. After the couple run them off the road and ruin the suspension on their car, they are tracked to their country lair with …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 17- Death Weekend (1976)
The sequel to George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead shows that the zombie epidemic has gotten much worse and society is on it's knees. Two television workers plan to escape with two SWAT team members in the TV station traffic helicopter in search of...whatever they can find that's better than their current situation. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 14- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
I love the horror films that are unlike any other films in the genre and stand alone with their quirks and idiosyncrasies. One such film is Alice Sweet Alice. The film was actually called Communion when it premiered at numerous film festivals but was then retitled Alice Sweet Alice when it was picked up by …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 13- Communion (1976)
A young woman takes a housekeeping job. The child she’s helping to look after has supernatural powers which she uses to summon zombies to kill anyone she suspects of having killed her mother. I love creepy kids in horror movies. Rosalie in this film is fantastic. Not only does she command a trope of zombies …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 11- The Child (1977)
Jimmie, an Aborigine, feels conflicted between staying true to his ethnic roots and trying to make something of his life which entails suffering vile racism from many of the White people he encounters. This erupts in bloody fashion. Chant shows that the Powers That Be didn’t discriminate when they chose films to brand as Video …
An oil prospector goes to check on a team working in the Philippine rainforest but when he gets there finds that they’re not there. When he finds a decomposed skull, he suspects they have all been killed by nearby cannibals. This Ruggero Deodato cannibal film may not be as well known as Cannibal Holocaust but …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 8- Cannibal (1977)
Brutes and Savges is a mondo movie in which intrepid 'world explorer' Arthur Davis documents the extremeties of life in Africa and South America. We get to see animal sacrifices, tribal fights, man vs deadly animal and more... I'm loving that some reviews state that some of this supposed documentary are staged. Of course they …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 7- Brutes and Savages (1978)
An ex-convict (played by director Paul Naschy) enters a village looking for work. He becomes a handyman at a farm owned by two sisters- one with a prosthetic hand and one who is, erm, very flirtatious towards him. He seems tormented with nightmares of him strangling women. Murders start to happen in the village around …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 6- Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1973)
A clerk who has been left deaf and dumb after a childhood with an abusive father, has an obession with the dead. He regularly breaks into mortuaries and starts to take souvenirs such as eyeballs. This escalates with him wanting to drink the blood of the dead. After his neighbour dies who he has a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 4- Blood Lust (1977)
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