Count Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) joins an expedition in the Himalayas to try and shed light on whether the Yeti exists. It is during this that he is bitten by cannibalistic nymphs and because of this, he is turned into a werewolf. Or something. The Werewolf and the Yeti is a beautiful film to look …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 38- The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975)
Pervy goings-on in a concentration camp between hairy men and hairy women. The camp is run by Colonel von Kleiben who lost his testicles to a Russian woman and is looking for replacements. Yes, that really is the plot. SS Experiment Camp was massively controversial during the Video Nasties moral panic and was regularly named …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 36- SS Experiment Camp (1976)
Take a very mediocre movie. Apply an 'edgy' and highly questionable marketing campaign to try and sell it to the public. Step back and see what happens. Starlet Terry London and her producer visit a country in South America. Unfortunately, they cross paths with a female junkie biker gang who kill the starlet and several …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 35- Snuff (1976)
There’s a serial killer on the loose in New Orleans where it’s time for the annual Mardi Gras. But, in fact, this isn’t *quite* the case. Only the last act of the film takes place in the Mardi Gras. Also, the hulking supernatural shadowy figure in the video artwork, resplendent with glowing eyes and straight …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 31- Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)
Two teenage girls venture into the big bad city to go to a concert. They try to score some pot but quickly discover that the gang they are trying to score from are, in fact, a gang of psychopaths. As expected, things go from bad to worse for the girls as they are humiliated, tortured …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 28- Last House on the Left (1972)
You know those films that are so predictable that they have you saying 'I knew that was going to happen'? Island of Death is the exact opposite of those kind of movies. A British couple arrive on the island of Mykonos with only one thing in mind- seducing the locals then dispatching of them whilst one …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 27- Island of Death (1976)
New York writer Jennifer Hills relocates temporarily to a lakeside idyll in Connecticut to write her first novel. A local gang of four men attack, humiliate and r*pe her. They then order one of the gang to go back and kill her. He lies to them and says he has but they then learn that …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 26- I Spit on Your Grave (1976)
Conrad von Starke is going to meet a female friend. But this isn't any meeting. The woman, Lise Cohen, he is going to meet was a female inmate at the concentration camp von Starke was in command of. We get to see what happened in this camp through Lise's flashbacks and how she and von …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 23- Gestapo’s Last Orgy (1977)
This Andy Warhol (Paul Morrissey) adaptation of Mary Shelley’s morality tale involves Udo Kier’s Baron Frankenstein making a male and female creature who he wants to procreate and make a master race. As with a lot of his other films, Warhol’s involvement as minimal with just the most perfunctory visits to set so that he …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 21- Flesh For Frankenstein (1973)
Three escaped convicts invade the home of a black minister and his family. But whilst initially they are at the command of the criminals, the tide begins to turn. There are many parallels between Fight For Your Life and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. Race plays a HUGE part in this film though …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 20- Fight For Your Life (1977)
Meathook Cinema 