George, an antique dealer from Manchester, travels to the countryside for a weekend getaway. On his journey, he meets Edna,who accidentally reverses her car into his motorbike. The two discover that a nearby agricultural experiment involving ultrasonic radiation is causing the dead to rise from their graves as flesh-eating zombies. This Spanish-Italian production is actually …
Or Last House on the Left On A Train. Two young teenagers cross paths (or tracks) with a trio who degradate and sexually humiliate them. One of them is accidentally killed, the other jumps from the train to escape her captors. The trio then find themselves at the home of one of the teenagers. Revenge …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 19- Late Night Trains (1975)
Killer Nun's narrative centres around Sister Gertrude who has just returned to the hospital in which she works after having a brain tumour removed. She is convinced that her tumour has returned, however. Following her surgery she also starts to lead a double life. She travels into the city and seeks men to have sex …
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A woman, Magdalene (Elke Sommer) is shown being bludgeoned about the head. The rest of the film takes place in a courtroom in which her husband is on trial for the murder. Witnesses testify that the deceased had tried to get her husband bumped off and vice versa. But was her husband actually guilty of …
A young female singer finds herself in a house in which a young man has just slaughtered his entire family. On seeing her, it becomes apparent that he is going to kill her too. Thankfully she is armed and so kills him in self-defence. Unfortunately for her, the police arrive and presume that she has …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 15- Human Experiments (1979)
Two scientists try to master the tricky subect of immortality. But instead they create zombies who can only stay alive by staying cool. Yes, that really is the plot. There are shots of the zombies recharging in deep freeze units. Everything about Frozen Scream (geddit?!) is just as bonkers as the plot. The frankly bizarre …
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A new nurse arrives at an isolated insane asylum after a doctor is killed. There she starts to experience the lives of the inmates and sees that sinister occurrances are taking place. Don't Look in the Basement is a slow-burn. It's a perfect film when you don't want the instant jump scares or gory thrills …
From IMDB- ‘Two siblings cursed in prehistoric times survive for millennia by feasting on the entrails of young people, prowling in what eventually becomes a park in contemporary Los Angeles.’ My initial thought on viewing this film is, 'What the hell have I just watched?!' This is probably the only time I’ll see a screen …
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Donny is a very damaged person. After an incident at work sees one of his colleagues set himself on fire, we see Danny freeze with terror at the incident. This is explained through flashbacks. We see that as a boy his mother used to punish him by burning his forearms. When he returns home from …
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Delirium centres around Charlie, a silent killing machine who we see kill one person and then instantly move onto the next. But why is he doing this? We find out that Charlie is a Vietnam vet who has been hired by extremists to clean up the streets. Except he's gone berserk and started killing anyone …
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Meathook Cinema 