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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Umberto Lenzi's film has gone by many different names with Mondo Cannibale and Sacrifice! being but two of them. But it was when it was released on UK video as Deep River Savages that it gained controversy during the Video Nasties furore. This was actually one of the few Video Nasties I had never seen …
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A psychopathic hotel owner (Neville Brand) feeds unruly guests to his pet crocodile who lives next to his building. This was the film Tobe Hooper made after his masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre so, no pressure there then. Just as TCM had a kind of raw realism to it, as if actual events were …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 6- Death Trap (1976)
A boat sails into New York but the only person onboard happens to be a morbidly obese zombie who seems to be pissed off and hungry. The daughter of the boat’s owner decides to venture to where her father had been, a Caribbean island called Matul. She takes along with her a journalist who smells …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 39- Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Meathook Cinema 