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)
Faces of Death is a compilation of clips depicting death caused by various causes. There was a trend in exploitation cinema for documentaries that could get away with material that wouldn't be allowed otherwise. Hence, there were documentaries into, say, nudist camps as they could show full frontal nudity whilst meeting any criticism with cries …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 19- Faces of Death (1978)
Paul Martin is writing his second novel. He has shut himself away in a secluded cottage in the country to complete the task and a secretary is coming down to transcribe. But is she all she appears to be? Expose acts not just a film but also as a time capsule. It was made at …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 18- Expose (1976)
Another serious contender for the title of 'The Most Controversial Video Nasty' (the film shared that title with The Evil Dead). And whilst the film does have its shocking moments of lurid horror (yes, involving an electric drill), this is more a slow and meticulous study into alienation, the descent into madness and mental illness amidst …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 16- The Driller Killer (1979)
Marcos, a slaughterhouse worker, accidentally kills a taxi driver which sets into effect a domino effect of further murders. The original title of this Spanish film is La Semana Del Asesino which translates as Week of the Killer. The title The Cannibal Man is a bit misleading as there's no cannibalism herein (sorry to disappoint). …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 13- The Cannibal Man (1972)
Female SS officer and twisted doctor, SS Kratsch (what a great name for an evil character) has developed a genetically engineered half-man, half-maniac (think a cross between Ralphus from Bloodsucking Freaks and the real-life serial killer Fred West) who is fed a diet of 'mega-aphrodisiacs' which meets that his libido is through the roof and …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 5- The Beast In Heat (1977)
Spoiler alert This review reveals vital details about the plot or should that be, the device used for the film. A strange series of murders occurs around a bay. This is one of Mario Bava's best known films and also one of his most violent. I first learn of it whilst studying film at university. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 4- Bay of Blood (1971)
Meathook Cinema 