A mechanic and his friend invite themselves to a get-together in New Jersey. Unfortunately for the guests, their new acquaintances are psychopaths (!) Theres lots to love about The House on the Edge of the Park. The opening night-time New York scenes, the sleazy score by Riz Ortolani, the fact that the two psycho leads …
The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
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Forest of Fear (aka Toxic Zombies, Bloodeaters, Bloodeaters: Butchers of the Damned and The Dromax Derangement) is about a huge outdoor marijuana crop that is dusted with a substance which transforms some boring hippies into something much more interesting- flash-eating zombies. Forest of Fear is very low-budget, with a gritty(and ultra simplistic) synth score and …
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Stanley Coopersmith is the butt of everyone's jokes at the military academy he attends. However, when he discovers that satanism and an early 80's home computer can be combined, the effects prove to be very effective indeed. Evilspeak is a doozy of a film. It's basically Carrie but with computers and Satan instead of telekinesis. …
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Four youngsters go camping. But there’s someone or something bumping people off. As you’ve probably guessed, we’re in slasher territory here. Don’t Go In The Woods earned particular notoriety during the Video Nasties moral panic. Would this film be so horrific and depraved that it could turn viewers into mindless killers?! Of course not. This is another …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 15- Don’t Go In The Woods (1981)
This Spanish/Italian/German production is directed by Jesus Franco under the pseudonym Clifford Brown. It concerns a young model/actress who is scouting for locations in South America but is then kidnapped. A Vietnam vet is sent in to find her, which is perilous as there are cannibals in that part of the world. This film is …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 14- The Devil Hunter (1980)
A group of three documentary makers have gone missing in the Amazon whilst filming a documentary on cannibalism. Harold Monroe, an anthropologist, leads a team into the same terrain to try and find them. Cannibal Holocaust was massively controversial upon its release and was also identified as one of the more 'problematic' films on the …
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Three students decide to go to the Amazonian jungle to try and disprove cannibalism. However, they encounter two drug and emerald smugglers who are forcing a local tribe to harvest cocaine for them and treating them very badly in the process. The local tribe take revenge against their oppressors and the students get to see …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 11- Cannibal Ferox (1981)
The film starts in Vietnam with a soldier, Hooper finding two colleagues in a pit waiting to be freed. However, on trying to accomplish this he sees that they are eating human flesh as they are infected with a virus that turns people into cannibals. As if this wasn't bad enough, he is then bitten …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 10- Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
Cropsey, a summer camp caretaker is burnt alive as an unfortunate consequence of a prank that goes horribly wrong. After five years he returns to the summer camp with vengeance in mind. This is the slasher movie that helped form Miramax Films and gave a young Harvey Weinstein a career as a film producer. The movie was …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 9- The Burning (1981)
Meathook Cinema 