BEWARE- There are spoilers herein. This 1981 Lucio Fulci film centres around a young woman called Lisa Merril who arrives in Louisiana from New York as she has been left a hotel as part of an inheritance and which she hopes to renovate. Several unexplained events happen however. She then learns that the hotel is …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 1- The Beyond (1981)
Probably Argento's best movie in my opinion. A successful writer Peter Neal is visiting Rome from America. He becomes aware that a serial killer is on the loose and strongly influenced by his work. This film is staggeringly good. Prepare to be astounded by the tracking shot of the outside of the apartment block- one …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 37- Tenebrae (1982)
A man awakens in a hospital bed to tell of his ordeals against a Bigfoot-type creature that himself and the rest of the researchers he was with were investigating. None of his colleagues survived. The film then goes back in time to recall events. Night of the Demon has bad acting, cheap effects and a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 34- Night of the Demon (1980)
George Tatum has spent years in a psychiatric hospital but is judged to be fit for release after taking experimental drugs which 'reprogramme' murderers. He was originally placed in the facility after he had murdered a whole family but after being released, he disappears. He drives from New York to Florida where his ex-wife resides. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 32- Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)
Beware- there are spoilers ahead. A woman finds that she’s being stalked by her murderous twin sister who has escaped from her psychiatric hospital. This is just before their joint birthday. The opening scene of Madhouse is a shocker with one sister rocking the other in a rocking chair and then out of nowhere, bashing …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 30- Madhouse (1981)
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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 24- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 22- Forest of Fear (1980)
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. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 17- Evilspeak (1981)
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)
Meathook Cinema 