This sequel to Zombie Flesh Eaters is a sequel in name only. A terrorist robbing a research facility is contaminated with an experimental new serum, which turns the living into zombies but also resurrects the dead. Let the fun begin! Zombi 3 had a troubled production. Director Lucio Fulci found the script to be terrible …
A seance goes badly wrong when one of those involved, Mary, has a vision of events that happened in a place called Dunwich years before, when a priest hung himself. Mary freaks out and collapses to the floor. She is later found to have died. The police arrive and think that something underhanded has occurred. …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 4- City of the Living Dead (1980)
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 …
This Lamberto Bava movie involves a cop who realises that his woman is doing the dirty on him. After a violent bustup she is murdered which makes him the chief suspect. All of the staple Giallo elements are here (gloved killer, sleazy locales, long overcoats, voyeurism etc etc) and You'll Die At Midnight is entertaining …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 25- Y- You’ll Die At Midnight (1986)
Another film I remember seeing on the shelves of video shops in the 80’s that I somehow didn’t watch was Xtro from 1982. I finally got to see it for the first time earlier. Wow. Just wow. Xtro is out there! A man is abducted by aliens. Three years later an alien impregnates a woman …
Poor Billy. Not only does he have a frankly terrifying visit with his grandfather in a mental institution, he then sees his parents slaughtered by a psychopath dressed as Santa who flags them down whilst on their way home. He is then sent to a Catholic run orphanage where the Mother Superior loves to run …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 19- S- Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
In Larry Cohen's film, an ancient Aztec winged reptilian creature has made their home on the top of the Chrysler Building in New York. Bungling criminal Jimmy Quinn is trying to hide after a botched robbery and uncovers the creature's lair. Q- The Winged Serpent is a doozy of a film. A homage to the …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 17- Q- Q- The Winged Serpent (1982)
The teens on Elm Street seem to be dreaming of the same grotesque man in their dreams (or should that be nightmares). In their dreams, he uses as a weapon a leather glove that he has fashioned with long, sharp blades. When one girl, Tina Grey, actually dies horribly during one of her nightmares, it’s presumed …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 14- N- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
William Lustig’s depraved classic Maniac was massively controversial when it was first released in 1980. It garnered the ultimate accolades for an exploitation film- it was HATED by Siskel and Ebert (Gene Siskel said he made it to the shotgun murder then had to leave the preview screening as he couldn’t stomach anymore!) and was …
A film for everyone who finds clowns really sinister and scary (or sexy because of that). A young couple are busy making out at Make Out Point when they see what looks like a falling star and, so, go to investigate. It’s there that they find, of all things, a circus tent. The alien beings …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 11- K- Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
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