A runner, Laura, literally drops dead after winning a 200-meter race. Her sister, who is in the Navy, comes to town for the graduation ceremony in which her sister will be honoured. A killer then starts bumping off Laura's teammates. But who is this murderer and what is their motive? I still can't believe that …
1983's Silkwood concerns Karen Silkwood, a plucky trade unionist who works at Kerr-McGee nuclear facility making fuel rods for nuclear reactors. Shes concerned by managers falsifying safety reports, cutting corners and retouching photographs of fuel rods to hide shoddy work and starts to campaign for these concerns to be rectified for the people who work …
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Frank (Robert De Niro) and Molly (Meryl Streep) meet accidentally in a bookstore in New York whilst Christmas shopping. Months pass, and their paths cross again as they both travel into the city from their suburban neighbourhoods on the same train and so they strike up a conversation. They also find that there is a …
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I was quite the A Nightmare on Elm Street fanboy back in the day. The film was *possibly* the video tape I rented the most in the 80's (although Supergirl and Watcher in the Woods came very close). The sequel was released with startling artwork by the genius artist Graham Humphries here in the UK, …
Continue reading Review- A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Nurse Mortley is back. This time, Social Services is placing homeless people in Shady Palms Clinic. Death Nurse 2 is just as good as the first film. It was filmed on a camcorder, just like the original, and the shenanigans and dialogue are just as John Watersesque. We even get some social commentary within this …
The Clowns are a shock rock group who look like a cross between The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Sgt Kabukiman and your average Goth and like to pretend to stab, mutilate and kill groupies on stage. It becomes problematic when someone starts to actually kill groupies who have come to see the band in real …
A new adaptation of Dracula, you say? And it's Japanese animation?! I'm fricking there! Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned follows Drac as he falls in love with a woman who is meant to be a new bride for Satan (!) but is stolen by our favourite winged vampire. He even becomes a dad! As you'll …
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When the lead in a new opera version of Macbeth is run over, her young understudy has to step in. However, there are shady goings-on with a killer on the loose. I love Opera. I remember the kills were shown as part of a horror module I took at university, and I couldn't wait to …
This Italian film concerns an acting troupe rehearsing a musical who find out that they are locked in their theatre with an actor cum serial killer who has escaped from a nearby psychiatric hospital. This Micheal Soavi-directed shocker is a banger from start to finish. I love that the characters are either bitchy, conniving, horny …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 28- Stage Fright (1987)
After he is bitten by a giant poisonous killer snake, Jason Kincaid finds that he has a psychic bond with the reptile from hell. The premise of this film is like a foreshadowing of the future masterpiece Jaws The Revenge. There are other links with everyone's favourite shark in that Mr Snake likes to fling …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 27- Spasms (1983)
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