It was dreadful news when I heard about film maestro composer Ennio Morricone's recent passing. He was one of the greatest film soundtrack composers of all time with his scores lending the sonic landscape for so many cinematic masterpieces. My favourite soundtrack by Morricone is the score he composed for John Carpenter's The Thing in …
Every week I'll be recommending one of my favourite soundtracks and why I like them. Hopefully this will inspire you to investigate more, buy the album or dig it out of your collection if you already have it so that you bask in it's glory again. This week is the turn of the Paul Zaza/Carl …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Monkey Shines When an athlete (Allan) is hit by a truck and left a quadriplegic, a scientist friend recruits a monkey that has been trained to help assist disabled people to fully carry out their lives. Ella, the monkey, starts to bond well with Allan, but soon, …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Beware! Children At Play A Troma movie that pushes the boundaries- even for Troma! Children are disappearing in a small town in America. Rather than being abducted, they are, in fact, being recruited to join a religious cult that practices cannibalism. This is Children of the Corn …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Rabid Grannies A group of relatives meet to celebrate their elderly relations' birthday (but have disclosed that they are only there so that they may be left something in the old duck's inheritances when they pop their clogs). A black-sheep nephew of the octogenarians who practices the …
There is a video for this list here. 10. The Video Dead A demonic television only shows the black and white horror film Zombie Blood Nightmare. The zombies can also escape the TV set to come into real life and kill the film's viewers. When I first saw this video on the shelves of my …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives Jason was killed in Part 4. But just as that instalment was supposed to be the literal 'Final Chapter', it had been such a success that Paramount made another film. Part 5: A New Beginning involved Tommy Jarvis still seeing …
There's a video for this list here. 10. The Mutilator Family horror here! Teenager Ed accidentally kills his mother whilst cleaning a rifle for his father (imagine what a headfuck that would be). After his father (Big Ed) discovers his dead wife's body, he has a breakdown. Fast forward a few years, and Big Ed …
There's a video for this list here. 10. The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 Yes, The Hills Have Eyes Part 2! I can see some of you sniggering! I have great memories of watching this film on VHS as a kid as it had some great lurid artwork (the video company were probably thinking, 'This …
There is a video regarding this article here. 10. Twilight Zone: The Movie An anthology of separate short films from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller and John Landis. This homage to the original Twilight Zone TV series, much loved by both television and horror fans, works really well as the spirit …
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