There’s Nazi gold hidden in a desert oasis. Unfortunately, it’s being guarded by zombies. Jesus Franco directs this remake of Zombie Lake which was made the previous year (fastest remake EVER!) with Jean Rollin at the helm when Franco couldn’t direct due to other commitments. God this film is dull. Shots which are obviously too …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 57- Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
A military plane is exposed to nuclear radiation. This means that everyone onboard disembarks after being turned into zombies who are thirsty for blood. What’s more, they are armed to the back teeth. A reporter and his doctor wife try to not become zombie nosh. I had such high hopes for this Umberto Lenzi movie …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 56- Nightmare City (1980)
An alien spacecraft is hit by an asteroid and forced to crash land on Earth, and in Maryland, of all places! It’s soon established that the occupant of the vessel doesn’t come in peace! 1982 was a big year when it came to alien movies. There were friendly extra terrestrials (erm, E.T.) who were a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 54- Nightbeast (1982)
Lauren, a novelist who suffers from agoraphobia, rents a house that used to be a brothel in the 1940’s. The house is haunted by the spirits of prostitutes that were previously murdered there. The Nesting is basically a haunted house movie that you might enjoy if you came across it whilst flicking through channels looking …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 52- The Nesting (1981)
Martial arts instructor Susanne Carter (Jillian Kesner) travels to Asia to find her sister, a journalist, who has gone missing. Could the local mafia be involved? This is a New World Pictures production which is, of course, Roger Corman’s company. And the result is…OK but nothing to really write home about. The film’s original title …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 51- Naked Fist (1981)
A young woman, Nancy, runs away from home to escape her abusive stepfather (played by Lawrence Tierney). She plans to hitchhike to San Francisco to stay with her sister. She tags along with two young men who are going that way. They stop off in a small town in which a family just happen to …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 50- Midnight (1982)
Susan, a 10 year old girl, enters her family mausoleum during her mother’s funeral. She becomes possessed by an evil spirit which now lives inside her. The film then flashes forward as we now follow her progress as an adult. Mausoleum is an odd movie. It contains dialogue which sounded better on the page but …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 49- Mausoleum (1983)
Hal is taking a lady friend to a nightclub in his sports car. They are set upon by a Hell’s Angels gang. During the chase that ensues, a gang member is killed. Later that night when Hal and his date leave the club they are ambushed by the gang who beat him up and r*pe …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 45- Mad Foxes (1981)
From IMDB- ‘Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting anti-war propaganda spoken by an American woman to American troops.’ An Italian Namsploitation film, you say? I’m there! This film is terrific. It moves at …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 43- The Last Hunter (1980)
The Last Horror Film aka Fanatic was a film that I was always intrigued by but was one of those horror films I just hadn’t gotten around to seeing for reasons unknown. That was until yesterday. I found the film on a cheap DVD in a charity shop and so thought 'What the hell' and …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 42- The Last Horror Film (1982)
Meathook Cinema 