After a Shogun’s wife is killed instead of him, he vows to avenge her killers. He roams with the land with his young son and takes on mercenary work whilst working towards accomplishing his goal. Shogun Assassin is a re-edit of a smidgen of Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance and most of Lone …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 68- Shogun Assassin (1980)
Four criminals kill a jeweller and his family. They then kidnap a senator’s granddaughter and her boyfriend. This is a bad mistake though as the captives fight back in grisly fashion. Scream For Vengeance is very difficult to track down. I ended up having to watch a copy that had been dubbed into French. I …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 67- Scream For Vengeance! (1980)
I first remember hearing about the film Scanners when home video first appeared on the scene here in the UK. A lot of the businesses with a selection of rentable videos in the early days weren't exclusively video shops. There was a shop near my school called Clockmakers (which is weird as it was a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 66- Scanners (1981)
A crazed World War 2 soldier kills his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend. He then starts to bump off young teens in the same California town 35 years later. I remember seeing this a few years ago and thinking it was distinctly average. What a difference a few years can make! I really dug it this …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 64- Rosemary’s Killer (1981)
A children's game goes horribly wrong and a child falls backwards from the first floor window of an abandoned building and dies. The remaining kids vow to never tell anyone about what happened. It's now 7 years on and the children in the gang are preparing for their Prom Night. They one by one start …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 62- Prom Night (1980)
It’s 1992 and America is now a post-apocalyptic and dystopian society (!) which is run by a criminal organisation who have set loose a deadly parasite on the population. Brave survivors try and eradicate it. Parasite feels like an overlong episode of a TV series that wasn’t commissioned for a second season. It’s like something …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 58- Parasite (1982)
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 …
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Meathook Cinema 