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)
An artist finds she can psychically see how a killer is murdering people and can draw pictures of the scenes of his crimes as they’re happening. She works with the police to try and find the killer. This is the film Armand Mastroianni made after He Knows You’re Alone (my favourite Tom Hanks movie) two …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 41- The Killing Hour (1982)
I had heard so many great things about this movie, the risque British Alien rip-off that stood on it's own as a great piece of cult filmmaking. I was expecting a Galaxy of Terror type film. Boy, was I wrong! Inseminoid smacks of a quick buck being made on the back of Alien with the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 39- Inseminoid (1981)
A small hotel has just opened on Love Island (!) that is specifically aimed at newly weds and couples madly in love. But guests are going missing and are being found butchered. How is this happening? Oh boy. Another dull as dishwater slasher movie with characters who are only one step away from cardboard cutouts, …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 38- Honeymoon Horror (1982)
A PCP-addicted bodybuilder escapes from an asylum that he was placed in after he butchered his parents years before. He descends on a ranch in which a group of friends are celebrating Thanksgiving and terrorises them. Sometimes I know that I’m going to hate a film with a passion within the first couple of minutes. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 37- Home Sweet Home (1981)
Meathook Cinema 