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)
You know the drill- women in prison who are badly treated and then plan to overthrow their captors. This is pretty generic stuff- nudity, humiliation, cat fights, degradation… The overall tone is pretty grim but I’m yet to see a Women In Prison film that has an optimistic outlook on life. This film was denied …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 35- Hell Prison (1980)
A slasher movie directed by J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear) and starring Melissa Sue Anderson (she's a long way from Little House on the Prairie here!), Glenn Ford and Lawrence Dane (Scanners). Someone is bumping off college students in innovative ways. Who could the killer be? Even though the methods of murder are unconventional (barbell, …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 33- Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 32- Graduation Day (1981)
An ex-bouncer has just been released from prison. He’s recruited by a nightclub owner who is having problems with local gangsters. G.B.H. is one of those movies that made me think, ‘What the hell have I just watched?!’ as the end credits rolled. Imagine a film that is shot on video, is set in Manchester …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 31- G.B.H. (1983)
Alice, the final girl from the first Friday the 13th, is murdered by an assailant two months after this initial spate of murders. It’s not hard to guess who this is as Alice had just found Mrs Voorhees’ severed head in her fridge. A new bunch of counsellors are arriving at a camp close to …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 30- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
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