From Wikipedia- ‘Jeremy Taylor is traveling through the Amazon rivers along with his wife and daughter when his boat gets attacked by some Indigenous cannibals who eat his wife Elisabeth and take Jeremy prisoner. The little girl Léna manages to hide inside the boat, even though the cannibal witch doctor and his son Yakeké find …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 9- Cannibal World (1980)
A flute-playing serial killer is inexplicably psychically linked with a disabled young girl after a blood transfusion (!) As you can tell from the plot outline, this film is batshit bonkers but I quite like that. I prefer the crazy shit that thinks outside the box rather than dishing up lukewarm generic rubbish. Something else …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 5- Blood Song (1982)
A married man, Larry rents a room in a beautiful house in the Hollywood Hills for his extra-marital trysts. Unfortunately, the brother and sister (Bridget and Jason) he rents it from are selecting victims to drain of their blood for the brother's medical condition which requires fresh blood to be regularly transfused into him. The …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 3- The Black Room (1982)
Astronauts return to Earth to find that World War 3 has taken place in their absence. Biological and nuclear warfare has obliterated Los Angeles. They have to contend with mutants and a gang of bandits led by Cutter (Sid Haig). I remember The Aftermath when it was rereleased in 1988 as Zombie Aftermath and had …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 2- The Aftermath (1982)
In a laboratory in Papua New Guinea, an experimental new gas is accidentally released turning the workers there into flesh-craving zombies. An intrepid news reporter arrives with her crew to investigate. The influence here to Dawn of the Dead is loud and clear. For one, they use parts of Goblin's iconic score for the soundtrack! …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 33- Zombie Creeping Flesh (1980)
Some of my favourite childhood memories involved me being in a local video shop (and there were quite a few in my area) and poring over the lurid and sleazy artwork for the horror movies. In the 80’s video shops were like art galleries for weirdos and I was (and proudly still am) one of …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 30- Visiting Hours (1981)
Three women are travelling to a music festival but crash their car. They awake in the isolated mansion of an elderly matriarch and her daughter. I love this film and not just because I found it in Poundland of all places. This is a chiller that keeps you guessing until the shocking and completely nutty …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 29- Unhinged (1982)
There's a killer doing the rounds in Boston, clad in black leather and donning a black motorcycle helmet who uses a curved machete to behead people. Terror Eyes aka Night School was made by Lorimar Productions who also brought us The Waltons and, erm, Cruising. There's lots of similarities with giallo films within Terror Eyes …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 27- Terror Eyes (1981)
The infamous video nasty that was banned in the SS Thatcher days of 80’s Britain. It’s a solid effort with great gore and decent suspense as two couples go to an island for a vacation. I loved the lead character who feels like she’s been having nightmares all her life about the place she’s just …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 26- The Slayer (1982)
You have a hit exploitation film. You want to shoot a sequel but on the cheap. How do you do this? You begin with credits that are literally words written with dripping red ink on sheets of paper and hold them up for the start of the movie (it doesn't matter that you can see …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 25- Revenge of the Bogeyman (1983)
