Hundreds of years ago, a witch, Mad Dolly (!) is almost executed but escapes this by invoking the devil (it pays to have friends in high places) and curses the family, The Garricks, for trying to have her burnt at the stake. Fast forward to the present day (well, the late 70’s) and the last …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 73- Terror (1978)
One of the fantastic things about growing up as a child of the '70s and 80's and being a horror fan were the Public Information Films that were shown at random times both day and night on British TV. These could convey any burning issue from the dangers of abandoned old refrigerators on rubbish tips …
This film has the best plotline of any movie in the history of cinema. Really! Joan Collins stars as a stripper in a burlesque joint. Her co-star is a gypsy dwarf named Hercules. He makes advances on his co-star but when she knocks him back he places a curse on her unborn baby making the …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 9- I Don’t Want To Be Born (1975)
History is the ultimate judge of everything and film is no exception. One director whose work history has been very kind to is British director Pete Walker. Walker was actually the son of music hall star Syd Walker. His first job was as a comedian at a strip joint in Soho (!) He also made …
When I saw that Robin Askwith headed the cast of this British 70's horror flick I instantly thought of the brilliant bawdy comedies The Confessions series which he starred in and were delightfully mucky and low-brow. Perfect for the era. If Mr Askwith could prove a huge hit with the sexploitation brigade surely he could …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 24- Horror Hospital (1973)
It's 1974. A French starlet who isn't averse to modelling with no clothes on is seduced by an enigmatic young man who asks to take her home to meet his parents. However, his home appears to be some kind of old institution like a long forgotten prison. And this is exactly what it is. His …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 16- House of Whipcord (1974)
Mysteriously one day everyone in the village of Midwich suddenly lapses into unconsciousness. After a few hours everyone just as mysteriously wakes up. Two months later every woman in the village who is able to become pregnant finds that they are pregnant. Whats more the embryos are found to develop abnormally fast. The children look …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 15- Village of the Damned (1960)
***TRIGGER WARNING!!!*** This is a Pete Walker movie. In 1957 Dorothy Yates and her husband Edmund are convicted of murder and cannibalism (!) and sent to an asylum until the film's present day (1974). They are then released supposedly fully cured and living a quiet life. But are they? The answer, of course, is no! …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 12- Frightmare (1974)
A Tigon film from 1967 regarding Marcus, a doctor (played by Boris Karloff) who practices hypnosis. His wife Estelle is also part of his practice as they search for a suitable subject for their experiments. Step forward swinging 60's hip-cat Mike Roscoe (played by future Saint Ian Ogilvy) who Marcus picks up in a Wimpy …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 11- The Sorcerers (1967)
I knew very little about Bloody New Year before I watched it for this review. I thought it might be another slasher movie themed around yet another public holiday just like New Year's Evil. How wrong I was! Every now and again I watch a film that is so 'out there' that I think to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 10- Bloody New Year (1987)
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