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 mysterious radiation thought to have been brought back to Earth after a space probe to Venus, is bringing the dead back to life to feast on the living. A young woman named Barbara is visiting her dead father's grave with her brother Johnny when... This film has so much of a great reputation amongst …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 55- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 52- The Nesting (1981)
Massacre Mansion aka Mansion of the Doomed concerns a surgeon who is determined to save his daughter’s eyesight lost in a car accident by transplanting someone else’s. He starts his experiments by inviting hapless victims to his mansion, drugging them and then performing the transplant. Things don’t go to plan and so the procedure has …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 48- Massacre Mansion (1976)
Count Christian von Meruh, an apprentice witch-finder to his superior, Lord Cumberland, arrives at an Austrian village ahead of his superior. He gets to see how a sadistic rogue witch-finder, Albino acts which makes him question his profession and the brutality involved. He also falls in love with a young woman there who is accused …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 46- Mark of the Devil (1970)
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)
Druids invade a small town, looking for a rare blood type to resurrect their leader. Invasion of the Blood Farmers is a freaky, almost psychedelic early 70’s film that has the garish colour palates of the clothing of the era. I loved the depiction of something out of the ordinary infiltrating the humdrum life of …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 40- Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
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 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 