I first saw Children of the Corn when it was first shown on UK TV in the mid 80's. The following day it would appear that most of my school friends had seen the movie too as we all recalled the events of the film in grisly and lurid detail. On watching the film again …
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 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 30- Inseminoid (1981)
A few things about this film should attract cult film aficionados. Firstly, it stars John Saxon and Lynda Day George. It was also released on the infamous video label VIPCO (home of Zombie Flesh Eaters and Shogun Assassin in the early 80's). It's also features some of the cheapest special effects I've ever seen which …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 27- Beyond Evil (1980)
George A Romero's 2009 zombie flick and a concept that involves the found footage of a film student assembled into a movie by one of the film's other characters. All of the movie is shot on camcorders and other similar devices available at the time commercially. This found footage chronicles a group of film studies …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 26- Diary of the Dead (2009)
A very exclusive school is lobotomising (what is it about lobotomies in my choice of films for this year's 31 Days of Halloween?!) it's students so that they become the kind of upstanding captains of industry that makes society great. This is the High School version of The Stepford Wives. Played more for comedy than …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 25- Zombie High (1987)
I remember when this was released on home video in 1988. I couldn't wait to watch it as the poster alone harked back to the original film, it's mythology and the very Panaglide soaked vision that helped make it such a masterpiece. I was hoping for the film to be just as impressive. If they …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 23- Halloween 4- The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
A young man who can restore frescos (ancient works of art) arrives to restore one such artwork but finds events within the remote town to be far from normal. Indeed, they are downright bizarre. Does the fresco hold any clues? Does it depict what people have been led to believe it shows? Will the events …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 21- The House With Laughing Windows (1976)
A young couple have their young baby snatched away from them and offered as a human sacrifice to an ancient tree to prolong it's life by the infant's nanny. We then see a short time later the Druid nanny from Hell starts new employment caring for another couple's child. This tautly and stunningly beautiful film …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 20- The Guardian (1990)
A sequel to Village of the Damned which is less a continuation of the plot and instead like a film containing characters who possess the same powers as the children in the original but under different circumstances. Whereas the original took part in a countryside idyll, the action within this film is based in London. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 18- Children of the Damned (1964)
The head of a theatre troupe Alan (think of a cross between Charles Manson and Timothy Claypole in lurid and very colourful 60's clothing) takes his fellow thespians (who he refers to as his 'children') to an island which is used as a kind of graveyard for dead criminals. He then assumes the role of …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 17- Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972)
Meathook Cinema 