Umberto Lenzi's film has gone by many different names with Mondo Cannibale and Sacrifice! being but two of them. But it was when it was released on UK video as Deep River Savages that it gained controversy during the Video Nasties furore. This was actually one of the few Video Nasties I had never seen …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 7- Deep River Savages (1972)
A psychopathic hotel owner (Neville Brand) feeds unruly guests to his pet crocodile who lives next to his building. This was the film Tobe Hooper made after his masterpiece, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre so, no pressure there then. Just as TCM had a kind of raw realism to it, as if actual events were …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 6- Death Trap (1976)
The locals of a coastal town seem to be en masse psychotic, as we witness outsiders being slaughtered by them. The local sheriff and coroner both set out to find answers as to what’s happening. Dead and Buried is a true one-off. It incorporates elements of The Fog, The Stepford Wives and the work of …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 5- Dead and Buried (1981)
Pervy goings-on in a concentration camp between hairy men and hairy women. The camp is run by Colonel von Kleiben who lost his testicles to a Russian woman and is looking for replacements. Yes, that really is the plot. SS Experiment Camp was massively controversial during the Video Nasties moral panic and was regularly named …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 36- SS Experiment Camp (1976)
I first heard about the opus Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! when I bought a book that still remains like a cine-bible to me, Re:Search's Incredibly Strange Films. There was a chapter on Russ Meyer (as there should be in any self-respecting book on cult cinema) and I was instantly taken with the huge picture of …
Amongst the slew of Stephen King film adaptations that were released in the 80s was the film version of his fantastic 1981 novel, Cujo. Cujo is the St Bernard dog who is bit by a rabid bat whilst he chases a rabbit. Slowly but surely he transforms from a loveable family dog into a slobbering, …
I first heard of the director Jeff Lieberman when I recalled seeing the artwork for one of his films, Squirm on the video shelves in the 80's. The sleeve depicting a shower head dripping with worms instead of water with some of them having crawled under the skin of the scared woman in the picture …
I first heard of this Yuletide horror flick as John Waters spoke about it as being his favourite seasonal cinematic shocker. With such high praise from The Prince of Puke I later heard it was being shown at a local cinema in Sydney, Australia where I lived for a year (it was actually shown as …
Dirk Bogarde stars in this 1978 Fassbinder film as Hermann, a chocolate factory owner living in Berlin during the Weimar Republic who suffers from dissociation. He dreams of escape. On his travels he meets a homeless man who he thinks can imitate him in a scam. This will involve his faked murder so that he …
This 1978 Fassbinder movie starts with the film's eponymous hero Maria getting married to her husband Hermann in Germany during World War II just as a bomb being dropped threatens to curtail proceedings. Thankfully the couple's union is officially sealed and Hermann then goes off to fight in the war himself. After learning later that …
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