This infamous film from 1978 starts with an anonymous man wearing a balaclava and going on a killing spree. He uses a different tool for each murder such as an electric drill, a screwdriver and nail gun. But then events take a bizarre twist as we get to see who the killer is and...to tell …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 28- The Toolbox Murders (1978)
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)
A group of students stay on campus over Christmas to clean out an old dormitory. They are rewarded by being stalked and killed by a killer. This slasher is pretty much textbook stuff. Some gory kills (the janitor who is killed with a drill was problematic for the BBFC) which aren’t executed all that well, …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 23- Pranks (1981)
A couple are going through a divorce in Berlin. But this isn't Kramer vs Kramer. I know this plot summary is basic, to say the least, but a) once you see the film, you'll know why this plot has been reduced to one line, and b) I don't want to ruin any surprises for you. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 22- Possession (1981)
A young child is orphaned and so he is raised by his aunt. When she kills a workman who is working at her house, the police try to work out if her pleas of self-defence are real or not. She also seems hellbent on keeping her nephew with her, at all costs. Wow. There's a …
George, an antique dealer from Manchester, travels to the countryside for a weekend getaway. On his journey, he meets Edna,who accidentally reverses her car into his motorbike. The two discover that a nearby agricultural experiment involving ultrasonic radiation is causing the dead to rise from their graves as flesh-eating zombies. This Spanish-Italian production is actually …
Or Last House on the Left On A Train. Two young teenagers cross paths (or tracks) with a trio who degradate and sexually humiliate them. One of them is accidentally killed, the other jumps from the train to escape her captors. The trio then find themselves at the home of one of the teenagers. Revenge …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 19- Late Night Trains (1975)
Killer Nun's narrative centres around Sister Gertrude who has just returned to the hospital in which she works after having a brain tumour removed. She is convinced that her tumour has returned, however. Following her surgery she also starts to lead a double life. She travels into the city and seeks men to have sex …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 18- Killer Nun (1979)
Meathook Cinema 