You know those films that are so predictable that they have you saying 'I knew that was going to happen'? Island of Death is the exact opposite of those kind of movies. A British couple arrive on the island of Mykonos with only one thing in mind- seducing the locals then dispatching of them whilst one …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 27- Island of Death (1976)
New York writer Jennifer Hills relocates temporarily to a lakeside idyll in Connecticut to write her first novel. A local gang of four men attack, humiliate and r*pe her. They then order one of the gang to go back and kill her. He lies to them and says he has but they then learn that …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 26- I Spit on Your Grave (1976)
A mechanic and his friend invite themselves to a get-together in New Jersey. Unfortunately for the guests, their new acquaintances are psychopaths (!) Theres lots to love about The House on the Edge of the Park. The opening night-time New York scenes, the sleazy score by Riz Ortolani, the fact that the two psycho leads …
The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 24- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
Conrad von Starke is going to meet a female friend. But this isn't any meeting. The woman, Lise Cohen, he is going to meet was a female inmate at the concentration camp von Starke was in command of. We get to see what happened in this camp through Lise's flashbacks and how she and von …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 23- Gestapo’s Last Orgy (1977)
Forest of Fear (aka Toxic Zombies, Bloodeaters, Bloodeaters: Butchers of the Damned and The Dromax Derangement) is about a huge outdoor marijuana crop that is dusted with a substance which transforms some boring hippies into something much more interesting- flash-eating zombies. Forest of Fear is very low-budget, with a gritty(and ultra simplistic) synth score and …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 22- Forest of Fear (1980)
This Andy Warhol (Paul Morrissey) adaptation of Mary Shelley’s morality tale involves Udo Kier’s Baron Frankenstein making a male and female creature who he wants to procreate and make a master race. As with a lot of his other films, Warhol’s involvement as minimal with just the most perfunctory visits to set so that he …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 21- Flesh For Frankenstein (1973)
Paul Martin is writing his second novel. He has shut himself away in a secluded cottage in the country to complete the task and a secretary is coming down to transcribe. But is she all she appears to be? Expose acts not just a film but also as a time capsule. It was made at …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 18- Expose (1976)
Four youngsters go camping. But there’s someone or something bumping people off. As you’ve probably guessed, we’re in slasher territory here. Don’t Go In The Woods earned particular notoriety during the Video Nasties moral panic. Would this film be so horrific and depraved that it could turn viewers into mindless killers?! Of course not. This is another …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 15- Don’t Go In The Woods (1981)
This Spanish/Italian/German production is directed by Jesus Franco under the pseudonym Clifford Brown. It concerns a young model/actress who is scouting for locations in South America but is then kidnapped. A Vietnam vet is sent in to find her, which is perilous as there are cannibals in that part of the world. This film is …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 14- The Devil Hunter (1980)
Meathook Cinema 