This Steven Spielberg-directed movie made for TV and adapted from Richard Matheson's short story still packs a punch. David Mann is a travelling businessman venturing to an appointment across California but is slowed down considerably by an ominous truck that at first inconveniences him until things suddenly take a much darker tone. This film could …
Continue reading Day 17- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Duel (1971)
Grave robbers open an ancient tomb that contains gold but also just so happens to be cursed. Add to the mix some vapid fashion photographers and models from New York who are in Egypt for a photoshoot and you have gory fun fun fun! This 1981 film is very low-budget but enjoyable enough. I quite …
Continue reading Day 16- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
A cloaked figure plays the organ surrounded by a band comprising of robot musicians who are collectively known as Dr Phibes' Clockwork Wizards. The organist is Anton Phibes and he has quite a backstory. He was thought to have been killed in a car crash in 1921 when he was rushing home after hearing of …
Continue reading Day 15- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
When Disha, a new student, joins JC College this proves to be very disruptive. Not only with the male students (she is very attractive and even the lead character who is engaged to someone else has his head turned) but also because unexplained and somewhat sinister things start to happen. Cars inexplicably breaking down, tyres …
Continue reading Day 14- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Krishna Cottage (2004)
Take a very mediocre movie. Apply an 'edgy' and highly questionable marketing campaign to try and sell it to the public. Step back and see what happens. Starlet Terry London and her producer visit a country in South America. Unfortunately, they cross paths with a female junkie biker gang who kill the starlet and several …
Continue reading Day 13- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Snuff (1976)
Esteemed parapsychologist Sir Hugo Cunningham is investigating the strange smudge that is on the photographs of people who are photographed at their moment of death. He concludes that this is, in fact, an 'asphyx', a force which comes for somebody when it's time for them to leave this mortal coil. He then finds through his …
Continue reading Day 12- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Asphyx (1972)
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 rape 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 Day 11- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
This Jack Hill directed sexploitation/horror film concerns Howard Thorne, the head of a company that produces and distributes pornographic stills, books and records. He is also a serial rapist and we see him stalking, chasing and attacking his victims. Mondo Keyhole feels like an amazing time capsule as to 60's alternative culture (as suggested by …
Continue reading Day 10- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Mondo Keyhole (1966)
A famous plastic surgeon causes a car accident in which his daughter’s face is disfigured. The surgeon coincidentally has a new theory he's dying to test out which involves transplanting whole faces. This could save his daughter’s maimed features but this procedure involves donors- willing or not. I first saw this film when I was …
Continue reading Day 9- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Les Yeux Sans Visage/Eyes Without a Face (1960)
This Hindi film concerns a young woman who finds she is possessed on the eve of her wedding. Can her family save her? As this is a Bollywood film there are song and dance routines (one that brilliantly lapses into hip-hop), comedic turns and plenty of jollity along the way. But this is a horror …
Continue reading Day 8- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Mantram (2017)
Meathook Cinema 