X-Ray starts with a prelude in 1961 with a boy called Harold leaving a Valentine's Day card for a girl he fancies called Susan. He watches through her front window to see what her reaction to his card is. She laughs about it with her brother and screws it up. In a rage, Harold breaks …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 7- X-Ray (1981)
Members of Rhonda's Workout gym are being bumped off. But who is the killer? Killer Workout was released on video in the UK as Aerobicide. This is, as you would expect, a slasher movie set around a gym/beauty spa. Hence, we get the whodunnit aspect of the narrative, red herrings as to who the killer …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 6- Killer Workout (1987)
Absurd opens with lead character, Nikos Tanoupoulos, being pursued by a priest. Nikos tries to climb over a wrought iron fence but accidentally impales himself on the spikes on top of the fence and is rushed to hospital. As he seems to get over his surgery and injuries in record time, it is established that, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 4- Absurd (1981)
There are shady goings-on happening at Shady Palms Clinic, a facility that the state sends patients to who need specialist medical care. Edith Mortley and her doctor brother are bumping off the patients but billing the state for their care even though they are now six feet under. Death Nurse was shot on a camcorder …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 3- Death Nurse (1987)
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 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 2- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
A mysterious death in a Carpathian village prompts a coroner and a medical student to try and investigate what is behind it. Meanwhile, a ghostly little girl haunts the village as some kind of portent of impending doom. This 1966 Mario Bava film is fantastic and very important. Firstly, as a film, it's beautiful to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 1- Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
Here is the list of the horror fare I will be watching and reviewing throughout October in 2024. Almost all of these films can be seen on YouTube so that you can watch them also and agree/disagree with my reviews (although my opinion is never wrong, obviously haha) Kill Baby Kill House By The Cemetary …
Beware- there are spoilers ahead! Mary Henry is in a car with two of her friends when another car full of youths challenges them to a race. Whilst both cars are next to each other on a bridge, the vehicle containing the young women is rammed over the side and into the river down below. …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Carnival of Souls (1962)
The first time I learnt about The Exorcist 2: The Heretic was when my family bought our first VCR. There were trailer compilation tapes that could be rented for free from our local video library and so as well as renting Basket Case (what a great first videotape to rent!) we also took out these …
Continue reading Is It Really That Bad?- The Exorcist 2: The Heretic (1977)
My friend excitedly told me about a new film that he had seen on Shudder recently and said the kills were something else! In fact, he said the film felt like a breath of fresh air especially as it was basically a slasher film made for a new audience. I finally got to see the film …
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