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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 12- Christmas Evil (1980)
A young woman takes a housekeeping job. The child she’s helping to look after has supernatural powers which she uses to summon zombies to kill anyone she suspects of having killed her mother. I love creepy kids in horror movies. Rosalie in this film is fantastic. Not only does she command a trope of zombies …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 11- The Child (1977)
Jimmie, an Aborigine, feels conflicted between staying true to his ethnic roots and trying to make something of his life which entails suffering vile racism from many of the White people he encounters. This erupts in bloody fashion. Chant shows that the Powers That Be didn’t discriminate when they chose films to brand as Video …
From Wikipedia- ‘Jeremy Taylor is traveling through the Amazon rivers along with his wife and daughter when his boat gets attacked by some Indigenous cannibals who eat his wife Elisabeth and take Jeremy prisoner. The little girl Léna manages to hide inside the boat, even though the cannibal witch doctor and his son Yakeké find …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 9- Cannibal World (1980)
An oil prospector goes to check on a team working in the Philippine rainforest but when he gets there finds that they’re not there. When he finds a decomposed skull, he suspects they have all been killed by nearby cannibals. This Ruggero Deodato cannibal film may not be as well known as Cannibal Holocaust but …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 8- Cannibal (1977)
Brutes and Savges is a mondo movie in which intrepid 'world explorer' Arthur Davis documents the extremeties of life in Africa and South America. We get to see animal sacrifices, tribal fights, man vs deadly animal and more... I'm loving that some reviews state that some of this supposed documentary are staged. Of course they …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 7- Brutes and Savages (1978)
An ex-convict (played by director Paul Naschy) enters a village looking for work. He becomes a handyman at a farm owned by two sisters- one with a prosthetic hand and one who is, erm, very flirtatious towards him. He seems tormented with nightmares of him strangling women. Murders start to happen in the village around …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 6- Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1973)
A flute-playing serial killer is inexplicably psychically linked with a disabled young girl after a blood transfusion (!) As you can tell from the plot outline, this film is batshit bonkers but I quite like that. I prefer the crazy shit that thinks outside the box rather than dishing up lukewarm generic rubbish. Something else …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 5- Blood Song (1982)
A clerk who has been left deaf and dumb after a childhood with an abusive father, has an obession with the dead. He regularly breaks into mortuaries and starts to take souvenirs such as eyeballs. This escalates with him wanting to drink the blood of the dead. After his neighbour dies who he has a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 4- Blood Lust (1977)
A married man, Larry rents a room in a beautiful house in the Hollywood Hills for his extra-marital trysts. Unfortunately, the brother and sister (Bridget and Jason) he rents it from are selecting victims to drain of their blood for the brother's medical condition which requires fresh blood to be regularly transfused into him. The …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 3- The Black Room (1982)
Meathook Cinema 