If you don't know the plot for Dawn of the Dead because you haven't seen it, please do me a favour. Stop reading this review, go onto YouTube (it's free!) and watch the film. It's a milestone of not just horror cinema, but cinema in general. I actually researched Dawn as I wrote about it …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 15- Zombi (Dario Argento Cut) (1978)
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 ABC of Horror- Day 9- I- I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
Jennifer is the only scholarship girl in a very select and very posh school called Green View. She has fallen foul of the bitchy in-crowd led by the ultra-vile Sandy, whose father is a senator. Jennifer's father is stanchly religious, and they live on their own above the pet shop that he owns. Jennifer once …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 11- Jennifer (1978)
John Carpenter's Halloween had been a huge hit at the box office through the word of mouth of people who had seen it and were knocked out by the experience. In fact, the film was so successful that it became the most profitable independent film of all time, a title it held until it was …
Continue reading Halloween 2 (1981)- A Sequel That Is Better Than It Has Any Right To Be
We see the soon to be wed Madeleine and Neil being driven by horse drawn carriage to the house of plantation owner Charles Beaumont. They pass by a man named Murder (a red flag) Legendre played by the one and only Bela Lugosi. His evil face is another red flag. This isn't a good man …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 26- White Zombie (1932)
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 31 Days of Halloween- Day 25- The Toolbox Murders (1978)
Amy leaves her art class late at night and goes to her car. However, she then finds a man dressed all in black resplendent with a black balaclava and shades waiting for her in her backseat. She gets away but isn't taken seriously by the police when she goes to report the incident. Apparently, the …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 24- No Place To Hide (1981)
A pretty faithful account of The Hillside Stranglers starring Dennis Farina as Angelo Buono and Billy Zane as Kenneth Bianchi. Richard Crenna is cop Bob Grogan who is hunting them. This made for TV movie is based on the book Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers By Darcy O'Brien. I love TV movies based …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 23- The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Maggie and Ben inherit an old farm by default (the man who it was actually left to had to inhabit the farm within 30 days but we see him attempt to move in in the dead of night but runs his car into a tree after swerving to miss a mysterious girl who intentionally caused …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 22- Crowhaven Farm (1970)
A prelude shows a prank in which a socially awkward and sexually inexperienced student is lured into having his first sexual encounter. What he doesn't know is that the woman waiting for him in bed is actually a corpse stolen by medical students. On discovering this, Kenny becomes unhinged and is rightly traumatised. Three years …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 20- Terror Train (1980)
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