An artist, Arthur, is robbing a woman’s apartment. She is asleep on her bed but the noise he’s making wakes her up. All she can find to defend herself is a spoon (!) which she uses to gouge one of his eyes out with. With now only one eye, Arthur becomes obsessed with gouging out …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 34- Headless Eyes (1971)
A slasher movie directed by J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear) and starring Melissa Sue Anderson (she's a long way from Little House on the Prairie here!), Glenn Ford and Lawrence Dane (Scanners). Someone is bumping off college students in innovative ways. Who could the killer be? Even though the methods of murder are unconventional (barbell, …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 33- Happy Birthday To Me (1981)
A runner, Laura, literally drops dead after winning a 200-meter race. Her sister, who is in the Navy, comes to town for the graduation ceremony in which her sister will be honoured. A killer then starts bumping off Laura's teammates. But who is this murderer and what is their motive? I still can't believe that …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 32- Graduation Day (1981)
Alice, the final girl from the first Friday the 13th, is murdered by an assailant two months after this initial spate of murders. It’s not hard to guess who this is as Alice had just found Mrs Voorhees’ severed head in her fridge. A new bunch of counsellors are arriving at a camp close to …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 30- Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Being the first of the popular horror franchise, the successful formula hadn't been established yet. Hence the first Friday the 13th movie contains certain elements that we don't find in the other films. We have quirky characters at a diner, the funny sheriff and likeable teens whose characters are fully fleshed out. We don't wish …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 29- Friday The 13th (1980)
Dr Frankenstein and his assistant are in the process of reanimating their creation when they are both killed by a rival who takes the creature to his lair. The doctor’s daughter reanimates her father long enough to learn that this is the work of Cagliostro and where he has taken the creation. She heads out …
From IMDB- ‘A young woman works with a mercenary to search for her sister in the jungles of New Guinea, where they find her living with a cult in an area inhabited by cannibals.’ Yep, as you can guess, it’s another jungle-based cannibal movie. The sequences of this film that take place in the New …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 22- Eaten Alive (1980)
A Vietnam vet, part-time glamour photographer and bodybuilder is bumping off women in Los Angeles. He regularly rings a talk radio show and appears obsessed with the female host. He also holds quasi-religious ceremonies and has angry conversations with his deceased father. Don’t Answer The Phone! is a nasty, gritty and sleazy piece of film-making. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 21- Don’t Answer The Phone! (1980)
A woman who religious elders think is a witch, is examined and a needle inserted into her body and shown to not draw blood (a huge red flag apparently). She must be a witch/demon/devil woman (to quote Cliff Richard). She then looks straight into the camera and pulls a ‘possessed’ face that made me burst …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 20- The Demons (1973)
A young woman, Linda, is gang r*ped at a stable. This causes her to be institutionalised. She’s then released and collected from the sanitarium by her husband who, unbeknownst to her, now has a mistress who he met whilst she was convalescing. Linda has flashbacks to what happened to her previously and is having a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 19- Demented (1980)
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