It’s 1992 and America is now a post-apocalyptic and dystopian society (!) which is run by a criminal organisation who have set loose a deadly parasite on the population. Brave survivors try and eradicate it. Parasite feels like an overlong episode of a TV series that wasn’t commissioned for a second season. It’s like something …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 58- Parasite (1982)
There’s Nazi gold hidden in a desert oasis. Unfortunately, it’s being guarded by zombies. Jesus Franco directs this remake of Zombie Lake which was made the previous year (fastest remake EVER!) with Jean Rollin at the helm when Franco couldn’t direct due to other commitments. God this film is dull. Shots which are obviously too …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 57- Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
A military plane is exposed to nuclear radiation. This means that everyone onboard disembarks after being turned into zombies who are thirsty for blood. What’s more, they are armed to the back teeth. A reporter and his doctor wife try to not become zombie nosh. I had such high hopes for this Umberto Lenzi movie …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 56- Nightmare City (1980)
A mysterious radiation thought to have been brought back to Earth after a space probe to Venus, is bringing the dead back to life to feast on the living. A young woman named Barbara is visiting her dead father's grave with her brother Johnny when... This film has so much of a great reputation amongst …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 55- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
An alien spacecraft is hit by an asteroid and forced to crash land on Earth, and in Maryland, of all places! It’s soon established that the occupant of the vessel doesn’t come in peace! 1982 was a big year when it came to alien movies. There were friendly extra terrestrials (erm, E.T.) who were a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 54- Nightbeast (1982)
Lauren, a novelist who suffers from agoraphobia, rents a house that used to be a brothel in the 1940’s. The house is haunted by the spirits of prostitutes that were previously murdered there. The Nesting is basically a haunted house movie that you might enjoy if you came across it whilst flicking through channels looking …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 52- The Nesting (1981)
A young woman, Nancy, runs away from home to escape her abusive stepfather (played by Lawrence Tierney). She plans to hitchhike to San Francisco to stay with her sister. She tags along with two young men who are going that way. They stop off in a small town in which a family just happen to …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 50- Midnight (1982)
Susan, a 10 year old girl, enters her family mausoleum during her mother’s funeral. She becomes possessed by an evil spirit which now lives inside her. The film then flashes forward as we now follow her progress as an adult. Mausoleum is an odd movie. It contains dialogue which sounded better on the page but …
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Massacre Mansion aka Mansion of the Doomed concerns a surgeon who is determined to save his daughter’s eyesight lost in a car accident by transplanting someone else’s. He starts his experiments by inviting hapless victims to his mansion, drugging them and then performing the transplant. Things don’t go to plan and so the procedure has …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 48- Massacre Mansion (1976)
Martin is by filmmaker George A Romero and was his favourite film from his oeuvre. Martin is a young man who we see travelling by train to Braddock in Pittsburgh to live with his elderly cousin, Tata Cuda who seems convinced that Martin is the latest in a long line of vampires ('the family curse'). …
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Meathook Cinema 