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)
Astronauts return to Earth to find that World War 3 has taken place in their absence. Biological and nuclear warfare has obliterated Los Angeles. They have to contend with mutants and a gang of bandits led by Cutter (Sid Haig). I remember The Aftermath when it was rereleased in 1988 as Zombie Aftermath and had …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 2- The Aftermath (1982)
This shocker involves a couple of nut jobs who kidnap young women and keep them in their basement for their own twisted amusement. Yes, some of this is sexual. The pair of kidnappers are very close to their domineering mother. This Don Jones film is very sleazy and a clear example of the era in …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 1- Abducted (1973)
In a laboratory in Papua New Guinea, an experimental new gas is accidentally released turning the workers there into flesh-craving zombies. An intrepid news reporter arrives with her crew to investigate. The influence here to Dawn of the Dead is loud and clear. For one, they use parts of Goblin's iconic score for the soundtrack! …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 33- Zombie Creeping Flesh (1980)
A gangster carries out a diamond heist but is then killed by his moll (Lina Romay) who is then incarcerated because of her actions. This is Jesus Franco's entry into the 'women in prison' sub-genre. All of the necessary ingredients are here- nudity, lesbianism, sadistic wardens, creepy guards who ply the women with ciggies for …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 32- Women Behind Bars (1975)
Meathook Cinema 