Sam is an American author on holiday in Rome with his girlfriend. One night, when out for a stroll, he witnesses a graphic attempted murder. The killer gets away, and the police who arrive decide to confiscate Sam's passport so that he can't leave until their investigations are concluded. He decides to try and crack …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 3- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
The plot of Dario Argento's second film involves a blind crossword writer (!) teaming up with a reporter to investigate a series of murders connected to a medical facility specialising in eugenics-based research. After the audacious debut by Argento with the superb Bird With The Crystal Plumage the year before (this film will be reviewed …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 2- Cat O’Nine Tails (1971)
Giallo in June is coming! Starting tomorrow I'll be reviewing a different Giallo movie each day for the month of June. Some films I've seen before but haven't watched in a long time and others will be films I've never seen before. There will be films that are Giallo but others that aren't but have …
When The Swarm was released in 1978, it quickly earned a reputation that no filmmaker or actor associated with a particular film wants. The reviews for the film were abysmal. The Sunday Times went as far as to call the movie 'simply the worst film ever made'. And this moniker has stuck with The Swarm …
Four youngsters go camping. But there’s someone or something bumping people off. As you’ve probably guessed, we’re in slasher territory here. Don’t Go In The Woods earned particular notoriety during the Video Nasties moral panic. Would this film be so horrific and depraved that it could turn viewers into mindless killers?! Of course not. This …
A boat sails into New York but the only person onboard happens to be a morbidly obese zombie who seems to be pissed off and hungry. The daughter of the boat’s owner decides to venture to where her father had been, a Caribbean island called Matul. She takes along with her a journalist who smells …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 26- Z- Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
This Lamberto Bava movie involves a cop who realises that his woman is doing the dirty on him. After a violent bustup she is murdered which makes him the chief suspect. All of the staple Giallo elements are here (gloved killer, sleazy locales, long overcoats, voyeurism etc etc) and You'll Die At Midnight is entertaining …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 25- Y- You’ll Die At Midnight (1986)
Another film I remember seeing on the shelves of video shops in the 80’s that I somehow didn’t watch was Xtro from 1982. I finally got to see it for the first time earlier. Wow. Just wow. Xtro is out there! A man is abducted by aliens. Three years later an alien impregnates a woman …
A very religious policeman (Edward ‘Equalizer’ Woodward) arrives at the Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a child, Rowan Morrison. Whilst he makes enquiries regarding the missing child he witnesses first-hand the pagan lifestyles of the inhabitants which shock him and clash severely with his staunchly Christian and somewhat puritanical beliefs. I …
Continue reading ABC of Horror- Day 23- W- The Wicker Man (1973)
I had heard such bad things about John Carpenter’s Vampires that I didn’t even see it when it was released theatrically in 1998. In fact, it was only yesterday that I saw it for the very first time. What’s 25 years to see a film though?! Is it a bad movie by Carpenter’s standards or, …
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