An ex-telephone worker with a serious chip on his shoulder is murdering people by playing deadly frequencies down the phone to anyone who answers. This results in them bleeding from their eyes, nose, mouth and ears and then being blasted backwards with such force that it kills them. But don't worry- Richard Chamberlain is on …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 15- Bells (1981)
The first time I found out that there was a sequel to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was when I was going through the racks of records in Track Records in York, where I grew up (York, not the record store, although I spent a lot of time there). I pored over the artwork and …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 10- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
I remember in late 90's/early 00's I used to order DVD's from a website that specialised in rare titles that hadn't been officially released. One was Rat Man and the stills from the movie looked really extreme! People are being eaten alive on an idyllic island. Could the culprit be a genetically engineered mutant half-rat, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 9- Rat Man (1988)
Stop me if you've heard this one before...a group of teens go camping but find that they are being preyed upon by a killer. Body Count was a movie that I saw on the shelves of the many video shops in my area but never got around to seeing. I don't know why because the …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 8- Body Count (1986)
X-Ray starts with a prelude in 1961 with a boy called Harold leaving a Valentine's Day card for a girl he fancies called Susan. He watches through her front window to see what her reaction to his card is. She laughs about it with her brother and screws it up. In a rage, Harold breaks …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 7- X-Ray (1981)
A mysterious death in a Carpathian village prompts a coroner and a medical student to try and investigate what is behind it. Meanwhile, a ghostly little girl haunts the village as some kind of portent of impending doom. This 1966 Mario Bava film is fantastic and very important. Firstly, as a film, it's beautiful to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 1- Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)
I hate the cunts who say, 'I had the strangest dream last night!' and then proceed to bore everyone to death with their remembrances. Well, I really did have the strangest (and most brilliant) dream last night. I dreamt that I saw a trailer for a prequel to Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. This …
Continue reading Has Anyone Else Dreamt About Halloween 3: Season of the Witch Or Is Just Me?!
One of the best things about Yorkshire Television, when I was growing up, was the eclectic fare that made up their schedules. At night they showed the most wonderful and unexpected films you could ever imagine. They also showed films you had never heard of before that were either unavailable on video because of some …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Slithis (1978)
I had heard so much about the original of Black Christmas from 1974 by the time I finally got to see it. Its reputation as being the main film that inspired the slasher movie sub-genre pre-Halloween was well established, with horror fans salivating over it and singing its praises to the heavens. 'Let's see how …
Continue reading The Gift That Keeps On Giving- What Makes Black Christmas So Darn Scary?
Gail Osborne is a 16 year old who starts dating Steve Pastorinis who goes to the same school as her. It's also around this time that she starts to receive abusive notes stuck in the grills of her school locker and also abusive telephone calls. For a film, let alone a TV movie to deal …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 31- Are You In The House Alone? (1978)
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