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)
A hotel complex where a new building is being constructed is infested with killer ants. I love the TV movies that featured a special guest star who was slumming it as work had dried up. Ants stars Myrna Loy as well as Suzanne Somers (!) and Lynda Day George (yes, the actress from Pieces!) so …
Lauren Tewes stars as Jane, a Miami newsreader who suspects her neighbour of being a murderer who's crimes she reports on with shocking regularity. She lives with her blind deaf-mute sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh's first starring role). This was another example of a film I had been meaning to watch for the longest time (since …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 27- Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
Allan (Anthony Perkins) wakes to find the family home is on fire. The fire kills his father and burns his sister. The trauma also makes him go blind. It was Allan who accidentally caused the fire as he placed cans of paint thinner too close to a heater making him take on a huge burden …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 17- How Awful About Allan (1970)
I read about this in Fangoria and Gorezone in the late 80s and it looked so demented and gory that I didn’t know if it would actually be released in the UK. But, quelle horreur, it was released and uncut as House 3 part of the House franchise. On being fried in the electric chair, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween- Day 6- House III: The Horror Show (1989)
I first heard of the director Jeff Lieberman when I recalled seeing the artwork for one of his films, Squirm on the video shelves in the 80's. The sleeve depicting a shower head dripping with worms instead of water with some of them having crawled under the skin of the scared woman in the picture …
