A scientist is carrying out experiments on young people and through a kind of ‘Pavlov’s Dogs’- style conditioning, making them into murderers. Strange Behavior was billed as a 1981 slasher movie when I looked into it. It’s so much more than that. The movie has a 50’s Americana vibe to it, both visually and thematically …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 16- Strange Behavior (1981)
Grave robbers open an ancient tomb that contains gold but also just so happens to be cursed. Add to the mix some vapid fashion photographers and models from New York who are in Egypt for a photoshoot and you have gory fun fun fun! This 1981 film is very low-budget but enjoyable enough. I quite …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 15- Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
The sequel to George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead shows that the zombie epidemic has gotten much worse and society is on it's knees. Two television workers plan to escape with two SWAT team members in the TV station traffic helicopter in search of...whatever they can find that's better than their current situation. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 14- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
I love the horror films that are unlike any other films in the genre and stand alone with their quirks and idiosyncrasies. One such film is Alice Sweet Alice. The film was actually called Communion when it premiered at numerous film festivals but was then retitled Alice Sweet Alice when it was picked up by …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 13- Communion (1976)
I first heard of this Yuletide horror flick as John Waters spoke about it as being his favourite seasonal cinematic shocker. With such high praise from The Prince of Puke, I later heard it was being shown at a local cinema in Sydney, Australia, where I lived for a year (it was actually shown as …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 12- Christmas Evil (1980)
A young woman takes a housekeeping job. The child she’s helping to look after has supernatural powers which she uses to summon zombies to kill anyone she suspects of having killed her mother. I love creepy kids in horror movies. Rosalie in this film is fantastic. Not only does she command a trope of zombies …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 11- The Child (1977)
Jimmie, an Aborigine, feels conflicted between staying true to his ethnic roots and trying to make something of his life which entails suffering vile racism from many of the White people he encounters. This erupts in bloody fashion. Chant shows that the Powers That Be didn’t discriminate when they chose films to brand as Video …
From Wikipedia- ‘Jeremy Taylor is traveling through the Amazon rivers along with his wife and daughter when his boat gets attacked by some Indigenous cannibals who eat his wife Elisabeth and take Jeremy prisoner. The little girl Léna manages to hide inside the boat, even though the cannibal witch doctor and his son Yakeké find …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 9- Cannibal World (1980)
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 …
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Meathook Cinema 