BEWARE- There are spoilers herein. This 1981 Lucio Fulci film centres around a young woman called Lisa Merril who arrives in Louisiana from New York as she has been left a hotel as part of an inheritance and which she hopes to renovate. Several unexplained events happen however. She then learns that the hotel is …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- The Dropped 33- Day 1- The Beyond (1981)
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 The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 39- Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Count Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) joins an expedition in the Himalayas to try and shed light on whether the Yeti exists. It is during this that he is bitten by cannibalistic nymphs and because of this, he is turned into a werewolf. Or something. The Werewolf and the Yeti is a beautiful film to look …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 38- The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975)
Probably Argento's best movie in my opinion. A successful writer Peter Neal is visiting Rome from America. He becomes aware that a serial killer is on the loose and strongly influenced by his work. This film is staggeringly good. Prepare to be astounded by the tracking shot of the outside of the apartment block- one …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 37- Tenebrae (1982)
Pervy goings-on in a concentration camp between hairy men and hairy women. The camp is run by Colonel von Kleiben who lost his testicles to a Russian woman and is looking for replacements. Yes, that really is the plot. SS Experiment Camp was massively controversial during the Video Nasties moral panic and was regularly named …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 36- SS Experiment Camp (1976)
Take a very mediocre movie. Apply an 'edgy' and highly questionable marketing campaign to try and sell it to the public. Step back and see what happens. Starlet Terry London and her producer visit a country in South America. Unfortunately, they cross paths with a female junkie biker gang who kill the starlet and several …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 35- Snuff (1976)
A man awakens in a hospital bed to tell of his ordeals against a Bigfoot-type creature that himself and the rest of the researchers he was with were investigating. None of his colleagues survived. The film then goes back in time to recall events. Night of the Demon has bad acting, cheap effects and a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 34- Night of the Demon (1980)
Night of the Bloody Apes ia a 1969 Mexican horror film directed by Rene Cardona and Jerald Intrator. A doctor transplants a gorilla's heart into his son's body to try and cure his lukemia. This turns the son into a murderous and very nubile half-man, half-ape type hybrid who wreaks havoc. Night of the Bloody …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 33- Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
George Tatum has spent years in a psychiatric hospital but is judged to be fit for release after taking experimental drugs which 'reprogramme' murderers. He was originally placed in the facility after he had murdered a whole family but after being released, he disappears. He drives from New York to Florida where his ex-wife resides. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 32- Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)
There’s a serial killer on the loose in New Orleans where it’s time for the annual Mardi Gras. But, in fact, this isn’t *quite* the case. Only the last act of the film takes place in the Mardi Gras. Also, the hulking supernatural shadowy figure in the video artwork, resplendent with glowing eyes and straight …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 31- Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)
Meathook Cinema 