Susan, a 10 year old girl, enters her family mausoleum during her mother’s funeral. She becomes possessed by an evil spirit which now lives inside her. The film then flashes forward as we now follow her progress as an adult. Mausoleum is an odd movie. It contains dialogue which sounded better on the page but …
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Massacre Mansion aka Mansion of the Doomed concerns a surgeon who is determined to save his daughter’s eyesight lost in a car accident by transplanting someone else’s. He starts his experiments by inviting hapless victims to his mansion, drugging them and then performing the transplant. Things don’t go to plan and so the procedure has …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 48- Massacre Mansion (1976)
Martin is by filmmaker George A Romero and was his favourite film from his oeuvre. Martin is a young man who we see travelling by train to Braddock in Pittsburgh to live with his elderly cousin, Tata Cuda who seems convinced that Martin is the latest in a long line of vampires ('the family curse'). …
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Count Christian von Meruh, an apprentice witch-finder to his superior, Lord Cumberland, arrives at an Austrian village ahead of his superior. He gets to see how a sadistic rogue witch-finder, Albino acts which makes him question his profession and the brutality involved. He also falls in love with a young woman there who is accused …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 46- Mark of the Devil (1970)
Hal is taking a lady friend to a nightclub in his sports car. They are set upon by a Hell’s Angels gang. During the chase that ensues, a gang member is killed. Later that night when Hal and his date leave the club they are ambushed by the gang who beat him up and r*pe …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 45- Mad Foxes (1981)
Women are being killed with gardening implements. Could the suspect be Caleb, the goofy, odd looking gardener who suffers from multiple personalities and regularly adopts the identity of his much better looking brother, Lester who died previously? The Love Butcher is batshit crazy and great fun because if it. There’s a rich vein of zaniness …
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From IMDB- ‘Following the suicide of his best friend, Captain Harry Morris accepts a final deadly mission to go behind enemy lines to destroy a radio tower that is broadcasting anti-war propaganda spoken by an American woman to American troops.’ An Italian Namsploitation film, you say? I’m there! This film is terrific. It moves at …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 43- The Last Hunter (1980)
The Last Horror Film aka Fanatic was a film that I was always intrigued by but was one of those horror films I just hadn’t gotten around to seeing for reasons unknown. That was until yesterday. I found the film on a cheap DVD in a charity shop and so thought 'What the hell' and …
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An artist finds she can psychically see how a killer is murdering people and can draw pictures of the scenes of his crimes as they’re happening. She works with the police to try and find the killer. This is the film Armand Mastroianni made after He Knows You’re Alone (my favourite Tom Hanks movie) two …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 41- The Killing Hour (1982)
Druids invade a small town, looking for a rare blood type to resurrect their leader. Invasion of the Blood Farmers is a freaky, almost psychedelic early 70’s film that has the garish colour palates of the clothing of the era. I loved the depiction of something out of the ordinary infiltrating the humdrum life of …
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Meathook Cinema 