Jennifer is the only scholarship girl in a very select and very posh school called Green View. She has fallen foul of the bitchy in-crowd led by the ultra-vile Sandy, whose father is a senator. Jennifer's father is stanchly religious, and they live on their own above the pet shop that he owns. Jennifer once …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 11- Jennifer (1978)
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)
Members of Rhonda's Workout gym are being bumped off. But who is the killer? Killer Workout was released on video in the UK as Aerobicide. This is, as you would expect, a slasher movie set around a gym/beauty spa. Hence, we get the whodunnit aspect of the narrative, red herrings as to who the killer …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 6- Killer Workout (1987)
Prince Prospero sees that local villagers are suffering from the Red Death, but rather than help them, he demands that the village is burnt down, but not before he has taken a local young woman as his own. Her father and her husband seek revenge and want to save her from Prospero's clutches. The Masque …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 5- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Absurd opens with lead character, Nikos Tanoupoulos, being pursued by a priest. Nikos tries to climb over a wrought iron fence but accidentally impales himself on the spikes on top of the fence and is rushed to hospital. As he seems to get over his surgery and injuries in record time, it is established that, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 4- Absurd (1981)
There are shady goings-on happening at Shady Palms Clinic, a facility that the state sends patients to who need specialist medical care. Edith Mortley and her doctor brother are bumping off the patients but billing the state for their care even though they are now six feet under. Death Nurse was shot on a camcorder …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 3- Death Nurse (1987)
The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 2- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
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