31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 6- Killer Workout (1987)

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 …

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31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 5- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

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 …

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31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 4- Absurd (1981)

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, …

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31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 3- Death Nurse (1987)

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 …

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31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 2- The House By The Cemetery (1981)

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 …

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31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 1- Kill, Baby, Kill (1966)

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 …

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Is It Really That Bad?- The Exorcist 2: The Heretic (1977)

The first time I learnt about The Exorcist 2: The Heretic was when my family bought our first VCR. There were trailer compilation tapes that could be rented for free from our local video library and so as well as renting Basket Case (what a great first videotape to rent!) we also took out these …

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