A very religious policeman (Edward 'Equalizer' Woodward) arrives at the Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a child, Rowan Morrison. Whilst he makes enquiries regarding the missing child he witnesses first-hand the pagan lifestyles of the inhabitants which shock him and clash severely with his staunchly Christian and somewhat puritanical beliefs. I …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- The Wicker Man (1973)
10. Road Games (1981) An Ozploitation classic that imported the great Jamie Lee Curtis and Stacey Keach to star in it. Keach plays a truck driver travelling across Oz who with the aid of a hitchhiker tries to track down a serial killer. For the longest time, Road Games was unavailable but this is no …
In this new regular series of reviews, I'll be watching films that are hated by many. Do these films deserve their bad reputation or do they deserve reappraisal? First up is Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning. Beware- there are spoilers ahead. I remember hearing about the film being in development when it …
Continue reading Is It Really That Bad?- Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985)
Writer David Norliss is employed to write about his scepticism regarding the supernatural and the self-proclaimed spiritualists who are currently in vogue. However, he goes missing. His publisher discovers his research in the area on a series of tapes at his San Francisco home and decides to listen to the first one. He hears the …
10. John Ford and John Wayne 9. Luis Bunuel and Fernando Rey 8. John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands 7. Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant 6. Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski 5. Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune 4. Brian De Palma and Nancy Allen 3. John Carpenter and Kurt Russell 2. Martin Scorsese and Robert De …
Randy 'The Ram' Robinson is a wrestler who is still wrestling even though he's past his prime. He rose to prominence in the 80s and yet, 20 years on from this, he is still venturing into the ring. He only wrestles on a weekend these days and works at a local supermarket during the week …
WARNING- There are spoilers ahead. I remember as a young kid going past my local cinema in the family car and seeing the poster for the double bill The Incredible Melting Man and The Savage Bees. Just seeing this poster in passing was enough to give me sleepless nights. In fact, my protestations that The …
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Norah (Juliet Prowse) finds a job spinning records in a New York nightclub after making the move to the city from Rochester. She finds herself the recipient of menacing and threatening phone calls which quickly escalate in severity. When she first receives them she thinks it's just a drunk randomly calling people. But then the …
WARNING. Spoilers! Damien Thorn is progressing up the political ladder by hook or by crook. The methods used are exemplified by the first kill in the film in which The U.S.Ambassador to the UK crosses paths with Thorn's Rottweiler and then goes back to his office and kills himself by blowing his brains out, completely …
Continue reading Review- The Omen 3: The Final Conflict (1981)
This is a film that I finally got to see when it was shown on late-night TV. My family had by then purchased a VCR and so the timer facility came in handy if a film I wanted to see was on too late for me. I would watch these cinematic shockers the next morning. …
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