In 1982, American audiences wanted only one alien. He wasn’t the shape-shifting evil alien in John Carpenter’s The Thing; he was the cute alien who wanted to ‘phone home’ in Steven Spielberg’s E.T. A dog who is being shot at by the crew of a helicopter flying overhead is taken in by an American compound …
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I first saw this classic when I was a late teen and studying for my A-levels in college in 1994. My friend taped this for me on the same tape as Last House on the Left. With it being copied from a copy the picture and audio were crappy but somehow this added to the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 74- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Hundreds of years ago, a witch, Mad Dolly (!) is almost executed but escapes this by invoking the devil (it pays to have friends in high places) and curses the family, The Garricks, for trying to have her burnt at the stake. Fast forward to the present day (well, the late 70’s) and the last …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 73- Terror (1978)
Suzy Bannion has travelled from America to a very prestigious dance academy in Germany. Bizarre events happen right from the get-go, and Suzy is sure that there is more than meets the eye at the academy. Where do I even begin with Dario Argento's Suspiria? Maybe by saying that it's perfect. Every aspect of it …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 72- Suspiria (1977)
A family move into a house that was the site of a witch’s execution centuries before. Paranormal hijinx ensue. Superstition boasts impressive kills (the ones involving the circular saw and severed head in the microwave are doozies!) and a great turn by the witch who *is*actually a witch and not an innocent woman who has …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 71- Superstition (1982)
A company, Interzod, run by an astrologer, prepares themselves for the second coming of Christ or conversely, the Anti-Christ. They know this because of their analysis of zodiac signs and dates of birth. As you may have gathered by this synopsis, this isn’t your average exploitation film. This is a student film by James Glickenhaus …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 70- The Astrologer (1975)
Sadistic killer Nanni Vitali escapes from prison with three accomplices. They embark on an orgy of murder, kidnapping, r*pe and violence. However, police inspector Giulio Santini is hot on their heels. Street Killers aka The Mad Dog Killer is a Eurocrime film that is very violent indeed (an indcation why it features on the Section …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 69- Street Killers (1977)
After a Shogun’s wife is killed instead of him, he vows to avenge her killers. He roams with the land with his young son and takes on mercenary work whilst working towards accomplishing his goal. Shogun Assassin is a re-edit of a smidgen of Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance and most of Lone …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 68- Shogun Assassin (1980)
Four criminals kill a jeweller and his family. They then kidnap a senator’s granddaughter and her boyfriend. This is a bad mistake though as the captives fight back in grisly fashion. Scream For Vengeance is very difficult to track down. I ended up having to watch a copy that had been dubbed into French. I …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 67- Scream For Vengeance! (1980)
I first remember hearing about the film Scanners when home video first appeared on the scene here in the UK. A lot of the businesses with a selection of rentable videos in the early days weren't exclusively video shops. There was a shop near my school called Clockmakers (which is weird as it was a …
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Meathook Cinema 