Mysteriously one day everyone in the village of Midwich suddenly lapses into unconsciousness. After a few hours everyone just as mysteriously wakes up. Two months later every woman in the village who is able to become pregnant finds that they are pregnant. Whats more the embryos are found to develop abnormally fast. The children look …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 15- Village of the Damned (1960)
This is another Pete Walker horror sleazefest (hooray!!!) Figure skater Samantha is about to get married to wealthy businessman Alan. Her mother's former partner has just been released from prison and starts stalking her, travelling from the North East to London to accomplish the job. This film mines into the whole phenomenon of being followed, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 14- Schizo (1976)
A novel twist on the 'demonic possession' sub-genre. This is more a courtroom drama regarding the priest who tried to save a girl (Emily Rose) from possession by a demon but which resulted in her death. Father Moore faces life imprisonment for his activities trying to save the teenage girl's life. There are of course …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 13- The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
***TRIGGER WARNING!!!*** This is a Pete Walker movie. In 1957 Dorothy Yates and her husband Edmund are convicted of murder and cannibalism (!) and sent to an asylum until the film's present day (1974). They are then released supposedly fully cured and living a quiet life. But are they? The answer, of course, is no! …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 12- Frightmare (1974)
A Tigon film from 1967 regarding Marcus, a doctor (played by Boris Karloff) who practices hypnosis. His wife Estelle is also part of his practice as they search for a suitable subject for their experiments. Step forward swinging 60's hip-cat Mike Roscoe (played by future Saint Ian Ogilvy) who Marcus picks up in a Wimpy …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 11- The Sorcerers (1967)
I knew very little about Bloody New Year before I watched it for this review. I thought it might be another slasher movie themed around yet another public holiday just like New Year's Evil. How wrong I was! Every now and again I watch a film that is so 'out there' that I think to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 10- Bloody New Year (1987)
Every now and again a horror film's reputation builds through word of mouth and because the first horror fans who have seen it rave about it and this snowballs until it can't be denied or ignored by fans and film journalists alike. This happened in 1998 when Japanese film Ringu was made. This was also …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 9- Ringu (1998)
A movie that was on the other side of my DVD of the (much better) film, The Pit. This direct to video movie concerns a young woman who is snatched by a gang of bikers and brutally murdered. Her father then discovers a crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses it …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 8- Hellgate (1989)
This Tigon film takes place in Swinging London as we see a bunch of twentysomethings at a party who then decide to liven things up by going to an old out of town mansion that is reported to be haunted. The backstory as to why is that the family who used to lived there twenty …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 7- The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
I remember seeing this on video shortly after it was released way back when. The original Hills Have Eyes wasn't on video at that time and so seeing this was the next best thing especially in hindsight as there are LOADS of flashbacks to the first film. Yes, even a dog from the first movie …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 6- The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1984)
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