It's funny what crops up on the internet. When video started to become popular there were also brilliant magazines that catered for the video industry and video fans alike. The majority of the column inches and pages were devoted to horror, action and exploitation with a few pages at the back devoted to porn. I …
Jojo is a proud Hitler Youth member. He decides to go on a weekend for fellow brainwashed enthusiasts. However, after a (very funny) accident with a grenade he finds himself hospitalised. At home recovering he discovers that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home. He confides this to his imaginary friend, Adolf …
...Cats! OK, just kidding. 2019 has been a great year for films and trying to pick my favourite movie has been very hard. Whether it was the utterly engrossing Shockingly Wicked, Evil and Vile and it's captivating central performance by Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, the dark heart of Joker which held up a mirror …
'I heard you paint houses' Martin Scorsese's latest film centres around Frank Sheeran who we first see in a care home for the elderly reminiscing about his life. He recalls his time in World War 2 and then after this lovingly remembers the scam he had when he is working as a meat truck delivery …
I read Stephen King's sequel to The Shining and thoroughly enjoyed it when it was first published. I was eager to see the film adaptation and if it was as satisfying as the book. It's always a brave move to write a sequel to a well known book that is now considered to be a classic …
I loved it when big name stars decided to degrade themselves by starring in Italian exploitation pics in the 70's solely for a big paycheck. This Italian Jaws rip-off stars Henry Fonda, John Huston and Shelley Winters. A seaside resort (a long way from Amity though) has become the feeding supply of a giant octopus. …
Continue reading Day 31- 31 Days of Halloween- Tentacles (1977)
Layabout crazy cat Jerry (played by the director Ray Dennis Steckler under the hilarious pseudonym Cash Flagg), his girlfriend Angela and his friend Harold go to the seaside to visit a carnival there. After getting their fortunes told they see the fortune tellers sister Carmelita who is a stripper. Jerry is seen by Angela to be …
Healthy horny idiots go camping in the woods (I know, an alien scenario for a slasher film!) The woods they go to were the location of a bloodbath decades earlier as someone from a gypsy camp was falsely accused of rape by a female member of the townsfolk. The townsfolk burnt down the gypsy settlement …
Continue reading Day 29-31 Days of Halloween- The Prey (1983)
This 1965 Roman Polanski film centres on the character of Carol, a beautiful woman who works at a beauty parlour whilst living with her sister Helen in South Kensington, London. Shes very childlike and seems to be not only sexually repressed but actually repulsed by men. Matters aren't helped by a persistent young man called …
Continue reading Day 28- 31 Days of Halloween- Repulsion (1965)
Another one of my favourite VHS rentals as a kid was Terror in the Aisles. Essentially a compilation of clips from horror movies, this is That's Entertainment for weirdos. And it works beautifully. A major reason why this works is the sheer breadth of the films that are used from the old to the new, …
Continue reading Day 27- 31 Days of Halloween- Terror in the Aisles (1984)
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