A children's game goes horribly wrong and a child falls backwards from the first floor window of an abandoned building and dies. The remaining kids vow to never tell anyone about what happened. It's now 7 years on and the children in the gang are preparing for their prom night. They one by one start …
Continue reading Day 29- 31 Days of Halloween- Prom Night (1980)
I remember this film being on the shelves of all of the local video stores I used to pore over the contents of in the 80s. Amazing cover artwork and a great premise (lifts have always freaked me out) and yet I never got round to renting this movie. Years later I watched it whilst …
Continue reading Day 28- 31 Days of Halloween- The Lift (1983)
Three schoolteachers stop at a garage on their way to a baseball game at Dodgers Stadium. Their car isn't running properly and so they need to look at it and maybe try to fix it. But thats not their biggest obstacle- they come face to face with Charlie Tibbs and his girlfriend- a couple of …
Continue reading Day 27- 31 Days of Halloween- The Sadist (1963)
An abusive headmaster at a French boarding school is vile to both his wife and mistress. Both decide to team together to put paid to him for good. And thats all I’m going to tell you on this film. There are enough genius twists and turns to delight the most ardent horror/thriller fan. To say …
Continue reading Day 26- 31 Days of Halloween- Les Diaboliques (1955)
This film was actually made in 1986 (although I've read it was actually shot in 1985) but not released until 1990 as there were censorship problems as to the graphic nature of the film's proceedings. The film is loosely based on the lives of real life serial killers Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. Henry lives with …
Continue reading Day 25- 31 Days of Halloween- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Whilst on holiday Virginia bumps into her old friend and one-time lesbian fumble, Bet. Virginia's 'friend' Roger asks Bet to continue with them on their travels but whilst on the train the next day Virginia is angry at the attention Bet is getting from Roger who insists that he and Virginia are actually just travelling …
Continue reading Day 24- 31 Days of Halloween- Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)
The other half of a double-bill in UK cinemas with the other film being the far better The Incredible Melting Man. This was actually made for television in America. Killer bees have flown into America and are claiming their first casualties disturbingly close to New Orleans when their Mardi Gras is due to kick off. A …
Continue reading Day 23- 31 Days of Halloween- The Savage Bees
I first learnt of this film's existence by walking past a cinema at the tender age of 4 and seeing a poster for the double bill of this and a TV movie that was shown theatrically in the UK called The Savage Bees (to be reviewed tomorrow night). Even the poster for this genius double …
Continue reading Day 22- 31 Days of Halloween- The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
A gorgeous slice of Ozploitation that is extremely well made, acted and written. A young man named Patrick is in a coma after killing his parents three years earlier. A new nurse named Kathie has been assigned to tend to him and they strike up a relationship through a typewriter that Patrick can telekinetically control …
Continue reading Day 21- 31 Days of Halloween- Patrick (1978)
A young family move into a house where a young man killed his entire family. And they wonder why the house price was so low. Cue all manner of haunted house shenanigans- flies, crucifixes being turned upside down, the kids suddenly acquiring imaginary friends, red eyes being seen through the window at night, black ooze overflowing …
Continue reading Day 20- 31 Days of Halloween- The Amityville Horror (1979)
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