A Vietnam vet, part-time glamour photographer and bodybuilder is bumping off women in Los Angeles. He regularly rings a talk radio show and appears obsessed with the female host. He also holds quasi-religious ceremonies and has angry conversations with his deceased father. Don’t Answer The Phone! is a nasty, gritty and sleazy piece of film-making. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 21- Don’t Answer The Phone! (1980)
A woman who religious elders think is a witch, is examined and a needle inserted into her body and shown to not draw blood (a huge red flag apparently). She must be a witch/demon/devil woman (to quote Cliff Richard). She then looks straight into the camera and pulls a ‘possessed’ face that made me burst …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 20- The Demons (1973)
A young woman, Linda, is gang r*ped at a stable. This causes her to be institutionalised. She’s then released and collected from the sanitarium by her husband who, unbeknownst to her, now has a mistress who he met whilst she was convalescing. Linda has flashbacks to what happened to her previously and is having a …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 19- Demented (1980)
A leather-gloved serial killer is on the loose in Rome, but David Hemming's pianist and Daria Nicolodi's journalist are on the trail to try and find out who it is. Dario Argento's Deep Red is one of his best and features several signature elements that are now synonymous with his films- the innovative direction, the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 18- Deep Red (1975)
Harry is on his way to a country holiday home with his new ex-model girlfriend, Diane when they cross paths with a rowdy car-full of drunken yahoos who try to intimidate them. After the couple run them off the road and ruin the suspension on their car, they are tracked to their country lair with …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 17- Death Weekend (1976)
A scientist is carrying out experiments on young people and through a kind of ‘Pavlov’s Dogs’- style conditioning, making them into murderers. Strange Behavior was billed as a 1981 slasher movie when I looked into it. It’s so much more than that. The movie has a 50’s Americana vibe to it, both visually and thematically …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 16- Strange Behavior (1981)
Grave robbers open an ancient tomb that contains gold but also just so happens to be cursed. Add to the mix some vapid fashion photographers and models from New York who are in Egypt for a photoshoot and you have gory fun fun fun! This 1981 film is very low-budget but enjoyable enough. I quite …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 15- Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
The sequel to George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead shows that the zombie epidemic has gotten much worse and society is on it's knees. Two television workers plan to escape with two SWAT team members in the TV station traffic helicopter in search of...whatever they can find that's better than their current situation. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 14- Dawn of the Dead (1978)
I love the horror films that are unlike any other films in the genre and stand alone with their quirks and idiosyncrasies. One such film is Alice Sweet Alice. The film was actually called Communion when it premiered at numerous film festivals but was then retitled Alice Sweet Alice when it was picked up by …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 13- Communion (1976)
I first heard of this Yuletide horror flick as John Waters spoke about it as being his favourite seasonal cinematic shocker. With such high praise from The Prince of Puke, I later heard it was being shown at a local cinema in Sydney, Australia, where I lived for a year (it was actually shown as …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 12- Christmas Evil (1980)
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