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 …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 66- Scanners (1981)
From IMDB- ‘’Three students, Tommy, Rita, and Robert, and their guides head into the jungle to study primitive tribes separated from civilization. However, the students say the one tribe they visit isn't primitive enough, and they want to find some really savages, and to locate the legendary cannibal tribe supposedly living in the area. The …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 65- Savage Terror (1978)
A crazed World War 2 soldier kills his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend. He then starts to bump off young teens in the same California town 35 years later. I remember seeing this a few years ago and thinking it was distinctly average. What a difference a few years can make! I really dug it this …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 64- Rosemary’s Killer (1981)
After a horrific motorcycle accident, Rose Miller awakens from a coma in the mysterious Keloid Clinic that specialises in plastic surgery. She now has an insatiable thirst for blood and a 'stinger' in her armpit that she uses to 'feed' off the blood of other humans. This, in turn, transforms them into rabid zombies. Rabid …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 63- Rabid (1977)
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 The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 62- Prom Night (1980)
A shape-shifting alien, Kator, lands on Earth. His mission is to evaluate if earthlings are a worthy source for food for his race. After he kills an amorous couple in a car, he assumes the identity of the male and then crosses paths with a lesbian couple who live in isolation in the countryside. Wow. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 61- Prey (1977)
A teenaged girl who is abused by her father, murders him. She is committed in a mental hospital because of this but then escapes. She seeks work from a pig farmer. She doesn’t yet know that the farmer has his own secrets and that his pigs have acquired a taste for human flesh. Well, there’s …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 60- Pigs (1973)
I first heard of Phantasm when its sequel came out. Barry Norman reviewed it and admitted that he hadn’t even heard of the first film. Neither had I. Fortunately, my sister in law had a friend who had closed down their video business, and so gave her a lot of the videos he used to …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 59- Phantasm (1979)
It’s 1992 and America is now a post-apocalyptic and dystopian society (!) which is run by a criminal organisation who have set loose a deadly parasite on the population. Brave survivors try and eradicate it. Parasite feels like an overlong episode of a TV series that wasn’t commissioned for a second season. It’s like something …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 58- Parasite (1982)
There’s Nazi gold hidden in a desert oasis. Unfortunately, it’s being guarded by zombies. Jesus Franco directs this remake of Zombie Lake which was made the previous year (fastest remake EVER!) with Jean Rollin at the helm when Franco couldn’t direct due to other commitments. God this film is dull. Shots which are obviously too …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 3- Day 57- Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
Meathook Cinema 