The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 2- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
When the film purporting to document the formation of The Village People opened in 1980 it garnered almost universally bad reviews. The film was also seen as being so bad that (along with Xanadu) it brought about the formation of an annual awards ceremony celebrating the worst of cinema, The Golden Raspberry Awards. But, is …
Continue reading Is It Really That Bad?- Can’t Stop The Music (1980)
Warning- this review contains spoilers. Ms 45 first came onto my radar due to it's inclusion in the fantastic horror compilation film, Terror In The Aisles. It would be years before I could actually see the film from start to finish, courtesy of a one-off rare film screening at a cinema in Hampstead when I …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Ms. 45 (1981)
You have a horror franchise about a haunted house. The first film is pretty well made, has a great cast and occasionally dips its toe into exploitation territory. It does well at the box office. The sequel goes FULL exploitation and even has a taboo subplot that will make even the most seasoned horror fan …
Oh boy. If you've seen Amityville 2 you'll know what I mean. The makers of this movie must have thought that to compete with the original film and indeed outgross it they must make it as extreme as possible. And they really succeeded. A new family have moved into the infamous house and start to …
Continue reading Review- Amityville 2: The Possession (1982)
Hooray for IMDB! Here's Absence of Malice's storyline- Mike Gallagher is a Miami liquor wholesaler whose deceased father was a local mobster. The FBI organized crime task force have no evidence that he's involved with the mob but decide to pressure him into perhaps revealing something - anything - about a murder they're sure was …
I remember the release of Chariots of Fire so vividly from my childhood. I also remember how it won multiple awards and that this was like the kiss of death for me. You see, the films I normally watch don't win Oscars, BAFTAs or any kind of mainstream awards. I associate these awards with boring …
A slasher movie directed by J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear) and starring Melissa Sue Anderson (she's a long way from Little House on the Prairie here!), Glenn Ford and Lawrence Dane (Scanners). Someone is bumping off college students in innovative ways. Who could the killer be? Even though the methods of murder are unconventional (barbell, …
One of the videos I rented the most during the golden years of home video was Commando, the Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick. I watched it again recently to see if it still stands up. My God, it really does! Re-watching it felt like meeting up with an old friend. This was the golden period of …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Commando (1985)
The first thing I noticed on rewatching Cobra for the first time since the late 80's was that it's a Cannon film. That instantly made me smile, obviously. I loved Cobra. It's a cartoonish action flick in which Sylvester Stallone grunts, mumbles and fires guns (no real stretch for him, I agree). Cobra is part …
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