Simone is so obsessed with her favourite pop star (the mysteriously named 'R') that she can't eat or concentrate in school anymore. She waits for his reply to the letter she wrote, but nothing arrives. She goes to the TV studio where he is due to appear on a music programme, he sees her, likes …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 14- Der Fan (1982)
Rituals is a Canadian horror film about five doctors who decide to go camping in the wilderness. What could possibly go wrong? The obvious reference point for this film is Deliverance. I think of Rituals as 'Sufferance' instead. A great cast (Hal Holbrook would go on to star in John Carpenter's masterpiece The Fog, Lawrence …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 13- Rituals (1977)
Absurd opens with lead character, Nikos Tanoupoulos, being pursued by a priest. Nikos tries to climb over a wrought iron fence but accidentally impales himself on the spikes on top of the fence and is rushed to hospital. As he seems to get over his surgery and injuries in record time, it is established that, …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 4- Absurd (1981)
There are shady goings-on happening at Shady Palms Clinic, a facility that the state sends patients to who need specialist medical care. Edith Mortley and her doctor brother are bumping off the patients but billing the state for their care even though they are now six feet under. Death Nurse was shot on a camcorder …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 3- Death Nurse (1987)
Here is the list of the horror fare I will be watching and reviewing throughout October in 2024. Almost all of these films can be seen on YouTube so that you can watch them also and agree/disagree with my reviews (although my opinion is never wrong, obviously haha) Kill Baby Kill House By The Cemetary …
The first scene we see in The Medusa Touch is the lead character John Morlar (Richard Burton) being beaten around the head with a solid object! French detective Monsieur Brunel (Lino Ventura) is assigned to find out who might be responsible and why. One of his leads is the psychiatrist he was seeing, Dr Zonfield …
Continue reading Day 26- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Medusa Touch (1978)
Young family The Lamberts move into a new house. Their son Dalton ventures into the attic where he encounters a supernatural entity. The next day he mysteriously slips into a coma. Three months later and with no sign of change, The Lamberts turn first to the church for help but then to psychic Elise Rainier …
Continue reading Day 24- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Insidious (2010)
Melanie Daniels travels to Bodega Bay with two love-birds to woo Mitch Brenner who is there to see his family for the weekend. Unexpectedly, the local birds in the area begin to attack all of the human inhabitants of the area after her arrival. The Birds is one of those films that everyone has heard …
Continue reading Day 23- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Birds (1963)
Six people driving to a teaching conference in Atlanta are detoured through a town called Pleasant Valley. The town is holding its bicentennial celebrations and the new arrivals are greeted like guests of honour by the sheriff and townsfolk. Things take a turn for the worst though as they are dispatched one-by-one with the townsfolk …
Continue reading Day 22- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Three very irritating backpackers (they're classic 'Bro' types, they use the word 'Gay' as a pejorative a lot) leave Amsterdam for Slovakia because, y'know, there's hot chicks there. They go to a club, meet some 'hot chicks' but things start to go seriously awry. When one of the bros has supposedly checked out, the remaining …
Continue reading Day 20- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Hostel (2005)
Meathook Cinema 