A mark that you’ve made a great movie is when your film spawns a number of imitators. One such movie is The Exorcist. One such imitator is Beyond The Door. But whilst some imitators are pale and shoddy rip offs, this film is amazing. Starring esteemed actress Juliet Mills this deals with her possession and …
Continue reading Day 31- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Beyond The Door (1974)
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 30- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Prom Night (1980)
A priest finds out through his study of the bible that the antichrist will be born on Christmas Day. He tries to commit as many sins as possible to summon the Devil and thus find out the place of the second coming so that he can kill the newborn. A surprise hit in its native …
Continue reading Day 29- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Day of the Beast (1995)
A young social worker takes on the case of Baby, a 21-year-old who acts like, the clues in his name, a baby. What she doesn't realise is that the family to whom 'Baby' belongs, the Wadsworths, keep him in that state by stopping his development via negative reinforcement in the form of an electric cattle …
Continue reading Day 28- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Baby (1973)
Three friends since high school known as The Rat Pack plan a weekend camping vacation to Deep Barrens in New Jersey. They are suddenly captured by two hillbillies who take the three women home to their demented mother who detains them and plans to torture and kill them one by one. I first learnt of …
Continue reading Day 27- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Mother’s Day (1980)
When their car runs out of gas, Geoffrey goes off to find a garage to fill a can with gas whilst his irritating flapper girlfriend Daphne has a nap. When she awakens, she gets out and has a walk around the remote surroundings. She soon realises that she is being followed by someone and after …
Continue reading Day 25- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Ghoul (1975)
A young girl is seen escaping from a building, bloodied and battered. The girl is Lucie Jurin who was abducted and tortured for over a year. She is placed into care where she befriends Anna. Years later, Lucie finds the couple who abducted her and goes back to enact revenge on them. Martyrs is a French film …
Continue reading Day 21- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Martyrs (2008)
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 Day 16- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
Take a very mediocre movie. Apply an 'edgy' and highly questionable marketing campaign to try and sell it to the public. Step back and see what happens. Starlet Terry London and her producer visit a country in South America. Unfortunately, they cross paths with a female junkie biker gang who kill the starlet and several …
Continue reading Day 13- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Snuff (1976)
Esteemed parapsychologist Sir Hugo Cunningham is investigating the strange smudge that is on the photographs of people who are photographed at their moment of death. He concludes that this is, in fact, an 'asphyx', a force which comes for somebody when it's time for them to leave this mortal coil. He then finds through his …
Continue reading Day 12- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Asphyx (1972)
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