Beware- there are spoilers ahead! Mary Henry is in a car with two of her friends when another car full of youths challenges them to a race. Whilst both cars are next to each other on a bridge, the vehicle containing the young women is rammed over the side and into the river down below. …
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Artist Adam finds that his paintings are so much better when he starts to use human blood on his canvases as well as paint. Ironically the gallery owner who sells his work and the art buyers now love his new artworks not knowing that he's using blood and bumping people off to make sure he …
Continue reading Day 3- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Norah (Juliet Prowse) finds a job spinning records in a New York nightclub after making the move to the city from Rochester. She finds herself the recipient of menacing and threatening phone calls which quickly escalate in severity. When she first receives them she thinks it's just a drunk randomly calling people. But then the …
The first time I saw George A Romero's masterpiece Night of the Living Dead it was actually a colourised version being distributed by Palace Video (home of The Evil Dead). 'Sacrilege!' I hear you cry. But with no other version of the film to compare it to, I quite liked it. Even after colourisation, the …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Wanna see what would happen if someone as old school as Peter Cushing went to a groovy late 60s Swinging London happening? If so then Corruption is the film for you. Cushing plays plastic surgeon Sir John Rowan who after getting into a fight with Anthony Booth's sleazy photographer accidentally disfigures his fiancee's face after …
A mother and daughter in law (named in the credits as 'older woman' and 'younger woman' respectively) are waiting for their son/husband to return from the war he's fighting in. A soldier named Hachi who fought alongside him comes back to tell them that in fact he saw him killed. He then starts having a …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 31- Onibaba (1964)
A teenage drag race goes dreadfully wrong with one car being forced off a bridge and into a river. From the car a woman, Mary manages to escape and clamber ashore. However, Mary's life after that isn't the same. She seems to see ghostly figures when she seemingly disassociates herself with everyday life that is …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 29- Carnival of Souls (1962)
As soon as I saw that this 1965 Amicus film was directed by Freddie Francis I knew that the direction and photography would be beautiful. And I was right! I was also excited as I knew that this was a horror anthology film and starred two heavyweights of the genre, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 28- Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
A sequel to Village of the Damned which is less a continuation of the plot and instead like a film containing characters who possess the same powers as the children in the original but under different circumstances. Whereas the original took part in a countryside idyll, the action within this film is based in London. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 18- Children of the Damned (1964)
Mysteriously one day everyone in the village of Midwich suddenly lapses into unconsciousness. After a few hours everyone just as mysteriously wakes up. Two months later every woman in the village who is able to become pregnant finds that they are pregnant. Whats more the embryos are found to develop abnormally fast. The children look …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 15- Village of the Damned (1960)
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