Hammer Studios goes full-on late Sixties with this shake-up of how they advertised their films to reflect the radical new era. This was an attempt to get away from their previous image which was in danger of looking and feeling stale and archaic. How did they do this? By using humour! The result is iconic.
This Swedish thriller was long thought to be lost. I'm glad it's now newly discovered and released on Blu ray. It tells the tale of a mental institution resident who is thought to have escaped to take revenge on the people involved in his case who forced him to plead insanity. But if he escaped, …
I have a long history with this film as I seem to remember it being shown on daytime TV here in the UK in the early 80's. The thinking probably went along the lines of 'We have such extreme horror movies now and so it will be safe to show this old 1950's horror film …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Monkey Shines When an athlete (Allan) is hit by a truck and left a quadriplegic, a scientist friend recruits a monkey that has been trained to help assist disabled people to fully carry out their lives. Ella, the monkey, starts to bond well with Allan, but soon, …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Beware! Children At Play A Troma movie that pushes the boundaries- even for Troma! Children are disappearing in a small town in America. Rather than being abducted, they are, in fact, being recruited to join a religious cult that practices cannibalism. This is Children of the Corn …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Rabid Grannies A group of relatives meet to celebrate their elderly relations' birthday (but have disclosed that they are only there so that they may be left something in the old duck's inheritances when they pop their clogs). A black-sheep nephew of the octogenarians who practices the …
There is a video for this list here. 10. The Video Dead A demonic television only shows the black and white horror film Zombie Blood Nightmare. The zombies can also escape the TV set to come into real life and kill the film's viewers. When I first saw this video on the shelves of my …
There's a video for this list here. 10. Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives Jason was killed in Part 4. But just as that instalment was supposed to be the literal 'Final Chapter', it had been such a success that Paramount made another film. Part 5: A New Beginning involved Tommy Jarvis still seeing …
I'm currently writing an article about my childhood in the 80s, the massive part that video played during that period with regard to my obsession with cult/horror films, and so I've decided to compile lists of my favourite horror movies from each year from that awesome decade. These will all lead up to a list …
I'm so glad I studied Psychology in college. I've always found the subject interesting and have sought to build on what I've already learnt through my interactions with different people throughout my life. I became aware of Narcissistic Personality Disorder quite by accident recently. It was information that I had been trying to discover for …
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