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)
You may remember at the end of the excellent Evil Dead 2 that our hero Ash was transported back in time. This is where the franchise's third entry takes place, the year 1300 to be precise. I remember that this film coincided with the UK finally getting a severely cut version of the first film …
Continue reading Day 19- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Army of Darkness (1992)
In this final instalment of the Confessions series Timmy Lea has decided to give up the promiscuous trysts with 'crumpet' and enters a monastery instead. Just kidding. In this Confessions movie, our heroes Timmy and Sid are working at the Funfrall Holiday Camp. The new manager (John Junkin) is very strict and has ordered Sid …
Continue reading Review- Confessions From A Holiday Camp (1977)
The latest entry in the Confessions franchise sees Timmy Lea change occupations yet again and becoming a driving instructor. Along the way, there are plenty of 'birds' for him to have sexy adventures with. As is customary in these films, there are usually actresses who went onto bigger things who play a prominent part within …
Continue reading Review- Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976)
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law are still cleaning windows (see the previous film) but somehow blag their way into the world of pop management. The band they start to manage are called Bloater which Timmy's brother in law then renames Kipper (it's classier). When Kipper's drummer is unable to play a gig, Timmy steps in. …
Continue reading Review- Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
Once upon a time (the early 80's to be precise) when my family rented our first video recorder from Granada Home Video, you could rent tapes of trailers from the same shop. One tape had all of the trailers for Warner Bros video releases on it and included such gems as The Exorcist, The Shining …
A movie that goes one way but changes direction massively. In fact before the plot twist that occurs I thought this was a film about the most unlikable and privileged kids I'd ever seen on screen. In fact they're so privileged that when they got to college they would be the biggest social justice warriors, I …
I remember this film being on the shelves of all of the local video stores I used to pore over the contents of in the 80s. Amazing cover artwork and a great premise (lifts have always freaked me out) and yet I never got round to renting this movie. Years later I watched it whilst …
Continue reading Day 28- 31 Days of Halloween- The Lift (1983)
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