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)
This sequel to Demons was made mere months after the first film. The action is switched from the cinema of the original and takes place in a very modern and very secure (a bit too secure, as viewers will find out) apartment block. The demons are back and as messy, toothy and angry as ever. …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 12- Demons 2 (1986)
Members of Rhonda's Workout gym are being bumped off. But who is the killer? Killer Workout was released on video in the UK as Aerobicide. This is, as you would expect, a slasher movie set around a gym/beauty spa. Hence, we get the whodunnit aspect of the narrative, red herrings as to who the killer …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 6- Killer Workout (1987)
Prince Prospero sees that local villagers are suffering from the Red Death, but rather than help them, he demands that the village is burnt down, but not before he has taken a local young woman as his own. Her father and her husband seek revenge and want to save her from Prospero's clutches. The Masque …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 5- The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
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)
The House By The Cemetery is the finale of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy after City of the Living Dead and The Beyond. The film concerns a house in New England that is synonymous with a series of murders that continue to happen in it. A new family have just moved in, not knowing …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2024- Day 2- The House By The Cemetery (1981)
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 …
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. …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Carnival of Souls (1962)
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