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)
The first scene we see in The Medusa Touch is the lead character John Morlar (Richard Burton) being beaten around the head with a solid object! French detective Monsieur Brunel (Lino Ventura) is assigned to find out who might be responsible and why. One of his leads is the psychiatrist he was seeing, Dr Zonfield …
Continue reading Day 26- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Medusa Touch (1978)
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)
Six people driving to a teaching conference in Atlanta are detoured through a town called Pleasant Valley. The town is holding its bicentennial celebrations and the new arrivals are greeted like guests of honour by the sheriff and townsfolk. Things take a turn for the worst though as they are dispatched one-by-one with the townsfolk …
Continue reading Day 22- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
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)
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)
I read online recently that someone regarded Vampire Circus as to be akin to a Carry On film and that it was a laughable Hammer entry. With such strong sentiments I thought a rewatch would be in store. These opinions certainly weren't in line with how I remembered the film when I watched it on …
Continue reading Day 18- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Vampire Circus (1972)
This Steven Spielberg-directed movie made for TV and adapted from Richard Matheson's short story still packs a punch. David Mann is a travelling businessman venturing to an appointment across California but is slowed down considerably by an ominous truck that at first inconveniences him until things suddenly take a much darker tone. This film could …
Continue reading Day 17- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Duel (1971)
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)
When Disha, a new student, joins JC College this proves to be very disruptive. Not only with the male students (she is very attractive and even the lead character who is engaged to someone else has his head turned) but also because unexplained and somewhat sinister things start to happen. Cars inexplicably breaking down, tyres …
Continue reading Day 14- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Krishna Cottage (2004)
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