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)
A movie that was on the other side of my DVD of the (much better) film, The Pit. This direct to video movie concerns a young woman who is snatched by a gang of bikers and brutally murdered. Her father then discovers a crystal that can bring the dead back to life and uses it …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 8- Hellgate (1989)
I remember seeing this on video shortly after it was released way back when. The original Hills Have Eyes wasn't on video at that time and so seeing this was the next best thing especially in hindsight as there are LOADS of flashbacks to the first film. Yes, even a dog from the first movie …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 6- The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1984)
Land of the Dead is George A Romero's next instalment in the Dead series after 1985's pedestrian and plodding Day of the Dead. This involves the human race who are still at the mercy of a world overrun by the undead and now being split into the ordinary folk who are forced to live in …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 5- Land of the Dead (2005)
I didn't even know there was a remake of George A Romero's 1985 film. When I found out about it I was hardly looking forward to reviewing it as I found the original to be the runt of the litter of Romero's zombie movies- it was too slow, talky and with not enough action. The …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 3- Day of the Dead (2008)
Fat nurse Martha Beck is joined into a lonely hearts club by her best friend Bunny. Almost instantly she starts to correspond with a man called Raymond Fernandez. Their correspondence grows more intense with the bond between them being so strong that Martha invites him to her home in Mobile, Alabama. After a night of …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 2- The Honeymoon Killers (1970) ****
My first Book of the Week is The Film Handbook by Geoff Andrew and published in 1990. This is a book that lists a MASSIVE range of auteurs and directors, gives a potted history of their film career so far and then names selected highlights from their filmography that every film fan should see whether …
Continue reading Book of the Week- The Film Handbook by Geoff Andrew
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 …
Arnold Masters is in prison for a crime he didn't commit. His mother who had a tumour was due to be operated on but wasn't. The doctor due to undertake the procedure was then found dead in his office by Arnold, who was then framed for his murder. He tells his backstory to a fellow …
Continue reading Day 24- 31 Days of Halloween- Psychic Killer (1974)
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