Esteemed parapsychologist Sir Hugo Cunningham is investigating the strange smudge that is on the photographs of people who are photographed at their moment of death. He concludes that this is, in fact, an 'asphyx', a force which comes for somebody when it's time for them to leave this mortal coil. He then finds through his …
Continue reading Day 12- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- The Asphyx (1972)
New York writer Jennifer Hills relocates temporarily to a lakeside idyll in Connecticut to write her first novel. A local gang of four men attack, humiliate and rape her. They then order one of the gang to go back and kill her. He lies to them and says he has but they then learn that …
Continue reading Day 11- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- I Spit On Your Grave (1978)
A famous plastic surgeon causes a car accident in which his daughter’s face is disfigured. The surgeon coincidentally has a new theory he's dying to test out which involves transplanting whole faces. This could save his daughter’s maimed features but this procedure involves donors- willing or not. I first saw this film when I was …
Continue reading Day 9- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Les Yeux Sans Visage/Eyes Without a Face (1960)
This Hindi film concerns a young woman who finds she is possessed on the eve of her wedding. Can her family save her? As this is a Bollywood film there are song and dance routines (one that brilliantly lapses into hip-hop), comedic turns and plenty of jollity along the way. But this is a horror …
Continue reading Day 8- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Mantram (2017)
Vincent Price stars in this British horror film as Lord Edward Whitman, a witchfinder. A local witch places a curse on Whitman for his brutal witch-finding ways. This involves taking possession of Roderick, a loyal servant of Whitman. Roderick starts to bump off all of the Whitman clan one by one. The first notable aspect …
Continue reading Day 6- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Cry of the Banshee (1970)
William Lustig's depraved classic Maniac was massively controversial when it was first released in 1980. It garnered the ultimate accolades for an exploitation film- it was HATED by Siskel and Ebert (Gene Siskel said he made it to the shotgun murder then had to leave the preview screening as he couldn't stomach anymore!) and was …
Continue reading Day 1- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Maniac (1980)
Here are the films I will be reviewing throughout October for the annual 31 Days of Halloween- Maniac (1980) The Stepfather (2010) Color Me Blood Red (1965) Last House on the Left (1972) Psycho (1960) Cry of the Banshee (1970) Peeping Tom (1959) Mantram (2017) Ek Thi Daayan (2013) Mondo Keyhole (1966) I Spit on …
A teenage drag race goes dreadfully wrong with one car being forced off a bridge and into a river. From the car a woman, Mary manages to escape and clamber ashore. However, Mary's life after that isn't the same. She seems to see ghostly figures when she seemingly disassociates herself with everyday life that is …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 29- Carnival of Souls (1962)
This Tigon film takes place in Swinging London as we see a bunch of twentysomethings at a party who then decide to liven things up by going to an old out of town mansion that is reported to be haunted. The backstory as to why is that the family who used to lived there twenty …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 7- The Haunted House of Horror (1969)
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) ****
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