A very exclusive school is lobotomising (what is it about lobotomies in my choice of films for this year's 31 Days of Halloween?!) it's students so that they become the kind of upstanding captains of industry that makes society great. This is the High School version of The Stepford Wives. Played more for comedy than …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 25- Zombie High (1987)
I knew very little about Bloody New Year before I watched it for this review. I thought it might be another slasher movie themed around yet another public holiday just like New Year's Evil. How wrong I was! Every now and again I watch a film that is so 'out there' that I think to …
Continue reading 31 Days of Halloween 2020- Day 10- Bloody New Year (1987)
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)
This week's chosen poster is the UK quad for The Terminator. An absolute classic and I'm loving the artist's representation of part man/part robot Arnie. When I found the above quad on the internet I saw that there were so many great posters for this film from different countries that deserve to be seen. Below …
I remember the Video Nasties furore like it was yesterday. With my father being an avid Daily Mail reader and staunch Thatcherite I felt like I had a front row seat with the then Tory government seeking to ban the very films I loved when they were released on video in the early 80's. I …
Continue reading Great Video Nasties Moral Panic Documentary
The telephone has always held sinister connotations for me. I grew up in a time before mobile phones when everyone had a landline and telephone systems were positively archaic. This primitive system meant that calls couldn't be traced easily. This was perfect for every nutjob, crank or serial killer to call you. And this happened …
Continue reading Hanging On The Telephone- How The Telephone Has Been Used To Terrify In Film
As this is a new site I thought I'd take some time to introduce myself. My name is Simon and I'm a film aficionado. I studied film for 3 years in London and am undertaking a teacher training course so that I can lecture in the subject. But before you think that my tastes in …
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