Two teenage girls venture into the big bad city to go to a concert. They try to score some pot but quickly discover that the gang they are trying to score from are, in fact, a gang of psychopaths. As expected, things go from bad to worse for the girls as they are humiliated, tortured …
Continue reading Day 4- 31 Days of Halloween 2023- Last House on the Left (1972)
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)
I was superexcited but equally perplexed when I heard a few years ago that there was to be a new boxset of the soundtracks of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. The soundtracks were remastered and with bonus tracks and demos. Alas, the CD's weren't being sold individually- it was the boxset or nothing. But …
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In the 80s I was obsessed with A Nightmare on Elm Street. Because of the popularity of this film an earlier Wes Craven film was re-released on video in the UK. That film was 1977's The Hills Have Eyes. I first saw the video for this release on a video store's shelves whilst on holiday …
Continue reading Day 12- 31 Days of Halloween- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Its amazing the similarities between different sources I see in my research for this page. Here is a comparison I've made between Wes Craven's gritty masterpiece Last House on the Left (1972) and a women's self defence video called Rapist Beware! (1990). Another accolade that can be attached to the legacy of Wes Craven- his …
Yes we know the slasher film conventions. Instead of the most irritating characters to be committed to celluloid explain them to us how about integrate them into the script and make an intelligent horror classic. Instead of the mediocre franchise starter that this is. Oh and if the film wasn't bad enough Nick 'Goth for …
I remember loving this as a kid and renting it out from my local video store on numerous occasions. Michael Beck (yes, Swan from The Warriors and accomplice to Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu) is cryogenically frozen. His freezer pod at the plant that holds his body malfunctions and he starts to thaw. His mother is …
Continue reading Wes Craven’s Chiller – Day 22 – 31 Days of Halloween
This is the movie that made me into a major fan of horror and cult cinema in general. I saw this on its release onto video when I was 11 years old. Since then I watched it numerous times and know it off by heart. With a film so ingrained into my psyche it would …
Continue reading A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) – Day 7- 31 Days of Halloween
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