April 2009
** = Monthly Favourites
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
**NECRONOMICON (1993)
Gans/Kaneko/Yuzna
3 HP Lovecraft tales & a wrap around story with Jeffrey Coombs. Nice & gory
SPLINTER (2008)
Toby Wilkins (Grudge 3)
Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror
FROM WITHIN (2008)
Phedon Papmichael
When the citizens of a small evangelical town systematically begin committing suicide, a young girl struggling to reconcile her Christian upbringing with her desire to experience the outside world finds her faith put to the ultimate test
DYING BREED (2008)
Jody Dwyer
The noble search for a dying breed of Tasmanian tiger leads an ambitious zoologist to the discovery of a far more sinister species in this brutal Australian shocker
**RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (1993)
Brian Yuzna (Necronomicon, Bride of Re-animator, Beyond Re-animator)
An experimental gas brings the dead back as flesh eating zombies. UNCUT and very, very gory!!
**MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981)
George Mihalka
Classic horror presented uncut for the first time. Plenty of gory deaths
REN & STIMPY: THE LOST EPISODES (1991)
‘Adult’ version of the whacky cartoon show with lots of gross-out scenes & fart jokes
HOUSE OF CLOCKS (1989)
Lucio Fulci (Zombie Flesh Eaters, Beyond)
A gang of vicious young punks break into the house of an elderly couple, terrorize, and then murder them. Suddenly, the clocks in the house begin to run backwards, and the dead come back for revenge!
HOUSE OF LOST SOULS (1989)
Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Eaten Alive, Nightmare City, Deep River Savages)
It's the old dark house plot again with added gore. Foolish young people take shelter in an old house or in this case, hotel and all hell then breaks loose
HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT (1989)
Umberto Lenzi Rome Armed to the Teeth, The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist)
A young man has a recurring nightmare, in which he is running away from someone before reaching an old house, where an ugly old woman boils his head in a big kettle. He then encounters the dream house in reality
SWEET HOUSE OF HORRORS (1989)
Lucio Fulci (House by the Cemetery, Nightmare Concert etc)
A couple moves into a nice country mansion to care for their niece and nephew whose parents were brutally murdered. Strange things begin happening so the couple decide to take the children away and sell the house. But it soon becomes apparent that the house is full of spirits that are out for revenge
**TERROR ON TAPE (VHS) (1983)
Robert Worms
A compilation of all the goriest bits from cheap, obscure & trash movies. Pretty intense yuk-fest
THE SINFUL DWARF (1973)
Vidal Raski
Insanely perverse softcore roughie, one of the most entertaining of its kind, is a timeless favorite of sickos and sleaze hounds everywhere
VAN BEBBER COLLECTION (1994)
Jim van Bebber (Deadbeat at Dawn, Manson Family)
Road Kill: Stomach churning short film about a serial killer. Brutal, chilling & gory
My Sweet Satan: A group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder
**THE CHILDREN (2008)
Tom Shankland (WAZ)
One of the most effective aspects of this movie is the way the tension builds inexorably. From the moment you see the children there is an impending sense of doom. The children themselves are both brilliantly cast and wonderfully realistic; their behaviour is easily recognisable as the normal behaviour of manipulative and moody kids, until it spills over to the purely demonic
PINOCCHIO’S REVENGE (1996)
Kevin Tenney (Witchboard, Night of the Demons, The Cellar)
A little girl's delight at having her own Pinocchio puppet proves short-lived when it becomes apparent that a demon dwells within it. Pretty soon the murderous marionette goes on a horrible killing spree. Seriously!!
**MIDNIGHT SKATER (2002)
Lucas Campbell
Midnight Skater is an extremely enjoyable and impressive low-budget tongue-in-cheek horror flick. It's heavy on the gore, heavy on the humor and heavy on the "we're-not-gonna-take-ourselves-serious" attitude
BAD BIOLOGY (2008)
Frank Henenlotter (Basket Case, Brain Damage, Frankenhooker)
Driven by biological excess, a young man and woman search for sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. Unfortunately, they eventually meet, and the bonding of these two very unusual human beings ends in an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience, resulting in a truly god awful love story
CALIGULA 2: THE UNTOLD STORY
Joe D’Amato (Emanuelle & the Last Cannibals, Anthropophagus etc)
The mad Roman emperor Caligula romances a young Moor woman plotting to kill him while he continues his debauched lifestyle of sex and murder. Hilariously over-the-top sleazefest. Uncut 125 min
**LAID TO REST (2009
Robert Hall
A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hell-bent on finishing what he started
THE UNINVITED (2009)
Charles & Thomas Guard
Anna Rydell returns home to her sister (and best friend) Alex after a stint in a mental hospital, though her recovery is jeopardized thanks to her cruel stepmother, aloof father, and the presence of a ghost in their home. Remake of A Tale of Two Sisters
**ANGEL OF VENGEANCE aka MS.45 (1981)
Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant)
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She takes to the streets of New York after dark and randomly kills men with a .45 caliber gun
**THE SUCKLING aka SEWAGE BABY (1990)
Francis Terri
A guy & his girlfriend go to a whorehouse that doubles as an illegal abortion "clinic". The girl has reservations so her boyfriend and the coat-hanger technician drug her. After the fetus is yanked, it's flushed down the toilet where it encounters some radioactive material & begins to mutate. The fetus grows into some giant goofy looking monster, puts some sort of membrane around the house so those inside can't get out...and takes its revenge on the occupants!!!
ASIAN LANGUAGE
SOMEONE BEHIND YOU aka VOICES (2007)
Ki-hwan Oh
A wave of murder has washed over the city, but why are seemingly normal people suddenly turning into maniacal killers? People are hearing voices commanding them to commit murder, but with no discernable pattern to the killings, it's impossible to tell who will be next
WET & ROPE (1979)
Koyu Ohara
Nude nuns sleazefest
LOVE TO KILL (1993)
Siu-Hung Chung & Kirk Wong
Starring Anthony Wong as a sadistic husband that tortures and abuses his wife leading to a typical hyper strong HK terror cinema climax that is filled like the whole film with extreme violence and brutality. This film is easily among the most outrageously sick Cat III films ever made
OTHER LANGUAGES
TIMECRIMES (2007)
Nacho Vigalondo
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time by nearly an hour. This causes problems which he tries to fix but creates an even worse mess! Highly rated intelligent & humorous Spanish sci-fi thriller
**DEAD SNOW (2009)
Tommy Wirkola
A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies. Norwegian gorefest with many a nod to the horror classics
**LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008)
Tomas Alfredson
A lonely boy, Oskar, befriends the girl next door, Eli, and with her help overcomes the school bullies. There is a serial killer, who seems to pick on adolescent boys and has a strange jealousy towards Oskar. There is a vampire who can only survive on blood. And there are some sexual undertones. But all of it just helps a great story get told. Swedish
FILTH aka SAUNA (2008)
Antti-Jussi Annila
A group of Swedish & Russian soldiers find a small isolated village in the very center of a large swamp, an eerie place where no children have been born in years and the old do not die. It seems almost as if God has forgotten them. With the discovery of the village and its solitary sauna, the horror aspects of the film come to the fore and present some genuinely scary images
BAISE MOI (2000)
Virginie Despentes & Coralie
Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences
**MARTYRS (2008)
Pascal Laugier
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. This is a monster of a movie; ground breaking, brave, stunning, brutal, moving & guaranteed to divide audiences everywhere