February 2009

** = Monthly Favourites

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

**MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (2008)
Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Aragami, Azumi, Godzilla: Final Wars)
A photographer propelled to explore his dark side begins tracking a subway serial killer whose brutal butchery makes for the most nightmarish images ever captured on camera

QUARANTINE (2008)
John Erick Dowdle
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers

KILLER MOVIE (2008)
Jeff Fisher
A reality TV director copes with a spoiled celebrity and a show gone haywire when a masked killer starts bumping off the crew in this slasher-movie satire

**MY NAME IS BRUCE (2007)
Bruce Campbell (This Guy is a LEGEND!!)
B Movie Legend Bruce Campbell is mistaken for his character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and forced to fight a real monster in a small town in Oregon. Comedy horror.

**CHOKE (2008)
Clark Gregg
Victor Mancini has got some problems -- when he's not at Sex Addicts Anonymous meetings hunting for women to bed, he masquerades as a choking victim in restaurants as a scheme to gather money from unsuspecting strangers, which he uses to keep his ailing mother in a care facility for her extreme dementia. Very funny black comedy

**MUM & DAD (2008)
Steven Sheil
Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children befriend a girl who gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity. Her only options appear to be to become part of the family - and join them in their insanity - or die

ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD (2006)
Bruno Mattei (Zombie 3, Rats: Night of Terror, Hell of the Living Dead, Scalps)
Very low budget, badly acted, badly dubbed – so bad it’s kinda funny – zombie horror

ZOMBIE 3 (1988)
Bruno Mattei & Lucio Fulci (Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond, City of the Living Dead)
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies

**DEADLY SPAWN (Special Edition)(1983)
Douglas McKeown
Classic, low-budget horror. A meteorite crashes to earth during a torrential thunderstorm, bringing with it a slimy, three-headed alien beast that craves human meat and gives birth to hundreds of eel-like spawn

SOMERS TOWN (2008)
Shane Meadows (Dead Man’s Shoes, This is England)
A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy

**NIGHTMARE CONCERT aka CAT IN THE BRAIN (1990)
Lucio Fulci (Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond)
In this Italian splatter film, director Lucio Fulci plays a horror filmmaker who goes to a psychiatrist because the types of films he makes are starting to disturb him. Absolute classic!

**WEREWOLF IN A WOMENS PRISON (2006)
Jeff Leroy (Hell’s Highway)
The title of this movie is great. Not only does it pretty much describe the whole plot in a nutshell, it also clearly alludes to the type of film that this is; and as modern exploitation throwbacks go, Werewolf in a Women's Prison is a damn fine example!

DEATH TRAP aka EATEN ALIVE (1977)
Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel – with Robert Englund

BLOODLUST aka MOSQUITO DER SCHANDER (1976)
Marijan David Vajda
A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill & drink blood through a glass straw

HIT & RUN (2009)
Enda McCallion
Mary has a bump driving home drunk from a party. She is horrified when she gets home and discovers a man's nearly dead body impaled on the bumper of her Jeep. Terrified and irrational, Mary is faced with a series of decisions that determine her fate

BLACKOUT (2007)
Rigoberto Castaneda (KM31/Kilometro 31)
Three people from different walks of life find themselves trapped inside a stalled elevator. What at first seems like an inconvenience rapidly escalates into a nightmare

**THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN (WIDESCREEN!!!!!!) (1977)
William Sachs
Fantastically gross, trashy and energetic Z-grade production that every self-respecting horror freak simply has to see for him/herself! The ideal way to describe this low-budget 70's gem is like a shameless copy of Hammer's "The Quatermass Xperiment" ...only a thousand times filthier!

**ENTER… ZOMBIE KING aka ZOMBIE BEACH PARTY (2003)
Stacey Case
Good fun & very entertaining Zombies vs Pro-wrestlers who eat, drink, sleep & everything else with their masks on!

**NECROVILLE (2007)
Billy Garberina & Richard Griffin (Feeding the Masses, Splatter Disco)
Very funny & entertaining slacker-dudes vs all manor of monsters in this low budget comedy horror

**DEAD MEN WALKING (2005)
Peter Mervis
Gory low-budget zombie horror set in a prison

BOOGEYMAN 3 (2008)
Gary Jones
When a college student witnesses the alleged suicide of her roommate, it sets into motion a series of horrific events that cause her to fear the supernatural entity: the Boogeyman

**MULBERRY STREET (2006)
Jim Mickle
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control

DERANGED (1974)
Jeff Gillen & Alan Ormsby
Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother. He keeps her corpse, among others, as his companions in his decaying farmhouse

NEW YORK RIPPER (1982)
Lucio Fulci (Zombie Flesh Eaters, House by the Cemetery, The Beyond etc)
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city. Misogynistic sleazefest from Fulci

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RED ROOM 2 (2000)
Daisuke Yamanouchi (Mu zan e, Kyoko vYuki)
A rather sick experiment in just how far cinema can go before losing all of its artistic merit and becoming purely an experiment in how thoroughly we can sicken ourselves

**CHASER (2008)
Hong-jin Na
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared. While tracking the girls down he discovers a more sinister reason for their disappearance

VENGEANCE IS MINE (1979)
Shohei Imamura (The Eel)
Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders as we follow him on the run

SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon)
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves

ASSAULT: JACK THE RIPPER (1976)
Yasuharu Hasebe
Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac

BEAUTIFUL GIRL HUNTER (1979)
Norifumi Suzuki
Technically well made but very disturbing movie that dares to show almost anything in the name of entertainment. Lots of sexual violence and murder.

**MEN BEHIND THE SUN (1988)
Tun Fei Mou (Trilogy of Lust, Black Sun)
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons

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