June 2009
** = Monthly Favourites
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FRIDAY 13TH: EXTENDED KILLER CUT (2009)
Marcus Nispel (TCM remake)
A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions
DARD DIVORCE (2007)
Olaf Ittenbach (Black Past, Premutos etc)
What started with a routine divorce between Natalie Stein and her husband Tim will soon take a turn into the unexpected and evolve into scenes of torture, bloodshed and slaughter. Full uncut 86 minutes
BARRICADE (2007)
Timo Rose (Rigor Mortis, Space Wolf)
A group of friends are terrorized by a cannibalistic family while camping in The Black Forest of Germany. Very low budget but better than your average German splatter-fest with excellent gore FX
**SPECIAL (2006)
Hal Haberman & Jeremy Passmore
Les Franken leads a painfully unremarkable life until he enrolls in a drug study for an experimental anti-depressant. An unexpected side effect of the drug convinces Les he is developing special powers and must quit his job to answer his new calling in life... Superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else
**SAM RAIMI’S SUPER 8 SHORTS (1978-ish)
(Sam Raimi & friends)
Bootleg disc with some of the super 8 short films that Sam Raimi made with the help of some of his buddies (Bruce Campbell & others). Terrible eighties VHS quality but the best available. Within the Woods, Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter, Torro Torro Torro, WNIC TV Commercial, XYZ Murders Trailer, Blind Waiter, Attack of the Helping Hand, Thou Shall Not Kill, The Sappy Sap, Incredibly Strange Film Show, Interview with Raimi, Rare Evil Dead 2 Behind the Scenes Photos
**THE BEAST WITHIN (1982)
Philippe Mora
Early 80's splatter drive-in version of the basic story line of "The Wolf Man", but with cicadas instead of wolves. Features insect rape scenes & cheesy gore.
CUT THROATS NINE (1972)
Joaquin Marchent
Hyped as the goriest most violent western ever made. A wagon load of convicts escorted by a cavalry troop is attacked by bandits leaving the sergeant & an assortment of murderous rapists without horses or a wagon
GRAVEYARD TRAMPS aka INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (1973)
Denis Sanders
A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually
BLOOD FEAST (1963)
Herschell G. Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)
The first EVER splatter flick! Hilariously bad in every way but at least it’s uncut & with deleted scenes as extras. An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to bring to life a dormant Egyptian goddess, while an inept police detective try to track him down
**TWO THOUSAND MANIACS (1964)
Herschell G. Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)
Six people are lured into a small Deep South town for a Centennial celebration where the residents proceed to kill them one by one as revenge for the town's destruction during the Civil War. Slightly better made & more violent than Blood Feast – this is a classic cheese-fest
GRUESOME TWOSOME (1967)
Herschell G. Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)
A demented, elderly woman has her mentally retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop while a persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them
WIZARD OF GORE (1970)
Herschell G. Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)
A TV talk-show hostess and her boyfriend investigate a shady magician whom has the ability to hypnotize and control the thoughts of people in order to stage gory on-stage illusions using his powers of mind bending
KILLING ARIEL (2008)
Fred Calvert & David Negron
A happily married man falls under the spell of a powerful demon that just won't die no matter how many times he kills her. His life becomes a torturous nightmare of adultery, lust, madness and murder
DEADGIRL (20080
Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel
While exploring the basement of the mental hospital two teenagers encounter a door that is rusted shut. They force it open to find a girl chained to a table and she is somehow still alive. Naturally they come to the conclusion that this is a potential sex slave...with the catch being...she can never die
TUNNEL RATS (2008)
Uwe Boll (Postal)
There are war movies, and there are horror movies. This is both. Yet, there is no Predator creature jumping around, no crazy virus and no hallucinations. The war is scary enough itself. There's no patriotic propaganda here, neither is there any political anti-war message, the movie just shows us how scary life as a soldier could be. This is the kind of fear which is felt by real people, every day
LAST OF THE LIVING (2008)
Logan McMillan
Morgan, Ash, and Johnny might just be the only humans left in a world full of the living dead but they don't seem to mind. They find enjoyment lounging around in their underwear, living in vacant homes and killing zombies whilst out shopping for food & CDs. When they stumble upon a hot girl who just may have a cure for the zombie virus, the three decide it's finally time to step up to the plate and save the world… and the girl
THE OUTSIDER: DOUG BRADLEYS SPINE CHILLERS
17 minute Story Reading
Doug Bradley (Pin Head in Hellraiser) decided that books on tape haven’t really advanced since their early cassette days, and wanted to do something about it. So “Doug Bradley’s Spine Chillers” was created, a series of readings of famous literature works performed by Doug Bradley, with visual accompaniment and a full soundtrack to enhance the experience
**THE RAZOR EATERS (2003)
Shannon Young
Based loosely on the exploits of the Hedge-Burners gang who plagued Melbourne and videotaped their crimes, the RAZOR EATERS gang swings its broad sword across suburbia, delivering explosive thrills and bloody eye-candy. Heralding the motto 'Organise, Traumatise, Immortalise', the five young members attract headlines by targeting all those we'd love to see get punished - filthy drug dealers, corrupt politicians, arrogant sports stars...and parking inspectors!
A HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (2009)
Peter Cornwell
Based on a true story; after a family is forced to relocate for their son's health, they begin experiencing supernatural behavior in their new home, which turns out to be a former mortuary. Some effective jumps & scares liven up this mainstream horror
RICHARD KERN SHORT FILMS
Thirteen short films from notorious New York City underground filmmaker Richard Kern. Described by some as "violent" & "offensive" and others as perversion at its most cinematic. Featuring "Death Valley 69" (1986), "The Right Side Of My Brain" (1984), "You Killed Me First" (1985), "The Bitches" (1992), "The Sewing Circle" (1992), "X Is Y" (1990), "Fingered" (1986), "Horoscope" (1991), "Submit To Me Now" (1987), "My Nightmare" (1993), "Manhattan Loves Suicides" (1985), "Submit To Me" (1985) and "Evil Cameraman" (1986). Starring various underground luminaries as Lunch, Rollins and Zedd, along with J.G. Thirlwell, Karen Finley and more, featuring music by Sonic Youth, The Butthole Surfers and Cop Shoot Cop amongst others. Not for the easily offended!
DEMON SUMMER (2003)
Andrew & Lucas Campbell (Midnight Skater, Splatter Rampage Wrestling)
A group of kids meddling in a gruesome, unsolved murder end up resurrecting an evil force. Entertaining low budget horror
**SPLATTER RAMPAGE WRESTLING (2003)
Andrew & Lucas Campbell (Midnight Skater, Demon Summer)
Barbed wire, thumbtacks, cheese graters!?! For the WRC wrestling federation, it's just another day at the office... Not so much Splatter Rampage as Slapstick Stupidity – but very funny none-the-less
TRACES OF DEATH VOL. 1 (1993)
Damon Fox
Completely banned in the UK this successor to the "Faces of Death" series is a collection of archive film and borrowed stock footage portraying death & other nastiness. Whereas some of F.O.D was fake – this is all REAL.
TRACES OF DEATH VOL. 2 (1994)
Damon Fox
It just got deader.
TRACES OF DEATH VOL. 3 (1995)
Dead and Buried
**THE PERILS OF GWENDOLINE IN THE LAND OF THE YIK YAK (1984)
Just Jaekin (Story of O, Emmanuelle)
A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle. That's pretty much all you have to know of the plot, which is mainly an excuse to show off scads of beautiful naked women, gorgeous Filipino scenery, some almost competent action scenes, and Tawny Kitaen. English dub or French with subs
COLOR ME BLOOD RED (1965)
Herschell G. Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)
A crackpot artist kills various people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his paintings. Low budget cheese-fest with unintentional laughs aplenty
THE GORE GORE GIRLS (1972)
Herschell G. Lewis (The Godfather of Gore)
A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub. Even more cheese & gore
ASIAN LANGUAGE
ONECHANBARA aka CHANBARA BEAUTY (2008)
Yohei Fukuda
CGI effects-heavy, all out action bursting at the seems zombie slaughtering bikini cowgirl sword fight kick-ass cheese-fest with a heart. Highly entertaining but with a bit of a crappy ending
**PINOCCHIO 964 (1991)
Shozin Fukui (Rubbers Lover)
Experimental weirdness along the same lines as Tetsuo. Pinocchio 964, a lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. He is befriended by a criminally insane, memory-wiped, homeless girl. Meanwhile, the corporate entity that manufactured and sold him plots to kill him because of his malfunction
CORPSE MANIA (1981)
Chih-Hung Kwei (Killer Snakes, Bewitched, Boxers Omen)
A ‘different’ kind of Hong Kong horror this one – rather like a gory Italian giallo. It has plenty of atmosphere and some necrophilia too. A hidden gem awaiting rediscovery
**A CALAMITY OF SNAKES (VHS - 1983)
Chi Chang
Construction workers find a whole bunch of snakes whilst at work & kill them all. The snakes take revenge. From cobras to green tree pythons to gigantic, tail bashing, whipping, smacking, reticulated pythons! They take revenge seriously. Ruining dance parties, baths, bathroom breaks, naps, and even sewing. Believe it! You wouldn't believe the human activities they end up ruining! The humans strike back, but are they up for the challenge when thousands and thousands of snakes are flying through the air, biting faces, ankles, fingers... wow…
TOKYO GORE POLICE: 63 MINUTES LATER (2008)
Yoshihiro Nishimura
45 minutes worth of extra features with English subtitles. We find out more information on some of the characters from the Tokyo Gore Police movie. There’s also a collection of gory clips from the movie set to music. More gore & madness than a mad, gory thing…
OTHER LANGUAGES
**ATOMIK CIRCUS (2004)
Didier & Thierry Poiraud
An underground French treat. A stuntman is imprisoned for accidental destruction of his fiancée's father's bar. He escapes and searches desperately for his sweetheart. A couple of things get in his way. For a start starfish-like creatures decapitate drunken revelers and face-sucking aliens abound. A well acted & well made tentacled treat!!
**ZOMBIE WESTERN: It Came from the West (2007) (17 minute short)
Tor Fruergaard
Any fan of Meet the Feebles, Team America and anything horror, especially zombie related, should definitely get a kick out of this. It involves a young, under-appreciated son of a big brawling father. When Zombies come from the west, the son is finally given an opportunity to show his non-believers that he's no weak-pisser. This was a really cool little short that had gore, some good humor and lots of fantastic puppetry & chainsaws