May 2009
** = Monthly Favourites
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D (2009)
Patrick Lussier (Dracula 2000)
Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one will believes he's innocent
MY BLOODY VALENTINE 2D (2009)
2D version of the above
THE EXORCIST: UNSEEN VERSION (1973)
William Friedkin (The Guardian, Bug)
The added scenes improve the continuity for the most part and provide a few new shocks (as if this movie needed more). The soundtrack is radically reworked as well, employing newly scored music that adds to the mood of the movie. There are new sound effects that have more "oomph" for the modern six channel digital sound. Seen the Spider walk scene in the 25th anniversary Documentary? Well, in this new release, it's a different version and 10 times more creepy
**ABSURD: ANTHROPOPHAGOUS 2 (1981)
Joe D’Amato (Zombie 5, Caligula 2 etc)
George Eastman returns as another monster on the rampage in this unrelated sequel to Anthropophagous. The film plays a bit like a Halloween rip-off but with plenty of gore including a head in a band-saw!
THE BURROWERS (2008)
J.T Petty (Soft for Digging)
In the Wild West a rescue party falls prey to creatures that come up from the underground to feed on the inhabitants of a town
**THE REFRIGERATOR (1991)
Nicholas Jacobs
Low budget comedy horror to be filed along side Evil Dead 2, Basket Case, Meet the Feebles, Rabid Grannies etc. A large domestic appliance terrorizes a young New York housewife
**THE MISLED ROMANCE OF CANNIBAL GIRL & INCEST BOY (2007)
Richard Taylor
A low budget, super 8 short film of violence, gore and sexual mayhem!! With memorable imagery, a psychedelic soundtrack, and a cameo by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman. Also has the short films: Unicorn & My Bloody Valentine & lots of extra goodies
**PUMPKINHEAD (WIDESCREEN) (1988)
Stan Winston (SFX Genius)
A man (Lance Henriksen) conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son. Entertaining monster film: rare widescreen version
**ILSA: SHE WOLF OF THE SS (1975)
Don Edmunds
Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments". Her goal is to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines. Very sick, perverse & sadistically violent flick
ILSA: HAREM KEEPER OF THE OIL SHEIKS (1976)
Don Edmunds
Finding a new employer, and looking not a day older since the end of World War II, Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves. An American millionaire's daughter, a movie star, and an attractive equestrian are among his latest victims. More gratuitous nudity, sex & violence!
ILSA: WICKED WARDEN (1977)
Jesus Franco (190 ‘crap’ films – IMDB)
Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as porno-flicks. Yet more over-the-top-sleaze…
**SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS (2006)
Lucifer Valentine (ReGOREgitated Sacrifice)
The gruesome tapestry of psychological manifestations of a nineteen year old bulimic runaway stripper-turned prostitute as she descends into a hellish pit of satanic nightmares and hallucinations. Artistically edited vomit & gore-fest
ATTITUDE FOR DESTRUCTION (2008)
Ford Austin
A murdered rocker returns from the grave to seek vengeance against the band-mates who buried him in this bloody tale of heavy metal horror with a surprisingly decent soundtrack
NIGHT OF FEAR/INN OF THE DAMNED (1972/1975)
Terry Bourke (Lady Stay Dead)
Too gory for TV Aussie horror. There is no dialogue in the film but this is masked by a barrage of tense and macabre scenes of a young heroine terrorised by a madman/A sheriff investigates why the guests at a local hostelry check in, but never check out in this Aussie psycho horror western
**EVIL ED (1995)
Anders Jacobsson
Ed, a film editor, goes completely bonkers while editing some gory films and goes on a murderous rampage in this darkly comic tale of horror
SNUFF (1976)
Mike & Roberta Findlay (Tenement)
Snuff is believed to be one of the bases for the urban legend of snuff films. It is one of the video nasties that were banned in Britain on its release but is seen to be quite tame, & very cheap, nowadays
TOXIC ZOMBIES aka BLOODEATERS & FOREST OF FEAR (1980)
Charles McCrann
The Government sprays reefer crops with a herbicide, intoxicates the hippy marijuana farmers and turns them into zombies. They prowl through the forest and kill off campers! Funny, low budget yarn with John "Martin" Amplas in a minor role
THE DEVILS (1971)
Ken Russell (Altered States, Lair of the White Worm)
Angel Digital DVD bootleg edition with the so-called "Rape of Christ" scene and other censored footage restored, and featuring a documentary by Mark Kermode about the film, as well as interviews with Russell, some of the surviving cast members, and a member of the BBFC who participated in the original censorship of the film
**INFERNO (1980)
Dario Argento (Italian Horror Maestro)
Semi-sequel to 'Suspiria' has an American college student in Rome, and his sister in New York investigating a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches
PLAGUE TOWN (2008)
David Gregory
A nightmarish tale of a family traveling through Ireland, and the horrors that await them upon stumbling into a remote village populated by deformed, homicidal youngsters and the parents who will do whatever it takes to protect them
**MURDER COLLECTION VOLUME 1
Fred Vogel (Toetag Films)
The guys from Toetag Pictures are back. Fred Vogel, the sick mastermind that brought us the August Underground trilogy, is back with a new flick filled with fake snuff, mock executions and "real footage" of death & murder.
The film revives an early 1990’s Internet clip show, Murder, which was notorious for streaming videos of actual killings. After gaining popularity, the infamous show was discovered by authorities and shut down forcing the host, Balan, into obscurity.
Over more than a decade in the shadows, the obsessed host continued to search for scenes of brutality that provoke a maelstrom of emotion. Balan has recently emerged from the darkness and is eager to show you his collection
FANTOM KILER 4 (2008)
Roman Nowicki (Fantom Kiler 1, 2, 3, Fantom Seducer 1 & 2)
After the castrated body of a man is found pinned to a tree, Detective Sylvia Kovak (Hana Liska) realizes that she is dealing with no ordinary killer. As one by one, her friends suffer terrible and perverted deaths; she suspects that the mysterious Fantom is playing games with her. With no help from her colleagues, Sylvia decides to solve the case by herself, using her intelligence, her intuition and even her own body if need be. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize that she is walking right into his trap
GIRL IN THE LIFT (2007)
Richard Stalin
A businesswoman (Hana Liska) strips naked to carry up supplies in a grungy old cage elevator, only to be imprisoned there by the security guard, who proceeds to "instruct" her over the course of several days. The first of the "Terror Perverse!" series from Poland's Teraz Films ("Fantom Kiler," "Mark Of The Whip," "Fantom Seducer,"), combining XXX with hilariously-unintelligible accents, Jacques Cousteau-style line delivery, a blistering-hot, oiled-up female body, and brutal S&M action in a creepy setting, dished out by a creepier goon.
**FLESH EATING MOTHERS (1988)
James Aviles Martin
This bizarre horror satire involves a rabies-like virus which is spread by a philandering fellow to several harried housewives in the same suburban community, turning them into savage cannibals. That's it for the setup - what remains is a series of outrageously gory scenes in which the maniacal mommies begin hacking up, cooking, and eating everyone in sight, including local police, stray cats, their loutish husbands, and even their own children!!
PSYCHOS IN LOVE (1987)
Gorman Betchard
A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family that slays together, until one day they come up against a plumber who also happens to be a cannibal. Very funny horror comedy
ASIAN LANGUAGE
NEGATIVE HAPPY CHAINSAW EDGE (2007)
Takuji Kitamura
Yosuke, a typical slacker kid dozing his way through school, falls for a girl who carries a brace of hidden knives. She uses these weapons to battle a giant, chainsaw wielding wraith that fell from the sky and now Yosuke is sworn to help her
**BIO-COPS (2000)
Wai-Man Cheng (Erotic Nightmare)
Hilarious Zombie comedy! An experiment to produce ‘super soldiers’ goes badly wrong resulting in zombies on the rampage. Featuring some of the best ‘lets pretend to be a zombie so we don’t get eaten’ acting in film history!!
HARAKIRI VOLUMES 1 & 2 (1990)
Female Harakiri: Glorious Death:
A woman sits in the corner of a dark room and looks at the folded uniform of a WWII era Japanese soldier. We fade out then see her kneeling in a kimono on a mat. She disrobes and fondles herself, preparing her body for what's to come. She takes out a knife and lays it on the floor until she's ready, at which point she wraps it and holds it to her breast. She pushes the blade into her stomach and slits herself open. She lies on the mat and slowly bleeds to death.
School Girl: Harakiri:
A school girl kneels on her mat looking over an old photo album containing pictures of people committing seppuku. Becoming aroused by what she sees, she touches herself and licks her fingertips. She pulls out a knife of her own, takes off her uniform, and in a very fetishistic manner proceeds to slit open her stomach and then pull out her guts. She gets down on all fours, pulls out some more of her intestines, and then dies in a pile of gore.
HARAKIRI VOMUMES 3 & 4 (1990)
Female Harakiri: Celebration:
A woman in a nurse's outfit sits in a dark room. She kneels on a mat and looks over a knife, touching it with her fingers and examining it. She runs the knife over her stocking clad legs and contemplates suicide. She plunges the blade into her abdominal region and pulls it across. She pulls the blade out, falls over and crawls across the floor to lean against a support beam to finish the job.
White Clothing: Harakiri:
A black and white preface shows a woman in a traditional kimono climbing the stairs as WWII era Mitsubishi Zeros fly through the sky and footage of the Japanese military of the era is superimposed over the footage. She stops at the top of the stairs to say her prayers, rings a bell, and heads inside where the footage is shot in color. She unravels her kimono and rubs her face with the cloth before wrapping her blade and lovingly touching it. She pulls it across her stomach and slits herself open, falling to the mat. She crawls across the mat, dying, slipping in her own slick blood until she can't move anymore.
**HARAKIRI VOLUMES 5 & 6 (1990)
Paradise Lost: Riding Habit Harakiri:
A girl in what looks like a military riding outfit remembers the past as she undresses. She wraps her blade, puts it into her stomach and pulls it across, intent on killing herself. She slowly slices an opening in her lower torso and her entrails flop out in front of her onto her lap. She gets down on all fours and then lies on her side and soon there's more out of her stomach than left inside of it. She stops moving and when she's found dead, the man who finds her shoots himself in the head. This short features background music by Merzbow.
Beautiful Swordswoman: Double Seppuku:
Two female samurai wander down a hill, injured from a battle we were not witness to. Rather than let their enemies take them, they decide to commit seppuku. The first woman disrobes, wraps her blade and then disembowels herself as her companion watches. As she lies there breathing her last, the second woman follows suit.
OTHER LANGUAGES
PANIC BEATS (1983)
Paul Naschy (loads of Spanish horror)
The spirit of a deceased knight returns every 100 years to clean a house by graphically murdering the women who are making the life of his descendants unbearable. This entertaining effort has everything you would expect from a Spanish horror movie: Paul Naschy, low budget, curse from the past & gratuitous gore to satisfy splatter freaks