April 2011
**= Monthly Favourites (updated as I get round to viewing them)
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BLOODED (2011)
Edward Boase
Mockumentary about the hunters becoming the hunted in the Scottish highlands
COCKFIGHTER (1974)
Monte Hellman
Grindhouse classic banned in the UK due to actual cockfighting (man chickens that is!)
**THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1982)
Stephen Carpenter & Jeffrey Obrow
Classic slasher aka Pranks – Synapse DVD totally uncut for the first time!
DARK FIELDS aka THE RAIN (2009)
Douglas Schulze
Horror with an ancient Indian curse – good IMDB reviews
SLITHIS (1978)
Stephen Traxler
Mutant sea monster terrorizes winos, hippies & pet animals… Code Red DVD
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986)
Stephen King
Machines, including cars & trucks & blenders, come to life & turn bad & kill people
THE DISTURBANCE (1990)
Cliff Guest
Some decent gore effects liven up this tale of a man’s descent into madness & murder
**HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (2011)
Jason Eisener
Totally over-the-top with gore & action – tongue in cheek thriller with Rutger Hauer – Blu-Ray copy with excellent picture but no menus
**SHE’S CRUSHED (2009)
Patrick Johnson
Low budget ‘Fatal Attraction’ style horror with some real toe curling torture scenes
DARK & STORMY NIGHT (2009)
Larry Blamire
Another hysterically funny flick from the makers of the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra movies
CURIOUS STORIES, CROOKED SYMBOLS (2009)
Rodrigo Gudino
Three story horror anthology – good quality tales with loads of extra features
ALIEN FROM THE DEEP (1989)
Antonio Margheriti
Cheesy monster flick from Italy dubbed into English
HUSK (2011)
Brett Simmons
Decent horror with creepy scarecrows
AND SOON THE DARKNESS (2010)
Marcos Efron
Tense horror thriller - a remake of an old classic
BLEADING LADY (2010)
Ryan Nicholson
Low budget, violent horror from the director of Torched, Hanger & Gutterballs
BONDED BY BLOOD (2010)
Sacha Bennett
UK gangster crime thriller based on true story
THE OPEN DOOR (2008)
Doc Duhame
Spooky horror – be careful what you wish for, it may happen in an unthinkable way… Gulp!!
ALIEN 2 – ON EARTH (1980)
Ciro Ippolito
Cheesy but violent Alien rip-off – Blu-ray copy with excellent picture quality
AMERICAN FETISH (2010)
Michael Simmons
Fetishes… Ooo-errr… movie not documentary
**SHADOW – DEAD RIOT (2006)
Derek Wan
Horror action with Tony Todd – totally over-the-top in every way imaginable!!
THERE’S NOTHING OUT THERE (1992)
Rolfe Kanefsky
Low budget but highly rated horror spoof – 2 disc special edition
MUTANT (1984)
John Cardos
A good cast & decent production values makes this toxic waste zombie movie worth a watch
ASIAN LANGUAGE
**DREAM HOME (2010)
Ho Cheung Pang
Very gory satirical slasher – excellent stuff!!
BEDEVILLED (2010)
Chul-soo Yang
Highly rated tense horror drama from Thailand
CONFESSIONS (2010)
Tetsuya Nakashima
Psychological thriller about cold blooded revenge
ELECTION 2 (2006)
Jonnie To
Triad crime thriller with Simon Yam
OTHER LANGUAGES
**NORWEGIAN NINJA (2010)
Thomas Cappelen Malling
Very original & very funny spoofy type eighties thing… needs to be seen really… Import DVD
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (2010)
Jorge Michel Grau
Horror with cannibals living in the slums of inner city Mexico
NIGHTWATCH (1994)
Ole Bornedal
Excellent horror mystery thriller from Denmark
CONVERTED TO DVD
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
VIOLENT SHIT 4 aka KARL THE BUTCHER vs AXE (2010)
Timo Rose & Andreas Schnaas
Low budget English language German made splatter – you know what to expect!!
WOUND (2010)
David Blyth
Engagingly deranged surreal splatter-punk nightmare from New Zealand
MOM (1991)
Patrick Rand
Cheesy good fun flick with monster werewolf old lady…
ALIEN ABDUCTION (1998)
Dean Alioto
Video camera footage of a family ‘visited’ by aliens – is it real or is it fake…? Err... its fake…
REVENGE OF THE RADIOACTIVE REPORTER (1990)
Craig Pryce
A young newspaper reporter becomes a horrible crusty-faced zombie following a radioactive contamination
**DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK (2009)
Jen & Sylvia Soska
Excellent low budget action horror with heaps of comedy, gore & attitude
RED, WHITE & BLUE (2010)
Simon Rumley
Downbeat but powerful drama that turns into a shocking tale of revenge with violence
ZOMBIECHRIST (2010)
Bill Zebub
Christ is resurrected as a skeletal zombie – naked girls run round – some druids do some stuff – VERY low budget trash
NIGHTWISH (1989)
Bruce R. Cook
Lots of supernatural weirdy hallucinations & stuff in this obscure cheesy eighties horror
ASIAN LANGUAGE
SPOOKY SPOOKY (1986)
Sammo Hung & Wei Don Lo
Weird ghost story with good reviews – VCD copy with English & Chinese subtitles
THE MAD STYLIST (1997)
Stephan Yip
Very rare CAT III film made into a custom DVD from 2 VCD discs joined together – English & Chinese subtitles
OTHER LANGUAGES
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VHS RIPS
RED SPELL SPELLS RED (1983)
Titus Ho
Very rare horror with sorcery curses gore scorpions amputations & more – old VHS quality
FAN-EDITS
ALIEN-ATE
Alien 4: Resurrection re-edited to make better sense & alter the storyline to quicken the pace
**NORTHWEST PASSAGE
Twin Peaks TV series 1 & 2 edited down from 16 hours to 5 hours concentrating only on the Laura Palmer storyline