January 2011
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
****PIRANHA (2010)
Alexandra Aja
Very entertaining & gory comedy horror – Dutch import disc with great picture quality in 2D
THE LAST EXORCISM (2010)
Daniel Stamm
A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew
****SWEATSHOP (2009)
Stacy Davidson
Low budget horror with head smashing hammer beast – Scandinavian import disc
****LONG PIGS (2007)
Nathan Hynes & Chris Power
Excellent fake documentary about the film makers & the cannibal killer they are filming
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE DIZZLE (2009)
David Russo
Genre defying indie film mixing horror, comedy thriller etc
MANHATTAN BABY (1982)
Lucio Fulci
Egyptian tombs, evil spirits, possession & murders - full Blue Underground DVD
**THOU SHALT NOT KILL… EXCEPT (1985)
Josh Becker
After Evil Dead came this cheesy good fun comedy action flick with Sam & Ted Raimi etc
MACABRE (1980)
Lamberto Bava
Weird giallo type horror thriller
SILENT SCREAM (1980)
Denny Harris
One of the first eighties slasher horror films
****MACHETE (2010)
Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis
Excellent comedy thriller with mucho stylized violence & machete hackings
TREASURE OF THE AMAZON (1985)
Rene Cardona Jr
Cheesy but entertaining action adventure in the jungle
**WINTERBEAST (1991)
Christopher Thies
For lovers of bad movies… this is the BADDEST of them all!!!
HOUSE OF WHIPCORD (1974)
Pete Walker
Sleazy horror thriller – fully uncut German import DVD
ASIAN LANGUAGE
**MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD (2010)
Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura & Tak Sakaguchi
More mayhem from the Tokyo Gore Police & Machine girl creators
HAUNTED CHANGI (2010)
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Creepy movie that pieces together footage shot by a film crew in the haunted hospital
**SLICE (2010)
Kongkiat Khomsiri
Gory Thai slasher with good reviews
HAUNTED COP SHOP (1987)
Jeffrey Lau
Classic action horror combining slap-stick & scares
GROPER TRAIN: WEDDING CAPRICCIO (1984)
Yojiro Takita
Sexy, humorous & totally non PC entertainment
ESPRIT D’AMOUR aka YAM YEUNG CHOH (1983)
Ringo Lam
Guy falls in love with ghost… guy’s parents & girlfriend hire exorcist to get rid of her!!
OTHER LANGUAGES
FROSTBITE (2006)
Anders Banke
Highly rated Swedish vampire horror black comedy
CONVERTED TO DVD
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PIG (2010)
Adam Mason
This looks like the whole thing was shot in one take – torture, humiliation & murder then a totally unexpected ending.
BURIED (2010)
Rodrigo Cortes
Race against time thriller with a guy buried in a coffin in the desert – DTS sound only
**NUDE NUNS WITH BIG GUNS (2010)
Joseph Guzman
Tongue in cheek revenge exploitation – the title says it all really!
BLOOD SUCKERS FROM OUTER SPACE (1984)
Glen Coburn
Blood sucking farmers from Texas – cheesy good fun horror
LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN (2009)
Buddy Giovinazzo
Drama by Combat Shock director about how cocaine has affected characters & street life
SPECIAL TRAIN FOR HITLER (1977)
Alain Payet
Unintentionally funny exploitation
PETS (1974)
Raphael Nussbaum
Super seventies sleaze exploitation
GYMKATA (1985)
Robert Clouse
Hilariously bad martial arts bollocks!!
SELF DEFENCE (1983)
Paul Donovan & Maura O’Connell
Canadian exploitation action
AEGRI SOMNIA (2008)
James Rewucki
Nightmarish & surreal horror – low budget but quite impressive
SUZIE HEARTLESS (2009)
Tony Marsiglia
Gritty & unflinching portrayal of a few days in the life of a teenage hooker
NINJAS vs ZOMBIES (2008)
Justin Timpane
Very low budget cheesy fun – more comedy then horror but actually quite funny
ASIAN LANGUAGE
**I SAW THE DEVIL (2010)
Ji-woon Kim
Incredibly violent thriller about an agent tracking a serial killer who murdered his fiancée
HAUNTED COP SHOP 2 (1988)
Jeffrey Lau
More bonkers comedy horror with vampires, ghosts & cannibal zombies – taken from the laser disc release
OTHER LANGUAGES
**TO KAKO 2 aka EVIL: IN THE TIME OF HEROES (2009)
Yorgos Noussias
Top notch Greek zombie comedy horror gorefest
SEXANDROIDE (1987)
Michel Ricaud
Gory & surreal – no dialogue – 3 stories in around an hour – kinda VHS quality & very rare
VHS RIPS
TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT (1980)
David Hess
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume. Picture quality is like an old VHS tape
GUZOO (1986)
Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu
Very rare 40 minute short monster movie with English subtitles - A tentacled monster emerges from a mirror to attack 4 schoolgirls on vacation. J-Horror direct-to-video by Kazuo Gaira Komizu (Entrails of a Beautiful Girl/Entrails of a Virgin/Living Dead in Tokyo Bay)
**TERROR IN THE AISLES (1984)
Andrew J. Kuehn
Excellent horror compilation hosted by Donald Pleasance – never released on DVD & probably never will be due to copyright nightmares
FAN-EDITS
BIOHAZARD: RESIDENT EVIL 2 & 3
SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (1974)
Michael Findlay
Extended version of the Yeti exploitation crap-fest with the original ‘Popcorn’ soundtrack & many extended scenes – totally unavailable as any kind of official release anywhere!
MARK OF THE DEVIL 2 (1973)
Adrian Hoven
Cheesy sleaze-fest in all it’s uncut glory – the longest English language version in existence & unavailable on DVD
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES aka AI NO KORIDA (1976)
Nagisa Oshima
109 minutes long – longer than the Criterion DVD & the BluRay release – all deleted scenes have been re-inserted by the fan-editor – commercially unavailable