May 2011
**= Monthly Favourites (updated as I get round to viewing them)
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE
****TUCKER & DALE vs EVIL (2010)
Eli Craig
Gory comedy horror that’s genuinely hilarious!!
**MOTHER’S DAY (2010)
Darren Lynn Bousman
Loosely based on the 80’s flick this is a great horror thriller from the director of Saw 2, 3 & 4 – Blu-Ray copy
RE-CUT (2010)
Fritz Manger
Horror mystery done reality TV show style
THE VIOLENT KIND (2010)
Mitchell Altieri & Phil Flores
Horror in which the 1950’s come back to torment some bikers then take over the world!
WAKE WOOD (2011)
David Keating
Quite original horror from Ireland with strange village rituals & resurrections
NINJAS vs VAMPIRES (2010)
Justin Timpane
Low budget comedy horror – Blu-Ray rip with 5.1 audio & 3 commentary tracks
ENTER THE VOID (2009)
Gaspar Noe
Drama exploring life after death – DVD has an option to play the Directors Cut or a shorter cut
MIKEY (1992)
Dennis Dimster
Cheesy killer child flick that’s banned outright in the UK – German import DVD
BLOODY MOVIE (1987)
Nick Marino
Cheesy horror featuring a host of B movie favorites – aka Terror Night
KILLER’S MOON (1982)
Alan Birkinshaw
IMDB says: Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls… WOW!!
VAMPIRE DIARY (2007)
Mark James & Phil O’Shea
Low budget lesbian vampire horror
**NUDE NUNS WITH BIG GUNS (2010)
Joseph Guzman
Entertaining grindhouse style thriller with lots of violence & nudity & big guns
**SHRUNKEN HEADS (1994)
Richard Elfman
Australian import DVD of this cult comedy horror unavailable in the UK & USA
TICKED OFF TRANNIES WITH KNIVES (2010)
Israel Luna
Comedy revenge flick done grindhouse style – Kill Bill meets Pink Flamingos (????)
**WILD BEASTS (1984)
Franco Prosperi
Dubbed Italian splatter with zoo animals on a PCP crazed flesh ripping rampage!!
THE BONEYARD (1991)
James Cummings
Zombie children wreak havoc in a coroners building – starts slow but ends with an amazingly over-the-top bonkers finale
SNAKES ON A TRAIN (2006)
Peter Mervis
Quite bad but fairly entertaining horror with an amazingly over-the-top, bonkers finale - where have I heard that before?
**THE SLAYER (1982)
J.S Cardone
Uncut German import DVD of the video nasty
**SCREAMTIME (1986)
Michael Armstrong & Stanley A. Long
British horror anthology unavailable on DVD
THE RIFT (1990)
Juan Piquer Simon
Entertaining underwater low budget horror with an interesting cast
ASIAN LANGUAGE
IP MAN 2 (2010)
Wilson Yip
Sequel to one of the best martial arts films EVER. This one’s not quite as good but has some decent fight scenes
OTHER LANGUAGES
****A SERBIAN FILM (2010)
Srdjan Spasojevic
Uncut Swedish Blu-Ray copy of the controversial shocker in Serbian with English subtitles
**RARE EXPORTS (2010)
Jalmari Helander
Darkly comic horror thriller from Finland with an evil Santa – Blu-Ray copy with English subtitles
**CHOKING HAZARD (2004)
Marek Dobes
Zombie horror comedy from the Czech Republic with a fair amount of gore
CONVERTED TO DVD
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE DEMONS IN MY HEAD (1998)
Neil Johnson
Low budget horror with lots of ideas & some gore
WENDIGO: BOUND BY BLOOD (2010)
Len Kabasinski
Low budget horror with cannibals & possession
BENEATH THE FLESH (2009)
Randall Kaplan
A nightmarish collection of short black & white films – atmospheric & creepy stuff
**CROPSEY (2009)
Barbara Brancaccio & Joshua Zehman
‘Documentary’ about a real life boogeyman that kinda blurs the line between fiction & reality
ASIAN LANGUAGE
BODY #19 (2007)
Paween Purikitpanya
Visually stylish Thai horror mystery
OTHER LANGUAGES
THE SILENT HOUSE (2010)
Gustavo Hernandez
Effective horror from Uruguay all shot in one long take
ORDINARY MAN (2005)
Vincent Lannoo
Highly rated black comedy from Belgium
CARNE (1991)
Gaspar Noe
A butcher in Paris takes his revenge after his daughter is brutally attacked – 38 minute short film from France
THE WEREWOLF & THE YETI (1977)
Miguel Iglesias
Good fun & trashy horror flick with Paul Naschy & cannibal vampire women
VHS RIPS
**DEMON WARP (1988)
Emmett Alston
Cheesy horror with George Kennedy – is it Bigfoot or is it an alien??
**A COLD NIGHT’S DEATH (1973)
Jerrold Freedman
Highly rated & almost impossible to find TV horror set in a remote polar station
DEATH WEEKEND (1976)
William Fruet
Uncut Canadian rape revenge exploitation shocker
FAN-EDITS
**SLEEPAWAY CAMP 3 (1989)
Michael A. Simpson
Retail DVDs have the gore scenes cut out but included on the DVD as extra features – this has all the gore re-inserted into the film