November 2011
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THE WOMAN (2011)
Lucky McKee
Decent horror thriller where the father of a family captures & attempts to ‘domesticate’ a wild woman he finds in the woods. The father is seriously dysfunctional & the family is put in great danger
TERRITORIES (2010)
Olivier Abbou
BluRay copy - 5 friends are stopped by customs officers at the Canadian border only to find the routine check turns into a nightmare. Not totally original but has an interesting European/French type feel to it
PANIC BUTTON (2011)
Chris Crow
BluRay copy – British horror thriller in which 4 social-network friends win a trip on a private plane but the in-flight entertainment isn’t quite what they bargained for
11.11.11 (2011)
Darren Lynn Bousman
Dutch import DVD - The director of Saw 2, 3 & 4 and Mother’s Day makes not so much an apocalyptic end of the world movie but more a character study about religion & beliefs
NINE DEAD (2010)
Chris Shadley
Communication is the key to survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected
PARANORMAL ENTITY 3: ANNELIESE THE EXORCIST TAPES (2011)
Jude Gerard Prest
Total pile of utter fucking garbage!!!!
**THE UGLY (1997)
Scott Reynolds
Highly rated horror thriller from New Zealand - A subversive incursion into human mind perversions!
CONTAGION (2010)
John Lechago
Low budget horror on Thai import DVD - Trapped in a room with only one door & no windows. Their cell phones don’t work & no one outside of the building can hear their calls for help. The group of seven people is under siege as the shape shifting creature tries to seep inside
FOOTSTEPS (2006)
Gareth Evans
Low budget British horror drama on Unearthed Films DVD - A young man called Andrew is forced to endure a bitter encounter with a man known as the Cameraman, who enjoys filming beatings, murders and rapes in an abandoned underpass
**WRONG TURN 4 (2011)
Declan O’Brien
BluRay copy – in this nasty prequel to the first film a group of kids get lost in the snow & are terrorized by hillbillies – gorefest guaranteed to leave you with a big smile on your face… at least I think it’s meant to be a joke!!
THE HAGSTONE DEMON (2011)
Jon Springer
BluRay copy - An alcoholic writer & caretaker is haunted by visions of his dead wife & pursued by supernatural forces bent on revenge for his past deeds – low budget & mostly black & white, IMDB viewers hate it but the critics like it!
**I NEVER LEFT THE WHITE ROOM (2003/7)
Michael Todd Schneider
Originally entitled My Crepitus this has been re-edited twice by the director & renamed. It’s very low budget, extreme & surreal – click the links for more info
**THINGS (1989)
Andrew Jordan
Cheesy Shot-on-Video 80s classic gets a Special Edition DVD release with TONS of extra features
SPLATTERFEST vol. 2 (2011)
What happens when 29 horror filmmakers have a weekend to write, shoot and edit a horror short? SPLATTERFEST... a blood soaked, weekend of mayhem. Filmmakers were given a murder weapon, a line of dialogue and a character, and the result is this macabre collection of mass murder!
THE CARRIER (1988)
Nathan J. White
The main character is stricken with a horrible disease, but it doesn't affect him. It spreads to every inanimate object that he touches. Cats are used to detect infected objects. I’m not making this up either!!
THE RISE & FALL OF IDI AMIN (1981)
Sharad Patel
Rare DVD release that looks like it was copied from a VHS tape with the end credits missing! Totally over-the-top account of the barmy dictator with a cameo appearance by the Queen (not really)
**WISHMASTER (1997)
Robert Kurtzman
Evil genie is released from thousands of years of imprisonment and must grant three wishes to the person who released him in order to gain world domination – lots of SFX & features Robert Englund, Tony Todd, Kane Hodder & Ted Raimi!
WISHMASTER 2 (1999)
Jack Sholder
Reasonably entertaining good fun sequel without any of the cult stars of the first one
**THE CRAMPS LIVE AT NAPA STATE MENTAL HOME (1981)
Joe Rees
Short, black & white, shot on video concert footage with audience participation by the mental patients!!
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THE SYLVIAN EXPERIMENTS aka KYOFU (2010)
Hiroshi Takahashi
Dr. Hattori and her husband watch footage of brain surgery experiments with Manchurian, Russian and Japanese guinea pigs that had been found in the basement of a wrecked hospital…
NORWEGIAN WOODS (2009)
Jin-su No
This independent ensemble horror-comedy turns a Korean forest into a chess board as the writer-director moves his eight immoral characters around until they hit each other on a bloody collision course
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**NO REASON (2010)
Olaf Ittenbach
Another gorefest from the German master of splatter – this is the unrated/uncut Region 1 release from the USA – the German release has 20 minutes of cuts!!
JULIA’S EYES (2010)
Guillem Morales
BluRay copy - A Spanish Guillermo del Toro production – Horror thriller about a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister
**MORKE SJELER aka DARK SOULS (2010)
César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul
BluRay copy - A vengeful father embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered. There’s also loads of black goop vomit & more drillings than a driller killer
VIRGINS OF THE SEVEN SEAS (1974)
Ernst Hofbauer & Chih-Hung Kuei
German Hong Kong kung fu action sex comedy mish-mash that’s surprisingly entertaining
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BONG OF THE DEAD (2011)
Thomas Newman
Low budget zombie silliness that looks much better than its shoestring budget should allow – mixes CGI gore with practical FX & while not consistently great is definitely worth a look
UNDOCUMENTED (2010)
Chris Peckover
A documentary crew accompanies a group of illegal immigrants crossing the border, but their plans run afoul when they are captured by a gang of sadistic radicals in New Mexico
**VS. THE DEAD (2009)
Jeff Beckman & Phil Pattison
Low budget ‘grindhouse style’ zombie horror GOREFEST!!
SLAUGHTER (2009)
Juno Jakob
Very low budget, home-made-style, psycho killer horror
NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR (1985)
John Carr, Phillip Marshak & Tom McGowan
So-bad-it’s-good cult horror anthology that has to be seen to be believed!
EAT & RUN (1986)
Christopher Hart
Cheesy 80s comedy horror with giant fat man alien that likes to eat Italian… people!! Daft Airplane type humour that’s a bit hit & miss
**H.G. LEWIS: THE GODFATHER OF GORE (2010)
Frank Henenlotter & Jimmy Maslon
Very entertaining, funny & interesting documentary on the film maker who invented gore
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VHS RIPS
FUTURE HUNTERS (1986)
Cirio H. Santiago
Unavailable on DVD – This cheese-fest has a highly ridiculous plot, cheap production & cardboard acting but is a whole Hell of a lot of fun and consistently entertaining. There’s also these things: magic spear, time traveler, biker gang, Nazis, kung fu tour guide, kung fu master, Asian mobsters, Mongol warriors, cave dwelling midget Mongols, Amazon women, a Pit of Death, earthquakes with Styrofoam boulder tossing, a car chase that is at night one minute then during the day the next, improbable helicopter sabotage, two people one parachute parachuting, Bonehead Nazi henchmen, four midgets pound a Nazi to death, a whole lot of spear chucking, alligators chomping on Amazons, a very decent kung fu fight, and even more!!
THE JAR (1984)
Bruce Toscano
Unavailable on DVD - A motorist who comes upon an auto accident finds a bottle at the scene. The bottle contains a demon that proceeds to possess him. Lost psychological horror with a 80s throbbing bass synthesizer soundtrack
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FIONA ON FIRE (1978)
Shaun Costello
This version is (I believe) is completely uncut – It’s a mixture of a DVD release & a VHS release cut together so picture quality varies somewhat – contains many XXX scenes…