October 2011
**= Monthly Favourites (updated as I get round to viewing them)
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DVDr
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
**THE DEAD (2010)
Howard J. & Jonathan Ford
BluRay copy - Two desperate men from two very different cultures fight side by side to survive across the incredible vistas of Africa as the world succumbs to the deadliest of viruses
EXORCISMUS (2010)
Manuel Carballo
BluRay copy - Decent possession horror with a bit of a twist
FERTILE GROUND (2011)
Adam Gierasch
BluRay copy - Atmospheric horror with a couple in an isolated house haunted by visions, noises, possession & murder
**HALLOWEEN (1978)
John Carpenter
Classic horror just in time for Oct. 31st – 5.1 surround sound, commentary & oodles of extras
CHROMESKULL: LAID TO REST 2 (2011)
Robert Hall
Gory horror sequel with some REALLY gruesome blood & guts FX
THE RESIDENT (2011)
Antti Jokinen
Girl in new apartment is terrorized by obsessive landlord
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS (2011)
The Vicious Brothers
BluRay copy – a camera crew get more than they bargained for whilst taping an episode of their paranormal investigation show
**FRAT HOUSE MASSACRE (2008)
Alex Pucci
Late 70’s early 80’s style slasher with a touch of the supernaturals & plenty of stabbings
EVIL THINGS (2009)
Dominic Perez
BluRay copy – 5 college students disappear whilst on a weekend break with no clues to what happened until their video camera footage is found…
HEADHUNTER (2005)
Paul Tarantino
Well-made low budget horror with gore & quirky dark humour – disc has a 2D version & 3D version & a featurette
HIDE & CREEP (2004)
Chuck Hartsell & Chance Shirley
Residents of a small Southern town contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a mysterious flying saucer, and bad television reception
3 DEAD GIRLS (2007)
Christopher Allen Broadstone
3 short tales of horror & plenty of DVD extras & commentaries
THE LIFT (1983)
Dick Maas
Cheesy comedy horror ‘rare classic’ in which an elevator starts displaying psychotic behavior – English dubbed & original Dutch language with subtitles
**CRUMB (1994)
Terry Zwigoff
Fascinating documentary about the eccentric artist Robert Crumb
VIGILANTE (1983)
William Lustig
Robert Forster, Fred Williamson & Joe Spinell in a trashy but gritty ‘Death Wish’ revenge flick
PRIVATE PARTS (1972)
Paul Bartel
Dark, sleazy, perverse & psychotic – just a few words to describe this low budget but inventive horror comedy
THE ZERO BOYS (1986)
Niko Mastorakis
Cheesy 80s action turns into cheesy 80s horror in an entertainingly bad way
HORROR HOSPITAL (1973)
Antony Balch
Over-the-top vintage British horror comedy with surgical mind control experiments & baddies in motor cycle helmets
**TAD: BUSTED CIRCUITS & RINGING EARS (2008)
Adam Pease & Ryan Short
Sex, drugs & rock n roll with a side dish of lawsuits & in-band turmoil, a chronicle of the grunge band's rise & eventual disintegration – includes contributions from Nirvana, Mudhoney & Sound Garden etc.
ASIAN LANGUAGE
GANTZ (2010)
Shinsuke Sato
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth
GOTHIC & LOLITA PSYCHO (2010)
Go Ohara
Fun, comic book style action revenge flick with over-the-top blood spray, gore & dismemberment
JAPANESE WIFE NEXT DOOR 2 (2004)
Yutaka Ikejima
More sex & comedy & the hilarious consequences of choosing the ‘wrong’ woman to marry
OTHER LANGUAGES
PHASE 7 (2011)
Nicolás Goldbart
Argentinian sci-fi thriller set in a quarantined apartment building
ATROCIOUS (2010)
Fernando Barreda Luna
Spanish horror thriller with handheld camcorder footage showing the creepy & murderous goings on when a family return to their old home
DE LIFT (1983)
Dick Maas
Cheesy comedy horror ‘rare classic’ in which an elevator starts displaying psychotic behavior – Dutch language with subtitles & English dub
SPIRAL (2010)
Season 3
3 disc set of the excellent French crime thriller TV series
CONVERTED TO DVD
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
PUPPET MONSTER MASSACRE (2010)
Dustin Mills
A whacky mixture of puppets, CGI gore, Nazis & crude humour
THE HUNT (2006)
Fritz Kiersch
Quite effective horror thriller which combines handheld footage & standard film to create a creepy atmosphere & twist ending
****THIS CHANGED EARTH (2011)
Ross Bradley & David Hinds
Very low budget (pretty much home-made) anthology horror with interweaving stories & characters, lots of creepy images & atmospherics & also an excellent home-made soundtrack
**SINGAPORE SLING (1990)
Nikos Nikolaidis
Psycho sexual horror comedy – this version is in mostly English AND the foreign dialogue/narration has English subtitles!
ON THE 3rd DAY (1983)
Stanley O’Toole
Slow burning psychological horror set over the Easter weekend – VHS quality
BROTHERS (1982)
Terry Bourke
Australian exploitation from the director of Lady Stay Dead – VHS quality
LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY’S BABY (1976)
Sam O’Steen
Little seen made for TV sequel that shows the devil-baby growing up – VHS quality
ASIAN LANGUAGE
WOLRD APARTMENT HORROR (1991)
Katsuhiro Ohtomo
A Yakuza has trouble ridding an apartment of its tenants, especially when one of them turns out to be a ghost
SODOM THE KILLER (2004)
Hiroshi Takahashi
Low budget comedy horror with a cheesy Troma style of wackiness & mad plot twists
OTHER LANGUAGES
****VILLEMOLLE 81 (2009)
Vincent Paronnaud
French low budget comedy horror that starts out as a spoofy tourism film for the village of Villemolle then turns into a zombie/aliens flick! Featuring the best zero-budget car crash ever… brilliant!!
**CANNIBAL (2010)
Benjamin Vire
Slow burning & thoughtful French horror/thriller focusing on deviant relationships & creepy atmospherics with the odd splash of nasty gore thrown in
ANTRAGE: THE ANTMAN (2002)
Christoph Gampl
German comedy horror set in the Mexican desert with loads of weird characters & strange scenarios
VHS RIPS
BUTTHOLE SURFERS LIVE
A concert filmed in Detroit in March of 1985
FAN-EDITS
PHANTASM 2 (1998)
Don Coscarelli
Using the VHS quality workprint found on Disc 2 of the German Collector’s Edition DVD and the superb quality UK Anchor Bay DVD (from the awesome sphere edition) the most complete/ uncensored cut of the movie available has been created