January 2012
**= Monthly Favourites (updated as I get round to viewing them)
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DVDr
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**HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 (2011)
Tom Six
Totally uncut sick twisted bizarre filthy horrible ‘must see’ movie sequel with extra features including a deleted scene & interview with Tom Six
**FINAL DESTINATION 5 (2011)
Steven Quale
Good fun gory horror that also pays homage to the first film & has a neat ending too
**APOLLO 18 (2011)
Gonzalo López-Gallego
Creepy & atmospheric ‘found footage’ horror set in space
DARKENING SKY (2010)
Victor Bornia
Rider Strong plays Eric who is either caught in the middle of an alien abduction conspiracy or a complete mental breakdown
THE UH-OH SHOW (2009)
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Comedy gorefest set around a TV show where a wrong answer results in dismemberment & mutilation
DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (2010)
Troy Nixey
Scary & occasionally violent horror from Guillermo del Toro with evil creatures hiding in the ventilation system of an old house
STRAW DOGS (2011)
Rod Lurie
Remake - L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the Deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both
MORTUARY aka EMBALMED (1983)
Howard Avedis
80s slasher flick with a crazed embalmer played memorably by Bill Paxton
**NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980)
James C Wasson
Code Red DVD release of this classic 80s Bigfoot gorefest hosted by the sexy Maria Kanellis – quality is slightly better than most VHS copies & bootlegs
ADRENALINE (2007)
Scott Hansen
27 minute short film not ‘officially’ available on DVD – great low budget action/contamination flick
VISIONS OF HORROR (2007)
Low budget horror anthology hosted by Tiffany Shepis
POT ZOMBIES (2005)
Justin Powers
Full Troma DVD of this crapfest - Radioactive weed turns people into zombies with the munchies for human flesh
THE LAUGHING DEAD (1989)
Somtow Sucharitkul
Low budget zombie horror with many of the roles being played by writers of horror, sci-fi & fantasy rather than professional actors!
THE CARPENTER (1988)
David Wellington
A carpenter (Wings Hauser), who was executed in the electric chair, comes back to finish his dream house, now inhabited by a young married couple – Full DVD hosted by Katarina
ASIAN LANGUAGE
**HELLDRIVER (2010)
Yoshihiro Nishimura
More over-the-top gore & bonkers action from the director of Tokyo Gore Police & Mutant Girls Squad etc…
FEMALE MARKET (1986)
Yasuaki Uegaki
Mean spirited sexually violent pink flick
UNDER THE CARP BANNER (1992)
Kazuhiro Sano
Japanese Pinku film
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**BLACK PAST (1989)
Olaf Ittenbach
Classic German gorefest gets a proper Region 1 DVD release with proper English subtitles throughout the movie & extra features!
ZHIVOY aka ALIVE (2006)
Aleksandr Veledinsky
Highly rated Russian fantasy drama in which a veteran of the Chechen War is helped by the ghosts of his two fallen comrades to leave the war behind
NAILS aka GVOZDI (2003)
Andrey Iskanov
Surreal & gory low budget Russian horror in which a hit man takes to hammering nails into his head to ‘relieve tension’ and gets a little carried away!
CONVERTED TO DVD
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PSYCHOPHOBIA (1985)
Stefano D’Arbo
Italian horror dubbed into English - A woman recovering from the death of her husband suspects that her house has been invaded by demonic spirits. She summons a paranormal expert to help her get rid of them
THE ABOMINATION (1986)
Brett McCormick
Bottom of the barrel but very rare horror copied from VHS – the ‘monster’ looks like the alien things in ‘The Deadly Spawn’ & lives in the kitchen cupboards!
**UNMASKED PART 25 aka HAND OF DEATH (1989)
Anders Palm
VHS quality low budget horror – imagine Jason getting bored of his Friday 13th killing & deciding to settle down with the girl of his dreams… (?)
TALES OF THE 3RD DIMENSION (1984)
Rare, VHS quality Anthology horror hosted by a rotting corpse in a grave with 3 talking vultures
ASIAN LANGUAGE
1942 (2005)
Kelvin Tong
Japanese soldiers are lost in the jungle – their maps are wrong & the radio strangely will not work & one of the men swears he saw a ghost in the jungle
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VHS RIPS
HEADLESS EYES (1971)
Kent Bateman
Poor artist gets eye gouged out while committing a robbery. When his eye heals, he goes on a killing spree and cuts out women's eyes with a spoon
EXTERMINATOR 2 (1984)
Mark Buntzman
Unavailable UNCUT on DVD this is taken from an uncut VHS tape & given some nice DVD menus & extras
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