One of the cult classics of the early 1980s fails to live up to the promise of its own imagery and outlandishly tasteless premise.
Tag: horror
A Movie With Your Morning Paper
Remembering the time when tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers contained yesterday’s films.
Remembering Norman J. Warren
Looking back at the much-loved British horror film director and his remarkable body of work.
The Outer Fringes Of Horror Cinema: Oddball Anthology Night Train To Terror Dissected
An eccentric slice of cinematic cannibalism, as obscure and unfinished films are chopped, changed and rendered incoherent in a portmanteau of pointlessness.
The Purple Cloud – A Classic Of Existential Nihilism Explored
M.P.Shiel’s delirious study of apocalypse, madness and insanity revisited.
Host Story: The Hype And The Horror
The scariest film of the last decade, apparently – but does Host live up to the claims that it is the horror film we all need for the Covid Age?
Maria Der’s Alternative Cinematic Universe
Maria Der’s wonderfully deranged visions from the tobacco cured VHS parlours of yesteryear allow us a peak and a prod at the underbelly of many beloved Hollywood favourites.
Sex And Death In The Lindner Coffin Calendars
From eroticism to extinction, the world’s most intriguing collection of art calendars.
Satanic Panic: When British TV Viewers Were Traumatised By The Omen
How the TV broadcast of the horror classic caused religious hysteria and fears of demonic possession.
The VHS Wonderland Of Portland Films
Remembering the pioneers of mail order VHS cult movie retail in the wild west days of uncensored video.
The Amazing World Of Guy N. Smith
Remembering the unrestrained king of British pulp horror.
Miss Frankenstein: 8mm Horror-Smut From The 1960s
Classic Horror meets Sixties sexploitation in this unusual and entertaining 8mm sex film.