The definitive visual guide to the most notorious films of the 1980s.
Tag: splatter movie
Paging Dr Freudstein – Lucio Fulci’s The House By The Cemetery Re-Examined
The Italian gore maestro’s gothic spectacular is both grandiosely ambitious and irritatingly flawed.
The Beyond – Lucio Fulci’s Trip Into Atmospheric Ultraviolence
Lucio Fulci’s collision of Lovecraftian gothic and hardgore splatter is visually and stylistically impressive, but somewhat overrated.
Skater Punk Spaltter And Indie Experimentation In Twisted Issues
Charles Pinion’s skatepunk splatter movie remains a pioneering work of underground filmmaking.
The Saw Is Family: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
The belated sequel to the classic 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a cocaine-fueled, everything-cranked-up-to-11 reworking of the original narrative.
This Film Smells Of Death: The Grotty Pleasures Of Andrea Bianchi’s Nights Of Terror
The most notoriously trashy and outrageous film of the early 1980s Italian zombie cycle is more interesting than you might think.
Reconsidering Re-Animator
Stuart Gordon’s outrageous updating of H.P. Lovecraft is a film that gets better every time you watch it.