Just wait until you get to the Stygian Inquisition in Hellraiser: Judgment. They were terrific. The Inquisition's auditor is a fantastic creation.

They ARE all worse than Bloodline, but I still enjoyed all of them, just setting the expectations :D haha most of them are barely a Hellraiser film, rather a cheaply bought script with a Cenobite or two thrown in for good measure.

The Gorgon. 1964.

Another pairing of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee playing opposite doctors but share very little screen time unfortunately but Terrence Fisher does a great job with the eerie Gothic atmosphere. Barbara Shelley plays the simple assistant to Cushing's character and hides the secret from some but i'm sure we all know how it pans out.

The background score provided by James Bernard is quite haunting right from the start and blends in well with the suspenseful moments in and around the castle. Everyone does a great job with the acting, no one over shadows anyone even Patrick Troughton playing the local policeman does a great job when he appears on screen. A very underrated Hammer Horror feature.

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Up next The Mummy 1932 version.

Alapaap (1984, Tata Esteban)

An aspiring writer takes an unusual path toward achieving his goal. Because of the horribly dark print (are they attracted to me? Or worse, do I secretly crave them and emit some pherenome? I digress.), it was sort of hard to tell half the time what was happening tbh. I got the gist that it was unpleasant in part :lol:
His bird appears to be working against him and even his doggy has taken the huff. What transpires, blood? Eventually became a hoot, and quite a grotty one at that. One to revisit, if only for scientific reasons. :rolleyes::lol:

The Mummy. 1932.

From one Universal monster to another, Boris Karloff knew how to scare people and impress us with his acting and threatening persona of horror character. Make-up artist Jack Pierce done a great job on this and you can tell when it was Karloff or the wooden prop they used for the close ups. Filmed in black and white this gives the movie the atmosphere and suspense it needs with great direction and cinematography.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. 1986.

A radio host becomes a victim to the cannibalistic family while a former Texas Ranger hunts them down.

Tobe Hooper brings us a sequel from his original film and this is one that's definitely not to be taken seriously with some of the black comedy from Bill Moseley's Chop Chop Character, Jim Siedow returns as the head of the family and now in the BBQ Chill business you can guess what meat he uses. Bill Johnson plays Leatherface in this and shows a lighter side to the character very much differently from the original. Caroline Williams plays the radio host who is used as a pawn by Dennis Hopper who is out for revenge.

Tom Savini provides the make up for the film and does a decent job with Lou Perryman and his demise to the family, even though this was released by Cannon this is still entertaining and a decent sequel.

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Child's Play 3
 

Sleepaway Camp. 1983.

After Friday The 13th other film producers definitely jumped on the band wagon for summer camp massacre movies and tried to up the wager on different killings and shocking endings, but this one probably shocked a few people when it was released.

A few people can't really act in this including Desiree Gould who plays the loving Aunt but really not so loving on how she treated Angela played by Felissa Rose who plays the shy quiet traumatized lead. Did Paul DeAngelo think he was gonna be in a porn flick or something wearing tight shorts and almost pitching a tent, If i'm guessing right he is standing next to a minor in the film?

The kills are done mostly off screen but we see the after effects, a girl has a hot poker inserted into her so she definitely got something hot in her, the cook...well he truly got karma for what he tried to do. The make-up effects are done decently and look realistic especially with the scenario of the bee stings. This does look like a low budget film yet writer/director Robert Hiltzik managed to go with what he could and make it decent enough to watch.

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Will try to watch Tales From The Darkside: The Movie before my shift ends and post a comment later, have a good Friday :cool:

BALLAD IN BLOOD – A guy treads on broken glass, shoves his foot into the camera so we can see it bleed in close-up, then for no apparent reason tells a cat to f*ck off… ‘Ballad In Blood’, I’m on your side already. It’s based on the Kercher case and liberally applies poetic license, not that that dispels the bad taste. But wait, ‘bad taste’ is what ‘Ballad In Blood’ is all about – if there’s any doubt, look at the scene where someone works their way up to orgasm, then climaxes by puking full throttle over their partners tits(!) The rest of ‘Ballad In Blood’ doesn’t quite rise to that kind of glory, but its essence has been laid bare. ‘Ballad In Blood’ is a Ruggero Deodato film, and he’s winking at us all the way. I didn’t think so at first – I thought it was a full-on rush of excruciating drivel, that the deranged performances were genuine (to be fair, they might be), that the ridiculousness of sections that seemed culled from a terrible stage play full of bad comedy was sincere. But then I remembered that the director is a bit of a provocateur and likes to make a point; here he partially proves it by way of his very many sly references to other movies, including, of course, his own, as if to remind us all that if this is a ham-fistedly opportunistic plunge into true crime, you’d better believe there’s someone behind that camera, probably someone with a bit of a smirk on their face. The archness grates a little if you take this as anyone other than a cynical, filthy wallow, but I guess that’s just Ruggero having a bit of a joke with us all again. I liked it. It thinks it’s cleverer than it is, but it’s an entertainingly nasty bit of filth if you sever all connection with the recent tragic past. There’s a bit of drag after a while, but OK, comes with the territory. My favourite moment includes a bit of a SPOILER (although it’s really as inconsequential as the rest of the movie), but basically there’s a long set-up involving an hilarious New Romantic biker gang who seem at some point destined to reappear to take their revenge in the form of a dramatic denouement – when they finally arrive the action’s over, nothing’s happening and the only thing still moving is an LP of the soundtrack to ‘House On The Edge Of The Park’! I was pissing myself at that one.

Tales From The Darkside: The Movie. 1990.

A young boy being prepared to be eaten by a witch distracts her with three stories.

Lot 249.
A bullied student at a university receives a crate with a ancient mummy who he brings to live and uses it for revenge.

Cat From Hell.
A old man believes that the stray cat his sisters cared for is responsible for their deaths and hires a hitman to kill the cat.

Lovers Vow.
Preston is a out of work artist is attacked by a winged creature and is promised to never reveal what he saw. 10 years later he is married and has children and decides to reveal to his wife what he saw with tragic consequences.

I saw this back in 1991 when it was aired on T.V. that the next day along with my dad we hunted for it and the shops in Dundee never had it in stock and for years completely forgot about it.

Deborah Harry plays the friendly lady neighbour who hides a dark secret that her demise is a bit of the same as Hansel and Gretel with Mathew Lawrence as her intended main course. Christian Slater and Julianne Moore star in the first segment along with Steve Buscemi as the young student. This is like a take on The Mummy except this one doesn't look for the sacred jars but used for tackling bullies.

William Hickey plays the rich old man who hires David Johansen to kill a ca, yeah mate cats can outsmart us, Stephen King and George A. Romero done a decent job on writing this one especially with the ending and can have it's comical moments.

James Remar and Rae Dawn Chong appear in the final segment and this was actually decently done and probably the best story in the film, the transformation part was done nicely and James Remar seems to be sweating a lot. The acting is not great but not terrible at times especially with the first segment still enjoyable.

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My local Odeon is showing Coppola's Dracula next Thursday evening so I'm going to book a ticket. I'm looking forward to it, I've seen it so many times but I was only 15 when it came out and I looked very young, so there was no way for me to see it on the big screen! I'm so excited to hear that score blasting out in the theatre!

Our DCA cinema is showing it as well but they had to show it on the two nights i'm working along with Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist, the line up for this years Dundead isn't that great.

Oh that's a shame, perhaps there will be something on the following week :)

All they are showing is

Dracula 1992
Flux Gourmet 2022
Trick 'R' Treat 2007
Dreaded Light + Q&A 2022
Poltergeist 1982

I would go and see Poltergeist but only one showing at 20:55 I be at work...Dammit

Trick R Treat would be great on the big screen!

Late showing and seems to be more popular than Dracula, screen for Dracula only has sold 5 tickets yet Trick 'R' Treat has sold 11.

Speaking of Dracula, can anyone vouch on Jess Franco's Count Dracula from 1970 to be good??

Go for it! It's great at the pictures. I saw it at a midnight showing on it's first Friday of release at Bury cinema and absolutely loved it.

That's why i have such a high opinion of it. Never noticed Keanu's accent or anything.

Yeah I like Franco’s Dracula I’ve had it on VHS, DVD and now on Blu from Severin lol

Did you get that coffin shaped vhs box set which had the novel and a metal pin badge in with it?

No! I didn’t know that was a thing I wish I did, I’m pretty sure it was that budget VHS label 4front remember them? £4.99 in HMV lol

Back later!

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Oh dear God!

Blood Rage. 1987.

Todd is blamed for a killing that his twin Terry committed at a drive-thru and institutionalized. 10 years later Todd escapes and the killings start.

This film gave us the perfect to share with everyone at a dinner table "My crazy twin has escaped" great conversation starter before a meal, and if your gonna carve a turkey use a sharper knife.

Filmed in 83 and shelved for four years I wouldn't say this was the best slasher film as we see who the killer is and tries to play it out on a plot twist that even the boys own mother can't tell them apart. Right at the start you can tell the boys want to learn about the birds and the bees from other people and not their own mother and we get a good hatchet killing. The acting may not be all that great but as the film goes on the kills make up for it.

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October 6th
 

City of the Dead (1960)

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how good this British tale of American witchcraft is. Let's just say it's a beautifully atmospheric masterpiece and leave it at that.

Well not quite. It's interesting to note that, and this is a GIANT spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen this classic film of wicked witchery. As with Psycho from the same year - City actually went into production first so in no way ripped off Hitchcock's thriller - the heroine we are introduced to and follow for the first half of the film is killed off much to the viewers shock and disbelief half way through.

Continuing the evening with a second helping of witchcraft in New England...

The Witch (2015)

Robert Egger's modern masterpiece of 17th century lore. It's performed with brilliant and authentic use of olde-English language and terrific sound design as well as natural light throughout with the buildings lit inside only by candles. There's also an often lingering camera technique and these aspects all come together to create the most unnerving, bordering on genuinely frightening, horror film of the 21st century.

Seven years on the bounce now for this film and i'm still discovering new marvels in it's chilling clutches. I'm surprised that it still holds what feels like a malevolent eerie power over me during it's entire second half.

"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

The occultist (1988)

A truly dire movie with no redeeming features what so ever.

nonsense about a private eye who's supposed to be part cyborg whos hired to protect a woman, voodoo and some corporate nonsense.

Avoid it would be more fun scooping out your eyes with a spoon.


Something creeping in the dark.

A huge improvement over the occultist, by hey watching a piece of shit dry would of been more interesting.


A atmospheric tale about of group of people that during a storm have to spend a night at a strange houses . One of the group's is the police escorting a killer.

The owners of the house are all a little weird . Soon strange things start happing and then the killings start.

Now watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfvBru3MKsg

Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood.

After his watery grave entrance by Tommy, Jason is revived again by a small girl with psychic abilities and she tries to stop Jason and the doctor who is using her for his own evil agenda.

The first appearance of Kane Hodder playing the hockey mask boiler wearing suit killer and Lar Park-Lincoln as the older psychic Tina. Terry Kiser who we probably know as "Bernie" plays the doctor who tries to manipulate his patient and gain something from her powers.

Jason rises from the water and is able to pack a decent punch and leave a gaping hole and pick up a sleeping bag while someone is in there leaving a bit of a bloody mess. Director John Carl Buechler manages to keep a steady pace with this one and also entertained, one I didn't really care for but slowly growing on me.

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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. 2014.

Jesse who has graduated from university spends his summer with friends at his apartment block, Ana who is neighbour down stairs and loner. Jesse and his friend Hector spy on Ana with another girl painting her body, when Ana dies things around Jesse begin to happen.

I wasn't going to be watching any of these films but decided to give this one a re-watch, it does have your typical teens messing about and have a creepy neighbour and try to spy on her that does come with the usual comments of seeing a older woman naked...unless your into that.

Andrew Jacobs and Jorge Diaz do a decent part as the two leads and friends who go looking for answers and not really capable of accepting what they find, it is somewhat different from the previous films as this focuses more on satanic rituals rather than the ghost from the past movies.

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Just finished watching Rob Zombie's Halloween II, and like Frankie Teardrop i've re-evaluated my thoughts on it.

More tomorrow...but in short i bloody loved it!

Wow! Yes, Mr.B. 100% You need to be ill and go see this.

It's probably my number one modern title most wanted on Blu-ray.

Just checked the time and date for Trick 'R' Treat the day that plays I think I'm on the first day of my holiday for that week, If you guys are recommending it then tickets will be bought.

The House That Dripped Blood. 1971.

A policeman looks into four mysterious crimes that have happened that are centered round a mysterious house.

Method For Murder
A novelist working on his new book encounters a man that resembles the villain from his new book.

Waxworks
Two men visit a waxworks and a women made of wax resembles someone from their past.

Sweets To The Sweets.
A widowed man and his daughter move into the house and the daughter slowly becomes obsessed in witchcraft.

The Cloak
Horror movie actor Paul Henderson is looking for a authentic cloak to use for his new movie and finds one and it gives him vampire features which he can't understand.

Another Amicus anthology film with some well known actors and some familiar faces, I will admit the first story with Denholm Elliott has always been a let down for me, no disrespect he was a great actor and does have a good plot twist but seemed a bit dull.

The second stars Peter Cushing and Joss Ackland, both main leads in this have great chemistry together and believing they are seeing the same thing, being in a small building that builds up the claustrophobic atmosphere works really well.

Christopher Lee actually playing a strict father worked well for him with this and be over protective till a home tutor comes and draws out some darkness from his daughter that is quite played out well with Chloe Franks as his daughter.

Jon Pertwee plays the movie actor who acts like a total diva on set and thinks everything should be done like the old movies along with Ingrid Pitt who looks like she is ready to bust out of her dress at the end.

The house itself is like something you would expect to see in a good horror like this a big Gothic sinister looking mansion that you fall in love with when you see the outside yet inside you expect to see ghosts and shadows, the makers did a decent job with this, yet probably best watched in the dark during thunder and lightning.

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Will watch The Reptile and comment on it later, have a good Saturday.

HA-HA-HA! YES! YES!

I raved about H2 a few years ago, and you all thought I was mad.

Bride of Chucky
 

KILLER QUEEN – Like a lost Fred Friedel flick remixed into a cubist collage by Doris Wishman, ‘Killer Queen’ strikes the strangest of poses with its concoction of grimy grindhouse tropes and nouvelle vague. Story isn’t the point, but for what it’s worth it’s about a couple on a crime spree in New York, except the eponymous half of this double act, based on what we can glean from possibly half-hallucinated memories, might just be in it for the sheer bloody murder. I really dug this film. It’s very contrived, and that might be a turn off, but I was transfixed by what I saw. It’s grimy, filmed in 8mm so you can practically taste the grain, and it’s just full of breathless dislocation and moments of possibly insignificant strangeness. It’s the kind of film where characters talk about cheesecakes, then drift in and out of Proustian asides. It’s the kind of film where a giallo-style explanation-of-killer-tendencies-by-ambiguous-flashback-to-childhood gives way and gives up because someone needs to wander off and have a conversation with a librarian (or something). The ever-present threat of a slide into outright delirium is held in check by the knowing wink of its maker, but this is a giddy goose for sure. The benefits of the occasional trawl through the outer reaches of Prime (not a product placement) include discoveries like ‘Killer Queen’.

30 Days of Unseen Horror

Day 6

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Joseph Thorne is a detective that is very good at his job but he leads a bit of a shady life he is a great detective and to the outside world a dedicated family man but behind it all he loves his drugs and prostitues. When he is called to a brutal murder he finds a puzzle box at the scene and is instantly drawn to the box but intrigue some turns to obsession when he accidentally solves the puzzle and his life will be er be the same again.

This was a completely different pace to Hellraiser 4 with barely any screen time for pinhead and the other cenobites which is not a bad thing as it makes there appearance more of a treat. The whole film is a bit of a mind f*** with some many nightmareish scenes and by the end your left wondering yourself if what's happening is actually real or not. The large majority of the film doesn't feel like a Hellraiser film at all which I did enjoy this approach taking a different course from what went before. Solid acting and some good gore when it happens but it's the psychological side that's the main draw here.

Yet again a pleasant surprise and an other lesson learned just as with Bloodlines.

October 7th
 

Slugs (1988)

A gloriously gloopy Spanish take on Shaun Hutson's classic novel. It's a simple story as toxic waste mutates common slugs and turns them into flesh eaters. Meanwhile it's up to the local health inspector to stop them and also convince the authorities about what is happening.

This is brilliant. It always has been. It's riotous fun with nasty gore galore as slugs, thousands of slugs, eat their way through various towns folk in various states of undress.

Certainly it's ridiculous but it's played straight and all the better for it. This has long been a favourite of mine even if the scientist who features throughout the film seems to be dubbed by Austin Powers.

The Arrow Blu-ray looks gorgeous.

30 Days Of Unseen Horror

Day 7

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A female Nazi SS general and scientist is carrying out strange experiments on the people of a small village with the goal to create a super race of brainless slaves who they will unleash on Europe. The males are experimented on and the females are given to the beast for their sexual gratification.

I have always wanted to see this since I first read about it years ago in an issue of Dark Side Magazine about the video nasties all these years later I finally got around to it did it deliver.

In between all the gruesome rape scenes and torture this does get a bit boring but the film is sleazy as hell so it sort of makes you excuse that they tried to include a story. This was never going to live up to the hype I created myself for so many years but it does deliver what you expect boobs and bush galore. One of the beastvrape scenes did make me laugh I know it's a strange thing to say but when the beast bites off a woman's vagina the total absurdity of it all you can do is laugh.

Overall it was good to finally get a chance to check it out and it's pretty twisted the most impactful scene was waiting a father carry his dead son through the streets not that women getting raped isn't bad enough but I think you get what I mean.

One problem I had was .............

TOO MUCH PENIS :crazed:

Great review but s**t film





I have a phobia of slugs and this film is pure filth and should be banned :pound:

:ghostclap: :skull:

Yeah i can imagine it not being a fave if you have a slug phobia. It's not like the slugs are silly giant slugs like they would be in a fifties monster movie. No these slugs are black slugs, real life slugs and pretty revolting.