American Horror
Video Nasties: The Legacy - Part 1
Monday, March 29th, 2010In the early 80’s the self appointed moral guardians in the UK where highly offended by what was showing up on the video shelves in those early days of the censor free video market. Lurid video sleeves for titles like S.S. Experiment weren’t going down too well with the church attending minority in England. An [...]
Don’t Go In The Woods (1981)
Sunday, October 4th, 2009(aka Don’t Go In The Woods… Alone!, The Forest 2)
Director: James Bryan
Starring: Nick McClelland, James P. Hayden, Mary Gail Artz, Tom Drury
James Bryan’s Don’t Go In The Woods was caught up in the video nasty fiasco in the UK and it’s such a disjointed, ineffective affair that it’s really hard to see what the stink [...]
More New Releases
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Grindhouse Releasing will be releasing Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece, The Beyond, on DVD October 28th. The release promises to be one of the most have releases of the year, even though a lot of the extras on the disc are the same as Anchor Bay’s previous release. Of note this time around is a new introduction [...]
Love Me Deadly (1972)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008(aka Secrets of the Death Room)
Writer and Director: Jacque Lacerte
Producer: Buck Edwards
Starring: Mary Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone, Timothy Scott.
The sleeve of Shriek Show’s release of this obscure 70’s exploitation film includes blurbs about the shocking nature of Love Me Deadly, and while it has it moments, this is no Nerkomantik (1987); a film [...]
Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)
Friday, February 15th, 2008Director: Robert Hammer
Writer: Robert Hammer, Michael Castle
Producer: Robert Hammer, Michael Castle
Music: Brian Allred
Starring: Nicholas Worth, James Westmoreland, Flo Garrish, Ben Frank.
There is a killer on the prowl in Los Angeles who sexually assaults and kills women by strangling them with a Vietnamese coin buried inside a stocking. Kirk Smith (Nicholas Worth) is a photographer and [...]
The Gardener (1975)
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Director: James H. Kay
Producer: Chalmer Kirkbride Jr.
Starring: Katherine Houghton, Joe Dallesandro, Rita Gam, James Congdon
Joe Dallesandro stars in this curious 70’s offering, in a role very similar to that which he plays in Flesh For Frankenstein (1973) and Blood for Dracula (1974). Carl (Joe Dallesandro) is a gardener with some amazing talents, not only as [...]
Don’t Go Near The Park (1981)
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Director: Lawarence D. Foldes
12,000 years ago a brother and sister were cursed to a life of eternal death, aging 10 years for every year, for killing the children of the community and eating them to stay young. Now in order to stay young the two must continue to eat human flesh to regain their youth [...]