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Belial is one of the many names for The Devil. The meaning of the word in Hebrew is "worthless" and this could quite accurately describe the motivations for the anger-fuelled murder spree of Belial and his brother Duane in Henenlotter's first feature length horror movie. This also begs the question "What kind of parents call one member of a Siamese... Click to read more "Basket Case"
The Funhouse is the second of Tobe Hooper's films to make it to the UK video nasty list (the first being Eaten Alive - the film about the crocodile, not the Umberto Lenzi one about cannibals). It is unclear why this tale of carnival jollity made it on to a list of notorious horror movies that "tend to deprave or corrupt persons" as it is a slasher ... Click to read more "The Funhouse"
The Burning is a slasher movie from 1981 that managed to get itself banished to the video nasty list. It fortified the genre but, unfortunately, didn't have the impact it should have for a number of reasons. It is often compared to Friday the 13th and quite rightly so; a group of hormonally charged teenagers at summer camp get stalked by a disfigur... Click to read more "The Burning"
Despite being an awful film, Don't Go Near the Park is an important movie for horror geeks of a certain age. It made it to the video nasty list which gave numerous horror movies that deserved to vanish into obscurity a cult status. The list has also increased recent demand for a lot of low quality shit which is the only reason this movie is likely ... Click to read more "Don't Go Near the Park"
Some movies are so bad they are bad, some are so bad they are good and The Incredible Melting Man is so bad it's amazing. The film is a prime example of producers interfering in a filmmakers vision and, while the interference has a negative effect on the intended end product, it endows the final movie with something truly quirky and unique. It was ... Click to read more "The Incredible Melting Man"
In part 2 of our feature on movies that shocked us we decided to explore a different kind of shock. Shocking Movies Part 1 explored films that had an impact on our definition of horror and raised the bar with regards to what we found disturbing. This time we will detail films that filled us with nausea; films that contain the kind of content that m... Click to read more "Shocking Movies: Part 2"
When asked to make a list of the most extreme movies, and after days of debate, we came to the conclusion we couldn't. What is extreme to one person may have no effect on the next and, based on some of the search terms that bring people to this site, what repulses someone can give someone else their kicks (we can see what you are searching the web ... Click to read more "Shocking Movies: Part 1"
During The Golden Age of the slasher, a common publicity ploy was to tell the audience not to do something then portray people doing that which they had been advised against in the film. The ploy worked and therefore numerous horror movies adopted the same technique with varying degrees of relevance, spanning pertinent through vague to completely i... Click to read more "Video Nasties - The "Don't" Movies"
