Reviews
The final vision of a controversial filmmaker
Posted on 11/24/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
If you have ever wondered what the most depraved, sadistic, cruel and disturbing movie available to the general public is then you should maybe get yourself a copy of Salò or 120 Days of Sodom (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma). Salo is an extreme Italian movie directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and in...
Read More "Salo, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom"A New Samurai Is Born
Posted on 11/24/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Sticking with what seems to be this month's theme of excessively gory Asian horror movies; the biscuit is awarded to and allowed to be taken away by Samurai Princess (Samurai purinsesu: Gedô-hime). Possibly the goriest Japanese cyberpunk splatterfest to grace my DVD player with more severed body par...
Read More "Samurai Princess (Samurai Purinsesu: Gedô-Hime)"From Bride of Christ to Slave of Satan
Posted on 06/05/2010 by Hellbound Heart
Distribution company Mondo Macabro are eminently reliable purveyors of lurid, rare world cinema and - praise the Lord - Mexican flick Satanico Pandemonium (AKA La Sexorcista) is no exception. All the ingredients for a one-off viewing experience are there: nuns both clothed and unclothed, blood, lesb...
Read More "Satanico Pandemonium"He's the death of the party!
Posted on 09/14/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
I try to see the good aspects of every horror movie I review as usually I see an element of quality in most horror productions. With that philosophy in mind Scarecrow Gone Wild is going to be an exceptionally challenging review! This movie follows all of the rules of a typical slasher and, although ...
Read More "Scarecrow Gone Wild"Yeah... It's Uwe Boll, but give it a chance
Posted on 01/14/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Having heard nothing but condemnation for the work of Uwe Boll and being uninitiated in his perception of art, Seed was quite an unpleasantly shocking yet pleasantly disturbing surprise. There is no doubt that this movie was created just to inspire media hysteria and if the media cared about the wor...
Read More "Seed"Another Bloody Office Outing
Posted on 08/29/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Severance is an effective British comedy-slasher with a star studded cast of British actors providing a typical wit dryer than a vagina in a nunnery. The movie provides a balance of humor and violence managing to extract absurdity from some disturbing situations inspiring simultaneous cringing and m...
Read More "Severance"Eurotica from the master of sleaze
Posted on 05/24/2010 by Hellbound Heart
Although Uncle Jess is perhaps better known for his 1970s sleaze/horror offerings - particularly the eponymous Vampyros Lesbos (1971) - he carried on regardless throughout the 1980s, and as a matter of fact he's still at it. His most recent film - Paula-Paula (2010) - has just been completed, bringi...
Read More "The Sexual Story Of O"Lone wolf and son. The greatest team in the history of mass slaughter.
Posted on 06/18/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It's not usual that a Samurai movie would be reviewed on this site but Shogun Assassin (known in Japan as Kozure Okami) is here for two reasons. Number one is that this movie made the notorious Video Nasty list in the UK and number two is the plentiful amount of blood and violence. One of the movies...
Read More "Shogun Assassin"You will soon forget your god and cling to me like a bitch!
Posted on 12/15/2011 by Hellbound Heart
Have you ever carefully looked at your pictures?
Posted on 02/17/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Shutter is a Thai horror movie directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom. The movie begins with photographer Tun (Ananda Everingham) and a few friends having a get together with copious amounts of alcohol. Later when Tun is being driven home by his girlfriend Jane (Nattaweeranuch Thong...
Read More "Shutter"Beauty cannot last but death is forever
Posted on 11/05/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
If you were ever intrigued to witness what it would look like to see a sexy nurse who has had the bottom of her face fall off due to forceful feeding of scalpel blades finally being finished off by choking on a dead baby, then you need to see Sick Nurses (Suay Laak Sai). Directors Piraphan Laoyont a...
Read More "Sick Nurses (Suay Laak Sai)"...you won't be coming home!
Posted on 09/15/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
The 1980's was the decade for slasher movies and, among the big hits such as Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street were a few hidden gems that have been elevated to cult status as more and more horror lovers discover them. Sleepaway Camp is one such hidden gem and although it bears a few too many ...
Read More "Sleepaway Camp"Lights... Camera... Body Parts
Posted on 09/04/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Lee Demarbre (director) and Ian Driscoll (writer) pay tribute to the gore-master and visionary of the splatter genre, Herschell Gordon Lewis, with Smash Cut. A low budget affair (which is no surprise if you have seen Demabrbre's cult horror works such as Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter) starring David H...
Read More "Smash Cut"A film that could only be made in South America, where life is CHEAP!
Posted on 05/29/2011 by Pazuzu Iscariot
A common tactic in the horror movie industry in the seventies and eighties was to take a crappy movie and hype it with deceptive marketing slogans, covers and staged outrage. Numerous films were branded Video Nasties in the mid-eighties and removed from the shelves simply due to graphic cover art or...
Read More "Snuff"Ken Boyd, a lonely man fresh out of the loony bin, sets out to kill those he deems responsible for his miserable life.
Posted on 11/18/2011 by Hellbound Heart
Ah, the trepidation of horror-comedy; get it right, and you have the potential for a cult audience-pleaser like no other. Get it wrong, and you really get it wrong. Well, I'm pleased to report that Some Guy Who Kills People gets it incredibly right. I deliberately went into the film with no expectat...
Read More "Some Guy Who Kills People"Hisayasu Sato's notorious sex & gore masterpiece
Posted on 07/27/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It's not often that a horror movie shocks and appalls me but Japanese director Hisayasu Sato managed to do so with his enticingly titled movie Splatter: Naked Blood (Nekeddo burâddo: Megyaku). Although the effects are not entirely convincing Sato is not afraid to subject the viewer to some close-up,...
Read More "Splatter: Naked Blood"Sex experiments in pursuit of a better tomorrow!
Posted on 02/09/2010 by Miss Lipstattoo
"You bastard, what have you done with my balls?"...and that my friends is the kind of high quality dialogue you can expect from the dreadfully dire S.S. Experiment Love Camp.S.S. Experiment Love Camp (Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur) is the everyday story of female prisoners of war who are brought...
Read More "SS Experiment Love Camp""A terrifying story of violence and madness", or "How I shagged a midget monkey mingle muncher"
Posted on 03/31/2010 by Miss Lipstattoo
Any sane person with taste really has to start to worry when the epitome of sleaze Ilsa is held up as a cinematic goddess, so much so that she inspired a slew of copycat Nazi exploitation flicks with stern bitches with Swastikas on their arms. I am, however, not a sane person and have no taste so it...
Read More "SS Hell Camp Aka The Beast In Heat (La Beastia In Calore)"School's Out... Forever!
Posted on 07/22/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
If you ever find yourself stuck for what movie to watch and you think that you might like to watch a twisted love story disguised as a gore filled, Asian zombie flick then Stacy (also known as Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies) is the movie that you need. Based on a popular Japanese novel by K...
Read More "Stacy: Attack Of The Schoolgirl Zombies"No one escapes!
Posted on 02/18/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Independent horror movie directors are in an idyllic position to take horror to its extremes and Ryan Cavalline definitely delivers a movie that breaks the boundaries of decency to shock and disgust the viewer whilst maintaining a disturbing sense of realism. Often a low budget inspires independent ...
Read More "Stockholm Syndrome"It's smooth and creamy. It's low calorie and delicious. And it kills.
Posted on 12/07/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It is a widely accepted opinion that one should not eat yellow snow... in fact it is probably worth taking this advice one step further than Frank Zappa suggested and ensuring that your children avoid anyone crazy enough to eat snow in the first place. Unfortunately in 1985 few people heeded this gu...
Read More "The Stuff"Well then, goodbye everybody.
Posted on 12/23/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Not only is Suicide Club (Suicide Circle) a highly original and innovative slice of Asian cinema it also has, in my opinion, the best opening scene in any horror movie ever! There is plenty of blood and gore (most of which is in the first five minutes), the usual confusing-to-Westerners storyline an...
Read More "Suicide Club (Suicide Circle)"The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92
Posted on 03/23/2008 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Suspiria is 1977 horror movie co-written and directed by Italian horror movie master Dario Argento. The plot revolves around Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper), an American dance student who travels to Germany to attend a world renowned ballet school.She arrives at the ballet school late at night in the ...
Read More "Suspiria"Grisly and Claustrophobic... and made for TV
Posted on 07/21/2010 by Pazuzu Iscariot
It may well be maybe a possibly well know fact that when Lucio Fulci made non-zombie films he was out of his nut on various psychotropic drugs. A huge chunk of apparent evidence is in The Sweet House of Horrors (La dolce casa degli orrori). As the infamous master of gore, Fulci manages to take poten...
Read More "The Sweet House Of Horrors (La Dolce Casa Degli Orrori)"Lee Geum-Ja, have mercy on us...
Posted on 09/11/2009 by Pazuzu Iscariot
Chan-wook Park's third and final (obviously) part of the Vengeance Trilogy is Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, sometimes known as just Lady Vengeance and always known as Chinjeolhan geumjassi. Once again we are presented with a cold, calculated and complex revenge scheme intricately planned over a lengt...
Read More "Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan Geumjassi)"
