Welcome to the Video Nasties #4
It’s been personally very rewarding to revisit the films that comprise the video nasties list. Today’s installment includes some of my personal favourite covers and a couple of the more notorious nasties. It includes the world’s introduction to Wes Craven, as well as the Nazisploitation genre. This selection also proves that films were added to...
Welcome to the Video Nasties #2
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the infamous video nasties list that caused a storm of shit in Britain during the early 80s. Read that article if you’d like a brief history of this period and watch the documentary embedded in the post. I thought I’d continue along this train of thought and make my...
5 scenes that traumatised me as a child
WARNING: Some of these contain spoilers! Most notably, the Turner and Hooch one! ALSO! I get the feeling a lot of these will be removed for copyright reasons, so this post may be nothing but dead links in a few months… or days… Matt Revert is taking a lovely wee holiday this week, so I...
Witchboard (1986)
When we think of horror film soundtracks from the 80s, there’s a fairly specific blueprint that comes to mind. It would be safe to blame John Carpenter’s seminal score for 1978’s Halloween for this. His synth-driven, undeniably creepy score provided aural inspiration for a decade’s worth of horror. This isn’t to say that Carpenter’s score...
