Death by scorpion
Dr. Phibes Rises Again is a hell of a lot of fun. Like its predecessor, it's fairly light in tone and heavy on humour. There is, however, one scene I found pretty distressing, and I don't even have a particularly strong fear of scorpions...
The Man from the Deep River – Italian poster
The joys of trashy Italian poster art is expressed perfectly here with this poster for Umberto Lenzi's The Man from the Deep River (1972) — the film that kicked off the cannibal craze of the 70s and 80s.
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977)
Death Bed is a surreal film, or at least it aims for surrealism. It has pretensions to be something more than a schlocky horror movie, despite, and I’ll say this again and again, it is a film about a bed that eats people.
Wise words from a man of science
I thoroughly enjoyed the bizarre hodgepodge of horror and softcore delivered by The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio. Below is a rather fantastic bit of inane scripting where a man of science gives some truly thought-provoking words of wisdom while a police detective looks at the camera nervously...
