Severin Films are getting ready to release two Joe D’Amato nasties on Blu-Ray for the first time ever in America. First up is ANTHROPOPHAGOUS It has been called “seriously creepy” (CoolAssCinema.com), “insanely violent” (Nerdist.com) and “truly repulsive” (DVD Talk). It was seized by UK authorities as a ‘Video Nasty’ and…
Browsing: 1980 Horror
88 Films continue their ‘slasher collection’ with their latest release FRIGHTMARE. This will be number 38 in the ‘slasher collection’. Also known as THE HORROR STAR, the 1983 cult creeper FRIGHTMARE offered audiences postmodern shocks long before Wes Craven gave us his game-changing SCREAM in 1996! An underrated and underseen…
GHOULIES ** USA 1985 Dir: Luca Bercovici. 81 mins The first movie in the unending cycle of mini-monster movies from the Charles Band factory, this was one of the odder low-budget spawn from the previous year’s GREMLINS. David Lynch regular Jack Nance narrates and, at the outset, rescues…
PATRICK STILL LIVES! *** Italy 1980 Dir: Mario Landi 92 mins A notoriously bizarre and debauched Italian “sequel” to the popular – but frankly boring – Australian chiller PATRICK, with a beguilingly sleazy build-up (“Screaming women make me nervous!”) paying off with astonishing second half. Professor Sacha Pitoeff (the best…
Cited as a huge influence by renowned film-makers including Martin Scorsese and Alejandro Amenabar and lauded by horror aficionados and audiences alike, THE CHANGELING is one of the most chilling horrors of all time and now it arrives in a brand new restored version for the first time on Blu-ray, featuring…