CANNIBAL FEROX *** Italy / USA 1981 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 92 mins In a come-on typical of its sub-genre, the opening title card of Lenzi’s most notorious movie warns of at least two dozen scenes of torture and sadistic violence about to unfold before our very eyes. Does anybody actually…
Browsing: 1980s Horror
If an ancient demon rampaging through the Irish countryside sounds like your cup of tea, Arrow Video’s Blu-ray release of Clive Barker’s RAWHEAD REX is a must-have. With a strong cult following, this is a much-loved horror film that ticks all the right boxes: picturesque location, an angry demon, locals…
GHOSTHOUSE *** Italy 1988 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 89 mins In the dying days of the Italian horror scene, Lenzi made this heavy-handed stew of haunted house clichés in America with U.S. actors and a slew of dialogue references to contemporary icons (Simon LeBon, Kim Basinger, Kelly Le Brock). Set to…
NIGHTMARE BEACH (a.k.a. Welcome To Spring Break) *** Italy 1989 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 90 mins Michael Parks is typically engaging as a hard-drinking Florida doctor in Lenzi’s Fort Laudedale-shot slasher, referring accurately to Spring Break as “the annual migration of the idiot”. It’s a standard 80’s American dead teenager movie…
DON’T GO TO SLEEP ***** U.S.A. 1982 Dir: Richard Lang. 94 mins Along with a handful of other American TV movies of the 70’s and 80’s, this bold, disturbing tale of pre-pubescent madness is the kind of thing that triumphed over the tight restrictions of the medium to scar any…