Well, if Bloody Wednesday wasn't sleazy enough to get your gears grinding, perhaps you'd be more into The Suckling. A teenager is taken by her boyfriend to a whorehouse to get a back alley abortion, and the fetus gets exposed to toxic waste. It then mutates, traps everyone inside the house using a giant placenta, … Continue reading The Suckling (1990)
In the wake of George Romero's Of the Dead series, Italy's exploitation community went more than a little nuts with zombie films, leading to the Zombi/Zombie/Zombie Flesh Eaters series, depending on the region. Most of the films that appear in these disparate series are not actually related in any way, but titles were changed or … Continue reading Nightmare City (1980)
Imagine Alien: taut corridors, an overworked crew, a horrifying creature that uses ventilation shafts to quickly maneuver around a claustrophobic interior. There's fear there too, the fear that you'll be maimed, killed, or worse, bred. Now take that, set it on a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by a terrible plague, stuck down in a bunker with … Continue reading The Terror Within (1989)
Roger Corman's wife Julie Corman produced a film written by Stephen King's brother Richard King about killer cockroaches on an island! Hell yes! The evil corporation INTEC has moved onto an island off the coast of New England with the help of a small town mayor. But soon INTEC's experimental cockroaches get loose, and food, … Continue reading The Nest (1988)
I can watch good movies...I just usually don't. Death Warmed Up (AKA Death Warmed Over) is an early New Zealand splatterfilm, coming out in 1984. While it would lack the humor of later New Zealand splatter releases, this is exactly the kind of thing that Peter Jackson was watching when he started working on films … Continue reading Death Warmed Up (1984)
