02 May 2008

  







 


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   What happened to the April update I hear you asking. Well, let's just say it wandered out of the room and said "I'll be back", only to be never seen again. ... OK, well the truth of it is I've been caught up in real world stuff, but May brings another stonking update here at

     This time there's three new reviews: the early 80s quasi-slasher DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE; splattery Dutch slasher in SLAUGHTER NIGHT; plus horny hippies do the giallo in DIRTY PICTURES. Details below.

     Also, Lunchmeat carries on his winning run of brilliant reviews, and this time scores some gems of wisdom and nostalgia for horror's golden age from William Vernick, the screenwriter of CLASS REUNION MASSACRE!

    Plus, due to, ahem, overwhelming public demand there's now a fourth chapter of the fictional early 80s slasher GORY GRADUATION. Read what happens when the killer in graduation robes gatecrashes Toni's slumber party here! Plus, if you missed them, catch up with chapters 5, 15 and 18!

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Flaming nuisance!
3 and a half stars DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE
(1980,US)
[review by Justin Kerswell]

    Donny has been under the thumb of his domineering mother since he was a kid. When she dies, he's so messed up rather than throwing some moves down at the local disco he throws petrol over the local girls - and then sets fire to them ...

    Uber-grim slice of early 80s horror has enough in common with the slasher flicks of the time to get a review here.

Click on the film's title to read the full review (if you dare!)

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Say cheese!
3 stars DIRTY PICTURES
(1971,Italy)
[review by Justin Kerswell]

    A couple of free-wheeling hippies fund their jaunt around Europe taking saucy snaps of each other and selling them to boss-eyed tourists. Falling foul of the law they decide to lay low for a while, but pick an isolated mansion where a murder has just taken place ...

    Not Umberto Lenzi's most exciting gialli, this still has enough crazy 70s moments to make it worth a look.

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It's mine, all mine!

3 stars SLAUGHTER NIGHT
(2006,US)
[review by Justin Kerswell]

    A group of teens find themselves trapped in underground mines when a tour goes badly wrong as a long dead serial killer is revived. All they have is booze, drugs and a Ouija board to guide them back to safety ...

   It has the novelty of being one of a few Dutch slasher flicks, and it's dumb and fun enough to entertain.

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Hysteria!- latest reviews
...as well as the new reviews of DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE, DIRTY PICTURES and SLAUGHTER NIGHT listed below are the most recent reviews added to the site ...
 
I'' take a little more off the top!
2 and a half stars TERROR NIGHT
(1987,US)
[review by Justin Kerswell]

    The Hollywood mansion of silent movie star Lance Haywood is set to be torn down for a new development. Cue a gaggle of teens who decide it'd be the ideal place to have one last party - what they don't realise that it'll be their last party! Someone dressed as the old star starts to bump them off one-by-one ...

    This slasher sat unreleased in the States for years, but it's not as bad as you might expect.

Click on the film's title to read the full review (if you dare!)

(Added: 24 March 2008)
 
   
 
I know what you did last siesta!
3 stars VIOLENT MIDNIGHT
(1963,US)
[review by Justin Kerswell]

    A slasher killer is on the loose in a small college town. Who could the killer be? The handsome but slightly deranged painter? His bookish sister? The leather clad bad boy? The voyeuristic old perv professor? Or none of the above?!

    This proto-slasher follows in the wake of Hitchcock's PSYCHO, but packs a few surprises of its own.

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The only way can get that perm off is with this, love.

2 stars SIMON SAYS
(2006,US)
[review by Justin Kerswell]

    As usual, a group of cardboard teens head off into the countryside for a little r&r only to find death at the end of a flying pick axe! They've stumbled across the stalking grounds of weird brothers Simon and Stanley, who aren't too keen on strangers round these here parts ...

   An overacting Crispin Glover should be a joy to watch, but strangely he's a bit of a chore in this slasher that goes so over-the-top that it jars rather than entertains.

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(Added: 24 March 2008)
   
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