Dawn of the Dead
George A. Romero and Italian superfan/collaborator Dario Argento go bigger, bloodier and bitier in this 1978 sequel to Romero’s epochal apocalypse picture. Dawn of the Dead comes 10 years after […]
Tag Archives: 1978
Video Nasty 26: I Spit on Your Grave
The story of a New Yorker (Camille Keaton) who takes revenge on her redneck rapists, I Spit on Your Grave was at the heart of the video nasties scandal. Originally released […]
Video Nasty 67: The Toolbox Murders
Set around a spate of tool-based killings in an LA apartment block, 1978 slasher The Toolbox Murders is a film too dull to bother banning or even talking about, but they […]
Halloween & Halloween II
Halloween (1978) was not the first holiday-themed slasher movie, but its success triggered a slew of identikit festival fright flicks called things like April Fool’s Day, Silent Night Deadly Night and […]
Superman
With the world still struggling to come to terms with just how bad Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is, we thought it would be a good idea to look back at […]
The Wiz
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a fan of unusual interpretations of classic tales – from Homer’s Odyssey in depression era Mississippi to Hamlet in 10th century […]
Screen Goblin 