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The Hills Have Eyes

December 17, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

An affluent nuclear family’s RV breaks down on a military testing site where they’re terrorised by a nuclear family of a not-so-different kind. Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes is […]

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Video Nasty 26: I Spit on Your Grave

December 9, 2020by Dan Meier Leave a comment

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 […]

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

June 21, 2019by Dan Meier Leave a comment

As if to confirm the pointlessness of these Halloween sequels, they were officially erased by last year’s direct follow-up to the original, and that sequel was inexplicably also called Halloween. […]

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Funny Games (1997)

February 18, 2018by Dan Meier 1 Comment

Funny Games is an Austrian horror film from Michael Haneke of Amour fame, a movie I mention only to include this bizarre video. Part endurance horror and part postmodern finger-wagging […]

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Swamp Thing

December 25, 2017by Dan Meier Leave a comment

After an explosion in his lab turns Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) into the Swamp Thing (Dick Durock), he and government agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) must evade capture by the evil Dr. Anton […]

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Detroit

August 21, 2017by Dan Meier Leave a comment

Kathryn Bigelow (European Gigolo, to use her full name) re-teams with writer Mark Boal for this uncompromisingly realistic dramatisation of Detroit’s 1967 riot, focusing on the murder of three young black men […]

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Shocker

July 6, 2016by Dan Meier 1 Comment

Shocker is a 1989 slasher by everyone’s favourite Baptist turned pornographer: the late, great Wes Craven.  Mitch Pileggi plays TV repairman and serial killer Horace Pinker, who’s executed by electric chair […]

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Video Nasty 28: The Last House on the Left

September 1, 2015by Dan Meier 5 Comments

Regular readers will know how much I love Wes Craven, the pioneer of horror cinema and birdwatcher who sadly died from brain cancer yesterday at the age of 76. Let’s […]

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The People Under The Stairs

January 8, 2014by Dan Meier 5 Comments

1991 was a good year. And not just because both of us here at Screen Goblin were born. Cinematically, it gave us The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2 and The People Under […]

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Suffergettes

November 30, 2013by Dan Meier 4 Comments

Yesterday there was an interesting article on the Independent website, which is surprising enough in itself these days. It was a piece by Harriet Williamson about misogyny in horror films, which […]

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