Toolbox Murders (2004)
In an act of cultural cannibalism, Tobe Hooper remakes 1978 video nasty The Toolbox Murders which was itself a ripoff of Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Talk about scraping the […]
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Midsommar
Florence Pugh is fighting with her family (again) before a tragedy sends her off to Sweden with her friends (Will Poulter, The Good Place‘s William Jackson Harper and Chris Prattalike […]
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 […]
Mandy
Red (Nicolas Cage) sees red in this red-filtered revenge horror that opens with King Crimson’s Starless from the album Red. I wish I could tell you there was more than […]
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Hot chicks! Fast cars! Ultraviolence! But enough about my Amazon wish list, on with the review. As well as being one of the greatest titles in movie history, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! […]
The Strangers: Prey at Night
“They should do a sequel to The Strangers,” is something I’ve literally never heard, like, “I wish Richard Osman was on TV more,” or a Killers song I didn’t hate. Nevertheless a Strangers sequel […]
Raw
This French-Belgian horror-drama is the story of a life-long vegetarian studying at what can only be described as The Stanley Kubrick School for Veterinary Science. Raw caused a literal splash on the festival […]
The Woman (Vs Room)
After Room left me feeling depressed, I revisited The Woman by way of a palette cleanser; the cinematic equivalent of a Fisherman’s Friend. Administered by Leatherface. Room and The Woman both feature Sean Bridgers as […]
Cabin Fever
Ho ho ho! That’s quite enough of that, on with the review. A group of unpleasant teenagers head out for a vacation in a cabin in the woods, only to […]
Video Nasty 16: The Driller Killer
In 1983, the British Director of Public Prosecutions produced a list of movies banned on home video – a list which would come to include 72 “video nasties” in total. […]
