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THE JOHN SAXON PROJECT
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Black Christmas – 1974 / Director: Bob Clark
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Beverly Hills Cop III – 1994 / Director: John Landis
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From Dusk til Dawn – 1996 / Director: Robert Rodriguez
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John Saxon is on the Telephone
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Tenebrae – 1982 / Director: Dario Argento
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NASTY Archive
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Contamination – 1980 / Director: Luigi Cozzi
Help! Let me out! There’s… an egg! I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought Ridley Scott’s Alien could have been better. It could have been set on Earth…
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Don’t Go In The Woods -1981 / Director: James Bryon
Never, NEVER go into the woods alone… As a British institution, the Video Nasties are a concept that was still significant even to generations like mine, for myself an enticing…
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Bloody Moon – 1981 / Director: Jess Franco
Avoid references to that unfortunate night. He might not be cured Bloody Hell! When it comes to sheer bloody mindedness, Jess Franco‘s outre Euro-tinged interpretation of the typical Yankee Slasher,…
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Devil Hunter – 1980 / Director: Jess Franco
Damn! Shit! What a fuckin’ awful place. Flowers? Shit! Dammit, dammit, dammit! This wild vegetation gives me the creeps! It’s not, perhaps, a good sign when this piece of cinematic…
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Last House on the Left vs Last House on the Left
Ribbit…Ribbit Can a remake of a remake of a literary adaptation be any good? Its common knowledge that Wes Craven‘s 1972 film was a remake of Bergman’s The Virgin…
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Blood Feast – 1963/ Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
“Have you ever had… an Egyptian Feast?” For better or for worse, genre cinema in the West owes a lot to Blood Feast. Trying to find something to put people…
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The Boogeyman – 1980 / Director: Ulli Lommel
The opening to Ulli Lommel‘s The Boogeyman looks and sounds very much like John Carpenter’s Halloween. So much so, it’s probably the closest thing to a Halloween remake you are…
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House on the Edge of the Park – 1980 / Director: Ruggero Deodato
Ruggero Deodato’s House On The Edge Of The Park (La Casa Sperduta Nel Parco) was finally released last year in its most complete form to date. Although it still contains…
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Madhouse – 1981 / Director: Ovidio G Assonitis
Madhouse is one of the more obscure titles to make the famous Video Nasties list in the UK in the 80s and also one of the least likely to cause…
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Cannibal Ferox – 1981 / Director : Umberto Lenzi
Umberto Lenzi may have kickstarted the shortlived and exceedingly grubby little Italian cannibal subgenre with his picturesque Man From Deep River in 1972 but he was also responsible for bringing…
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Don’t Go In The House -1980 / Director: Joseph Ellison
One of the more memorable films in the long line of “Don’t…” horrors that plagued the late 70′s and early 80′s, Joseph Ellison‘s infamously misogynistic drive in favourite delivers the…
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I Spit on your Grave – 1978 / Director: Meir Zarchi
I don’t like women giving me orders! Meir Zarchi’s I Spit on Your Grave (tepidly known as Day of the Woman whilst doing the Drive-In circuit on initial release) may…
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The Witch Who Came From The Sea – 1976 / Director: Matt Cimber
Graham on SKUNK. Who would have thought a film once deemed a video nasty unfit for consumption on these hallowed shores could be quite so surreal, poetically slow and elegantly made? And just…
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Cannibal Apocalypse – 1980 / Director: Antonio Margheriti
The odds were heavily stacked against Antonio Margheriti’s grossly misrepresented Cannibal Apocalypse right from the outset. The film’s anglicized and unimaginative title is criminally misleading and deceptively exploitative. It hints…
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The Man From Deep River – 1972 / Director: Umberto Lenzi
Lenzi’s goat-killing, widow-fucking epic has the dubious honour of kick-starting the whole disreputable but irresistible Italian cannibal film cycle. Already a capable peplum and giallo director, he was influenced by…
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Zombie Creeping Flesh – 1980 / Director: Bruno Mattei
It seems to me that in order for a film to truly qualify as being “so bad, it’s good”, the conditions must be set for a state of blissful (and…
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The Driller Killer – 1979 / Director: Abel Ferrara
In true Punk Rock spirit, the opening title card of The Driller Killer proudly instructs its audience that “THIS FILM SHOULD BE PLAYED LOUD” which is appropriate because the sound…
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Lisa Lisa (aka AXE) – 1977 / Director: Frederick R. Friedel
Frederick Friedel‘s Lisa Lisa is a strange little film that despite numerous viewings (it’s only an hour long) still intrigues me in a similar way The Texas Chainsaw Massacre did…
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Cannibal Terror – 1981 / Director: Alain Deruelle
The unmistakable stench of Jess Franco hovers over Cannibal Terror like a blocked drain. Unbelievably, however, the producers found a director just as inept in Alain Deruelle. The man responsible…
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The Beyond – 1981 / Director: Lucio Fulci
Where to begin with a film as effortlessly enigmatic as Lucio Fulci‘s latter day masterpiece The Beyond? Well, I should start by saying I’m more than just a little bit…
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Inferno – 1980 /Director: Dario Argento
Inferno is probably director Dario Argento‘s most underrated feature film. It might even be his most technically accomplished, alongside Suspiria and (arguably) Opera, all three films showcase the director at…
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Tenebrae – 1982 / Director: Dario Argento
Ah, my favourite Dario Argento film. This title means “darkness”, yet the film itself is one of the most brightly-lit films Argento has shot, up until he did The Card…
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The Last House on the Left – 1972 / Director: Wes Craven
‘To avoid fainting keep repeating, it’s only a movie… only a movie… only a movie… only a movie’. If you’ve never seen Wes Craven’s 1972 horror film Last House on…
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The Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue – 1974 / Director: Jorge Grau
Some girls have always dreamt of a Knight in shining armour riding in on a white horse and saving them from danger, resulting in them falling deeply in love shortly…