The Bat People (1974)
There’s nothing quite like your backyard neighbors going off the chain on another one of their loud, drunken benders waking you from a sound sleep to watch a Jerry Jameson film. Jerry is old school Hollywood and he’s done it all: Low-budget Drive-In fare with 1971’s Brute Corps and 1972’s The Dirt Gang, along with […]
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
Of all the things the devil’s done, I wonder exactly how he was able to get Kirk Douglas — KIRK DOUGLAS! — to be in an Alberto De Martino ripoff of The Omen? I mean, this is the same director who made The Antichrist and Miami Golem! What horrifying secrets does the First of the Fallen have to […]
ANOTHER TAKE ON: The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Have I ever told you how much I love Lucio Fulci? Oh, I have? Like, thousands of times? Like when I talked about this movie a few years ago? And when I talked about Don’t Torture a Duckling? Or when I talked about his deeper cuts, like Conquest, Murder Rock and The Devil’s Honey? Aenigma, Contraband and Perversion Story? Yeah, I love […]
Suffer, Little Children (1983)
A beyond low budget film made by a drama school and directed by the former owner of the Brixton Academy, Alan Briggs, this movie is strange beyond strange. Basically shot on VHS yet proclaiming that it’s based on true events, it comes off as both amateur hour and endearingly earnest. It’s a combination that more […]
The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971)
In his BBC documentary series A History of Horror, Mark Gatiss referred to this film, along with Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man, as the prime example of a short-lived subgenre he called folk horror. It’s directed by Piers Haggard, who also was behind The Quatermass Conclusion, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu and Venom. He’s […]
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