October 2009

TRAILER TRASH – Perversion Story

Published on: 15th October, 2009

A decade before becoming the master of gore with his notorious zombie flicks, Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci was still relatively unknown, despite having been directing for several years. Just two short years before finding acclaim with his giallo Una lucertola con la pelle di donna (A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin), Fulci directed Una [...]

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TRAILER TRASH – C.H.U.D.

Published on: 14th October, 2009

The 1980s saw many filmmaker shake off the nihilistic and excessive tone of the previous decade’s exploitation and instead look back to the older days of fun monster movies. Following the likes of Lewis Teague’s Alligator and Larry Cohen’s Q: The Winged Serpent came C.H.U.D. (meaning Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller). Directed with a [...]

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TRAILER TRASH – The Hidden

Published on: 14th October, 2009

With the cult slasher Alone in the Dark and the hit sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge under his bealt, editor-turned-director Jack Sholder continued his successful run with the 1987 science fiction action horror The Hidden. Pre-dating Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday’s body swapping plot by six years [...]

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VIDEO NASTIES – Snuff

Published on: 14th October, 2009

The truth behind Snuff, one of the most notorious exploitation flicks of the 1970s, is uneven at best. The various stories, rumours and so-called facts that surround the production of this low budget movie constantly contradict each other and none of the principals involved in its creation have ever been willing to discuss it [...]

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TRAILER TRASH – Society

Published on: 12th October, 2009

Having produced Re-animator and From Beyond for Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna eventually made his directorial debut with Society, a sick and twisted black comedy that showcased the filmmaker’s love for the bizarre. Blending the pomposity of Beverly Hills 90210 with a David Cronenberg-style warped imagination, the movie failed to find its audience at the [...]

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TRAILER TRASH – The Incredible Melting Man

Published on: 10th October, 2009

Rick Baker really helped raise the bar on special effects during the 1970s. Following in the footsteps of Dick Smith, Baker produced an array of grizzly and groundbreaking monsters and splatter set pieces, often giving credibility to otherwise ludicrous or mediocre offerings. William Sachs (who later shot the extremely camp Galaxina) gave us [...]

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TRAILER TRASH – The Mutilator

Published on: 9th October, 2009

When Friday the 13th scored a major triumph at the box office during the summer of 1980, it didn’t take long for every producer in town, from the studios down to the independents, to jump on what became the slasher bandwagon. Wannabe directors soon realized that with a meager budget and a cast of [...]

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SLASHERS – Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning

Published on: 9th October, 2009

One common criticism that is thrown at the slasher genre is its repetitive and predictable formula. Yet whilst the likes of Siskel & Ebert had have dragged its name through the dirt, the fans of Friday the 13th have always been more than satisfied. But when the producers dared to take the franchise [...]

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TRAILER TRASH – Nightmare in a Damaged Brain

Published on: 9th October, 2009

Romano Scavolini’s 1981 shocker Nightmare is notorious for many things; from the never-ending debate as to who really created the special effects to its inclusion on the ‘Video Nasty’ list in the UK during the 1980s. Sleazy, amateur and sadistic, Nightmare (renamed by its British distributors as Nightmare in a Damaged Brain) was the [...]

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CULT – The Company of Wolves

Published on: 7th October, 2009

The 1980s saw a fundamental change for the werewolf movie. Whilst folklore had built around the mythical beast for centuries and cinema had added its own spin on the formula, it still seemed rather ridiculous and irrelevant. But two films would be released around the same time that would rewrite the genre and [...]

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