DRACULA CERCA SANGUE DI VERGINE E… MORI DI SETE!!! (“Drcaula Craves Virgins’ Blood… And Dies Of Thirst!!!”) Production: Italy/France, 1974 Director: Paul Morrissey Alternative title: Blood For Dracula US release title: Andy Warhol’s Dracula Category: Sex-Horror/Vampire Posted by Venus Vex
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SHE SHAN GU NU
SHE SHAN GU NU (“Snake-Venom Mountain Women”) Production: Hong Kong, 1977 Director: Liu Kuo-Hsiung English title: Succubare Category: Horror/Black Magic A witchcraft/martial arts movie featuring a Chinese geek (actor Au Lap-Bo) who eats live lizards, snakes, mice and toads onscreen; animal cruelty seems to be the film’s raison d’être. In Continue Reading
STRYKER’S WAR
STRYKER’S WAR Production: USA, 1987 Director: Josh Becker Category: Vietnam/Gore An unholy amalgam of Vietnam psychosis, Charles Manson, and bloody splatter. 1969: Stryker returns home from combat in Vietnam after sustaining a field wound. It seems that his home town is being terrorized by a local Manson-style cult, who end Continue Reading
JOHNNY FIRECLOUD
JOHNNY FIRECLOUD Production: USA, 1975 Director: William Allen Castleman Category: Vietnam Vets/Gore Native American reaps revenge on the white invaders of his reservation. This one of the goriest and most violent of the psycho vet cycle. Johnny, the title character, is a tough Viet vet who flips when members of Continue Reading
SEX PSYCHO
SEX PSYCHO Production: USA, 1970 Director: Walt Davis Category: Hardcore Pornography/Gore One of the earliest and most powerful examples of that ultimate hybrid exploitation genre, the hardcore porno-gore movie. All cast and crew (including John Holmes) were uncredited, and the film was actually deemed unreleasable even on the sleaziest of midnight Continue Reading
TURKEY SHOOT
TURKEY SHOOT Production: Australia, 1982 Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith Category: Science Fiction/Gore A slightly futuristic, gory twist on The Most Dangerous Game, in which political prisoners of a totalitarian regime are held and physically abused at a brutal detention camp. The “turkey shoot” is a regular event held at the camp; selected Continue Reading
BLOOD FEAST
BLOOD FEAST Production: USA, 1963 Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Category: Gore Lewis invents the splatter movie with this outrageous, milestone offering; girls’ limbs are cut off, tongues pulled out by the roots, eyeballs gouged out, brains removed, bodies flayed, etc etc, in lurid color and loving detail. A primitive masterpiece, which Continue Reading